The final season of Star Trek, the Next Generation gave us some splendid episodes and also a fair share of stinkers. Everyone knew by this stage that they would not be renewed and attempts were made to wrap up various story lines before they said their final goodbyes. There is still a great deal to be enjoyed.
Bloody hell! It's the first time in a long time I've dozed off in front of an episode of Star Trek. And to add insult to injury, I had my cat snoozing on my lap at the time. Even he couldn't be roused to show interest in a pre-credit sequence where all that happens is that Data tries to get Spot to come out from under the bed.
There is quite a lot of technobabble which seems to be implying that the outer space super-highways are so overcrowded that the fabric of reality is being torn apart by their over-use. Not a lot of actual mathematics in play here, then. It was obviously intended to be a "message" episode about environmental damage to the world we live in but unfortunately, HOWEVER LAUDABLE the intentions might have been, the execution just wasn't very good.
Apart from some nonsense about Geordi being in competition with the engineer of another ship and some more tips on cat training (equally uninspiring to my own feline companion) we were introduced to a pair of aliens in swish, navy blue bouclé outfits. I'm afraid that all I remember about them is how their foreheads matched their costumes and that when one died, the other seemed remarkably nonplussed despite the fact that she had been introduced earlier as his sister.
I challenge anyone to get more out of this episode. If they can stay awake, that is.
Senior Trekker scores every episode with a 5.
Bloody hell! It's the first time in a long time I've dozed off in front of an episode of Star Trek. And to add insult to injury, I had my cat snoozing on my lap at the time. Even he couldn't be roused to show interest in a pre-credit sequence where all that happens is that Data tries to get Spot to come out from under the bed.
There is quite a lot of technobabble which seems to be implying that the outer space super-highways are so overcrowded that the fabric of reality is being torn apart by their over-use. Not a lot of actual mathematics in play here, then. It was obviously intended to be a "message" episode about environmental damage to the world we live in but unfortunately, HOWEVER LAUDABLE the intentions might have been, the execution just wasn't very good.
Apart from some nonsense about Geordi being in competition with the engineer of another ship and some more tips on cat training (equally uninspiring to my own feline companion) we were introduced to a pair of aliens in swish, navy blue bouclé outfits. I'm afraid that all I remember about them is how their foreheads matched their costumes and that when one died, the other seemed remarkably nonplussed despite the fact that she had been introduced earlier as his sister.
I challenge anyone to get more out of this episode. If they can stay awake, that is.
Senior Trekker scores every episode with a 5.