Riva has a fascinating journey in this one. He starts off as the rockstar of peace negotiations and through (ironically) not listening to Riker's suggestions his telepathically linked companions are killed by a caveman extremists.
It was interesting to watch a deaf actor play a character who has suffered a perceived debilitating loss. The episode does an excellent job on touching on how words can often be imprecise or surface level (the scene with troi at dinner) and this ties up eloquently with Riva's intention to have the Caveman factions achieve piece throughout learning how to express words in sign language.
I enjoyed this one. Riva was well acted and this episode had excellent pacing and structure.
It was interesting to watch a deaf actor play a character who has suffered a perceived debilitating loss. The episode does an excellent job on touching on how words can often be imprecise or surface level (the scene with troi at dinner) and this ties up eloquently with Riva's intention to have the Caveman factions achieve piece throughout learning how to express words in sign language.
I enjoyed this one. Riva was well acted and this episode had excellent pacing and structure.