Lonely Among Us

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Overview: A lost entity takes possession of Picard's mind.
Writers: DC Fontana & Michael Halperin
Director: Cliff Bole

Anon²: They had good costumes, the aliens. Yeah, what did Geordi do?

Anon: He didn't do much. He got infected at one stage, didn't he?

Anon²: Not sure. I've written down here, "Doing fuck all."

Anon: Yeah, that's basically it.

Anon²: Data didn't get told to shut the fuck up. But he did assume the Sherlock Holmes persona.

Anon: Yeah, I guess that leads into the episodes Elementary, Dear Data and Ship in a Bottle. There's also the early talk about private eyes that leads to the Dixon Hill stuff that's coming up in a few episodes. Very ropey effects in this episode, I thought.

Anon²: Yep, no expense spared on the old blue lightening thing that wasn't very convincing at all. The only other thing that I noted was that Deanna Troi has great cleavage in that episode. She said "invaded them" - I'm not sure how. Basically, the crux of this episode, I've got to come out with this, is that one of the delegate things, a lizard, gets eaten by the wooly guys.

Anon: Gul Dukat.

Anon²: Oh yeah, Gul Dukat. Someone gets eaten by Gul Dukat. Basically, this happens at the end of the episode and Picard doesn't give a shit. (laughs) He goes, "Oh, you deal with it. Whatever. I don't care." Yeah, not a great episode.

Anon: And they're the bad guys in this episode because they eat meat and it seems from what they're saying that in the future everyone just replicates meat so the future is full of vegetarians.

Anon²: Well, I'd like to say that if you're gonna replicate meat you do it by breeding two animals together and you eat their offspring.

Anon: Same gay jumper from Wesley as the previous episode.

Anon²: Yeah it was, the scabby bastard. Still gay.

Anon: So, was this episode Wesley's fault?

Anon²: Was it his fault? Well, not personally, but the fact that he exists; yes.

Anon: And we saw yet another new Chief Engineer, Mr. Singh.

Anon²: Oh, he died. The first to die on the Enterprise, I'm well informed. Didn't make it into a card, which is a bit of a surprise because he's the ultimate redshirt really, isn't he? Y'know, the first to die on the Enterprise. In fact, is he the first to die in the entire season so far? He might be number one.

Anon: Well, there's all the people they find on the Tsiolkovsky in The Naked Now.

Anon²: Yeah, but that happened before, didn't it? It wasn't on the Enterprise, it's not Enterprise-associated.

Anon: Okay, I'll side with you on that one. I thought... I mentioned in the previous commentary that I felt this episode is really annoying in Trek history because they have this random idea that it doesn't matter if someone dies in this episode because you can recreate them out of the transporter, because everyone gets stored in the buffer. So, I mean, if you think that (spoiler alert!) Tasha Yar dies later this season, they coulda just replicated her from there and she'd have been fine.

Anon²: Erm, I disagree. Basically they had to move into the cloud to reconnect with the energy where Picard was. And he went back into the computer system on the Enterprise and found his way to the transporter and they reanimated his energy and... I dunno... isn't that right? Possibly?

Anon: (long pause)

Anon²: (adopting Stuey Griffin voice) Lois? Lois? I'm gonna take over the world.

Anon: Okay, I'm a bit too fucked right now to argue with all this.

Anon²: Stuey's great.

Anon: Card count: I think we got zero each.

Anon²: Exactly. Exactly zero for me. So I beat you on that one.

Anon: Basically, Decipher thought the episode was so rubbish they didn't bother putting anything into it. Anything else you want to add?

Anon²: Erm, 1+1=3.

Anon: A good continuation point, I like it. The next episode is Justice, which is the one where Wesley gets sentenced to death for breaking a greenhouse.

Anon²: I wish they'd have gone through with that.

Anon: See you soon.

- Anon and Anon², 30-Jun-2009