The Pegasus

Riker gets a visit from his old commanding officer, the pugnacious Admiral Pressman, who has his sights set on retrieving their old ship, the USS Pegasus. Why? Because… reasons. Reasons he won’t share with Picard or anyone else which leaves Riker in a moral bind. Oh, and there’s an encounter with some seriously passive-aggressive Romulans. The Pegasus goes into this week’s Mission Log. This episode reminds me a lot of the story line of Insurrection, just done better without the weird beauty salon. Actually, hold that thought – Insurrection has a lot more in common with Homeward (i.e. transport the natives into a flying holodeck without their knowledge). It’s surprising that Riker by this point had receded so much into the background of this show, considering that he started off better-formed than anyone. This episode shows there was so much more that could have been done, at least with Commander Riker, as opposed to the “Full Riker” we tend to think of him more as. He shoulda been promoted off show in S4/5 after dealing w Borg. Shame Blue Apron is only available in the USA. Some of the recipes sound fantastic!!! Now this feels like Trek, with a huge ethical dilemma sitting on Riker’s shoulders. Special kudos to Frakes if only for the expression on Riker’s face when Picard threatens to replace him as first officer — he looks like a 10-year-old boy who’s just been told he won’t get any Christmas presents. Quick question: Does Starfleet send its prototypes out for testing with the inventor and the only copies of any notes, journals, margin doodles all onboard said ship? Why wouldn’t Pressman have SOMETHING on file to try again? Ah well. Nice ‘Buckaroo Banzai’ callback! (The closing credits promise a sequel — you heard anything yet??) Of course, perhaps something yet to be shown in Discovery will clear Burnham’s name in the history books, erasing that issue. Just a thought. Agreed. I love this episode. One of the best of season seven (not saying much) but also the whole on TNG. I’ve often wondered why the federation doesn’t have cloaking technology. Shame that from now until All Good things the episodes range from poor to abysmal. I miss TNG a lot and wish there’d been a season 8 before the movies. Section 31. Yeah TNG rushed it. Shoulda married/promoted Riker and Troi off the show. Killed someone and build anticipation. Sigh. I wish BOBW was held back till S5. Let Picard recover x 10 episodes. Off ship. Riker captains 1701-D. Picard returns. Riker proposes…. to Troi. Cliffhanger wedding S6. Wait 3 years. REUNION in the MOVIE THEATERS!!! Starfleet is in an interesting spot. They claim that they honor the ideals of the Federation and claim they are not a military organization and yet they are powerful and one of the strongest military forces in the Galaxy. I never bought into the whole “starfleet is not a military operation” thing. Sure, the 1701-D has kids on it and all that, it is however also heavily armed, bestet probably only by the D’Deridex in the alpha&beta quadrants.. You’re not kidding. They just opened a drive-thru-only branch office down the street next to CVS. Not even bothering to hide it now. This idea of taking families with you is great and all but seeing the repeated life and death situations the Enterprise D faces puts a lot of innocents in harms way on a continual basis. Section 31. I use that to explain shady dealings and jerk admirals. Well, and there was that unpaid parking orbit ticket…or…maybe that’s covered in the books or something. This. So this. Maybe Riker thinks it’ll never come up again? Maybe his entire exemplary career was, in a manner of speaking, atoning for this first mission? That would have been an interesting wrinkle, but the character examination here seems to be approximately skin deep – and maybe just the top layer of the epidermis at that. This might’ve been a storyline best saved for the movies. Maybe that has something to do with why he passed up the Captain’s chair tw