Attached

Welcome to Kesprytt III, home to the Kes and the Prytt. The Kes seem nice, but they’re actually a little too paranoid and devious for the Federation. The Prytt seem sort of xenophobic, but they’re actually incredibly xenophobic. Captain Picard and Dr. Crusher are lost on Kesprytt III, though it is not just their situation that binds them. A couple of Prytt implants are giving the couple a peek into each other’s thoughts and feelings. What will they find? Where will it lead them? And how will they get back to the Enterprise? Find out when we put Attached into the Mission Log. Loved the Picard/Crusher stuff. Hated the Kess/Prytt stuff, even though it gave Riker some great moments Yes, I enjoy the emotional confrontation at the core of this episode. I’m gonna take a chance and say the two should have had their full fling… ugly civilian clothes strewn about Picard’s cabin… and THEN said, ‘Well, we gotta just be friends.’ I think that would be honest. It’s also difficult to understand why they stopped when we (sorta) know that JL and B (the tabloids call them Jeanerey or Beverluc) get married and divorced sometime in the next 25 years. I think we could have gotten a few eps of them together before they decided to cool their warp cores. Anyway… nice podcast, as always. Did The Computer ask for more credits or navy beans? She seems to be on less lately. I enjoyed, but really, it made the both of them seem very boring and asexual…ugh…puritan, chaste….come on….we are not talking about apprehensive teens, awkward etc, but they sure came across that way. haha, Beverluc. Clearly the sexually progressive characters were Troi and Riker and their friends w benefits arrangement or whatever it was. I think Triker could have been an excellent story line, but I know the writers had some conflict but Sirtis and Frakes wanted it to fire up.(After Best of Both Worlds… I always wished Riker got promoted off the show in the 2nd to last season w some, Troi marry me as I get promoted story cliffhanger…) Anyway, the stodginess of Picard and the teasing of Beverly, man, what a bummer….they should have closed the deal….AND NEVER MENTION IT AGAIN, like they did w so many character concepts in TNG…Lol Seemed like a little bit of North and South Korea going on there…but oh well. Humanity…you’ve got a LooOOooOOOOOoonG way to go!! One thing I have thought about when considering WAR is how many are between people who look EXACTLY ALIKE….North South Korea/Vietnam, Union vs Confederacy, India vs Pakistan, Iran vs Iraq…uhhhh I guess it’s just how we are…. I’m gonna revisit this one. I remember thinking it was pretty good, but taking away little other than the big scene + Picard’s “lesson” on leadership. But, yeah, the wrap-up really does remind me of how Season Three felt: heavy-handed sometimes, but always full of good character moments. By Season Seven, TNG stopped feeling like that, opting for too many “eh, why not?” high-concept weirdness and fanservice. This might be a hidden gem. Maybe the season has six episodes I really like, and not just five. It kinda makes me sad for Gates McFadden that she wasn’t used to her full potential. Beverly Crusher is such a complex character (mother, chief medical officer, Picard’s love interest) and could have been the third most important character in the series behind Data and Picard. lol I meant well written scripts. Sub-rosa is a really bad one. This is real science fiction: you learn something about developing characters (“maybe we should be afraid”) through a science fiction device. The device does not kill them and they don’t need to fix it with techno babble. We learn through great writing that Picard fakes it sometimes. More importantly, we learn about the origins of Picard and Crusher’s ‘uncomfortable’ relationship PICARD: I didn’t know how I would react. And then, little by little, I realized that I didn’t have those feelings any more. Twenty years is, after all, a long time. Perhaps worse, this is a sp