And they disassembled (another plot hole) Data!!
This means they don’t need that stupid B4, Data is just disassembled on a shelf somewhere.
In defense of this episode, Picard wasn’t reluctant to beam Wesley away because of interference reasons. In fact, he was ready to beam everyone up and just get away from that planet. It was the Edo god machine thing that was blocking them from transporting Wesley. Picard argued their concept of justice in order to convince the Edo god to let them take Wesley back to the ship.
The xenophobic aliens wanted to destroy the Enterprise and crew.The stakes were really high that Data fool the crew.
I enjoyed watching Data’s plan come apart because humans are so inquisitive. Seeing poor Data beg the aliens for a do over was interesting.
Be kind of pointless then, wouldn’t it. The PD applied to the gangster planet, though Kirk broke it with the excuse it had been broken already, and Picard applies it to all sorts of races who know about the Federation. Absurdly so in some cases.
I believe Cisco criticized Kirk for interfering in the Mirror universe as a prime example of the ill effects of violating the PD.
Of course contact is also interference, but that is an inherent plot hole to let them visit new planets.
For the same reason that you don’t save a backup copy of yourself whenever you walk out the door. In neither case is there ever any copying involved.
But if we’re going to talk about Prime Directive violations, how about Voyager? Not any particular violation in Voyager, mind you: The central premise of the entire series. The whole reason they’re stranded in the delta quadrant to begin with is that they considered it so vitally important to violate the Prime Directive that they had to stay behind to absolutely guarantee that their interference would stay in place, rather than allow themselves to be sent back and risk the small possibility of obeying it.
Roddenberry’s original plan was for Wesley to be Picard & Crusher’s love child; this concept was later abandoned, but it was still in play when that episode was produced.
Speaking of the Ocampa; their reproductive biology has some serious plot holes. The females can only get pregnant once in their lifetimes; which means that unless litters are the norm their population would decline by half each generation (more that half when you account for Ocampan who die before they can reproduce). And the only Ocampan main character was both an only child and (in an alternate timeline) the mother of one child. Nothing was ever said about Kes’s lack of siblings bbeing unusual.
yeah - but they live forever
Or…9 years.
exactly.
Well, I don’t as I don’t have the technology but it certainly would seem prudent if one served on the Enterprise. Once a day, report to sickbay and make a backup. After all, you never know when the Holodeck is going to going to lose its safety protocols.
Picard has a biological heart by that episode. Or so someone told me when I noticed the same plot hole. There’s supposed to be a throwaway line at the end of the episode where Picard has a near-death experience with Q referencing the appearance f a new, biological heart.
Consider – if Junior Officer “Johnny” Picard fights the Nausican, he gets an artificial heart, and dies in Sick Bay at the beginning of the episode when it fails. Or he doesn’t fight the Nausican, keeps his biological heart, and gets to be a Blue shit – the lowest of the low, apparently. But he survives the episode as Captain Picard – something had to be fixed. I assumed Q fixed his failing mechanical heart … but Q could just give him a new biological heart. After all, Q was probably already planning the final episode – omniscient and all.
I enjoyed the last episode, but that part annoyed me too. Especially because Picard figuring it out was supposed to be the proof of humanity’s potential, but he gets it all wrong when he wants to go back and see the anomaly they just created. Q should have wiped out humanity right then and there.
That would make sense, but contradicts what Memory Alpha has in both Picard’s entry and the one on the episode, and that really seems like something they’d include.
Also, I would assume that Command (red) is the only division that doesn’t have more peons than leaders, so it’s not surprising he’d still be in science blue in a reality that he never made command in. (What is weird is that he’d answer to Worf, who was head of security at that point.)
Blue shirt Picard doesn’t answer to Worf directly. So that bit of Memory Alpha is wrong. Another bit of that same Memory Alpha article says there’s a cut scene where he reports to Geordi, just like the dialog in the episode – “Mr Picard, this isn’t for me, this is for Cmr LaForge.” According to the cut scenes, Geordi consider Mr Picard much the same as he originally thought of Barclay.
I don’t think it was much different from that time Kirk stopped that planet that was using a computer to simulate the war with another planet from executing the entire crew of the Enterprise when the computer decided they’d taken a fatal hit. You don’t let a culture execute people under your responsibility just because of the Prime Directive. It’s not interfering, it’s self defense. (of course Kirk took it further, and did interfere, citing them being stagnant or something, but that’s how he rolls)