Contagion

Hey - Rommies! They're back!	Great effects too!	Donald Varley - another dead actor. Only 51 - harsh.	The brilliant Carolyn Seymour - also known as Mirasta Yale and Cmdr. Toreth.
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Overview: A dangerous alien computer virus runs rampant through the Enterprise after causing the destruction of its sister ship.
Writer: Steve Gerber & Beth Woods
Director: Joseph L Scanlan

Anon²: No, nor me. That was a pretty good episode though.

Anon: Pretty decent, yeah. Contagion.

Anon²: So, card-count. We've got a definite 3 each. Then there's another one later on where Picard's stepping through the Iconian Gateway - I'm pretty sure that's one too. Can't remember the name though - it was years ago. Yeah, very cool effects in this episode. The Yamato explosion was superb.

Anon: That was awesome, yeah.

Anon²: I think, potentially this was the first time we hear Picard asking for tea - "Earl Grey, hot!" I think that's the first time he's said it; maybe not. Then he gets a teapot with a flower sticking out of it or something. Great. Anyway, let's describe why that is. What's the synopsis of the episode?

Anon: There's a computer virus.

Anon²: Yeah - Contagion, the name of the episode.

Anon: So, why was the previous episode called The Dauphin?

Anon²: No idea, but we had a nice Balti inbetween.

Anon: Yeah, a nice Balti indeed.

Anon²: Oh, Data got told to shut the fuck up once. Picard beams down to the planet with Data and Worf. So, he takes a priceless bit of goods in Data. He's also the Captain so he shouldn't really beam down when they're about fucked anyway. And Worf's a wuss.

Anon: Yeah, Worf legs it. He doesn't sacrifice himself.

Anon²: What else can we say about this?

Anon: It had Rommies in it.

Anon²: Yeah, Rommies!

Anon: We like Rommies. It also had Carolyn Seymour from BBC's Survivors in the 1970's - she was in this. That was a great series.

Anon²: Oh yeah. She was one of the cards too.

Anon: Yeah, we got that one. Also, Picard asked Data to "report on the download" - do you remember that?

Anon²: Yeah. (laughs)

Anon: [inaudible] Then there was Iconian Computer Weapon - what a card! We think it was a dilemma.

Anon²: Pretty sure it was, yeah.

Anon: You probably needed Computer Skill to get past it. Or Computer Skill and Engineer.

Anon²: Yeah. There was something else that was quite amusing that I forgot to write down, which right now is a bit of a problem. (laughs)

Anon: Well, with that in mind this'll be the shortest commentary since When the Bough Breaks...

Anon²: Well, we haven't finished just yet. I may remember it.

Anon: You think you will? Good luck!

Anon²: It was something to do with Star Trek. Anyway, this was a good episode. I don't know why this chat's going short. We just haven't got much to say, I guess.

Anon: There was a lot of science fiction in this episode, but perhaps too much. It ran into techno-babble in places.

Anon²: Yeah.

Anon: The trouble with techno-babble is that in my current state, this probably wasn't the best episode for me.

Anon²: No. (laughs) One thing they realise at the end, when Data gets shut down by the computer virus - they do this dramatic scene where they close his eyelids like he's dead - he basically wakes up and says you need to turn off the Enterprise and then turn it back on again. So, basically [Ctrl]+[Alt]+[Del] didn't work earlier in the episode, so they resort to turning it off and on again - fucking sublime! (laughs)

Anon: The power of the reboot!

Anon²: Blue-screen of death! (laughs) Fucking Microsoft! Bill Gates is a total cunt!

Anon: He's a philanthropist though...

Anon²: He's fucked enough people off that he's feeling fucking guilty or something!

Anon: That's alright. Of course, we don't condone the pirating of software.

Anon²: I don't!

Anon: Nor do I.

Anon²: Fucking hell, dude - I hope not! All the DVD's you've got! You've spent real cash on all these DVD's?!

Anon: Yeah, it's sad, isn't it? (Fonejacker voice) "You wanna buy DVD? Five pound for DVD!" Anyway, the next episode is The Royale.

Anon²: Oh yeah.

Anon: So, it's the Royale Casino side-deck coming up.

Anon²: Yeah yeah. That's the one where they go through the casino door...

Anon: Ooh... Revolving Door.

Anon²: Yeah, Revolving Door is coming up! There's a couple of cards in this one. I think one or two were in the original set.

Anon: Or AU maybe.

Anon²: Yeah maybe. Certainly one of the earlier ones. Anyway, we're going to watch that. We'll talk about that shortly. Actually... let's talk about this before we watch the episode. Come on, dude! Okay, basically the storyline of the next episode - Casino Royale - basically there's a holographic fuck-up yet again. Oh no no... it's on a planet, isn't it? Please dude - help me out anytime! Basically, they get a call from this space station that's a casino - or done up like one. And Riker's in there, yeah it's cool. It's a really good episode, isn't it? Yeah.

Anon: Well, we'll soon find out. I'm fucked.

- Anon & Anon², 22-Oct-2009