Working together to prevent the annihilation of a perfectly balanced, isolated society (with no contingency for outside visitors) may, in fact, destroy it.Working together to prevent the annihilation of a perfectly balanced, isolated society (with no contingency for outside visitors) may, in fact, destroy it.Working together to prevent the annihilation of a perfectly balanced, isolated society (with no contingency for outside visitors) may, in fact, destroy it.
Joyce Agu
- Ensign Gates
- (uncredited)
Larry De Russy
- Moab IV Colonist
- (uncredited)
Gunnel Eriksson
- Moab IV Colonist
- (uncredited)
Daniel Fawcett
- Matthew
- (uncredited)
Star Halm
- Moab IV Colonist
- (uncredited)
Grace Harrell
- Operations Division Officer
- (uncredited)
Andray Johnson
- Moab IV Colonist
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaSince Gene Roddenberry had proposed that zippers would no longer exist in the future, they are generally hidden in the clothes worn on and off the Enterprise. However, in this engineered society under the biosphere, perhaps to show their less-than-perfect and less technologically advanced society, zippers are a prominent aspect of their outfits.
- GoofsAs the landing party enters the lab to meet Dr. Hannah Bates for the first time, Will Riker, not watching where he's going, walks very fast with his head down and almost walks into the wall to the left of the doorway. He looks up at the last moment and avoids bumping into the wall, jumping through the doorway just in time. Although his character could be smiling at the occasion of meeting Dr. Bates, it sure looks like he's trying to suppress a laugh at his near miss with the wall.
- Quotes
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Oh, that's perfect.
Hannah Bates: What?
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: If the answer to all of this is in a VISOR created for a blind man who never would have existed in your society. No offense intended.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Treksperts Briefing Room: The Enemy (2022)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage
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AKA The Boring Society
After an amazing start, s.5 is declining in these middle episodes, the best example of this decline being the incredibly poor "The Masterpiece Society"
"TNG" had not aired such a sloppy episode since s.2
Once more the writers conceived a truly amazing idea (and quite original for early 90's), but failed miserably with its execution
There is not even one properly handled scene, only glimpses of it. On the contrary, there are a ton of cringey scenes thanks to soapy and childish dialogue and writing. Troi and Jeordi were hurted the most, since they are the leads of the episode, and so their actions and statements serve nothing other than pushing the episode's message
This is another episode of the Trek franchise for which the writers took a (then) current social matter and made a commentary about it, and yet again (I have to state here that I completely agree with their point of view, but) they made it so one-sided and forced, that it ruined the credibility of the story and the episode itself. Unfortunately in general TNG, at least until s.5, (I am watching the show for the first time, at the time of this review's writing) had not been successfull in producing good episodes with these kinds of subjects
For the fourth time (maybe even fifth) in a row, there is a background threat that the Enterprise has to deal with and for the forth time in a row the whole sub-plot is developed so unremarkably and unappealing that slows down the flow of the episode to the point of making it boring to watch, the conversations about the phenomenon in particular made me want to sleep
Last but not least, for a Man that speaks so highly of the significance of the Prime Detective (I will not analyze of how terribly the Prime Directive is interpreted in TNG since that is out of the subject of this review) Picard doesn't even hesitate for a second to ignore everything it stands for (I know they said that the PD doesn't refer to humans, but this is a stupid excuse since these particular humans differ in nothing with any of the alien species Enterprise has made contact with)
If you want to see the concept of this episode executed with remarkable results, check out the superb Gattaca (1997)
Rating: 5.3/10
"TNG" had not aired such a sloppy episode since s.2
Once more the writers conceived a truly amazing idea (and quite original for early 90's), but failed miserably with its execution
There is not even one properly handled scene, only glimpses of it. On the contrary, there are a ton of cringey scenes thanks to soapy and childish dialogue and writing. Troi and Jeordi were hurted the most, since they are the leads of the episode, and so their actions and statements serve nothing other than pushing the episode's message
This is another episode of the Trek franchise for which the writers took a (then) current social matter and made a commentary about it, and yet again (I have to state here that I completely agree with their point of view, but) they made it so one-sided and forced, that it ruined the credibility of the story and the episode itself. Unfortunately in general TNG, at least until s.5, (I am watching the show for the first time, at the time of this review's writing) had not been successfull in producing good episodes with these kinds of subjects
For the fourth time (maybe even fifth) in a row, there is a background threat that the Enterprise has to deal with and for the forth time in a row the whole sub-plot is developed so unremarkably and unappealing that slows down the flow of the episode to the point of making it boring to watch, the conversations about the phenomenon in particular made me want to sleep
Last but not least, for a Man that speaks so highly of the significance of the Prime Detective (I will not analyze of how terribly the Prime Directive is interpreted in TNG since that is out of the subject of this review) Picard doesn't even hesitate for a second to ignore everything it stands for (I know they said that the PD doesn't refer to humans, but this is a stupid excuse since these particular humans differ in nothing with any of the alien species Enterprise has made contact with)
If you want to see the concept of this episode executed with remarkable results, check out the superb Gattaca (1997)
Rating: 5.3/10
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