I guess it’s because the regular Enterprise computer is offline. It’s weird that the voice of the ship switches from female to male halfway through the episode. Nitpicks: Before 30 seconds have passed we see one of those black cards on the back of the bridge, and some kind of X with a circle around it on the left of the screen? I don’t get it. I believe this is corrected in the Netflix version. Pause it when you see Data and Geordi beaming in, and long before they materialize you’ll notice their reflections waiting for them on the command console the commander is touching. There is also a flaw from the Blu Ray version that occurs at exactly 25:39. Remember the black cards I mentioned in the back of the Bridge? To the right of what Geordi is looking at is maybe the biggest black card ever, clearly held in place by three pieces of tape. Overall it’s not as clear as some other episodes, however. The clarity here is great enough that you can easily see the little purplish hair the Bynars have, which I hadn’t noticed before. She made such a believable connection with Riker that they use her again in a season 4 episode.īlu Ray Version: Starbase 74 has never looked this good it’s a thing of beauty, as is the planet and moon nearby. Carolyn McCormick, who plays Minuet, works on every level. Tasha, Worf and the Crushers all have about the same to do, which is not very much. He and Geordi have some development to their friendship which is nice to see, it fleshes them out a bit more for us. Data has some character development as this is the first episode where we see him painting this will be a recurring theme over the course of the series. Picard’s French heritage is brought up here briefly, which largely gets forgotten as the series progresses. It’s one of the first steps toward the crew becoming like a family. Riker gets some good character development, establishing his love of jazz and musicianship, and we really get to see how he and Picard relate to each other off of the bridge. Use of Cast/Characters: Marina Sirtis had this episode off. Worf: If winning is not important, then commander, why keep score? Worf: Rest assured commander we will be victorious, at whatever the cost. Worf has some cool lines when they’re talking about playing a friendly game of Parisi Squares: They work together to solve a problem and it’s a real pleasure to watch. Patrick is flawless as the captain, knowing exactly what to do and Frakes is excellent as first officer, in perfect unison with his captain. We get some really good interaction with Picard and Riker, and in fact my favorite scene by far is when they go to regain control of the ship. Everything moves toward a reasonable, if underwhelming, conclusion.įavorite Scenes: Most of the best scenes are with Picard, Riker and Minuet in the holodeck. There is real tension in the episode when they abandon the ship, even more later when Picard and Riker realize they’ve lost control of the Enterprise. From here on the plot moves along at a good pace, and every twist and turn does seem to logically flow from one to the next. Picard joins him and thus neither one are aware of a ship-wide emergency that has the entire crew evacuated. Riker starts up a holodeck program that takes place in a bar in New Orleans, and gets sucked in pretty quick–I can’t blame him, judging from his company. When we return the next 10 minutes are mostly taken up with getting all of the crew off the ship for some shore leave. Plot A deals with the Bynars and the holodeck, there is no plot B. Still, the groundwork is laid to make us a little suspicious of them. They seem a bit startled to only have 48 hours to get everything done, but go to work. They are a pretty cool little race of folks that are about as close to a computer as organic folks can get (heh, they haven’t met the Borg yet). Plot A and B Analysis: A pretty well-constructed teaser here: the Enterprise docks with a starbase for upgrades to its computer systems, which will be conducted by the Bynars. Plot Synopsis: While a group of technologically advanced aliens board the Enterprise to update the ship’s computer systems, Riker discovers just how real a holodeck character can be.
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