This episode's path to glory was creating a good drama to distract us from the bad science or to make the science good, and therefore compelling and worth thinking about. All it really did was show that when you try hard for the Picard episodes and punt your Geordi/Ro episodes, the Geordi/Ro episodes will suck for completely non-mysterious reasons.
Also, with the mind-swapping episodes and the reverse aging episode (it's coming) and the hyper-aging episodes and the shrinking episode (it's coming) are there any broad, sci-fi ideas that Star Trek hasn't done that need to be unraveled as we do? I feel like there's gotta be a few.
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3 comments:
I like the episode.
I would argue that it's okay for later seasons of a show to have developed its characters and world enough to sometimes play around with them as-is without developing them further, but as you guys said, Geordi and Ro aren't that developed yet.
Ideas Star Trek hasn't unraveled:
American-style killer drones
grey goo / Von Neumann apocalypse
cyber warfare
bio warfare
elective body modification
Ego The Living Planet
Magrathea
a change in how fundamental fields work
judicial system operated by chatbots
telepathic domination of a populace
watching the universe reach its natural end
anything to do with gas giants
"Cities in Flight"
rampant robocalls, identity theft, etc
what happens when google breaks
mazes
sundiving
how to feed humanity without conventional farming or replicators
The living planet and telepathic domination are classic ones.
Wasn't Geordi's mom's ship lost in a gas giant in season seven? It's a forgettable episode, but I think that was the deal. It was also one of the franchise's early VR episodes.
That sounds right.
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