Q keeps his promise to never come near the enterprise again by altering time and space so picard inadvertently walks out of the turbolift and into a shuttlecraft far far away from the enterprise. just jean luc and Q, two boys floating way way out in space.
picard agrees to let Q make a formal statement back on the ship, in ten forward. guinan recognizes Q and hates his ass. Q reveals guinan is over 200 years old and goes by other names. Q says he was thrown out of the continuum and he wants to join the enterprise crew, and heâs even willing to renounce his powers to do so.
picard knows this is all a game and calls out the bullshit right away. Q snaps his fingers, throws the enterprise 2 years of maximum warp travel away from the edge of federation space, then disappears. itâs the part of the galaxy guinanâs people are from, and where the borg are now.
the only communication the borg offer is an assessment of their superior power and a warning that resistance will result in punishment. a chunk of the enterprise is blown apart and 18 unnamed crew are killed. Q pops in to ask, âare you SURE you donât want me on the crew? â
the enterprise tries to run for it. borg pursue and at maximum warp theyâre still gaining. Q appears on the bridge to let everyone know that the borg cannot be outrun or destroyed and will relentlessly pursue. faced with his only remaining option of firing one final salvo at point blank range with no shields, picard turns to Q and begs him for help. he shouts, âi need you!â and Q loves it, he absolutely eats it up. so he snaps his fingers and theyâre flung back to safety. for now.
Summary
s2e16 Q-Who?
s2e14 The Icarus Factor
s1e17 When The Bough Breaks
s1e25 Conspiracy
s1e1, s1e2 Encounter at Farpoint parts 1 and 2
s2e12 The Royale
s1e22 Symbiosis
s2e3 Elementary, Dear Data
s1e20 Heart Of Glory
s1e8 Justice
s1e10 Hide and âQâ
s1e26 The Neutral Zone
s1e21 The Arsenal Of Freedom
s2e8 A Matter Of Honor
s2e9 The Measure Of A Man
s2e10 The Dauphin
s2e13 Time Squared
s2e15 Pen Pals
s2e4 The Outrageous Okona
s2e2 Where Silence Has Lease
s1e9 The Battle
s1e13 Datalore
s2e1 The Child
s1e18 Home Soil
s1e11 Haven
s1e6 Where No One Has Gone Before
s1e19 Coming Of Age
s1e12 The Big Goodbye
s2e11 Contagion
s1e15 11001001
s2e5 Loud As A Whisper
s1e7 Lonely Among Us
s1e23 Skin Of Evil
s2e6 The Schizoid Man
s1e14 Angel One
s1e4 Code of Honor
s1e16 Too Short A Season
s2e7 Unnatural Selection
s1e5 The Last Outpost
s1e24 Weâll Always Have Paris
s1e3 The Naked Now
I loved this episode because, even though the whole premise of the series is based on exploration, itâs a kind of incremental exploration, and having a god like being, Q, flinging the enterprise into There Be Dragons territory, and how terrifying the Borg are means this shit is serious. Or at least there are more things lurking out there than the monster of the week
a ship crewed by a race of slow adults is stalled in space and the enterprise assists by lending engineering expertise. meanwhile picard and wesley are alone together for 8 hours in a shuttle craft. wesley is taking a starfleet exam and picard has to get his bionic heart tuned up. he brings a book so he doesnât have to talk but fuckin wesley keeps yapping. when picard gets up and walks to the other side of the shuttle and sticks his nose in the book, wesley turns around and goes, âyou ever wish you had kids?â
we get some good picard lore before he nearly dies on the operating table. geordi is kidnapped by chunguses and the enterprise tricks them with a clever ploy. congrats? idk whatâs crueler, outwitting a spaceship crewed entirely by slow adults or just blowing them up
Summary
s2e16 Q-Who?
