You know what? I get what you're saying... Beverly is and always has been lacking as a character, but Pulaski had X-Pac heat for me at first. (For all you non-wrestling nerds, it means she's a bitch and nearly any time she was on screen, I wish she wasn't. XD)
Is that the one where Barclay devolves into a spider-monster and Troi devolves into a trout?
Yep. Worf becomes basically a predator-xenomorph hybrid, Riker a neanderthal and some other weird shit. It's a shame they never weaponised that stuff during the Dominion war.
I think it's possibly the dumbest moral dilemma episode in Trek because it relies on a totally made-up scenario. It's not a metaphor for anything real and it's not an interesting thought experiment. Everything about how that situation is supposed to work is explained through exposition and you have to take Tuvix's word that splitting him up counts as murder but fusing people doesn't. You can't really form an independent conclusion about it; it works the way the story says it works. Like, Insurrection was retarded, but you can at least grasp what kind of problem the story was attempting to address and what the two points of view are.
That was a good one. Makes you wonder if humans have really come so far from our spider ancestors.
And there we have it. The dumbest episode in Voyager. It's a shame because it starts good. Breaking the warp threshold, the weird changes happening in Paris. It feels like it's all going to lead to something interesting and theeeeen.
The worst example has to be Janeway, Tuvok, and B'Elanna willingly getting assimilated by the Borg, and by the end of the episode, they're no worse for wear.
Say what you will about Tuvix, but at least he wasn't defused offscreen.
All this while at the same time, Seven of Nine, on the other hand, deals with consequences of being a drone for the rest of the show, having constant malfunctions and fuck ups because of her borg physiology just not giving up. Of course some of it can be explained that Anika was assimilated for so long the borg components of her body have been fully assimilated into her biology while the rest of the crew was "freshly" assimilated and maybe it's easier to get somebody out if you get them back in the "golden hour".
It reminded me of Morpheus in The Matrix stating don’t unplug the old heads, they’ll go insane and claw at the walls.
They had the whole process of diagnosing and then fixing the other crewmember who was going through the same change. They didn't need to show him being fixed as well.
These were explicitly fixed on screen. Pulaski was fed backwards through the transporter with some of her hair to fix her. Ro and Geordi managed to convince Data to flood 10-forward with anion particles so they could phase back into existence in the middle of their wake and finally shut up Riker's endless tromboning.
Everyone talks about the salamander episode as the worst one, but it's nothing compared to this. What a fucking piece of idiocy. They'd all be traumatised and catatonic from the unbearable pain of having their guts turned inside and and threaded with pipes. And notice how none of them had ocular implants? Can't let the heroes have their faces scarred!
It's a little overplayed but totally believable if you try listening to a zoomer nowadays.
I get it... "Meme language, ahead of it's time." but... Memes are language shorthand. They only work if there is a longer language to work off of. What the fuck does "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" even mean unless you have words for "and" and "at"?
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