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Hide and Q
publicado por sukhisooSTAFFMOD el 18 de febrero de 2018 a las 10:17
The Last Temptation of Riker.
Ugh, I thought, another Q episode.
I'm none too fond of Q as a character. He's a capricious plot device with powers that the writers can just make up as they go along. There is no way to defeat him. The best they can do is demonstrate some moral superiority and hope he goes away.
This one promised to be just as bad. Picard is left alone on the ship while some of the other regulars are down on a possibly imaginary planet fighting some wtf monsters wearing Napolean uniforms. Oh -- the Enterprise is on its way to a medical emergency. Today, our crew serves as an interstellar ambulance service. This story, like so many before it, gets shunted to the background. But then a funny thing happened.
I started to like it. The medical emergency plot becomes relevant to the main plot -- which turns out to be Riker being tempted with Q like powers.
I found the climactic scene involving Riker's "gifts" being thrown back in his face to be strangely compelling. Riker is a much nicer person than, say, Gary Mitchell from TOS. It seems as if he would be less susceptible to corruption but the story demonstrates that, even with good intentions, a good man with too much power can have his mind be negatively effected. A timeless message -- with some Shakespeare thrown in for good measure. It's not everyone's cup of Earl Grey, but, to me, this is the stuff that Star Trek should be about.
Worf gets something to do. He gets to kick some butt on the Napoleanic ugnaughts, and shows off some violent foreplay with a magically conjured Klingon floozy. He seemed to know what he was doing. Perhaps he has had some practice on the holodeck. (Do all Klingons engage in such rough love play, or is this a Worf-specific fetish?)
Contestado por revengine
el 21 de febrero de 2018 a las 12:17
I find Q to, far and away, be my favourite TNG villain. I'm not sure if I'd even really classify him as a villain because he doesn't really serve as a type of "threat" like the Romulans (probably because the Q have long outgrown the desire to conquer or colonize like the Romulans or Federation) it's more like what kind of mischief is he up to now? And IMO it usually turns out to be pretty entertaining.
Contestado por TheTenth
el 27 de febrero de 2018 a las 03:45
I feel Q as some kind of twisted Gemini Cricket, he poses situations that makes the crew grow up and take very difficult decisions to make them better after.
Contestado por Knixon
el 27 de febrero de 2018 a las 14:20
Jiminy.
Contestado por Nexus71
el 7 de septiembre de 2018 a las 19:09
Wondered always why they made the soldiers look like pigs(or boars) if they had put Black Sabbath -War Pigs in the soundtrack it would have made for a nice touch though.
Contestado por Nexus71
el 22 de septiembre de 2018 a las 18:32
bump
Contestado por wonder2wonder
el 24 de junio de 2025 a las 05:00
I don't know if the writers can think that deeply, but the pig-faced soldiers dressed in what looked like an inaccurate representation of French uniforms from the Napoleonic era reminded me of the allegorical novel "Animal Farm (1945)" by George Orwell. Although the story referred to Stalin, the head pig was named Napoleon. Simply stated, the plot there was that after the pigs gained the power of humans, they ultimately were corrupted and became like the humans.
Riker used his newly acquired power, but then realised just in time that he didn't want it and relinquished it. He was not corrupted and did not become Q.
Side note:
Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard) was the voice of Napoleon in the live-action movie "Animal Farm (1999)".