Q; How come Troi suddenly knows so much about Romulan propulsion systems?
A; We might assume that, albeit that she was forced into it against her will, while she spent time on a Romulan vessel in the episode 'Face of the Enemy' being, after all, a Lieutenant Commander, she decided to use her time wisely and learn what she could. And why not? Who else can you think of who has had an opportunity to study Romulan ship design in such detail? Who else has had the advantage of apparently belonging to the Romulan equivalent of the Gestapo?
How could Spot have made a scratch like that? He presumably has the standard number of claws, i.e. more than two, so how could he have missed with the other three?
We can see the money being saved in this show. We first see Troi taking a cup of something from a replicator. In the early days we would have seen it appear complete with sound effect. Now we just see Troi take out after it's been replicated. Where we do hear, if not actually see, a special effect is when Picard puts two empty cups into a replicator and unbidden they are filled with a steaming liquid. How did the replicator know what was wanted? Are they both Earl Grey and Geordi just happens to like that as well as Picard but we never got told at anytime? Or are they both coffee, or some twenty-fourth century equivalent? In which case, how would the replicator know whether or not to add milk and sugar?
It is Troi who first experiences time stopping while she is chatting with Picard, Geordi and Data. When they freeze, she is sitting but she gets up to study them closer. They then suddenly come back to life, as it were, yet none of them comment upon the fact that in the space of, for them, no time at all, she has gone from sitting to standing. This is bizarre, as there is an old reflex in humans (so Data may be excused here) which means that you react to any sudden movements in the vicinity as they may be a sign of danger. On a deep deep level, our systems are always on the alert for sudden unexpected movement. So how come they never noticed Troi's blinding speed?
The next time they experience time freezing, it is Deanna who appears to go slo-mo. Data cheerily informs her that she was stuck in time for three minutes and eleven seconds. How would he know? He wasn't there when she froze up, he was in another part of the runabout.
Bowl of fruit, bowl of fruit. Why bother to have a bowl of fruit when you have replicators? Have you ever before seen bowls of food apart from banquets and the like? Nice plot device, though. Again, though, you'd think that they could have mugged up a shot of the fruit visibly decaying.
Geordi gets to use his catch phrase, "It'll take some time" yet once more in this show. I've see Phil Farrand's Technobabble Generator in the Next Gen. Guide Edition Two and it's hilarious and dead accurate. He should have added on to the end, though, "I think we can do it, Captain, but it'll take some time. . ."
Interesting to note that not all of the extras in this show are quite as frozen in time as perhaps they might be. Very difficult to stand perfectly still, I imagine.
The Romulans seem to have managed to beam aboard complete with working disrupters. How did they manage this? Aren't these things supposed to be disabled in transport?
A watched pot never boils. Where would Data find a kettle aboard the Enterprise? I know, he replicated it. Silly me.
And, I observe, this episode was directed by a chap called Adam Nimoy. Whose son could he be, I wonder?
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