Data gets tricked by binary-speaking biological life forms. Riker falls in love with a computer simulation.
This was a reasonably engaging story. It was fun watching both Riker and Picard get entranced by a holodeck facsimile of a very seductive woman. I kept waiting for her to say something like, "Guess what other French phrases I know. Have you ever heard of menage a trois?"
It is the stodgy Picard, naturally, who comes to his senses the fastest.
In classic Star Trek fashion, the adversaries are not really villainous.
Good stuff!
Oh, and you might want to think about ditching that holodeck.
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Resposta de Nexus71
em 12 maio 2018 às 11:12 PM
Really? and how was Riker going to reboot the Binars homeworld's computer systems on his own? Since it requires two people to work together?
Resposta de Knixon
em 12 maio 2018 às 11:21 PM
Right, that was my point. Also from what Minuet says, they apparently didn't plan in advance, to have Riker staying either. They didn't think of that until they saw how intrigued he became.
I suppose the "retcon" might be that they originally expected the Enterprise to be available earlier, and if that had played out the Binars on the Enterprise might have been able to handle it themselves.
The "real world" explanation might be that the writers simply didn't realize - again - that they had written themselves into a corner.
Resposta de Nexus71
em 12 maio 2018 às 11:27 PM
Maybe they lacked the time to check these things probably some very late revision of the script or time constrains because of some other major changes?
Resposta de Knixon
em 12 maio 2018 às 11:52 PM
Perhaps. But I think it's more likely they just didn't realize the implications of some of their material. It's not exactly a new or rare problem in the Trek series-es.
They had repeats too, for example any time they were worried about being able to escape from a star going nova at warp speed, or whatever. Warp 1 would be more than sufficient to escape any natural phenomenon, which cannot go faster than light.
Arthur C. Clarke had better story-telling in that regard even in 1946, with "Rescue Party."
https://www.baen.com/Chapters/0743498747/0743498747___1.htm
Resposta de revengine
em 13 maio 2018 às 5:04 AM
I never really caught on that the Binars only planned on keeping Riker on board because we see near the end of the episode Riker and Picard figure out it requires both of them working at computer terminals to reboot their home world computer. This kind of makes it look like they planned to have two people on board the Enterprise from the beginning.
Resposta de Knixon
em 13 maio 2018 às 5:22 AM
They needed to, yes. But Minuet - speaking for the Binars, basically - says otherwise. Which means, bad writing.
Resposta de revengine
em 13 maio 2018 às 5:25 AM
Maybe Minuet herself was going to be the second person if there was no one else on board the Enterprise? She was supposed to be pretty advanced for a holodeck character, maybe that was for the purpose of being the second required person and not just for Riker's pleasure.
Resposta de Knixon
em 13 maio 2018 às 5:32 AM
At that time, holodeck characters had to stay on the holodeck. She could not have gone to the bridge. Plus remember, Minuet says they hadn't originally planned in advance for keeping Riker either. They didn't think of that until they saw how interested he was in Minuet.
The only "retcon" excuse I can think of for that, is that they had expected Enterprise to be available earlier, and might have figured with that timing, the Binars themselves would have been able to do it, and not wound up incapacitated as actually happened.
Resposta de Nexus71
em 15 maio 2018 às 12:05 AM
The only "retcon" excuse I can think of for that, is that they had expected Enterprise to be available earlier, and might have figured with that timing, the Binars themselves would have been able to do it, and not wound up incapacitated as actually happened.
Now that you mention that I do remember Quinteros mentioning he had expected the Enterprise a week earlier so that could have explained a lot also Wesley notices the Binars frantically arguing on the bridge so it seems like they were under time pressure and not everything went along as anticipated by the Binars .
Resposta de revengine
em 15 maio 2018 às 5:52 AM
I was thinking they could have created a functioning interface on the holodeck for Minuet to use. But I like Nexus71's reasoning.
Resposta de Jetfire59
em 13 junho 2018 às 4:51 PM
Except for Minuet, ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Resposta de Nexus71
em 31 julho 2018 às 12:51 PM
bump
Resposta de wonder2wonder
em 23 junho 2025 às 11:02 AM
Minuet