On the holiday planet where Geordi is headed for the symposium, the climate is controlled for optimum tourist comfort so are all the tourists humanoid, between five and seven feet high, used to the same gravity we are etc. etc.? Seems a little unlikely, non? An asteroid, or a smallish moon, maybe, but a whole planet?
More weird stuff with the Universal Translator. How come it doesn't translate names? If someone is introduced as 'Ping' from the planet 'Pong', the UT will faithfully refer to them as 'Ping' from 'Pong'. Names often have meanings, though. Ping, in the native tongue, may well mean something along the lines of 'He of the greatness who defeated bad dudes at the temple of worship, at around noon one Sunday which fortunately left him time for a few beers in the pub before closing time'. Do we get that from the UT? Nope, what we get is 'Ping'. So how does it know not to give a literal translation? Further, down on the planet, or the moon or wherever it was, Picard and the boss Klingon (as opposed to the Ambassador) go head to head in a little swearing sequence. You talk like a @?+ $Oii!! Picard is cheerily informed. And you're a + )(*(*&&*97@@ he responds. They then glare at each other for a few moments, and then the Klingon grudgingly tells Picard that he swears well. Er, s'cuse, but how does he know? If the UT is on, surely we the viewer wouldn't simply be hearing the gutteral grunts from both Klingon and Picard, we'd be hearing the translated version in all its glory. So then, are we to assume that they were in fact speaking without the benefit of the UT, and that all the Klingons present have taken the trouble to learn English? I could believe that of the Ambassador but surely not the Commander?
When all the fuss about who transported the guns down was going on, why didn't they just ask the computer who'd been in the transporter bay at that time? If the computer always knows where people are, surely it knows where they were a few moments ago?
Will you look at the size of the meal in front of the Klingon Ambassador? Mmmm, I have to say that this is my idea of a dinner. I freeze-framed on this one for a while. Yummy.
I thought it a little strange that Picard took the Klingons around Cargo Bay 4 while the investigation into who'd been in there was still going on. What do you not do in a forensic situation? Invite tourists, who will only grub everything up and destroy any evidence.
Neato shot of Geordi's reflection in his laptop as he pockets the phaser and turns to leave for the Cargo Bay to kill the Klingon Commander. Nice fisheye shot as he walks along the corridor to same. I mention these because you don't often see these kind of shots in Star Trek. Good mood work.
And just who was that strangely familiar figure lurking in the shadows while Geordi was having his attitude adjusted? Do we recognise those dulcet tones, mayhap? All is revealed in the next episode but one.
The Best of Both Worlds Part
Two Family Brothers Suddenly
Human Remember Me Legacy Reunion Future Imperfect Final
Mission The Loss Data's Day The Wounded Devil's Due Clues
First Contact Galaxy's Child
Night Terrors Identity Crisis
The Nth Degree Qpid
The Drumhead Half a Life The
Host The Mind's Eye In Theory
Redemption