A wonderful graphic of the planet and the moon where electromagnetic whirlwinds make it virtually impossible to locate the source of the distress beacon which can clearly be heard on the Enterprise bridge. It is a Starfleet subspace distress signal... a Daedalus class starship which dates from at least 175 years before.
The USS Essex under Captain Bryce Shumar disappeared in the sector 200 years ago. Is this a ghost ship?
According to Deanna someone is down there... alive.
I assume she means on the moons surface.
This has the makings of a great story Riker, Date and Troi travel down to the moons surface using a shuttle.
Thundering rumbles, strong buffeting winds.
I feel that this story had a much better potential than what it turned out to be. It seems a bit ridiculous that a Starship crew from the past would act in such a hostile way towards a present day crew. All they had to do is ask, instead of taking the crew hostage.
So, a group of aliens who are promised safe passage to get their souls back to Earth, decide to be nasty to the Enterprise crew in order that they will co-operate and get their souls back to Earth.
Even when the entity calling itself Shuman revealed the aliens real intentions, it still underlined the fact that they would probably have been more successful in their deception had they been conciliatory towards the Enterprise crew... and would such ruthless villains really give up the chance of their own freedom so easily, simply to save the rest of the bad-eggs down on the planets surface???
Data's character was certainly a bit salty in this episode which made this better than could otherwise have been the case. Not necessarily a bad episode but I still feel it had the potential to be so much better.
This Episodes Clue: Wings made of feather and wax.
The USS Essex under Captain Bryce Shumar disappeared in the sector 200 years ago. Is this a ghost ship?
According to Deanna someone is down there... alive.
I assume she means on the moons surface.
This has the makings of a great story Riker, Date and Troi travel down to the moons surface using a shuttle.
Thundering rumbles, strong buffeting winds.
I feel that this story had a much better potential than what it turned out to be. It seems a bit ridiculous that a Starship crew from the past would act in such a hostile way towards a present day crew. All they had to do is ask, instead of taking the crew hostage.
So, a group of aliens who are promised safe passage to get their souls back to Earth, decide to be nasty to the Enterprise crew in order that they will co-operate and get their souls back to Earth.
Even when the entity calling itself Shuman revealed the aliens real intentions, it still underlined the fact that they would probably have been more successful in their deception had they been conciliatory towards the Enterprise crew... and would such ruthless villains really give up the chance of their own freedom so easily, simply to save the rest of the bad-eggs down on the planets surface???
Data's character was certainly a bit salty in this episode which made this better than could otherwise have been the case. Not necessarily a bad episode but I still feel it had the potential to be so much better.
This Episodes Clue: Wings made of feather and wax.