s2e14 The Icarus Factor
s1e17 When The Bough Breaks
s1e25 Conspiracy
s1e1, s1e2 Encounter at Farpoint parts 1 and 2
s2e12 The Royale
s1e22 Symbiosis
s2e3 Elementary, Dear Data
s1e20 Heart Of Glory
s1e8 Justice
s1e10 Hide and âQâ
s1e26 The Neutral Zone
s1e21 The Arsenal Of Freedom
s2e8 A Matter Of Honor
s2e9 The Measure Of A Man
s2e10 The Dauphin s2e17 Samaritan Snare
s2e13 Time Squared
s2e15 Pen Pals
s2e4 The Outrageous Okona
s2e2 Where Silence Has Lease
s1e9 The Battle
s1e13 Datalore
s2e1 The Child
s1e18 Home Soil
s1e11 Haven
s1e6 Where No One Has Gone Before
s1e19 Coming Of Age
s1e12 The Big Goodbye
s2e11 Contagion
s1e15 11001001
s2e5 Loud As A Whisper
s1e7 Lonely Among Us
s1e23 Skin Of Evil
s2e6 The Schizoid Man
s1e14 Angel One
s1e4 Code of Honor
s1e16 Too Short A Season
s2e7 Unnatural Selection
s1e5 The Last Outpost
s1e24 Weâll Always Have Paris
s1e3 The Naked Now
the enterprise picks up a group of federation colonists who act as 19th century irish peasants, complete with farm animals and straw bedding everywhere. theyâre aware of starships and interstellar trade but theyâre like irish amish and are fully committed to the bit. riker falls in love with a fiery lass who, despite being a hard-working farmer, has perfect makeup, and just as much makeup as every other 1980s woman on the ship
meanwhile, they find out about the existence of a lost colony, uncontacted for 300 years. they got into cloning and never looked back. did fine technologically but they got a dna problem because of too much cloning. they need fresh dna, but riker is vehemently against it, insisting the only proper way to live forever is to have full penetrative sex with a woman. when the colonists take dna samples and wipe his memory, riker returns to abort the riker clones in their growth vats with a phaser to the head.
picard has the bright idea to combine the two colonies, but thereâs a severe culture clash between the asexual polycule of scientists and this band of drunken irish peasants. picard demands dei be enforced, and it saves everyoneâs lives.
Summary
s2e16 Q-Who?
s2e14 The Icarus Factor
s1e17 When The Bough Breaks
s1e25 Conspiracy
s1e1, s1e2 Encounter at Farpoint parts 1 and 2
s2e12 The Royale
s1e22 Symbiosis
s2e3 Elementary, Dear Data
s1e20 Heart Of Glory
s1e8 Justice
s1e10 Hide and âQâ
s1e26 The Neutral Zone
s1e21 The Arsenal Of Freedom
s2e8 A Matter Of Honor
s2e9 The Measure Of A Man s2e18 Up The Long Ladder
s2e10 The Dauphin
s2e17 Samaritan Snare
s2e13 Time Squared
s2e15 Pen Pals
s2e4 The Outrageous Okona
s2e2 Where Silence Has Lease
s1e9 The Battle
s1e13 Datalore
s2e1 The Child
s1e18 Home Soil
s1e11 Haven
s1e6 Where No One Has Gone Before
s1e19 Coming Of Age
s1e12 The Big Goodbye
s2e11 Contagion
s1e15 11001001
s2e5 Loud As A Whisper
s1e7 Lonely Among Us
s1e23 Skin Of Evil
s2e6 The Schizoid Man
s1e14 Angel One
s1e4 Code of Honor
s1e16 Too Short A Season
s2e7 Unnatural Selection
s1e5 The Last Outpost
s1e24 Weâll Always Have Paris
s1e3 The Naked Now
troiâs mom is an official ambassador of betazed and she has official business on the enterprise (beyond counseling her daughter to be more sexually aggressive with her coworkers). so we get to see her make picard uncomfortable as she repeatedly tries to seduce him. her telepathic powers are stronger than ever, but sheâs completely misreading signals from picard. sheâs going through betazed menopause which has quadruped her already formidable sex drive, and to avoid upsetting an official ambassador picard decides to hide out in the holodeck and solve a solo dixon hill mystery
mrs troi nearly marries riker before falling in love with the dixon hill holodeck bartender for a few minutes, at which point picard escorts her to the transporter because theyâve arrived at the negotiation planet. as soon as she steps into the transporter room she identifies the two monstrous fishmen delegates as assassins, effortlessly reading their minds perfectly. theyâre taken to the brig and as she beams away she again announces to the room that picard is thinking lewd thoughts about her.
