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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Emergence (1994)
Stop talking about the plot
I grew up with TNG, it had a huge impact on me. I loved how it challenged me to think about situations, whilst being a very entertaining sci-fi. It co-formed my ideals and perspective on things.
I have watched the whole series again, with the purpose of letting the show tell me things about myself, of course to find out if it still holds up, and challenge me with concepts I've might not understood when I was young. It was triggered by an essay on TNG.
I watched this episode last night, and it just hit me when I was taking a walk this morning. Because I couldn't understand why they would let go, not even track, a new and unique life form, which is in a spur of emergent consciousness of artificial intelligence freaking created by their own ship, It's sole purpose no less, and then it mysteriously dies. Deal with it audience.
So you might have added 1+1 already, or come to the same conclusion that Star Trek TNG is some kind of education. The creators hope one day humans will have outgrown our current selves. Not only is it a vehicle of hope, it puts the work in, and it trusts that if you put in the work you might get there as well.
So it's almost the last episode, time to wrap things up, and this is what they do as an exploration vessel? Illogical, the object might even be dangerous Data adds. Then Picard speaks with this conclusion:
"Now, if our experiences with the Enterprise have been honorable, can't we trust that the sum of those experiences will be the same?"
It's you, you're the intelligence formed from the experiences of the Enterprise.
Sadly.it seems this message flew right over the reviewers heads. I guess that's the problem with art, or hope in general. Still for that this episode is worth watching. If I did spoil something, I guess you wanted it to because you read till the end :)