Q; Why did the vortex appear the first two times in the same place as Bevvers, which we might construe as being logical as it was her universe we were in, but then the last time it only appeared in Engineering?
A; Um . . . we might surmise that the vortexes were showing up all over the ship, but we only saw the ones that Beverly herself witnessed. We might further hazard that the last vortex showed up in Engineering because Beverly herself, who had already concluded that her thoughts could influence this her own little universe, decided that it would be logical for Wesley et al to be trying to create it in that location. If she'd decided that it would have been logical for them to have created it in Ten-Forward (not very likely as it would have ceased to exist by then) then it would have appeared there instead. We might conclude, then, that the vortex appeared where it did because Beverly caused it to do so by expecting it to be there. Clear?
When Beverly was expressing concern over the disappearance of Quaice, she mentioned that perhaps they couldn't locate him because his comm. badge had been damaged. This does not square with other episodes when people have been located by the ship's computer despite having no comm. badge at all, let alone a broken one. The two Klingons in 'Heart of Glory' spring to mind.
I thought the vortex FX were great, just like in the movie Poltergeist.
I am no thespian myself, yet it seems to me that for an actress, this was a role to die for. Doubt, fear, the horror of what may be the onset of madness; all these marvellous possibilities seemed to be thrown away here. I don't know whether this would be down to Gates being not that good an actress (although, to be frank, if you put a gun to my head that would be my conclusion) or whether director Cliff Bole wanted to keep things low key. I find it hard to believe that someone could lose all her friends and colleagues, including her son, worry about losing her sanity and yet not even get her hair mussed. A shame, this, as the potential was there for this to have been a really strong performance.
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