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Distinctly seeing a mew face on the bridge rarely bodes well for them unless they become a love interest for some else on Tne Bridge, but that’s also not likely to be great news either😂😂😂
Probably one of the most annoying characters ever in STNG. Yeah--I know he's supposed to be some sort of "super empath". But he just comes across as irritating and whiny.
Fajo: Fundamental respect for all livong beings, remember? I'm a living being, therefore you can't hurt me! Data: That is correct. But my respect does not extend to those who do not respect another living beings' life
O'brien saves Pulaski's life here. Pulaski saves Riker's life a few months later. Riker defeats the Borg. Just another factor in Miles O'Brien being the most important man in Starfleet history.
I don’t know why all the confusion is on this episode about Commander Data pulling the trigger. At the end of StarTrek TNG Season 3, Episode 22 entitled “The Most Toys”, I view the “pulling the trigger” scene at the end of the episode completely differently. Data is NOT lying! If you watch the scene very closely, you see Data being beamed off Kivas Fajo’s ship, but you do NOT see the weapon being fired at all. There is NO discharge from the weapon whatsoever that you can see even when the very last molecule of Commander Data fades away during the transporter dematerialization process. As O’Brien is beaming Commander Data off the ship and Data enters the transport dematerialization state, he then says . . . “I’m reading a weapon in transit with Commander Data”. The weapon is already “in transit” in the dematerialization process. At this point, Data has already been dematerialized “with” the weapon in hand and “in transit”. O’Brien then says . . . “It seems to have discharged” while “in transit”. If Commander Data had pulled the trigger during the dematerialization state while in transit, he would have known that it would not have influenced anything. Thus, something else occurred in which the technology of the transport and disruptor clashed. It should also be noted that the weapon in transit was a Varon-T disruptor which was a hand-held directed-energy weapon banned in the Federation due to its vicious nature: the disruptor literally tore the body apart at the molecular level from the inside out, resulting in a relatively slow and excruciating death by disintegration compared to more quick and painless means using phasers and other disruptors. The weapon itself almost acts like a transporter beam when it dematerializes at the molecular level. This is why Data states . . . “Perhaps something occurred during transport, Commander”. Both the transporter and the disruptor operate on the same type of molecular dematerialization principle. Data knows this. So, there should be no confusion here as to why the weapon may have discharged in transit by accident. Now, if you want to see what a real weapons discharge looks like during a transporter dematerialization process, go back to StarTrek TNG Season 1 Episode 13 entitled “Datalore”. You see Lore (Data’s brother) discharge a phaser as Wesley Crusher beams him off the ship. At the end of this episode, there is no question that the weapon fired by Lore was discharged literally a second before he is transported off the ship. And you visibly see the weapons discharge during the dematerialization process. Data is aware of this as he witnessed it during this episode.
Odd blocking in this scene. Riker/Frakes has no reason to state "All Stop!" then turn around walk to his chair, and turn around with nothing to do. Star Trek is a textbook case of having more than capable actors and not having equally capable directors with enough setup time to get nothing but coverage shots.
I don’t even want to know a backstory from a novel or whatever. The galaxy is big. Starfleet pokes around as a job. They picked up something, somewhere. It got to Earth. It blew up crews and ships. It spread around, That’s all that’s needed, ya know? . No iconian or borg or trill stuff needed. Too much stuff tied into each other- it makes the galaxy feel small and boring! This, it’s just another part of the galaxy looking back at Earth and the Federation. We know they’re hostile and lying from their actions already, one of my favorite episodes, a real tone shift and the tension is palpable.
Would Riker really remember any of the scenes from ‘Skin of Evil’ after he’d been enveloped by Armus? According to this, he did ( although he wasn’t present at the time). And from ‘Heart of Glory’ he remembered scenes on the bridge and Tasha at the transporter trying to beam the team back.
Personally I think this episode would have ended better with "Ardra" laughing and simply fading away, with an echo of the laugh remaining a moment or too longer. Left as an open hook for a further appearance. The enterprise crew onboard her ship would be transported down to the surface and the Enterprise would report that her ship had vanished from sensors. Was she really mortal or something much more ?
In this episode, when Nagilum was examining the physical construct of first Data, then Picard, Riker, Geordi and Haskell ( the four human men) I’m surprised he jumped straight to Pulaski and ignored Worf ( who was surely more ‘different’).
What is most powerful about this scene to me is just the slow buildup of the two vessels, Romulan Warbird and Enterprise E, its like the Warbird knows it can't continue to target the scout unless the Enterprise lowers its guard, but likewise it doesn't want to shoot at the enterprise, so they just slow down and now its like two legendary boxers walking up to one another about to brawl and they just 'stare' eye to eye, waiting for the other to throw the first punch.
Farjo trying to emotionally manipulate an android who functions almost entirely on logic. Presents what we might think of as a moral dilemma, in the most logical way imaginable. It’s a logic puzzle, and he practically gave data the answer.
Right at the end, the alien leader isn't afraid to turn his back on his enemies. On the left, rival alien lowers his head in apparent shame. Love those little touches!
