The Drumhead - one of the best ever TNG episodes?

[indolover]

I never used to like this episode until recently, but now i think it rocks.

I like how the writers made it a 1950's McCarthyism in space, and how Picard as always is right in sussing out the true cause of things.

 

[Hober Mallow]

The writers did some amazing work when the money got tight. This was actually originally supposed to be a cheap money-saving "clip show" a la "Shades of Gray" that the studio ordered. Piller, believeing those kinds of shows to be an insult to the audience, asked if they could write an original episode with virtually no new special FX that took place entirely on the ship sets instead. The result was a great show.

"First Duty" was another money saver.

 

[Ensign_Redshirt]

The writers did some amazing work when the money got tight. This was actually originally supposed to be a cheap money-saving "clip show" a la "Shades of Gray" that the studio ordered. Piller, believeing those kinds of shows to be an insult to the audience, asked if they could write an original episode with virtually no new special FX that took place entirely on the ship sets instead. The result was a great show.

The same basically applies to DS9's "Duet", I think. Gotta love these bottle shows.

 

[Admiral Shran]

Data's Day was another excellent bottle show.

 

[ChadHydro]

Data's Day was another excellent bottle show.

I never pass this episode up. There's always something so addicting about Data's pursuit to understand humanity

 

[Anji]

The Drumhead has always been one of my favorites. I love how it shows, quite accurately, how rumor and suspicious spreads like a virus.

"Vigilance, Mr. Worf," Picard says, "That's the price we must continue to pay."
True, so true.

 

[MikeS]

Definitely one of my favourites and just goes to show that big budjet effects does not necessarily equate to great storytelling. Being a teenage Brit when this was first aired, I never got the McCarthyist references first time around. That didn't take any of the impact away though. Probably one of the episodes that helped shape my morallity.

 

[Hober Mallow]

Definitely one of my favourites and just goes to show that big budjet effects does not necessarily equate to great storytelling. Being a teenage Brit when this was first aired, I never got the McCarthyist references first time around. That didn't take any of the impact away though. Probably one of the episodes that helped shape my morallity.

Your country had witch hunts, though.

 

[Xerxes1979]

Great great episode though I don't understand why they continued to grill Tarsus if Satee had a full Betazoid at her disposal.

 

[Green Shirt]

Your country had witch hunts, though.

Which we were only too happy to emulate.

 

[Mytran]

A lot of the best Trek episodes are bottle shows.

I didn't realise that this episode was slated to be another clip show - narrow escape!

 

[Lor'Vela]

Good episode, but I've never considered it to be one of my favourites. I'm just not all that fond of courtroom drama type episodes, which means another fan favourite, A Measure Of A Man, is also satisfactory viewing for me.

 

[Mr Troi]

This is my favourite episode in Star Trek and it has my favourite moment too when Picard stands up to the Admiral and he tells her: what you are doing is wrong, it is unethical, it is immoral, i'll fight it.
It is a very relevant episode now, in 2010, with our absolute catastrophic deprivation of privacy and civil liberties.

 

[RyuRoots]

I love this episode! Definitely one of my favorites. It has a lot of good scenes I think, particularly Picard's talk with Tarses and the aforementioned "This is wrong. I will fight it." scene. It also has one of my favorite Picard speeches.

""You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy: ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged."

 

[Bacl]

I never used to like this episode until recently, but now i think it rocks.

I like how the writers made it a 1950's McCarthyism in space, and how Picard as always is right in sussing out the true cause of things.

Nevermind the 1950s, it has great relevance to today as well.

Star Trek at its finest.

 

[Chaos Descending]

I don't think Picard was a particularly good Captain when his career as a whole is viewed, but I LOVE this episode, and Picard was every bit the hero he's made out to be. Moral courage is every bit as important (and impressive) as courage under fire or courage in the face of death. I never miss this one when it's on.