Date: May 15, 2020

Season 6, Episodes 14 and 15

Musical Accompaniment: Coccolino Deep – Autumn in Love

Interstellar News: It’s been a day. Season 6 may have started off with some pretty crappy episodes but these two were mighty fine.

Favorite Quote from “Face of the Enemy”:

Troi: Your cowardice does not befit a Romulan soldier.

Toreth: People blame the military for the wars that we are asked to fight, but I think it is your kind, Major, that will be the death of us all.

It’s not every day a Romulan captain makes an impression on me, but daaaaaaamn.

“Face of the Enemy” opens with Troi who is suddenly a Romulan, what the actual fuck? N’vek tells her it’s imperative that she follow instructions or they’re all going to die, which she does well and with greater authority as the conversation with Captain Toreth continues. N’vek has given Troi the appearance and name of a Tal Shiar officer and her mission is to get some high ranking Romulan defectors over to a cargo ship and then Federation space. When the cargo ship arrives Troi detects deception and N’vek blows up the ship, which means they have to change their plans.

Back on the Enterprise they receive a man named Deseve who had betrayed the Federation but has now returned. He carries with him a message from Spock to be delivered to Picard, sending them to rendezvous with the cargo ship. When they arrive they only encounter the ruins of the cargo ship but then pick up the trail of the Romulan vessel. Toreth tries to play chicken with the Enterprise and Troi siezes the opportunity to take command of the Khazara. She interfaces with Troi and takes a shot at them while also transporting the defectors. Toreth calls them on it, kills N’vek, and is about to interrogate Troi when she is beamed off and arrives safely on the Enterprise.

This, my friends, is why Deanna Troi needs more screen time. She’s not only an excellent counselor but she’s amazing at undercover work, I mean just look at how she took to the role of the mysterious stranger in “A Fistful of Datas“! In all seriousness, this was a fantastic episode. We start with just as much knowledge as Troi has and she pulls herself together with very little information, making the most informed decision she can at the time. The longer she is on the Khazara the more she gets into her role, but she never forgets she’s really a Starfleet officer. Picard plays his role beautifully and never falters for even one second, and it’s no wonder he never plays poker with the crew. I will say that when Toreth is relieved of duty but then figures out two seconds later that they’re traitors is a little tooooo convenient, but the episode needed to end. You also totally know Troi is going to get beamed off, I mean she even assumes the beaming position! Another good sequel to a former season episode. Overall, 8 sparrow’s eggs for Troi and Picard.

Favorite Quote from “Tapestry”:

Picard: You are not God.

Q: Blasphemy! You’re lucky I don’t cast you out, or smite you or something. The bottom line is, your life ended about five minutes ago, under the inept ministrations of Dr. Beverly Crusher.

Picard: No. I am not dead. Because I refuse to believe that the afterlife is run by you. The universe is not so badly designed.

Picard giving Q quite the tongue lashing.

Picard’s Poetry: “The pity is that I had to be impaled through the back before I learned that lesson.” and “I would rather die as the man I was than live the life I just saw.”

“Tapestry” begins with a seriously injured Picard and Dr. Crusher doing everything she can to make sure he doesn’t die, when suddenly we’re in Kings Cross Station. Picard reaches out to the figure in the light who is, surprise, Q! Q asserts he is God and Picard is dead. He “proves” it to him by showing him his disapproving father and the events that led to Picard receiving his artificial heart. Expressing regret, Q beams Picard back in time and tells Picard that nothing will change in the future if he wants to change the outcome. In fact, if Picard can avoid being stabbed Q will send him back and repair his heart otherwise Picard will spend eternity with Q in limbo.

Picard is 21 and a newly minted Ensign with two best friends, Marta and Corey. Corey plays a game and loses to some cheating Nausicaans and swears revenge. Picard can’t seem to talk him out of it but eventually does, though he alienates his friend in the process. Picard and Marta flirt, kiss, and do a whole lot more, which Marta regrets the next morning and now she pulls away from Picard as well. The Nausicaans interrupt the trio’s final farewell and Picard pushes Corey out of the way, cementing the end of his friendship with the other two. As he didn’t get stabbed, Q transfers him back to the Enterprise, except he’s now a junior officer with no ambitions. Q explains how important that brush of death was to Picard’s life and career but gives Picard a second chance where he is transported back once more to fight the Nausicaans and gets stabbed, but this time he wakes up with Crusher standing over him. Picard and Riker debrief and Picard realizes that Q gave him a priceless gift. Picard then begins to tell Riker about another encounter from his youth and away we go.

