Post by StolenThunder on Jan 8, 2002 14:32:12 GMT -5
Well, I must have seen this episode last in the early to mid 1990s...
[An eternity, to a teenager - Note FC reference...]
And I liked it then. And nothing really has changed...
Some comments however...
Ok, there is the small selection of below par jokes... Most notably, Worf's "I wasn't asking you" - spoken to the computer...
But there are also some of those moments where the Enterprise D crew seem entirely stupid, just so the story can continue...
For example, Data is locked in the laser drilling chamber, and the laser tries to kill him... Geordi runs to the door, and the base technician tries the code... It doesn't work... Then Geordi shouts over the laser fire "We have got to get this door open!"... Then turns to face the door, while saying "d**n, we can't get in!"... They really put in the effort, don't they...
[*shouting at screen* "Shoot through the door!"]
Of course Data survives, and his speed reactions are shown for the first time, in a very good sequence of events...
Also, the episode contains one of the worst pieces of Star Trek acting... Beverly Crusher's "Life Force? Do you understand us?"... is simply terrible.
Also, the episode mentions the toilet! *gasp*
The ensign in engineering states that two crewmen are stuck in the programmers' rest room...
Ok, so the episode has its hammy moments.... But it is a fantastic episode! It fits together very well, and was certainly one of the best Season One episodes... Certainly one of the top thirty Star Trek episodes of all time...
Very, very good...
[An eternity, to a teenager - Note FC reference...]
And I liked it then. And nothing really has changed...
Some comments however...
Ok, there is the small selection of below par jokes... Most notably, Worf's "I wasn't asking you" - spoken to the computer...
But there are also some of those moments where the Enterprise D crew seem entirely stupid, just so the story can continue...
For example, Data is locked in the laser drilling chamber, and the laser tries to kill him... Geordi runs to the door, and the base technician tries the code... It doesn't work... Then Geordi shouts over the laser fire "We have got to get this door open!"... Then turns to face the door, while saying "d**n, we can't get in!"... They really put in the effort, don't they...
[*shouting at screen* "Shoot through the door!"]
Of course Data survives, and his speed reactions are shown for the first time, in a very good sequence of events...
Also, the episode contains one of the worst pieces of Star Trek acting... Beverly Crusher's "Life Force? Do you understand us?"... is simply terrible.
Also, the episode mentions the toilet! *gasp*
The ensign in engineering states that two crewmen are stuck in the programmers' rest room...
Ok, so the episode has its hammy moments.... But it is a fantastic episode! It fits together very well, and was certainly one of the best Season One episodes... Certainly one of the top thirty Star Trek episodes of all time...
Very, very good...
