The thing about episodes like “Amok Time,” “City on the Edge of Forever,” “Doomsday Machine,” “Trouble with Tribbles,” et cetera, was that they were written by great writers who specialized in science fiction (as opposed to simply “good science fiction writers”) and knew how to blend the thought-provoking with the dramatic and comical skilfully. An excellent example is kun at kalifee, which seemed entirely, uhm, logical within the context of Vulcan culture, and the “combat to the death” at Spock’s wedding was not mere gratuitous violence.
Like these and other well-written TOS stories, my favorite TNG episodes didn’t require fisticuffs or gunplay: “Elementary, My Dear Data,” “The Drumhead,” “Measure of a Man,” “Time Squared,” “Yesterday’s Enterprise,” and “Relics” were all thoughtful and vastly entertaining.
The novel was written before Wesley’s final appearance where he went off with the Traveler. Anyway, it was an alternate timeline in which Deanna was long dead. Riker restored the original timeline, so Wesley may or may not have become a captain in the future.
No, actually Genesis was worse then Threshold in totality.
But only slightly. The mutant-slime creature offspring of Paris and Janeway, however, is the low point of the entire series.
And it’s even worse, when you realize the Voyager crew could get back by using the Warp 10 drive, and then using the treatment that brought Janeway and Paris back from slime-creature-ness.
Explaining the presence of all those little tadpoles would be embarrassing.
I have forgotten how Janeway and Paris got back to Voyager, how they were returned to human form, and what happened to their little tadpoles.
Paris and Janeway are reverted back to their Human selves using The Doctor’s anti-proton treatments, although Paris is extremely embarrassed about having mated with the captain.
In other words, the doubletalk field generator, or a wizard, did it.
While I wouldn’t have minded mating with the Ryan’s Hope or Mrs. Columbo era Kate Mulgrew, even I would feel somewhat embarrassed about tapping the Captain Janeway/Voyager model.
Either that or he showed up at the wedding thinking it would be a traditional Betzoid ceremony and the extra dress uniform was all that was on hand at short notice.
