Star Trek: TNG Review - 7x8 Attached | Reverse Angle 

" I wonder if there was someone who said we need to have more episodes that people can watch in any order..." The name you are looking for is Rick Berman.

What a missed opportunity. It could have been more depth from Picard, like he still has lingering trauma from being assimilated by the Borg and tortured by Cardassians then someone puts a device in his head. The episode should have been Beverly trying to help him through a nervous breakdown while feeling some of the symptoms herself.

Picard and Jack Crusher were best friends and I think it was always implied that Picard had feelings for Beverly from very early in the series. This episode was kind of an FU to the 'shippers who always wanted Beverly and Picard to be together. Kind of like "they do love each other but just to spite you, they're never going to do anything about it."

Just when I think my Monday is going to suck, I forget that you launch these episodes on Monday's and my day instantly takes a turn for the better! Thank you!

This was a "show how fit Gates McFadden is" episode. I think that's where that B+ came from.

Always a perfect upload for my Monday drive to work!

Getting involved in a planetary war was against the Prime Directive. I guess the writers forgot that.

Yeah Jack Crusher was the senior science officer on the Stargazer. That's how him and Picard got to be friends.

3:35 The patterns on the Kes ambassador and his side’s armbands are the Season 1 admiral insignias. Weird.

This reminds me of the "Hot Lips Holahan" and Hawkeye Piece lost in no man's land MASH episode without the getting in on....

Awesome that a scene with Lt. Jae played by Tracee Coco made it into this cut. She's actually a member in one of the Facebook groups I'm in and is a very sweet lady.

This could be the greatest episode ever.

I think the reason for the open ending for Picard/Crusher was to reignite the seed planted in earlier seasons for the marriage established in All Good Things. That's it.

This episode was directed by Carl Sagan's son Nicholas Sagan. He would also direct "Bloodlines", another Season 7 episode.

Great spot on review as always. Very good points. Overall, I liked the episode. C+ for me. The main problem in the episode was the script. The writers/producers could have swung for the fence, but instead played it safe and got a comfortable base hit (which in the long run, may have been the best decision). I was actually alright with the way they left the Picard and Beverly relationship. A real relationship between Beverly and Picard would have been interesting, it would, however, have been a CHANGE to the most interesting character. The side-plot with Riker I was indifferent to. It was there. The writers instead of getting some better insight and growth in the way Riker thinks instead felt to stall Riker's development and had him strong-arm the alien sides. I think this season would have been better to give the Riker character some growth in the hopes that he would be set up for a spin-off to another episode, but either the producers or the actor himself kept the character neutral.

After watching Skinamarink, I require this series of videos to play while I attempt to sleep, else the dark silence envelop me.

6:20 I've seen that same cave in so many shows, all the way back to Bonanza.

I agree with the point about developing ideas over times and episodes. The concept that Jack Crusher and Picard were best friends as well as the episode about his long lost son, all could have been great stories to present in either the first or second season. Imagine if the audience knew that there had been a love between them and an unknown son from a previous relationship. It would have added new meaning to Vash and his relationship to Wesley.

The "aliens" are wearing ninja suits (without the mask ) taken straight from Mortal Kombat ! This season is REALLY BAD

How does Beverley like her eggs in the morning?

Resident Evil traps? No, no...they are from The Princess Bride. :)

Beverly now knows the Kama Sutra positions I like!

Apparently this gets followed up on in picard season 3.

Every planet they go outside on looks a lot like southern California.

Writing credits for this episode go to Nicholas Sagan, Carl Sagan's son.

The Federation has really unpractical tea-pots and cups; which shows us that they overcome capitalism. ;p

Lots of laughs, as usual. 😅❤ 7:37 Stay off the moors.

Well, at least the Picard series put us at ease that they finally banged at some point.

Season 7 has a habit of setting lofty emotional stakes that ultimately have no lasting impact on any of the characters. The sci-fi and diplomatic aspects of the plot are generic and underdeveloped, like they were just tacked on as a formality to remind us we're still watching Star Trek.

This is one of those episodes, as the series got stale at the end, that takes an hour to tell a ten-minute story. The Masks and New Veriform City episodes are other examples. The high point comes at the end, where Bev flashes some serious leg at Picard, giving him an idea what the Sub Rosa ghost saw in her.

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They didn't wonder what sex would be like with that matrix link?

I know that Picard and Crusher have been friends a long time, but I never felt romantic chemistry between them.

They should have brought exterminatus on the planet, teaching them a lesson about getting along with others.

It seems like such a minor thing, but the on-location shooting and tracking action shots jumps this episode up at least a grade in my opinion. By this point in the show I was so tired of the claustrophobic papier-mâché rocks set. I always found the near-slapstick personification of the crazy conspiracy theory aliens to be eye-rolling. The writers were obviously taking a shot at the UFO and alien abduction crowd, but 1) this is a science fiction show with hundreds of alien species and 2) these writers are presenting a society viable enough to make it through various stages of the Federation application process so it's really the writers who look dumb. Regarding the romance to nowhere, apparently there is this mantra in Hollywood called something like "developing the characters" which pushes relationships late in the series, often arbitrarily. It's why despite being called "Friends" everyone is trying to get in bed with each other by the end. It's also why "House, M.D.", a show ostensibly about medical mysteries, by the end becomes more about "Huddy" and the fact that love trumps medicine. You'll see more of this in this season of TNG and the subsequent movies.

Ugh. This episode was sooooo stupid. I kinda liked the Picard/ Beverly bit where they’re linked together but the kes/prit thing was just flat out idiotic. Over the top completely unbelievable cliche paranoia was almost cartoon like. (I wrote this comment before I heard cartoonish fwiw)

The paranoid Kes guy reminds me a lot of Jordan Peterson.

I am glad they did not go below C-. We would have to D tach ourselves from the episode.

Counselor cake was a rip-off of Tom Petty's 'Don't Come Around Here No More' video.

NGL Bev looked good by this point in the series. Still a terrible doctor tho.

i swear you guys have the weirdest ethics in the world. you wanted them to wait patiently and have their memories hijacked? you think that’s the right move? i don’t get it. i understand a lot of your criticisms, but when it comes to character motivation you guys are really weird.