The Enemy

The Enterprise answers a distress call from an unidentified ship at Galorndon Core. Turns out the ship was Romulan, and the one Romulan survivor is not doing well. More Romulans are on the way to pick him up – even if they have to cross the Neutral Zone to get him. Well, him and that other Romulan Geordi found. In short, there are many Romulans. But are they all bad? Find out when we put The Enemy in the Mission Log. “Well, if we’re ripping off Enemy Mine, let’s be blatant and almost call it the same thing.” “Sure, I wonder how many times Trek will do this story?” “Once per franchise, at least.” once per franchise…? hmmm for DS9 is it “Waltz”? thinking of TOS…hmm “Arena”? If Wor had given the Romulan his blood. The Romulan would have probably killed himself. One of my favorite episodes!! for these reasons… 1. the intro scene/music, very methodical building beat, not overly orchestral like S1. 2. Geordi time! next to Crusher, the most under developed character of the WHOLE show imo. Good to see him get creative and use his survival skills to make those spikes!! 3. VISOR use! great to see his perspective….but this is where we realize they went CHEAP on those visuals. nothing as cool as we saw in “Heart of Glory”- that was a really amazing perspective…. 4. Romulans! we get to see Starfleet interact w/ them- and the start of a small sampling of continuity arcs..sadly horribly underutilized throughout TNG as well know 5. Picard vs Tomalak….I think Tomalak should have been used at least 2 more times in the series over all, would have been great, but I guess he was busy w Babylon 5. 6. Worf stuck to his guns..good for you… a little medical ethics squeezed in as well. If the Romulan didn’t want the transfusion, Don’t do it Crusher!! not your decision…also, I recall wondering if Worf would donate just to spite the Romulan…or donate and the guy still die…and Worf feel disgusting w himself…glad he didn’t give in… Thanks again for another fun perk to my Thursdays at work guys!! another thing I liked was the set…mud, rain, water getting really DIRTY! another first as far as I can recall. The dry sterile fake desert scenes from TOS and S1 seemed fake to the point of absurdity. This dark foggy scene felt big! and dangerous…dark and foreboding…. Andreas Katsulas “Commander Tomalak” also on Executive Decision w Kurt Russel and then Babylon 5 & the Fugitive w Harrison Ford. RIP 2006 another thing…looking back it is a reminder of how we can make friends w former enemies…comparing to the US who hated Japan and Germany and now they are close allies. Thinking of Romulan issues and the “the Undiscovered Country…the future…” it make you think about current enemies and what will it be like in 50 years… Geordi has faith in the “adjust the beacon to escape” plan. His faith falters when he goes blind. His Romulan companion restores his faith in the plan by offering to be his eyes. Worf has faith in his decision not to help an enemy. Everyone around him is telling him he’s wrong. He talks to the Romulan and they have the “you’ll die without a transplant from me” “I’d rather die” “Well, then, today’s your lucky day because you’re not getting it” exchange. So the Romulan essentially restores his faith in his “I hate you, you hate me” philosophy. So, in the end, they have the same arc when dealing with a Romulan enemy, but to opposite results. Even then, Worf still gave Picard a fairly simple out, because clearly Worf could’ve still refused the order, had he been given it, but he did promise to follow it if it was. “I’ll go against my code and given the donation, if you’ll go against your code and order it.” I guess it wasn’t all that important to Picard, then, that the Romulan lived. Issuing the order wasn’t that big of an ask from Picard. “I could order you” Could you Picard? I’m pretty sure he couldn’t in today’s military which means Federation strip people of their personhood more than the US modern military does. Also, Worf is actually the