Well I rather think Seven and Data would be a good couple
Disaster - Peak TNG
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I wanna know what happened to the radishes in the special dirt that came up all weird.
They developed intelligence & tried to take over the ship. Keiko & Beverly, with all their botanical acumen, had to team up to thwart them.
SEAQUEST DSV already did that kind of plot in their second season with "By Any Other Name".
Horrible, horrible episode.
I could've gone my whole life without seeing it. Twice. (Once when it originally aired, again when I got the dvd set when it was initially released. Back then, I always watched each episode of all sets I got to make sure everything played correctly.)I could've gone my whole life not knowing about that
^^ Oh nice, now I want to see it.
You don't. Truly, you don't.
Please consider my history of being able to defend virtually every episode's existence when I tell you that episode... I don't think I can defend it.
Thanks for your review. I haven't watched it since the blu-rays came out, but it was never one of my favorites. I'll rewatch it soon based upon your comments.
When I saw it at age 16, it all seemed serious and believable to me... that such accidents were bound to happen in space. I could not believe the plot with Troi being in command. There must be a system of staff officers who have rank because of their experience in a narrow field, like medicine or law, but who did not go to the academy and would not command field officers or crewmen in ship operations under any circumstances. It made Troi look awkward, but really the whole policy is awkward. The doctors are usually lieutenant-commanders, but they never have to take charge of operations during a crisis. Similarly, they would not put Worf or Geordi in charge of medical decisions because they were the highest ranking person in sickbay. I know it was for the plot. I liked that they followed up later with Troi getting certified in ship operations. But I just could not suspend belief that the official policy was to put the therapist in command in a crisis.
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Given the other choices of O'Brien (non-enlisted) or Ensign Ro (an ensign, obviously), who would you have put in command instead? Troi taking command wasn't supposed to be a situation that would tend to happen, it was just how the chips fell in this particular situation.
And on top of that, an Ensign who only very recently was brought back into Starfleet due to her checkered past.
Worf literally delivered Keiko's baby in that very same episode. Bev is given command in Descent. So, sure they do. Troi is in fact more than just a therapist. She's a cultural liaison, a command advisor, a crew evaluator & in some other nondescript ways a Starfleet trained officer too.
Clearly, she was not optimally fit for command & I don't necessarily disagree that the policy doesn't make a lot of sense, but it's not out of the realm or possibility either imho, especially for the circumstance. The choice was between her, a transporter chief, & a newly recruited helm ensign. In truth, it's not all that off for the choice to be her, despite the fact that the other two are more adept, because in their individual cases they have greater history & experience than their rank reflects.
He was busy & looking away? The radiation in the room was affecting his reception? I guess you just have to find a possible out & go with it lol
I believe that after all this, the Executive Officer in charge of Radishes will have his choice of any Starfleet command, Sir.
With all due respect, sir, my radish plans are my own business and no one else'sI believe that after all this, the Executive Officer in charge of Radishes will have his choice of any Starfleet command, Sir.
It's a fun, B-Movie level horror style of "The Plants Kill" idea. Fallout New Vegas utilized a similar idea in Vault 22.
It's a weak episode for Seaquest but certainly I didn't mind it and it left an impression. The effects are weaker, though, and I'm usually not one off put by poor effects.
I'm pretty sure Geordi was looking in the general vicinity at the time it was warming up enough for Beverly to notice. Even then, I recall his response being tactile rather than visual, and if his VISOR can pick up numerous EM, nonionizing, RF, EIEIO, ETC forms of radiation and everything, he'd have pinpointed it faster than that one and only time he did Troi's job by pointing out a gaggle of liars based on their involuntary responses thanks to said VISOR, never mind previous TNG episodes showed firsthand that Geordi could spot microfractures, temperature variations, you name it, to the complete blissful unawareness of everyone around him - even Data ("Heart of Glory"). And they say whiners on youtube say that only modern Trek is riddled with dumb inconsistencies, forgetting that the dusty 20th century stuff had a few awful moments too, such as this one:
(Don't you dig that suitcase painted the same color as the wall and gutted and affixed with a control panel? I actually do...)
Starts at about 1:27 in for the full thrill, Geordi even gawks at the general area - with peripheral vision, more than once - even gawking directly at it for several seconds, and aren't italicized letters cool? - and even asks urgently and brusquely, "WHERE!". He should have picked it up by 1:42 with ease. Never mind that it's not the area she's touching that goes boom, it's the area he was directly working ON and overloads tend to heat up and be picked up -- he did 50 shades of missing it, that's how awful the scene is. Even more interesting, Bev's got no need to lay against the wall either, no matter how half-heineyed lazily, all of which makes the contrivance of the setup even worser. Yep, I just used a non-word, "worser".
Nope, Geordi easily should have been the one. Never mind that the same Bev also says it's a good idea to take a deep breath and hold it in all while the cargo bay is being depressurized, in real life you'd want to exhale as much as possible to reduce pressure in your abdominal cavity yet she makes her claim with the calmest assuredness, but that gem of a scene happens later in the story - suspension of disbelief is invariably needed, but some of this story requires more than what's possible...If nothing else, script writers and editors of 80s/90s Trek didn't have modern computers with big script-generation apps with internal databases that can organize and bring up a main character's traits and other fair bits of continuity to make consistency far easier, something that didn't exist or was thought of back then, and even then what they had was still a fair bit better than typewriters and that pesky correction fluid that stained clothes, but at that time it sure did help a lot in the 1960s but I digressed within a digression: Continuity and all can and does change, usually to expand and further the lore and when it works, nobody cares too much about it. But robbing Geordi of so many pre-established traits, over four years running, for the sake of this scene's cheap drama, the only word that comes to mind right now is "asinine"... maybe "asiten" as this episode kicks it up a notch... there, two non-words for the price of one, woohoo!
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Because the wall was nowhere near as hot as Dr. Crusher.
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