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Overview: The Ferengi reunite Picard with his old ship, The Stargazer.
Writers: Herbert Wright & Larry Forrester
Director: Rob Bowman
Anon2: Yeah, good episode actually. I enjoyed that. Yeah, very good. By the way, it's Sunday-ish. We've had a couple of beers already, had breakfast already. Good prelude for watching a pretty good episode of the first season. And it involved the Ferengi who are still on drugs.
Anon: I don't think they were quite as high as they were in The Last Outpost...
Anon2: No no, they're obviously coming down.
Anon: There's a lot more stuff about profit in this episode as well compared to the previous one. It sets trends that go on into Deep Space Nine.
Anon2: Yeah, Daimon Bok was in it. Did you say he was in another episode or something?
Anon: Yeah, he's in one in season six or seven...
Anon2: Ah, right.
Anon: ... where he turns up again.
Anon2: Okay, well he obviously got out of his nick. Cos he got arrested at the end of that episode for giving away The Stargazer for no profit. Not very Ferengi, is it? Oh, by the way, there was a bit in this episode, I've got to mention it, where Picard is basically giving the vinegar strokes at some stage. Not something I expected to see frankly from him.
Anon: Another thing with this is yet again Troi's saying that she can read Ferengi thoughts, which is apparently something that Betazoids can't do.
Anon2: She's half-Betazoid though, maybe that's it. Bit of a mess-up anyway.
Anon: Okay, we'll keep an eye on that as the series goes on.
Anon2: Card-count: 3 for me. 2 for you.
Anon: Yeah, The Picard Maneuver must have been in that episode somewhere too but I'm not sure exactly what image that one was.
Anon2: Erm yeah, we shoulda mentioned that one. Was that a side-deck thing?
Anon: I think it was an Interrupt.
Anon2: Erm, okay. I don't remember. I don't remember the card.
Anon: Patrick Stewart's good in this episode, isn't he?
Anon2: Yeah, like I say, the vinegar strokes certainly got me chuckling away. Yeah, he was pretty good.
Anon: He sleeps in his unfiorm too.
Anon2: Yeah. He's a scruff. He's like, y'know, I guess if that's the way they do it all the time it's like the Walk of Shame. Has to be done every time they go to work if they sleep in their clothes. You don't ever see a shower on these starships. Or maybe they just don't bother with that, I dunno. Maybe they just don't stink in the 24th century.
Anon: Maybe they don't shit either.
Anon2: Oh yeah, there's a big absence of dunnies. You don't get situations where people go "Oh, can you take the helm? I need a big barry."
Anon: Yeah, plus the runabouts and shuttlecrafts have absolutely no shitter space.
Anon2: You're right. They don't. I mean, what if you've been on the lash the night before and you've got a turtlehead brewing away? Y'know, you're screwed, aren't you? It's a very good point that. I mean, maybe they just do it and then transport it out into space or something. I dunno. Not sure.
Anon: I think this is also the second time in three episodes that Picard has been taken over by alien forces.
Anon2: Er... is it?
Anon: Yeah, like with Lonely Among us and the crappy, dodgy, blue energy thing.
Anon2: Oh yeah, yeah. This is actually an ongoing theme throughout the series. Various characters getting taken over. I guess they have to do two or three per season of this sort of thing.
Anon: At the least. I think Picard alone gets kidnapped like a dozen times throughout the series.
Anon2: They're running themes throughout, just rehashed with different characters. Different scenarios and all. Oh, by the way, instead of Picard telling Data to shut the fuck up, Will got the chance to tell Data to shut the fuck up because Picard was on The Stargazer. Oh, and Wesley had a fucking shit jumper on. And basically he's a cunt.
Anon: This is the stripey jumper. It's in quite a few episodes from now on, probably till the end of the season.
Anon2: Really? Well, as we mentioned earlier, they don't change their clothes very often, so he's a smelly dirty teenager, isn't he? You just wanna fucking smack him basically. Twat!
Anon: He saves the day again, doesn't he? He spots the signals from the Thought Maker coming over.
Anon2: Actually, before that, he saw The Stargazer coming in because he was boosting the long-range sensors or some such nonsense. It just proves the fact that Wesley is a fucking knob.
Anon: And after he saves the day by telling people what he's discovered, he's left on his own and scoffs "Adults!" to himself. How can anyone not hate this guy when he's such a dipshit?
Anon2: He is a dipshit.
Anon: Anything else?
Anon2: Erm, no. I think there's a battle going on in Civilization IV in a few minutes. We'd better get prepared for that.
Anon: We'll be joining that pretty soon. You reckon this is the best episode of the season so far?
Anon2: So far? Yeah.
Anon: Better than Where No One Has Gone Before?
Anon2: Yeah, that was good but Wesley had a lot more in that one so it was a lesser episode.
Anon: I concur. Next episode is Hide & Q, the second Q episode. Riker becomes a Q, or something.
Anon2: Yeah, I like that one. It was alright. Q just camps it up. He's great.
Anon: We'll have to keep an eye out for cards from the Q-Flash side deck.
Anon2: We certainly will. I'm aiming for at least three.
Anon: Okay, we'll see you next time.
- Anon and Anon2, 12-Jul-2009
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