Summary
s2e16 Q-Who?
s2e14 The Icarus Factor
s1e17 When The Bough Breaks
s1e25 Conspiracy
s1e1, s1e2 Encounter at Farpoint parts 1 and 2
s2e12 The Royale
s1e22 Symbiosis
s2e3 Elementary, Dear Data
s1e20 Heart Of Glory
s1e8 Justice
s1e10 Hide and âQâ
s1e26 The Neutral Zone
s1e21 The Arsenal Of Freedom
s2e8 A Matter Of Honor
s2e9 The Measure Of A Man
s2e18 Up The Long Ladder
s2e10 The Dauphin
s2e17 Samaritan Snare
s2e13 Time Squared
s2e15 Pen Pals
s2e4 The Outrageous Okona
s2e2 Where Silence Has Lease
s1e9 The Battle
s1e13 Datalore
s2e1 The Child
s1e18 Home Soil
s1e11 Haven
s1e6 Where No One Has Gone Before
s1e19 Coming Of Age
s1e12 The Big Goodbye
s2e11 Contagion
s1e15 11001001 s2e19 Manhunt
s2e5 Loud As A Whisper
s1e7 Lonely Among Us
s1e23 Skin Of Evil
s2e6 The Schizoid Man
s1e14 Angel One
s1e4 Code of Honor
s1e16 Too Short A Season
s2e7 Unnatural Selection
s1e5 The Last Outpost
s1e24 Weâll Always Have Paris
s1e3 The Naked Now
ep starts with riker data worf geordi and the new doctor playing no limit 5-card draw. lots of string bets and splashing the pot. data refers to a fold as a âbendâ, itâs an amateur clownshow. although i like to imagine that the fine points of etiquette of our noble game were lost to history, and these guys just donât know better. worf wins the pot on a big raise and mucks his hand. geordi asks what he had and worf says âklingons do not bluffâ
federation top brass orders the enterprise to work with a half-klingon half-human female diplomatic emissary. their task is to diplomatically deescalate tensions with a ship of klingons that have been in cryosleep for 40 years, because when they wake up theyâll think theyâre still at war with the federation. picard orders worf to work closely with the emissary, but they have a history so worf suggests someone else do it. picard has a masterful management style, he asks, âdo you have a personal reason you canât work with her?â and worf says yes. and instead of asking what that personal reason is, he follows up with, âdo you have a professional reason you canât work with her?â and just gives him a look like, âdo your fuckin job, mateâ
worf and the emissary bang, of course. and immediately afterwards, worf insists theyâre married. but sheâs liberal to his conservative, she refuses to get married because she wants to focus on her career and her own life and worf gets mad at her for not respecting ancient klingon traditions. a tale as old as time.
in the end, they fool the awakened klingons by dressing up worf as the captain and the emissary as the xo. worf successfully bluffs the other captain into yielding command of the ship. i guess klingons can bluff
when the emissary leaves the ship, worf and her have a moment where they both express they would like to be together if things were different. worf paraphrases the jerry maguire you complete me line as sheâs beaming off and she says nothing, she han solos him.
Summary
s2e16 Q-Who?
