Star Trek: The Next Generation

Watch-through Comments

Season 1 Episode 3

This episode sucked. Slog to sit through. Felt like filler, and it’s ep 3. Not great.

Cptn. Picard and Dr. Crusher handled that epidemic with the poise and efficiency of the U.S. government. They literally had the not-a-disease disease identified and isolated at the first patient, and then did nothing. No forced quarantine, no safety precautions after Geordi leaves, no plan-B should the decades-old cure not deliver. In terms of foresight and problem solving abilities, uninfected crew was hardly differentiable from impaired-judgement crew.

Enterprise found everyone on a sister vessel dead and they didn’t give a single fuck. Then the ship exploded in front of them, and no one batted an eye. Typical day exploring space, I guess. Cold.

I want Wesley to go away. Terrible character. Develop the rest of the crew first, writters. I want to know more about Riker, Troi, and Data in particular.

Enterprise really leaning into that security through obscurity over good protocol design. Wesley was able to commandeer a ship with an audio recorder and a toy tractor beam. How do they survive encounters with advanced alien tech?

Lt. Yar and Data, lol. Good for her.

Doesn’t it take hundreds of millions of years for a red giant to shed its envelope and become a white dwarf? I don’t think stars collapse like that in real time. And even if they do, what are the odds they’d be present on the very day it happened?