Another fantastic Q and Picard episode, which is welcome because the last one was not spectacular. We get an interesting flashback, an insight to why Picard is the man he is today, and a rare glimpse of Q being benevolent and kind. There are bits of humor (waking up next to Q), bits of sadness (alienating his friends even for the “right” reasons), and lots of introspection on the part of Picard. We all muse about what changes we might have made knowing then what we know now, but in reality everything in our life is a learning experience. Learning we don’t do well in a certain setting, finding out we are different people throughout our lives, and learning everything all the time. I doubt I would be where I am today if I chose to go to a different middle school than the one I went to, it was a pivotal decision that had a cascading effect on my life. We also get more call backs to earlier episodes, like when it was established that Picard has an artificial heart.

This episode also made me notice something else. Lately we’ve been getting more shirtless Picard scenes and seeing his more romantic side. I think this was done because someone decided they needed to even up the “seeing the captain’s chest” and Kirk was beating Picard soundly in this category. It also made me realize something else. I think Kirk resigned himself to never having a family and it was likely something he never really wanted. Even when he he had a son, or almost had a family, we never really saw him reminisce… not even for his own brother. There was a little after his son died, but that was for the movie plot and he was much older at the time. In contrast, Picard is seen with the flute from his time during “The Inner Light” or being mindful of those he had lost, like in “Darmok“. I think Picard wanted a family but didn’t know how to balance it with his ambition, and also knew as a captain he would need to be responsible for a whole ship and didn’t want to be compromised.

Wow, so I totally went in an unexpected direction and ranted a bit. Anyway, very minor flaws in this episode and Q was almost as perfect as he’s ever been. 9 inflatable flailing arm dudes for this episode.

TA Out!

Date: May 14, 2020

Season 6, Episodes 12 and 13

Musical Accompaniment: Pirates of the Caribbean soundtrack compilation

Interstellar News: I am officially out of salty Italian meat and cheese at home, send help immediately!

Favorite Quote from “Ship in a Bottle”:

Moriarty: I ask only that I be allowed to explore this new world. Your vessel, for instance. What sea does she sail? Might we go above deck? Weather permitting, of course.

Picard: Professor, I think there are some things of which you should be made aware.

I legit laughed out loud at this line.

“Ship in a Bottle” begins in the holodeck with the triumphant return of Data as Sherlock Holmes and La Forge as Dr. Watson. Unfortunately there are some anomalies and when Barclay investigates Moriarty appears and inquires if Picard has made any progress on his request. Picard, Barclay, and Data meet Moriarty in the holodeck to prove to Moriarty he cannot exist outside the holodeck, but Moriarty walks right the fuck out and astonishes everyone. Where’s Scotty when you need him talking about the laws of physics? After an exam by Crusher Moriarty wants only to explore this new world and wants his lady love to come along too, though Picard isn’t wild about becoming Dr. Frankenstein.

The Enterprise is about to witness a star being born but all of a sudden command functions are locked out because Moriarty has taken the ship under his control… which should totally not be that easy. Barclay meets the Countess and he and Data try to use the transporter to transport a chair, but it doesn’t work. In fact Data has noticed that he, Picard, and Barclay are the only “real” people because they never actually left the holodeck… welcome to holodeck-ception my friends! Picard, however, was caught in a phishing attempt by holodeck La Forge and his access code allows Moriarty to take over the real Enterprise. Picard talks with the Countess and gets her to see reason, but it’s also a coded message from Picard to Riker. Moriarty and the Countess ask for a shuttle craft and they fly away… but it’s really a holodeck program that Picard stores in memory. Picard muses they might be in The Matrix, Barclay keeps the mini-holodeck safe, and a star is born.

This was a fantastic episode. Barclay isn’t a pile of anxiety, he’s mostly just astonished the entire episode, and he double checks at the end that they still aren’t in a computer program. Data gets to play Holmes both in and out of his smoking jacket. The whole holodeck inside of a holodeck is amazing and it allows everyone to mostly get what they want, without breaking the laws of physics. It’s a great squeal episode, the acting is fantastic, the Countess is a “pip”, and I just can’t find much wrong with the episode once you get to the end. While I was watching, small things weren’t making sense and then it all came together at the end. Just a good Holmes/Trek mashup. A phaser setting of 10 for this episode, oh wait… that might be bad.