s2e14 The Icarus Factor
s1e17 When The Bough Breaks
s1e25 Conspiracy
s1e1, s1e2 Encounter at Farpoint parts 1 and 2
s2e12 The Royale
s1e22 Symbiosis
s2e3 Elementary, Dear Data
s1e20 Heart Of Glory
s1e8 Justice
s1e10 Hide and âQâ
s1e26 The Neutral Zone
s1e21 The Arsenal Of Freedom s2e20 The Emissary
s2e8 A Matter Of Honor
s2e9 The Measure Of A Man
s2e18 Up The Long Ladder
s2e10 The Dauphin
s2e17 Samaritan Snare
s2e13 Time Squared
s2e15 Pen Pals
s2e4 The Outrageous Okona
s2e2 Where Silence Has Lease
s1e9 The Battle
s1e13 Datalore
s2e1 The Child
s1e18 Home Soil
s1e11 Haven
s1e6 Where No One Has Gone Before
s1e19 Coming Of Age
s1e12 The Big Goodbye
s2e11 Contagion
s1e15 11001001
s2e19 Manhunt
s2e5 Loud As A Whisper
s1e7 Lonely Among Us
s1e23 Skin Of Evil
s2e6 The Schizoid Man
s1e14 Angel One
s1e4 Code of Honor
s1e16 Too Short A Season
s2e7 Unnatural Selection
s1e5 The Last Outpost
s1e24 Weâll Always Have Paris
s1e3 The Naked Now
because of the borg threat, the enterprise is participating in federation wargames and they bring aboard a master strategist, a nonhuman friendly alien. he looks exactly like what youâd imagine the best hearts of iron 4 player looks like: short fat and somewhat autistic. worf may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
riker challenges this supposed expert strategist to a game called strategema, which is a heads-up competition of⌠strategy. every finger on both hands is hooked by wires to the central strategema machine, and it looks like a super fast 3-tier Go game. worf mentions that he âwagered heavily in the shipâs poolâ on rikerâs success. itâs the second time heâs mentioned his gambling hobby but again, without money idk what heâs betting. is he, like, agreeing to be someoneâs maid or butler for the day if he looses? is he risking a level of personal embarrassment or because heâs klingon is he just gonna let some sicko shock him with a cattle prod off camera? iâll let you know if they ever reveal it
riker loses extra quickly, and the new doctor proposes Data play him and make him humble, but the supernerd beats Data and he spirals into an existential crisis. iâm finally liking the new doctor. but according to patrick stewartâs memoir she never made any friends on the set. and thatâs coming from a guy who says he lived like a monk for these first two seasons, going to work and going home 4 out of 5 nights a week, except for friday nights when he would go to the theater, alone.
in the middle of the war game (riker was winning) a ferengi ship swoops in and starts attacking for real. the crew outwits the ferengi and Data plays a rematch where he forces the supernerd into a stalemate in strategema. the fat nerd ragequits so itâs not technically a win but the crew is stoked on Data anyway.
Summary
s2e16 Q-Who?
s2e14 The Icarus Factor s2e21 Peak Performance
s1e17 When The Bough Breaks
s1e25 Conspiracy
s1e1, s1e2 Encounter at Farpoint parts 1 and 2
s2e12 The Royale
s1e22 Symbiosis
s2e3 Elementary, Dear Data
s1e20 Heart Of Glory
s1e8 Justice
s1e10 Hide and âQâ
s1e26 The Neutral Zone
s1e21 The Arsenal Of Freedom
s2e20 The Emissary
s2e8 A Matter Of Honor
s2e9 The Measure Of A Man
s2e18 Up The Long Ladder
s2e10 The Dauphin
s2e17 Samaritan Snare
s2e13 Time Squared
s2e15 Pen Pals
s2e4 The Outrageous Okona
s2e2 Where Silence Has Lease
s1e9 The Battle
s1e13 Datalore
s2e1 The Child
s1e18 Home Soil
s1e11 Haven
s1e6 Where No One Has Gone Before
s1e19 Coming Of Age
s1e12 The Big Goodbye
s2e11 Contagion
s1e15 11001001
s2e19 Manhunt
s2e5 Loud As A Whisper
s1e7 Lonely Among Us
s1e23 Skin Of Evil
s2e6 The Schizoid Man
s1e14 Angel One
s1e4 Code of Honor
s1e16 Too Short A Season
s2e7 Unnatural Selection
s1e5 The Last Outpost
s1e24 Weâll Always Have Paris
s1e3 The Naked Now
on a short mission to investigate an uncontacted planet, riker gets a minor scratch and is infected by alien microbes that seriously threaten his life. itâs the season 2 finale, anything can happen, of course riker can die. he can grow a beard and he can die. the transporter for some reason canât filter it out and i guess they canât find a comb in his bedroom. this is real.
when riker falls into a coma he starts dreaming of all-time greatest riker moments. unfortunately, erotic memories supercharge the growth rate of the microbes, and riker has a lot of em. the doctor and troi work together to fine tune electrodes to induce memories of high anxiety and pain in rikerâs mind, but that also look badass and cool for the viewers. and it works. the virus is defeated by clip show.
