I think this is supposed to be the episode that convinces the audience we were wrong about Pulaski and that she is actually a good doctor who care for people. Too bad it did exactly the opposite. She risks all their lives and should have died without some technomagic from O'Brien to save the day at the last minute. Also is also hella rude to Data for no reason again. She does finally express confidence in him, but only to work as a very fast computer which falls pretty well within how she has treated him before. Also, Trek really hates genetically manipulated people, these ones are so bad their immune systems kill any normal person they are near!
We begin with the Enterprise receiving a distress signal from a Federation vessel. The message is garbled and when they arrive they get no reply to their hale. They use a neat trick to remotely turn on the view screen on the other ship and all the crew are dead. Pulaski is such a greeeeat doctor that just by looking at them she can determine they died of natural causes, which is obviously dumb. Picard even has a talk with Troi at the very beginning where he talks about not thinking Pulaski has what it takes to be ships doctor so I think this episode really is trying to convince us she is great and forget that other doctor. Too bad she is actually awful.
They head to the last place the ship had been, a Federation research facility. They find them rapidly aging as well, but the head of the station is only worried about her children. The children have been genetically modified to be both psychic and telekinetic and also have super immune systems. Pulaski for some reason thinks it is a great idea to beam one of the 12 year olds up to examine, but coated in plastic so it is cool. The child who beams up is clearly in his early 20's which causes Worf to have a mini freak out. Pulaski hasn't been risky enough yet so she insists on taking the kid out in a shuttle with Data since of course he couldn't be responsible. So they do and he wakes up, but to avoid paying him actual actor wages he only communicates with his mind. And of course Pulaski was wrong and she starts rapidly aging so they beam the kid back down to the surface and land the shuttle since she is now also quarantined.
While Pulaksi is down explaining that the kids actually are the problem to the stupid head of the research station Data figures out that the kids immune systems reacted to a virus someone of the doomed ship brought and sent out antibodies that changed everyones DNA so they get old???? Even better they program the transporter with some of Pulaski's hair and O'Brien gets a good role in the sad job of saving the bad doctor. All the staff are saved in the end but the kids are doomed to live in isolation until they die or rebel and destroy the galaxy. The Enterprise blows up the doomed ship before rolling credits.
Review: All the scientists in this episode including Pulaski are idiots. Also why do they keep creating races of supermen? Do they really think that since they realized they fucked up they can now contain a colony of telekinetic supermen with aggressive murderous immune systems? Also, at least one point of for so much Pulaski awfulness including Data bashing.
3 out of 10
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