"Manhunt" is obviously intended as a funny episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation". Because of this, its mood is very light and not much of importance occurs in this one. Soon after some weird, fishlike zombie delegates arrive aboard, the Enterprise is overtaken by a shuttlecraft. Its passenger is the obnoxious Lawaxana Troi and she has apparently been appointed an ambassador as well--and wants to be transported by the Enterprise to some conference. However, her real reason for being there is that she's incredibly horny--the result of some weird Betazoid mid-life crisis where their women become sex machines--and this machine is running at 10,000 rpms/minute! The worst part is that she insists that Picard is in love with her--when he clearly isn't. So, he runs and hides inside the holodeck--posing as his pulp novel hero, Dixon Hill. Unfortunately for the episode, Picard goes into the holodeck and poses as Dixon Hill!!! While I could enjoy Lwaxana's crazy shenanigans, the holodeck stuff is, as usual, completely out of place and irrelevant to the show. Overall, not a particularly good episode and one that should have been better. But, at least Patrick Stewart looked great in a fedora!
Review of Manhunt