Favorite Quote from “Aquiel”:

Riker: I think you’ve let your personal feelings cloud your judgement.

La Forge: I’m not the one making judgements.

Riker and La Forge making equally valid points.

“Aquiel” begins with the Enterprise delivering supplies to a station on the border of Klingon space, but there’s no one there except for a dog and a puddle of goo that likely used to be a person, more specifically Aquiel Uhnari. Rocha, the other person aboard, is missing and so is the shuttle craft. La Forge accesses her personal logs, the dog keeps following him around, and Picard contacts the Klingon Empire to find out what’s going on. The Klingons arrive and bring Uhnari with them as they found her out in space and hurt, she claims to have been attacked by Rocha.

La Forge is a bit smitten, because of course he falls for women whose personal space he has invaded, but comes clean to her in Ten-Forward and they sort of fall for each other. Riker doesn’t believe her and they find a phaser, set to kill, in the shuttle craft. Morag, the Klingon, admits to stealing the secure files but not to murder. Crusher keeps trying to get useful DNA out of the goo she collected from the station, when suddenly it becomes the river of slime from Ghostbusters II and then recreates her hand. She theorizes Rocha picked up a coalescent that tried to use Uhnari as a new vessel, or maybe Morag, so both are confined. La Forge heads back to the station and I have this awful feeling it’s the dog, don’t let it be the dog, oh it’s totally the dog and La Forge kills the dog! Uhnari wants to make it back onto the Enterprise by her own merit, not a word from La Forge, and also… he killed her dog!

So here’s the thing. One time my husband wanted to watch John Wick and, well, you know what happens in the first 30 minutes. I was SO NOT PREPARED and it totally ruined the movie for me. I absolutely don’t like it when the dog (or any pet) dies, it’s always gutting. I totally didn’t see the coalescent thing coming, and that part was kind of cool, but everything else was ridiculous. La Forge totally invading personal space and falling in love, again, as well as the weird glowy sex toy… it was just too much for me. Also… THEY KILLED THE DOG. No rating on this, I just won’t watch it again.

TA Out!

Date: May 13, 2020

Season 6, Episodes 10 and 11

Musical Accompaniment: Vivaldi

Interstellar News: Today was full of Last Minute Larry and First Year Fred.

Favorite Quote:

Madred: That is what the military has done for Cardassia. And because of that, my daughter will never worry about going hungry.

PICARD: Her belly may be full, but her spirit will be empty.

Picard taking the mickey out of Madred’s moment.

Quick Summary:

Part 1: The Enterprise has an Admiral come aboard and immediately relieve Picard of duty, replacing him with Captain Jellico. Jellico beams aboard and gets down to business changing things to get the Enterprise ready for a potential conflict with the Cardassians. He has Riker get ready to move from three shifts to four, makes major demands from La Forge and engineering, has Data follow him around the ship making recommendations, and has Troi be in charge of morale while also wearing a standard uniform. Gul Lumec, of the Cardassians, beams aboard for talks and Jellico uses some interesting negotiation techniques.

Picard, Worf, and Dr. Crusher will be on special assignment, which apparently has them dressed as burglars. They train in the holodeck before heading out on a shuttle craft, first for Torman V and then for Celtris III. En route to Torman V, Picard explains they are heading to investigate and stop a metagenic weapon. Picard asks for help from a Ferengi named Solok but Crusher flirts to close the deal and Worf turns his head sideways like a puppy who has no idea what’s going on. They arrive on Celtris III to find they’ve set off a trap. Worf and Crusher get away and Picard is taken as a prisoner, and it is who they wanted in the first place.

Part 2: Picard is given some sort of serum that makes him tell the truth but when he will not give one particular answer he is stripped and left to hang by his wrists for the evening, as well as having a pain device implanted in his chest. The Cardassians inform the Enterprise that they have Picard. Madred tortures Picard and keeps asking how many lights Picard sees. At one point he offers to let Picard go but mentions they have Crusher, which they don’t, so Picard stays. There are several brutal torture scenes and one last attempt to break Picard.

