PATRON TAKES - TNG S6E25
TAKES WILL BE READ 6/24
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This is the first episode of Star Trek TNG I ever saw. I was on spring break in 1996. Turned on the tv after playing outside and watched this amazing sci fi story take place. From then on I was hooked!
Not sure if the science holds up on this episode but I don’t care, it’s great! It very much reminds me of The Next Phase from last season. Picard going insane genuinely scared me the first time I watched this.
Just fun.
My favorite quote of the entire series: He just kept talking in one long, incredibly unbroken, sentence, moving from topic to topic before anyone had a chance to interpret, it was really quite hypnotic.
This is one of my 5 favourite episodes of the show. I love everything about it. TNG at its best!
I like this one a lot. It doesn't really make complete sense scientifically, but the mystery is captivating and the outcome unique.
Picard gets a contact high in engineering and freaks out. Someone can't handle his space high.
I love the smiley face scene with the affected Picard and the slowed down warp core explosion. Kooky and memorable moment in an episode that is good all round.
One of my favorites. Having these four on a runabout together for most of the episode was fun, as was the mystery before they started solving it.
Is this the most self reference continuity any TNG episode ever had? Troy's time spent on a Romulan warbird, subspace forcefield mention from Time's arrow, data's cat!? Is there no end!?
Question: How are you feeling about the Romulans’ depictions in TNG so far? Should they remain villains or become tentative partners to the Federation like the Klingons?
This episode is so dayum fun, if not a bit too similar to "The Next Phase." Funny that the only time we get to see the rest of a Roundabout's (burp) interior is in a TNG episode and not a DS9 one.
The TNG version of a doctor whoish concept? S hell yeah!
Really like this episode. The not Romulan Romulan aliens reminds me of the clocked ghost Romulans in the "are we ghosts?" Ro-Geordi episode. Actually a lot of things about this episode reminds me of previous episodes and episodes to come. But mostly in a good way. I like it.
It's a shame Patrick Stewart is such a great actor who elevates every story he stars in, because this is an episode I think on paper would have benefited from Picard frozen in time and Riker returning on the shuttle to sort out the mystery and save the day.
Picard (the diplomat) is all too quick to consider a misunderstanding, while Riker would have arrived there more gradually. With Picard, we the viewer adopt his conclusion the moment Picard begins to raise it which spoils some of the mystery (for me) I wish this was a Riker and Worf episode. Overcoming suspicion would have been much more satisfying.
I love a good time episode, especially as it's hard to know how they will fix the issues they encounter. Stewart's jump from laughing gas silly to screaming insanity in that one scene is genuinely unnerving.
I like this one. It’s a fresh spin on a time episode, it further expands the dynamic with the Federation and Romulans and it gives Troi a continuity nod with some stuff to do. It’s never going to be a top ten but I never skip this one on rewatches. Low marks for not giving Picard the long nails the whole episode.
I thought this one was a delightful romp. Picard going goofy was memorable.
I really like this one. Nuff said
Lol :)
This episode is one of my fun, guilty pleasures to rewatch, which I have done many times. Picard & Troi’s impressions of the conference presenters are hilarious. Data actually starts to nod off!
Well Picard was really quite hypnotic. Love that scene.
On tonight’s episode of STARRR TREK, Geordi gets ditched on a Romulan ship, the Enterprise blows up (again), and Picard goes nuts after drawing a smiley face.
It's a bit weird, but I think that in some ways this episode represents the peak of TNG. It's not the best episode by any means, maybe a B or B+, but something about it feels like as a whole it does a good job of representing the overall vibe or style that we tend to see in TNG during its peak stretch.
After a season full of great character heavy episodes, it was nice to have a fun, weird, sci-fi heavy story. I do get why some people don't like this one yet I refuse to forgive them for that sin.
One of my favourites as a kid, but I feel a bit let down at the end. I wish there was a different ending, although I cound't tell you what exactly. Still a solid A!
Are they regressing Data’s development and growth for the sake of jokes? First, Starship Mine, where Data didn’t understand conversation and small talk. Now, he doesn’t understand why Troi wouldn’t want to sleep with a stranger.
I want to love this episode, but all these cat stereotypes about cats makes me angry 😾 nah this was fire!
Temporal anomalies? Playing with time? Romulans? What's not to like? The 'misunderstood aliens' protecting their young is kind of a cliche though. ('Devil in the Dark' anyone?)
Red Letter Media did a video (FULL OF FUTURE SPOLIERS) about how this episode should be a Cause and Effect level banger but falls short. Basically it boils down to the act breaks being in the wrong places and the actors (particularly P-Stew) looking like they'd rather be anywhere else but on set. I can't say I disagree. It's still a fun episode in spite of it all.
The underlying plot of the episode is fairly forgettable, but the frozen time gimmick was executed well enough to make for an entertaining hour of TV. Also that opening conversation on the runabout spawned many memes.
This episode did something DS9 didn't. Shows how frigging big a runabout is. Picard was lucky his hand didn't shirvle like the rotting fruit he was reaching for. Which seems more likely than his nails getting longer.
You could say they showed us in a roundabout way.
First time Picard being goofy? What do you think?
Nice call-back to Realm of Fear: when Troi is explaining to Picard how they all froze, she's doing the "plexing" technique that she taught Barclay. Not really much for me to say about this episode, other than I didn't manage to see it until maybe 10 years ago, and that it's up there in my Top 3 from Season 6
S tier just for the scene of Picard drawing a face in the warp core beach.
This episode sold me on Trek as a child and that was a big part of it
This episode is just flipping cool. And we get to see the back end of a runaroundabout. Nice continuity with Troi's earlier banger of an episode. And who among us wouldn't draw something in the warp core breach cloud?
More of a plot than character episode, The Scene of the various characters shooting the shit in the Runabout (Yes, Runabout) dining room was really good to show just the solid friendships these characters have built.
Oh look, we get to see the back section of a "ROUNDABOUT!"
The new rountabout sets were build for DS9 on the budget of this episode
I personally enjoy this one, but I'm not certain it's actually a very good episode.
Except it’s TNG’s Timescape 😅