Summary
s2e16 Q-Who?
s2e14 The Icarus Factor
s2e21 Peak Performance
s1e17 When The Bough Breaks
s1e25 Conspiracy
s1e1, s1e2 Encounter at Farpoint parts 1 and 2
s2e12 The Royale
s1e22 Symbiosis
s2e3 Elementary, Dear Data
s1e20 Heart Of Glory
s1e8 Justice
s1e10 Hide and âQâ
s1e26 The Neutral Zone
s1e21 The Arsenal Of Freedom
s2e20 The Emissary
s2e8 A Matter Of Honor
s2e9 The Measure Of A Man
s2e18 Up The Long Ladder
s2e10 The Dauphin
s2e17 Samaritan Snare
s2e13 Time Squared
s2e15 Pen Pals
s2e4 The Outrageous Okona
s2e2 Where Silence Has Lease
s1e9 The Battle
s1e13 Datalore s2e22 Shades Of Gray
s2e1 The Child
s1e18 Home Soil
s1e11 Haven
s1e6 Where No One Has Gone Before
s1e19 Coming Of Age
s1e12 The Big Goodbye
s2e11 Contagion
s1e15 11001001
s2e19 Manhunt
s2e5 Loud As A Whisper
s1e7 Lonely Among Us
s1e23 Skin Of Evil
s2e6 The Schizoid Man
s1e14 Angel One
s1e4 Code of Honor
s1e16 Too Short A Season
s2e7 Unnatural Selection
s1e5 The Last Outpost
s1e24 Weâll Always Have Paris
s1e3 The Naked Now
doing a clip show for a season finale is so lazy itâs heresy by modern tv standards but riker had a lot of great moments and watching them was fun. it was more fun than the episodes i ranked lower
I always wondered if this was a factor in head writer Maurice Hurley being let go. It really was a terrible decision, even for back then I think. The difference in writing from s2 to s3 is stark and obvious.
Iâve read the clip show happened because they were over budget on other episodes. Hurley reportedly didnât care by that point because he knew he was out the door.
the decision to watch these first two seasons in these troubling times is both commendable and shows a streak of masochism i respect. i cant watch a lot of these. finally its watchable. s3 is peak television
I think I was in first or second grade and remember staying home from school for i think chicken pox or something pretty severe and watching this episode. I didnât really know anything about Star Trek but I remember a line from K Ehleyr ( I looked it up to make sure what it was exactly) " âI am not human, and I am not Klingon. I am not sure I know what I am.â And thinking Star Trek was pretty deep stuff! I remember it as my first memory of anything Star Trek or Star Wars.
wesleyâs school science experiment infects the ship as the nanobot swarm becomes sentient. the shipâs computer is going haywire and thereâs a very important cosmological event occurring just outside. more importantly, dr crusher is back with a GREAT haircut
using Data as a conduit, picard diplomatically negotiates with the nanobot swarm. they agree to fix the shipâs computer that they busted, and the federation grants them a homeworld. a whole planet for them to devour, i guess. and then seek more. idk about this one, bros
Summary
s2e16 Q-Who?
s2e14 The Icarus Factor
s2e21 Peak Performance
s1e17 When The Bough Breaks
s1e25 Conspiracy
s1e1, s1e2 Encounter at Farpoint parts 1 and 2
s2e12 The Royale
s1e22 Symbiosis
s2e3 Elementary, Dear Data
s1e20 Heart Of Glory
s1e8 Justice
s1e10 Hide and âQâ
s1e26 The Neutral Zone
s1e21 The Arsenal Of Freedom
s2e20 The Emissary
s2e8 A Matter Of Honor
s2e9 The Measure Of A Man
s2e18 Up The Long Ladder
s2e10 The Dauphin
s2e17 Samaritan Snare
s2e13 Time Squared
s2e15 Pen Pals
s2e4 The Outrageous Okona
s2e2 Where Silence Has Lease
s1e9 The Battle
s1e13 Datalore
s2e22 Shades Of Gray
s2e1 The Child
s1e18 Home Soil
s1e11 Haven
s1e6 Where No One Has Gone Before
s1e19 Coming Of Age
s1e12 The Big Goodbye
s2e11 Contagion s3e1 Evolution
s1e15 11001001
s2e19 Manhunt
s2e5 Loud As A Whisper
s1e7 Lonely Among Us
s1e23 Skin Of Evil
s2e6 The Schizoid Man
s1e14 Angel One
s1e4 Code of Honor
s1e16 Too Short A Season
s2e7 Unnatural Selection
s1e5 The Last Outpost
s1e24 Weâll Always Have Paris
s1e3 The Naked Now
