Clues

Something strange has happened to the Enterprise. It has gone through a wormhole. But that is just the beginning of the strangeness. A planet that looked class-M turned out to be unlivable. Crusher has some fast growing plants. Worf has broken his wrist. Tori is having hallucinations. But the strangest thing of all: Data is lying. What is going on? We track down Clues in this week’s Mission Log. So, this week the crew gets into serious trouble when they meet up with some xenophobes. What happens if they meet berserkers who just flat out want to kill everybody? The Borg assimilate. Berserkers kill everything because they fear everything. In ‘Clues,’ Picard basically appeases the xenophobic Paxans. The Paxans stop just short of acting like Berserkers. Just wondering if a Berserker race could exist in Trek and how we’d deal with them. true…except those are the rare exceptions – Picard thought as much when he was intent on just dropping people in First Contact as opposed to trying to save them. We’ve seen again and again: Borg = death Debut of my favorite “Ensign of the Week” aka rotating series of recurring helm officers that replaced Crusher: Pamela Winslow as Ensign McKnight. She played Rapunzel in the cbs playhouse version of Into the Woods. Picard: “Do you realize you’d probably be disassembled to find out what is wrong?!?” Data: “Are we re-litigating that ‘Data as property’ argument again? You appear to have changed your mind from when you helped establish precedent on that.” Of course there is. That is to say, all probes and photon torpedoes travel at warp speed. Why? Because otherwise why would you ever use one in the Trek universe. Anything else would be too slow to be useful. If probes didn’t travel at warp, you’d be better off just dropping it off by going there yourself. If it doesn’t already exist, Star Trek branded Clue(do) needs to exist. I mean, I’m not sure why Captain Picard would spend his time killing Ensign Chamise-Rouge in 10 Forward with the phaser. Or Deanna killing, probably, the same Red Shirt in the arboretum with the hydrospanner. But that may be beside the point. re: ‘does Worf have to die?’ – I suspect not. The broken bone was one of the giveaways of the original contact. Picard says that on the re-try they will need to make sure to clean up those final bits and pieces that they originally missed. Crusher / LaForge / Data probably modify Worf’s medical records to indicate a broken bone and head trauma (to explain why he forgot it) from his past (to explain why Crusher wouldn’t remember it)….(shrug) Given the rate at which Miles keeps breaking his wrist or dislocating his shoulder over two series, not to mention the ubiquity of Paresi Squares, I’d be shocked, SHOCKED, if Worf wasn’t breaking a bone or two every week in the Holodeck. And not just Skeletor’s. How easily you could take risks, if you have free, borderline-magical, medical care right down the hall (and never a line!). And even if Worf’s reluctant to go, he could just replicate up a healing doo-dad once he gets back to his room, so one need know of his dishonor. Fair enough, Morgan – for every episode we discuss, it’s inevitably someone’s favorite and someone else’s least favorite! Data is totally a game changer, but I also think Guinan would be too. This goes in my list of episodes that should have been solved by the inexplicable insight of Guinan. “Allegiance”- Guinan should have seen through the fake Picard…”Clues”-, hmmmm there’s a few more…let me think… This episode definitely has replay value, just like the movie “Clue” it is kind of fun to rewatch and see the subtle hints that something is amiss. Not too many times mind you, but still interesting…. You guys kept mentioning the time problem, but it’s less of a problem than you might think because you’re forgetting 2 key factors. Warp Speed and thing that took a day to prepare was already prepared. Anyways, Getting from the planet to this new position and back could litera