Crusher and Worf make it back to the Enterprise. Jellico will not negotiate for Picard’s life and relieves Riker of his duty when challenged, so Data is now first officer. La Forge and Jellico share a moment and pushes for Jellico to consider Riker for piloting through the nebula as he is the best pilot there is. Riker and La Forge enact the plan and Jellico’s bet pays off as the Cardassians agree to his terms, including returning Picard. Picard is returned to duty and speaks with Troi, as he has now been kidnapped for a second time, and that in the end he was convinced there was a fifth light even though there were only four.

My Thoughts and Impressions: The parts of the episodes that are on the Enterprise are essentially the battle of “Make it so” vs. “Get it done”, and I’m all here for it. Jellico feels he knows what might happen and knows there won’t be enough time to do things the way that is comfortable for everyone, so he powers through and decides what needs to be done. He’s there to do a job not to win Miss Congeniality. The Enterprise has always liked things safe and warm and does not like when someone comes and shakes things up. It happened in “Sins of the Father“, “WNOHGB” and I’m sure a few others I am forgetting.

As much as I love our crew, they just don’t adjust well to change. All Captains do not act a certain way, I mean take a look at how Data acted when he was in command of his own ship during “Redemption“. People like comfort and they like what is familiar and Jellico just didn’t have that kind of time. It’s like when you go to therapy, you may need to try out different therapists until you find the right fit for you. If all counselors acted the exact same way, it would not help anyone except for the people who benefit from that exact form of therapy. Drugs react differently to each person even if they are the same, and so it is with captains. I see people always asking “who is your captain?” and maybe I’ll have an answer when this is all over, but for now they are truly too damn different to compare.

All of the scenes with Picard and Madred are intense and very well acted. Madred plays all of his cards just so and doesn’t really seem to crack until the end when Picard starts to fight back. He plays good cop, bad cop, unethical cop, bring your daughter to work cop, self-disclosing a personal story cop, and eventually flat our liar, liar, pants on fire cop. He’ll never know that he broke Picard at the end and he’s a very compelling villain.

Picard has now been captured, and tortured, twice. I was so glad his first thing was to talk to Troi when he became captain again because this man is going to need quite a bit of counseling. I will say I think it was totally going around Saturn to get to Uranus and Jupiter the way Madred lured Picard in, just as in “Rascals” everything had to happen just so. What if it was Worf that was captured instead? Once he was had, however, the Cardassians played the Federation well… putting them in, what they thought, was an unwinnable situation. The part at the end where Jellico’s plan is thought of and completed in just a few minutes was a bit ludicrous and was just so the “good guys” could win, but somehow Picard has to finish this season and the next, amiright? Overall two pretty solid episodes and I’m confident that there really were 8 lights.

TA Out!

Date: May 12, 2020

Season 6, Episodes 8 and 9

Musical Accompaniment: Ambient Worlds presents: The Elder Scrolls

Interstellar News: The weather is getting colder, but at least I was able to complete five loads of laundry today.

Favorite Quote from “A Fistful of Datas”:

Worf: What is our function here?

Alexander: You’re the Sheriff and I’m the deputy.

Worf: So, we are in law enforcement.

Alexander: Right.

Worf grasping the function… quickly.

Worf’s One-Two Punch: “I’m beginning to see the appeal of this program.”

“A Fistful of Datas” begins with the crew having a little extra time on their hands and Picard during his best to play his flute, but constantly getting interrupted. First La Forge and Data want permission to do an experiment (this isn’t going to end well), then Dr. Crusher wants Picard to play a small part in a play (“I’m not much of an actor.”), and finally Worf tries to give himself more work but Picard all but orders him to enjoy his free time. I promise all three of these things are, sort of, important.

Alexander and Worf play a Western holodeck program where Worf is the Sheriff and Alexander is this Deputy. Worf “beats” the program on easy so Alexander bumps it up to level 4 and the program starts again. When Worf is just about to lose, Troi jumps in to help. Outside of the holodeck, La Forge hooks up Data to be the backup computer in case of systems failure when Data experiences a power surge and flips his tricorder like a man with a gun in the Wild West. Meanwhile, glitches on the ship keep happening… like Picard’s music data acting wonky, Crusher’s script being replaced by Data’s poetry, and all of the replicators only making cat food.

Alexander is kidnapped on the way back from the bank and the program won’t freeze because Data is now the bad guy and the bad guy’s father. Worf makes an agreement to exchange the prisoners and fashions himself a force field which comes in handy. Oh suuuure now Worf has super shooting accuracy, where was this in “Rascals“? They fix Data, the computer, and the holodeck and everyone lives happily ever after, even Spot.

