Wow, that a throwback of an episode. When the best scene is the one with Pulaski and Worf drinking poison you know you aren't on solid ground. At least Wesley isn't in it? This is the one with the space Irish and the space Clones who are afraid of sex. I have so many questions about this episode, but the first one is, why do they put straw everywhere? When they are beamed aboard for some reason the transporter decided it had to take the straw with them. Perhaps they are afraid to touch ground not covered in straw? Since they are humans the prime directive doesn't apply, but does this really give Picard the power to destroy both societies? Arrrrrr...
The episode begins with a primitive distress signal being detected that for some reason took weeks to figure out for anyone not on the Enterprise. The Enterprise computer can of course recognize it immediately and they even figure out what ship it was coming from. Then Worf collapses, turns out to have a childhood illness he is embarrassed about, and has to drink poison tea with Pulaski. I think I just gave this subplot more time than the writers did. Anyway, they find the colonists in desperate trouble so Riker beams down to get them and beams up with a bunch of drunken Irish peasants along with farm animals and for some reason lots of straw.
The space Irish have problems fitting in what with starting fires to cook food, but at least the leaders daughter manages to hook up with Riker. Lots of messing around and the daughter being mad at everyone and the dad just getting as drunk as possible. They find the other half of the colony which instead of turning into inbred hicks turned into uppity clones. They didn't have enough population to reproduce normally so they have instead cloned themselves to the point they aren't stable any more. They want to make clones of the Enterprise crew even though this clearly wouldn't actually solve their problem. They don't take no for an answer but fortunately Pulaski and Riker and willing to beam down and cold blooded murder their clones.
To solve all the problems Picard decides to merge the two societies even though the clones find this super offensive and the Irish women are being volunteered for constant reproduction with multiple men. And wrap.
Review: This episode is both offensive and dumb. The writing is terrible. I don't really have any more to say, I hope I never see a episode this bad again.
1 out of 10
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