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Star Trek: TNG 1x22 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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2024-01-27 18:00:14
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Thomas Corp

First off, no apologies necessary, Jess, for the week’s delay. You said you were sick, and I understood. It’s been good to hear you sounding at least slightly better. Now to the episode. Yes, a very dark and quite bleak episode. One jarring aspect of it, and given the strength of the performances, it’s something I moved past quickly, was the guest appearances of Merrick Buttrick and Judson Scott after they were previously in the franchise as Kirk’s son and Khan’s surrogate son respectively. As Ryan notes, Merrick was suffering from AIDS, and he took on the role to cover treatment costs as he could not afford insurance, and the disease would ultimately claim his life at the age of twenty-nine less than a year following this episode. The rather cruel and tragic irony and subtext is not lost on viewers. We also have strong guest appearances by Kimberly Farr and Richard Lineback, the latter I saw, and pointed, saying, “Oh, hey, he was on M*A*S*H!” Likewise, a strong quick appearance by Kenneth Tigar as the head of the Ornarans. It is a nice slow burn of trying to ascertain what precisely is transpiring in the beginning, complete with Picard putting in an early facepalm. I enjoyed your own reactions trying to piece together the plot. I have seen M*A*S*H way too many times, I’ve seen a few other things, read a few other things, that it clicked what was going on around the time Beverly stated she could not find any sign of any specific illness. That was a great moment when you worked out the truth of the felicium at the same time that the penny dropped for Beverly. The plot does have some historical precedent. In olden days, doctors used to just throw morphine at people leading to severe addiction, and it’s interesting watching the episode now with the opioid epidemic in mind. Certainly, I concur that the Brekkians are fucking detestable pieces of shit. Kindly pleased that you enjoyed the scene with Tasha explaining to Wesley about drug addiction. The reason I say that is that that aspect of the episode is often derided as feeling like a D.A.R.E. special of the nineties. I liked the fact that you quite enjoyed that scene. I will say fans have reconciled it by recontextualizing it some by projecting a headcanon that Tasha is speaking from her own past experiences with drug addiction. Denise, I believe, has said that she interpreted the scene that way when she read it, hence has given her approval of said headcanon. It warms the heart again, Jess, to hear you express the desire to have an episode that would really deep dive into Tasha and her past; I’m sure Denise would greatly appreciate that sentiment. The big highlight of the episode is the moral conundrum that Picard and Beverly face, and it’s another episode that proves, to me, anyway, that those two are the beating heart of this show. (Though I know you would say Geordi is, and I would not dream of arguing with you about that.) I loved Gates selling Beverly’s anguish of being unable to help the Ornarans whilst fighting the strong urge to be a traitor to her Hippocratic oath by dealing with the Brekkians by “yeeting them off the Enterprise” as you put it. Patrick, likewise, reminds us how marvelously skilled an actor he is by selling, as you observed, Picard’s own quiet conflict over the situation. Like you said, the whole episode is a strong showcase of the prime directive, and how there are times it is cumbersome yet necessary. I figured you would gravitate to that, and I am most happy to see that was the case. It is quietly satisfying when Picard shows why one ought not to fuck with a rule follower as he follows the rules, passive aggressively exploits the loophole that sabotages the trade agreement, and gives the Brekkians the middle finger as they stew over the fact that soon, when it comes to the Ornarans, they’re days of making fucking lemonade will be over. Then we had the final Picard and Beverly scene, and Patrick and Gates were marvelous. I love how Picard explains his point of view to Beverly, and she does not, strictly speaking, disagree with him, just as he did not, strictly speaking, disagree with her stance. Just the wonderful acknowledgment of each other having salient points, and the situation is not as cut and dry as either might ideally like. And to end on the rumination of they will likely never know the end results of their actions, whether they saved or condemned the Ornarans, and they have to carry that with them. A bleak yet narratively satisfying ending to an episode to which you had a lovely reaction to, Jess. This was worth the wait, and I thank you for the lovely Star Trek reaction.

Ryan
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It's nice to see a Prime Directive-centered episode from when they actually put legitimate thought into how it could and should work, rather than how it eventually devolved into "The universe has a perfectly exact and holy way it should always be and trying to change it is evil" during Voyager and Enterprise (despite the latter being set before the PD was even written!). I knew Discovery was on the right track when it opened with Starfleet members covertly saving a pre-warp species from extinction.

Jenny Chalek

It was funny that they kept referring to their relationship as symbiotic when it was in fact, parasitic. This episode did have that "after-school special" quality to warn kids that "drugs r bad".