This was a FUN and adorable episode. Was it super science fictiony and suspenseful, not really, but it was cute and I needed cute today. Data continues to learn the joys of owning a cat, like when they won’t eat or when they try to “help” when you’re working. Worf is absolutely hopeless but he’s trying so hard and even came around at the end. It was also fun to see Troi being totally immersed in the holodeck and really being a part of the family. I noticed more in this episode how naive and gullible Worf is and how lucky he is to have Troi and the others in his life to explain how others do not always keep their honor in such high regard. This was an absolute amazing acting exercise for Brent Spiner and seeing him, as Data, in drag was spectacular. Would I watch this episode again, yes. Do I think it’s the best ever, no. Am I giving it 7 Datas for absolutely no reason, also yes.

Favorite Quote from “The Quality of Life”:

Riker: Data, those are two of your friends out there. They have saved your life more times than I can remember. I can’t believe you’d be willing to sacrifice them like this.

Data: Commander, please do not think this is an arbitrary decision. I have considered the ramifications of my actions carefully, and I do not believe it is justifiable to sacrifice one life form for another.

Riker being, well, Riker and totally not ever really understanding Data.

Data’s Not Really An Android: “What was it that endowed me with life?”

“The Quality of Life” begins with a poker game where Dr. Crusher uses psychology to make La Forge, Worf, and Riker feel a little self-conscious about their beards and is about to win a bet when Picard calls them all to duty. They arrive at a science station for La Forge to evaluate the Tyran particle fountain and he meets Dr. Farallon. She’s all super eager and has an answer for everything but La Forge is skeptical. Something goes wrong and she uses an experiment, her “exocamps”, which work brilliantly. She and they beam aboard the Enterprise in order to review them and the project.

The exocamps are little robots with extraordinary Artificial Intelligence capabilities, and Dr. Farallon also fangirls a bit over Data. One the exocamps acts up before and after an explosion and while everyone else considers it a loss, Data is super curious about it. He theorizes that the exocamps are “alive” so they develop a type of Turing test that the exocamp seemingly fails. As Data runs the test several more times, he realizes the exocamp not only passed the test but “saw right through it” as Dr. Crusher muses. Suddenly there’s a problem on the station while La Forge and Picard are down there and subsequently stuck. Data refuses to let the exocamps be used without a say in the matter, but eventually they agree and ultimately have to sacrifice one of their own in order to save Picard and La Forge.

I did not like how ugly Dr. Farallon turned out to be. She insists that she created the exocamps with the intent for them to be workers but, as I tell my kids all the time, intentions do not always mean much. You can spend 8 hours on an assignment but if you never turn it in, I can’t grade it… even if you intended to turn it in at some point. You may not have meant to do something, but that doesn’t make the unintended consequence any less valid or consequential. I love how Dr. Crusher and Picard are always so interested in new life, they really take the mission to heart. Data also comes a little closer to understanding what “the right thing” is, even when it’s hard and even when someone is yelling at you. I don’t think the episode really did what it meant to, it’s a very “C” version of “The Measure of a Man“, but maybe because the exocamps cannot speak for themselves. I always find it moving when someone who has privilege and agency speaks out for someone or something that does not. I will admit I was sad when the third exocamp sacrificed itself for the good of their fellow devices. The lingering question, though, is who wins the bet?!?! When that is the question that envelopes my thoughts at the end of an episode, you know you did something not quite right. 6 exocamps for this episode.

TA Out!

Date: May 11, 2020

Season 6, Episodes 6 and 7

Musical Accompaniment: Chants du Sud et du Nord by Arianna Savall & Petter Udland Johansen

Interstellar News: Social distance walking and dinner was a great success.

Favorite Quote from “True Q”:

Q: She was being impetuous. She’ll just have to start behaving like a Q.

Picard: If I’m not mistaken, she just did.

Picard telling Q “what for”.

“True Q” begins with the arrival of honor student Amanda Rogers who is going to intern aboard the Enterprise. After attempting to flirt with Riker a bit, puppies randomly appear and then disappear… whoa! Dr. Crusher gives Amanda a task and has her deliver tricorders to La Forge in the Cargo Bay, just in time for her to save Riker from sure death. Amanda, Data, and La Forge are down in Engineering when the warp core is about to blow, but Amanda quiets it. As Picard and crew sit down to discuss Amanda, Q pops in and explains that Amanda is the child of two Q’s who masqueraded as humans and he’s there “to help”.

