Q; When Riker and the boys beam down to the colony, they find themselves next to a large crater. They ask O'Brien if he's sure he gave them the right co-ordinates, and he replies that they're at the centre of town. Why aren't they in the centre of the crater then?
A; My theory is that the 'sporters, sensing that there was no ground at the designated co-ordinates, whipped them off to the nearest ground (at the designated height) that it could find. If it had set them down at the precise co-ordinates fed to it, they would have materialised in thin air about thirty feet above the ground. The inclusion of such a fail-safe in the transporter mechanism would only be sensible, no?
Q; In the nebula, how could the Enterprise sense the Borg ship, while the Borg couldn't sense them?
A; We might assume that Borg technology is deficient where Federation technology is proficient.
Curious, perhaps, that Shelby should be familiar with the reports on previous encounters with the Borg but not know that Riker wrote them.
Young Wesley was his usual pain in the ass self in this episode. It seems a shame that Wil Wheaton should be vilified by Trekkers purely on the grounds that he's a good actor.
Watching the poker game, I noticed Riker throw a chip in from his pile, and then casually toss one in from Troi's. Is this some rule that I don't know about? I'm just asking here, I don't know poker at all, but I've always thought that you bet with your own chips.
Speaking as a guy in his early forties, I think saying that a man is seasoned is a wonderful compliment to pay a man. 'Tis the difference, may I venture, between a man and a callow youth. A little seasoning may turn a good meal into a great one!
The Borg remind me of the Internet writ large. Think about the net's origins and what it was originally designed for. See the similarities?
I couldn't help but notice that the staff at the back of the Bridge actually started taking an interest in what was going on around them in this show. They didn't stop Picard from getting 'napped though.
Immediately after Picard is taken, Riker asks O'Brien if he can lock on to Picard's communicator. O'Brien replies that he's unable to as there's some kind of interference. This implies that he's already been trying to lock on to Picard's comm. badge. Er, how would he even know Picard had been taken? It only happened a few seconds earlier in the show, and O'Brien is down in the transporter room.
Interestingly enough, Picard's uniform appears to have a zip up the back. I thought they were history in the future.
Why on earth is Beverly, the ship's Chief Dr., on the Away Team to the Borg vessel? If you have platoons of trained security men to hand, why send Beverly?
I notice that before he beams the Away Team over, O'Brien says he's matched warp velocities for transport. Why would he have to do that? I'm not nit-picking here, I really don't know. Does he have to do this?
Why does Locutus have a name? Surely it is the essence of Borg that one subsumes one's own individual identity?
Why are there no girly Borgs?
Great show though!
Evolution The Ensigns of Command The Survivors Who Watches the
Watchers? The Bonding Booby
Trap The Enemy The Price The Vengeance Factor The Defector The Hunted
The High Ground Deja Q A
Matter of Perspective Yesterday's Enterprise
The Offspring
Sins of the Father Allegiance Captain's Holiday
Tin Man Hollow Pursuits The Most Toys Sarek
Menage á Troi
Transfigurations The Best of Both Worlds
Part One