YOUTUBE - The Nth Degree (TNG S4E19) | Star Trek Journey 200
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While I do like this episode and it has a lot of good things, I do find that this wasn't really the angle that I liked being taken with Barcley. He is a character I like because of his likeability and how much he relates to an everyday worker who gets nervous and makes mistakes and making him this super genius removes a lot of things I like about the character. Dwight Schultz does play it well though.
On Riker's reaction, when Troi says he made a pass at her Riker does turn and give a very amused and interested smile to her, and then tries prodding her for information about whether or not she said yes after.
Dwight Schultz was also the lead actor along with Paul Newman in the 1989 film Fat Man and Little Boy which was the earlier version of the Oppenheimer movie. Schultz was a bit of a star after that movie and the A-Team, so he was probably quite the Star Trek fan as they probably didn't pay guest stars very much. One of the four stars of A-Team is an actor from Battlestar Galactica.
This one is always worth a rewatch because of our dear Mr Barclay. He really does bring something special when on screen and I love how he can go from awkward to confident then back again.
I love this episode. This is peak campiness without going too far. S-Tier for me.
I couldn't remember anything about this episode -- if I had seen it before. What they should have done was to replay the sequence with Barclay where the opening was a holographic dream sequence -- but do that with the ENTIRE EPISODE. Things were getting weirder and weirder than I thought that that might be what was happening.
Wow.. you guys really need to watch even just one episode of the A-Team. He was literally the least normal/stable person in the series. lol
I think a big part of the Barclay character was that he was written to be the opposite of his A-TEAM character in every way possible.