Picard and Q agree to give her a choice, but Q is all grabby and gets shot across the room. He’s also in cahoots with a shadowy figure, but he does try to help train Amanda a bit. In the meantime, Picard has Data investigate the death of Amanda’s biological parents and find out they were terminated. Q comes clean that they were told they could keep Amanda as long as they didn’t use their Q powers, but they violated that rule, though he will give Amanda the same choice. Amanda, of course, swears she can resist temptation and then goes and fixes the entire planet… so she agrees to go off with Q.

As some of you may know I have four cats, one dog, a husband, and until recently I also had a roommate who had two dogs. I have therefore been calling my house “the zoo” for the last two years. I write all that because Amanda calls her three dogs “her zoo” and I thought that was adorable and fitting, especially when all of the puppies appeared. She also started out with the best of intentions and may have made better decisions if it wasn’t for the influence of Q. We see it at the end where she really is human in sentiment and heals the planet, she just couldn’t let everyone die… especially Riker. That is, however, the end of my love for this episode.

Here’s the thing. In “Deja Q” it was established that you could take away a Q’s power, so why wasn’t that one of the choices? Why was it you can just not use them or you can come back to the Continuum? Also, Q was a little flirty with Amanda which is just awful since she was begotten by two Q’s in the first place. Amanda also has a strong fascination with Riker, going so far as to whisk him away and force him to love her, but in the end she just can’t live with her choices. While I love Q and his snottiness, Picard and his speeches, and Dr. Crusher and her new hairdo, I don’t love the inconsistencies that make my head hurt. As a normal Trek episode this would normally earn a 5, but in comparison to the other “Q” episodes, I’m only assigning 4 puppies.

Favorite Quotes from “Rascals”:

O’Brien: No. I mean, of course you’re my wife. But you’re also ten years old.

Keiko: Beverly said it’s actually closer to twelve.

O’Brien: That’s not the point.

O’Brien making a VERY valid point.

Guinan: At the moment I can’t do anything about it, so I might as well enjoy it.

Ro: Enjoy what? Where did you get the idea that being short and awkward is some kind of wonderful gift?

As someone who is 5 foot tall, Ro makes a spectacularly valid point.

“Rascals” begins with Picard, Ro, Guinan, and Keiko heading back to the Enterprise via shuttlecraft. There’s a distress call so they have to get back quickly when their craft suddenly gets stuck and O’Brien has to beam them back. He gets them back but in the bodies of their pre-teen selves, but with all the knowledge and understanding… oh my! Young Picard dives right back into work until Dr. Crusher talks him into allowing Riker to be in control until things are settled. Guinan wants to play and enjoy being young, Ro wants to pout, and Keiko is off with O’Brien.

Troi and Picard discuss options if this happens to be permanent, Crusher tries to find a way to revert them back to their appropriately aged bodies, La Forge and O’Brien sift through the shuttlecraft parts, and there’s still the distress signal to take care of. The Enterprise arrives at Ligos VII, are shot at by two Klingon ships, and are boarded by Ferengi. The “children” are put in a room together and Picard enacts a plan, looping in Alexander to help as well. It’s very Home Alone where things have to happen just so in order to be effective, but the kids save the day. The Ferengi are arrested, the science colony is squared away, and O’Brien and Crusher fix the kids, except for Ro who colors with adult Guinan for a bit.

There were some adorable bits to this episode. Young Picard acting like the boss he is, throwing a tantrum, and running his hands through his hair as often as possible when he’s young. It was heartbreaking to see Molly ask for Keiko and not accepting her now 12 year old mom. It was hysterical that Riker was just spouting technobabble at the Ferengi while he was giving access to the kid’s room computer, and seeing Riker and Picard play father and son was so totally worth it. The smile on Alexander’s face when he was able to help was awesome, I was worried about that kid. It was also good to see that Guinan and Ro are still friends. The rest of the episode, however, is just god awful. The Enterprise is taken over by about 10 Ferengi, Worf is a worse shot than even the shortest Stormtrooper, and the voices were so terrible. Maybe it’s the Netflix version, but they all sound like a bad dub and it totally ruined the episode for me. I’ll just take 2 flux capacitors and be on my way… thanks.

TA Out!