Only got to see this episode years after it was released as it was banned from terrestrial television in Ireland for a very long time. The concept is a big one and terrorists, who have been crying out for independence for 75 years, abduct Doctor Crusher. The leader of the Ansata terrorists, Kyril Finn, has no real demands but more a trying to be noticed attitude to the kidnapping. Riker negotiates and hits a dead end at almost every turn. On the Enterprise Data and Picard discuss terrorism and it's success rate. The show was brave enough to even say that Ireland had been reunified due to terrorism! When the Ansata attack the Enterprise they use an interdimensional form of transport and in a flash of brilliance Wesley realizes they could be using a form of travel called folded space travel and a method could be used to detect the energy pattern. The Enterprise has now lost it's Captain and he is being held with Doctor Crusher. Picard's conversation with Beverly is interesting and shows the damage done to the abductee's psyche by their captor. The Enterprise crew eventually find the base and Finn is killed by one of the police from the planet. She makes it clear that his capture would have incited more violence. Now he's a martyr. A good episode showing bullets do not answer all problems. After this being banned for many years in Ireland and England a satellite station showed it with the reunification of Ireland being carefully edited from it. Only recently has a new TV station been brave enough to show it in it's unedited form
Review of The High Ground
