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Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Outcast (1992)
Do yourself a favour and pass on this one...
Possibly one of the worst episodes. For one, I don't understand why Riker always kisses every thing that moves. I guess he is somehow related to Kirk.
I don't understand how Riker fell in love so quickly with the he/she/it or hesheit (I made that up) - enough to jeopardize the prime directive and his career. Moreover, Picard is not even a 'little' phased that his first officer who is all of a sudden thinking of breaking the highest, most important rule of Star Fleet?
And why the hell did Worf join in? That part makes no sense at all (actually, the whole episode makes no sense). Riker's loss of character was not warranted or built-up in any way. Picard's lack of interest in his first officer's sudden loss of control and disregard for rules was also out of character for the captain and destroyed what little the episode had going.
Oh and Geordi has a beard.
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Game (1991)
Data is fast when he needs to be...
... and exceptionally slow when it serves the storyline. Data is fast enough in some episodes to avoid phaser fire a couple of feet away (Season 4 - Episode 6, Legacy) but is slow enough to not protect himself from being shut down by a human. Anyway, that is not the only flaw here.
Quick summary: The crew starts distributing a device that gives them pleasure but also takes over their higher brain functions to make them do the bidding of the aliens who gave them the device in the first place. Wesley, with the help of Robin is able to discover that the device has dangerous side-effects and tries to find a solution.
And now the rant: Riker is on Risa and he allows an unknown person to put a headband on him with two pointed nodes aimed directly at his eyes. Considering all the stuff that has happened since Season 1, who in their right mind would be so careless especially the first officer of the flagship of a fleet that everyone is envious and jealous of. Well, Riker makes another wrong decision here and leads to this episode. That part could have been handled in a better fashion to make the whole thing more believable.
How did Wesley Crusher repair data when Geordi couldn't figure out how to repair data? Not to mention that once Crusher found the small cuts in the wires, how the hell did he repair them?? And man, that stupid off switch in data ticks me off so much when it is used by the writers to move the plot along.
When Wesley informs the captain about the problem, the captain is already under influence as shown a few seconds later when he grabs the device off of a table (presumably) to his right without opening any drawer or dipping into a concealed area. How did Wesley miss the device that is towards the right of the captain? Yet he somehow manages to find the tiniest of cuts in data's wires.
Ashley Judd looks good. She was quite beautiful when she was young (and still is!), no doubt (and if I may indulge a little bit - she looked great in the scenes where she wore the red/pink dress) but that hardly makes this a 'good' episode. 6 stars is being a bit generous because I am biased towards TNG overall.