Wow, this may be the worst episode since The Alternative Factor. When I can honestly say that my favorite parts of the episode were Wesley negotiating his stay on the Enterprise after the departure of his mother you know this is a rough one. I don't want to dig too deep into the part where Troi gets raped by an energy cloud or something, but it did make me feel pretty uncomfortable. Honestly pretty much everything about the Troi story made me uncomfortable.
The episode begins with us learning Dr. Crusher had left the ship (Gates McFadden was tired of being harassed by asshole writer in chief, Maurice Hurley) and introducing Geordi as the new chief engineer. Also Geordi is building a containment system for some sort of super dangerous engineered organism they are bringing on board. While flying really slow for no good reason an energy being flies into the ship and impregnates Troi. Rather than introducing herself like a normal person Dr. Pulaski goes straight to the bar to hang out. Actually to find out about Troi's mystery baby, but that should probably also have taken place in sick bay. I really don't like Pulaski one bit. Her treatment of Data as a thing instead of a person and her rudeness towards Picard both seem out of place and obnoxious.
Troi has her baby a day or so after getting pregnant and seems to really love it despite the obvious issues. In days the child is walking around and talking. But of course there is a problem with the containment of the dangerous stuff and the child is the cause. He returns to pure energy and flies out of there making Troi cry but saving the ship from certain doom. Wesley gets to stay on board and Data will manage his studies.
Review: It is late and I only got 4 hours of sleep so the summary above is pretty short. Also I really didn't like this episode. I know season 1 has a bad reputation, but season 2 is starting off with an episode worse than anything in TNG so far. The first season felt like wannabe TOS, this just feels lazy.
1 out of 10
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