The Royale | First Time Watching Star Trek TNG (S2E12)

Love the IASA shout out 😂

Enjoyable and fun, but ultimately fluff. I remember hating this episode years ago so much that I ranked it at the very bottom of season 2. My opinion has softened over the years, but 14th place out of 22 episodes still makes this a "meh" episode.

This is one of those cheesy episodes I still enjoy rewatching on occasion. The guy at the front desk was also the principal of the young Forest Gump, so I laugh thinking about the scene where Forest recreates his bedroom noises. 😂

00:31 -291°C is -492°F. (Absolute Zero is -459.67°F) 312 meters per second is 698 miles per hour.

The girl and the guy trying to take advantage of her was described as subplot, having no bearing on presumably the main story pf the bellhop and Rita.

This is an episode that is really a lot better than it has any right to be. It's just a fun episode, nothing earth-shattering, where the crew gets to do something different. Top 20 episode for me. I love watching it whenever I watch TNG.

Back when these were airing, my family would record them on VHS so we could watch them later. I watched this episode approximately 1,647,923 times and I love it.

Near the end, Picard cites Fermat's Theorum as "a puzzle we may never solve", however after remaining unsolved for 358 years, the first successful proof was released in 1994 only five years after this episode aired.

One of my favs.