Review of Angel One

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Angel One (1988)
Season 1, Episode 13
6/10
Amazon society
9 April 2019
Warning: Spoilers
This TNG story has the crew of the Enterprise on a world called Angel One in search of some survivors of an earth freighter lost in the region years back. Some escape pods may have made their way.

It's a real thorny problem for the away team consisting of Jonathan Frakes, Denise Crosby, Marina Sirtis, and Brent Spiner. There's an Amazon like society that's developed on the planet with the women in leadership. Being women they bear the children which begs the question what do the men do? Like drone bees I suppose.

The women consider the survivors subversive and want to kill them. Riker has a real tricky diplomatic issue to deal with.

In the meantime there's a nasty virus which has a lot of the crew ailing as Gates McFadden looks for an antidote. One of those nick of time situations.

The amazon part is a much stronger story than the virus.
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