TNG: Galaxy's Child

            I am going to just start by saying this wasn't my favorite episode. This episode much like Hollow Pursuits before it asks the audience to be ok with the idea of making holodeck recreations of real people without their permission for your own personal... entertainment. By DS9 this was illegal and considered appropriately inappropriate, but for some reason the TNG writers seem to think it is great and if you don't like it shut up. The star child storyline wasn't exactly fantastic either.
            The episode opens with the captain informing Geordi that his crush, Dr. Leah Brahms, will be coming on board the Enterprise to inspect the changes he has made to the engines. Geordi is both super excited and also super nervous. And of course it starts off as basically a disaster as she insults Geordi and storms off the engineering. Back on the bridge Data has discovered an unknown energy signal in an uncharted star system. They go in for a look and discover a brand new species of space based life form. It shoots some sort of lighting/radiation stuff at the ship and Picard has to use the phasers to get it to stop and in the process kills it. But it was pregnant.
            Down in engineering Geordi is struggling both to defend his engine modifications and adjust to the idea the Leah isn't the woman he fell in love with on the holodeck. He manages to invite her over for dinner but she isn't into it, probably at least partly because she is married. Geordi is crestfallen, but still has to keep working with her in engineering. She eventually discovers his holodeck program and is for a moment super pissed off, but of course gets over it in no time because writers are dumb. Meanwhile on the bridge they have performed a space C-section on the dead alien and the baby comes out and latches onto the hull and starts draining energy. They find the asteroid field it is from but more aliens show up when they arrive. Leah and Geordi have to work together to get it off and in the process become friends I guess.

            Review: This isn't as interesting an episode as Tin Man and the parts with Geordi and Leah aren't really great either. It is nice to see them try to confront the issue they created with Geordi, but this isn't really the best way to handle it. Better than a lot of the crappy episodes, but that isn't really that impressive.

4 out of 10