Booby Trap

The Enterprise stumbles upon a ship with a one-thousand-year-old mystery. While mysteries can be fun, this one is killing the crew of the Enterprise. Can Geordi and his pretend girlfriend save the day? Find out when Mission Log gets caught in a Booby Trap. Another Holodeck is magic episode. “Computer, can you turn a bunch of dry data into a person?” “You betcha I can, Geordi!” AGREED! man, at the time, I thought they were novel, but now I think holodeck madness episodes are just a cop out. This is one of the better ones, but really, they went overboard w Moriarty, Cowboy Data and Mystery Train w random characters episodes…lol Plus, in an era with transporters and replicators, you can just beam the toy out of the bottle, play with it, and then beam it back in. And if you break it, replicate a new one. The palm beacon: Just like a flashlight, but less convenient to hold. Maybe in the future no one suffers from carpal tunnel or repetitive strain injury, because that’s what you’d get holding a flashlight like that all day. I never understood why a phaser couldn’t be set to flashlight mode. After all, aren’t lasers and phasers just light emitters? And when beaming into areas that are known to be dark, why not wear some kind of light on one’s head? This way, the light is shining wherever you are looking, and both of your hands are free. I’ve always wondered why Away Teams don’t have a video camera with them. So many times we’ve heard, “It’s hard to describe”, “I wish you could see this” or “Captain, you’d better get down here”. A head mounted video camera seems like an integral piece of equipment for Away Teams. too much neutrino field interference… they would have to piggyback on a sliding-frequency modulated tachyon beam. definitely more practical gear would be needed for away teams..I mean I head of travelling light, but seriously…backpacks w/ masks for God’s sake, if the atmosphere goes bad…geez at least a small respirator. I know they had cost/costuming limitations, but totally agree w you on lights…at least a headpiece w scanner info a la Geordi’s VISOR meets ALIENS helmet cams…Go Pro! hahahaha I think that Minuette was slightly more than your typical hologram and more than just being ‘played’ by the Binars. Evidenced by her awareness of that very fact and her very human like concern for Riker long after the Binars left the console and stopped manipulating the the scenario. Maybe their influence faded when the simulation was shutoff and that special confluence was lost, but she was def more on her own while it was running. I also thought for sure when you talked about a prop that captured your attention you were going to talk about the Promellian data modules even the sound they made when Data was holding them was kind of tangible. Kind of silly that they felt they had to rename the character because of the ethnicity of of the actor they cast. It’s not like someone who looks totally Caucasian can’t have a black ancestor or vice versa, and you’d think you’d see a lot more of that sort of thing in the future. Then again, I’m not sorry that they changed the name. Having her be the descendant of Dr. Daystrom from TOS feels a bit too fan servicey. Also, I can’t help getting the sense that at least part of the reason it was initially decided that the character would be a descendant of Daystrom, aside from thinking it would be a fun bone to throw the fans, was that somebody was of the opinion that Geordi’s love interest would just naturally have to be black. I’m glad the casting department was more color blind on the issue than the writers. No offense to Kate Mulgrew, but having just looked up Susan Gibney’s page on Memory Alpha, I can’t help thinking it would have been neat to see her as Janeway on Voyager. It says she was deemed too young for the part, which doesn’t make a lot of sense, considering she would have been about the same age as Shatner when he first played Kirk. Your ongoing discussion of the role of the sh