As many people have covered the plot of this episode, I'll just stick to how I personally felt about it.
Dr. Marr was wrong. She was obsessed with her son's death and her own guilt. Guilt because she pursued her career and left her son with strangers, and he died when Lore led the Crystalline Entity to them. She had been consumed with this guilt and hatred for so many years she wasn't in her right mind any longer.
The Crystalline Entity was just a living being, feeding on what it needed to survive. It wasn't a malevolent being looking for people and planets to destroy. It was hungry and looking for what sustains it.
LORE is evil. He used the Entitiy's needs to accomplish his own destructive ends. HE is the one who wanted all those people to die for NO REASON other than his own pettiness, selfishness and hatefulness, and he led the Entity there.
I completely agree with Captain Picard that every being has a right to life. Human beings are no more or less important than any other living being on this planet. And the truly awful thing is, they were beginning to communicate with the Entity. Who knows what might have been?
The problem I have with the episode itself is the fact that the "best" crew in Starfleet, continues to allow psychopaths access to their computers. This is the second person, that I recall, that's wiped out a civilization or life by taking control of the Enterprises's computer.
And somehow the "best" crew in Starfleet can't ever react in time to undo any damage. I'm thinking of the jerk scientist and his once-in-a-lifetime experiment that got messed up when Wesley fell asleep during his own experiment. The beings that evolved and moved around the ship messed with his super important human stuff, so they had to die.
The crew knew his feelings and still let him have access to the computer. Same with Dr. Marr. Why is that? Lazy writing?
Dr. Marr was wrong. She was obsessed with her son's death and her own guilt. Guilt because she pursued her career and left her son with strangers, and he died when Lore led the Crystalline Entity to them. She had been consumed with this guilt and hatred for so many years she wasn't in her right mind any longer.
The Crystalline Entity was just a living being, feeding on what it needed to survive. It wasn't a malevolent being looking for people and planets to destroy. It was hungry and looking for what sustains it.
LORE is evil. He used the Entitiy's needs to accomplish his own destructive ends. HE is the one who wanted all those people to die for NO REASON other than his own pettiness, selfishness and hatefulness, and he led the Entity there.
I completely agree with Captain Picard that every being has a right to life. Human beings are no more or less important than any other living being on this planet. And the truly awful thing is, they were beginning to communicate with the Entity. Who knows what might have been?
The problem I have with the episode itself is the fact that the "best" crew in Starfleet, continues to allow psychopaths access to their computers. This is the second person, that I recall, that's wiped out a civilization or life by taking control of the Enterprises's computer.
And somehow the "best" crew in Starfleet can't ever react in time to undo any damage. I'm thinking of the jerk scientist and his once-in-a-lifetime experiment that got messed up when Wesley fell asleep during his own experiment. The beings that evolved and moved around the ship messed with his super important human stuff, so they had to die.
The crew knew his feelings and still let him have access to the computer. Same with Dr. Marr. Why is that? Lazy writing?