How could the game work on Geordi? I accept that it did, but I don't see how. Well, all right, I do; it worked on his visor just the same way it worked on everybody else's eyes. Bit of a risk for the bad guys, though, surely, to try to launch the game on the one ship in the Federation which has an android who they know will be immune to it and a blind bloke who may very well be the same? Of all the ships in the fleet, why start with this one?
When Picard greets Wesley, they have a brief interchange in Latin, and Picard tells Wes that his Latin has improved. Why would it have improved? Are they trying to tell us that they teach Latin at the Academy? (And where was the UT while that little exchange was going on? Wouldn't it have automatically translated the Latin into English?) I suppose there might be a perceived, if not actual, sense to that. When I enquired of my Latin master at grammar school why we were being taught a dead language his reply was that we were learning how to think. Um. That sounds suspiciously like brainwashing to me. Perhaps it is because my generation has been so carefully taught to think that we can't programme a VCR, while five and six year olds can make them sing and dance. Perhaps it is because at the Academy Wesley has been taught how to think that he now balks at having to manually calibrate the sensors when Robin suggests it. Yes, that must be it.
One thing I must say in favour of the game, it finally managed to get Beverly's hair mussed.
I thought it a little incongruous that while Wesley was earnestly informing Robin, while in Ten-Forward, that "everyone" was playing the game, just behind him to his right and clearly visible was a woman playing the famous Star Trek three-dimensional Chess game. I realise he was talking in general terms at the time, but wouldn't it have made more sense to have this woman playing the game and not chess?
When Wesley wants to be lost and stay lost, he dumps his comm. badge. Worf growls that Wesley must have done something to the sensors so that they can't find him. I agree, as we have already surmised that, since Wesley was beamed aboard as opposed to walking (which he would have done if he had arrived on a shuttle as was wrongly predicted by Picard in the opening scenes), the sensors had a template for him that they could refer to locate him.
Speaking of comm. badges, I wonder why they don't set themselves off when Wesley and Robin are embracing at the end?
Invasion of the Bodysnatchers, anybody?
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