Picard: “And what sort of…creature…will I become?”
Data: “A lemur or perhaps a…pygmy marmoset.”
BWAHAHAHAHAH!
You can’t make up stuff this funny. Oh, wait…
Were those scripts by science fiction writers, or Hollywood hacks?
How about Sturgeon, Ellison, Fontana? How about Gene himself, on a good day?
Third season TOS was a throwaway. Unfortunately, it created as many bad science fiction icons and cliches as the first two seasons created good ones.
Back to the OP: Another problem that occured to me is the warm and fuzzy attitude of the final scenes. The best episodes, IMHO, left you hanging at the end, glad that they barely made it through whatever crisis. It seems that the whole subtext of TNG is that “we’re a happy Enterprise family!”
What bugged me the most was the last line. “Five card stud, nothing wild…and the sky’s the limit!”
Say what? The new guy to the established card game is going to announce that he’s removing the limits?? Not in our game, buddy.
Beacuse you can only be out of phase with one plane/axis at a time ie the vertical plane (which allows you to walk through walls) or the horizontal plane (where you fall through floors)
That’s what I always say and no one argues with me
But that’s probably because I’m bigger than them
That’s because you can only be out of phase with one plane/axis at a time
ie the vertical plane (allowing you to walk through walls) or the horizontal (allowing you to fall through the floor)
That’s what I always say, and no one argues
(but that’s probably just because I’m bigger than them)
Maybe he got away with it because he’s the captian?
What really bugged me about All Good Things…:
Q says humanity passed the test because Picard was able to expand his mind and think on a new level to recognize the paradox that he caused the anomoly himself. Like it would take a genius to figure it out!
Q led Picard around by the hand and pointed out all the clues. He pretty much explained it all to him in one syllable words what was going on. Heck, a half-way intelligent seven year old coulda worked out that mystery… 
Imagine being seven and spotting it, then thinking it can’t be that easy if the captain has yet to get it…sigh
My understanding was that Q was only ordered to create the anomaly and let them destroy themselves. He only sent Picard backwards and forwards through time and gave him clues b/c he was trying to help the human race survive, as he had a fondness for them.
That’s a good rationalization, Dooku. No one wants their toys to be destroyed.
To be fair, IIRC there was dialog in the episode that alluded to same. Riker saying “Why is he helping us?” and Picard responding “He always has had a certain fascination for humans” Or maybe I read it somewhere.
At any rate, I didn’t come up with that one on my own.
Supposing the anomaly wasn’t there, but the latter activity happened…
Wonder what sort of life forms would have evolved then? :eek:
“Friday’s Child”, but I don’t remember an overloading phaser in that episode. There was one in "The Conscience of the King", however. Kodos tried to kill Kirk with it.
Right. The episode Aesiron is thinking of is “Friday’s Child.” Kirk & Spock generate a rockslide using resonant harmonic frequencies from their communicators. They do not overload any phaser that I recall. And yes, there is a phaser set to overload in “The Conscience of the King.” I know that that device was used more than once, though the only other time I can think of at the moment is near the end of “The Menagerie,” when Number One decides that “It’s wrong to create an entire race of Humans to live as slaves.”
Aha. Communicator. Thanks.
I knew there was some piece of tech used in a fashion that it normally wasn’t but thought it was a phaser instead. Guess that’s what I get for not watching the episode and trying to remember specifics of the James Blish adaptation.
Yeast based.
My understanding was that Picard showed thinking on new levels when he was willing to self destruct the Enterprise three times to seal the hole.
Q said that Picard created the anomoly himself: when the Picards of past, present and future investigate the anomoly they send beams into it, and it is the meeting of the beams that create it. I always understood that Q was telling the truth it really was Picard that created it, Q had nothing to do with it.
Q, however, having grown fond of humanity, offers Picard some help by telling him what’s going on, and bouncing him around in time to see for himself.
At the time I remember reading an interview with Berman in which he said they did consider the Renaissance Ear, but the final choice was decided upon because it was when Humans were the most technologically advanced and also most defenceless (for their level of technology).
Why the Borg wanted Human Tech from this era is anyone’s guess.
My interpretation is actually that the Q themselves were also ultimately vulnerable to the Anomoly, so they needed our help to close it before it destroyed them, too. But, of course, Q is too proud to ask for help directly, hence all of the indirect hints and hand-leading.