Q; In the scenes where Picard is chatting to the groundsman Boothby, why does Picard's breath become visible in the cold air while Boothby's doesn't?
A; It's because Boothby is a Martian, my favourite Martian, actually.
The Kolvoord Manoeuvre was banned one hundred years ago. What were they flying in those days? Are we seriously to believe, looking at the rate of even current technological advancement, that the Academy teaches its students to fly in equipment that's one hundred years out of date? That would be like training our astronaughts in biplanes. What a load of nonsense we are expected to uncritically soak up.
Riker complains that one of his former tutors knew him so well that it was like always having your parents around. How would Riker, famous for not getting on with his father, know what that was like?
I see that the Academy can field a human and a Vulcan for the hearing, so why not a Betazoid, or some other empathic/telepathic species? Wouldn't this be a necessary prerequisite for such a hearing?
Why do they even bother to start the hearing until they have the information from the flight recorder, and come to think of it, bearing in mind the strength of today's flight recorders/black boxes, isn't it asking us to believe too much to suggest that Wesley's was badly damaged? Even if it were, what about the other ships? Didn't they carry flight recorders also?
Why aren't the students represented at the hearing? It had all the hallmarks of a trial to me. Is this really consistent with Gene Roddenberry's vision of a future in which fair play was the norm rather than the exception?
Picard's speech about the first duty of any Federation member being to tell the truth is a bit rich when you consider all the stunts Kirk and co. used to pull to avoid obeying unpopular orders from Starfleet. Maybe Picard never saw those earlier shows.
Check the scene just after Picard has reamed out Wesley, the outdoor shot of the Academy. Walking down from the top right of the picture is a young fellow who seems, from the distance we view him, very similar in bearing to one Crusher, W. And lo! entering from the bottom left is a chap from whose head the sun reflects in a fashion markedly similar to the way it bounces off the er, follically-challenged pate of Picard, Jean-Luc. We aren't told that it is them, as just after the Picard lookalike makes his entrance the scene switches to something else and we're back in the action again. Check, however, the outdoor scenes at the end of the show, where Picard and Wesley have a word, and then walk off in different directions. As they do so, the camera pulls back to view the scene from the same height and angle as it was at in the previously mentioned outdoor scene. The shadows are the same length and go in the same direction, so I assume that they cut more footage than they needed, and eventually decided to use some of it for a location shot and figured that we just wouldn't notice two of the cast's principal characters in it.
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