To be honest, no, and even listening to their voices, no, they don’t sound like the same person.
I mean, they’re similar in that both actors are trying to affect an unemotional voice, but it sounds like two different people doing a robot voice. Jackson’s accent comes through a little, too.
yeah, I think it’s just the way he speaks. Of course, at first I thought Bortus sounded pretty much like Worf until I compared them.
That’s a good point. In the first Star Trek movie, Ilia comes on board, she’s a Deltan, and her “oath of celibacy” is on record.
And Decker has trouble standing.
It’s the ears. They cause drag in any wind at all.
There was probably a mixup during Darulio’s stint on a mining ship. 
Can’t be. Rob Lowe would never agree to be filmed having sex with miners.
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Five thousand quatloos to you, good sir!
Bortus is the Worf-figure. They both take things quite literally and are very humorous in their bluntness.
LOL, well played.
Well, that was disappointing. I guess only one outright dud (IMO) in ten episodes is a pretty good ratio.
I enjoyed it! Flashback to several TNG episodes.
I liked that one of the examples Ed gave was drunkenness for using the directive.
We did wonder about the clown for her and other things and so appreciated how they came up with it. Really thought of the best of TNG with this one.
I was kind of reminded of the DS9 ep “If Wishes Were Horses”. But yeah, mostly “Where No One has Gone Before”.
I thought the episode got sufficiently creepy, well, as creepy as mainstream TV can get. I was disappointed with the simulation reveal. It came too early and undercut the tension with the hangar scene. I was also intrigued with the idea of an eldritch horror accidentally picked up in the darkness of space. A malevolent ‘Q’ if you will. The creepy clown was well done. Could have been a cool recurring villain.
Not a good episode; “It was all a dream” is the biggest cheat in literature and that’s what it was. It trashes everything that goes before it and is contemptuous of the audience.
This is the first episode where the humor was the high point. Partly because the humor has improved and also because the story was so pedestrian.
I guessed it was a simulation immediately. The gym scene in the holodeck* earlier was a giveaway, and it was the easiest and obvious answer. I thought it was an okay episode, not great, but I like the character so having an episode focused on her was nice.
*I may have missed it, but did they give their simulation room a name? I assume they can’t use ‘holodeck’.
Yeah but, the whole show is commentary on the genre. They have explored a major cliche in just about every episode. Seems weird to complain about it now.
Actually, it’s a Kobayashi Maru story with the twist that Alara did it to herself, and no more a cheat than when Saavik, Troi, Wesley Crusher, et al did it. It’s still “a test of character.”
As for the actual script, it was a great Halloween episode. Too bad they didn’t show it three weeks ago.
THIS