The Vengeance Factor

The Acamarians have survived centuries of blood feuds. On the road to a more peaceful future, there is still one band of Acamarians – the Gatherers – bent on a violent existence. But even they would like to stop fighting and come home. There is just one problem: someone is carrying an ancient grudge, and it could derail plans for peace. Can Picard broker a deal between the two sides? Can Riker stop the last of the would-be assassins? Find out when we put The Vengeance Factor in the Mission Log. so funny! I had no idea that was her! I really enjoy this flashbacking and google imaging/IMDB’ing!! massive interference with the culture no? I missed the part where they were identified as Federation members (which would be surprising if they were given the societal crazy they have going on) Not even vaguely. Meditating a peace treaty between members of a surface faring race do not in any way shape or form violate the prime directive not constitute interference. The things I remember about this episode were thinking that Brull looked like Richard Gere! I wasn’t sure at the time..hahaha. I also thought it was really cool to see someone vaporized! It had been a while! maybe not since “Loud As A Whisper”? I remember, replaying on slow motion on my VCR just to see the kill shot gradually… I also recall thinking Riker was crazy to turn her down!! hahaha, I was 18! messages…sometimes you just gotta let it go, the hatred, anger….boy did these Gatherers look like Greasers from the Outsiders movie mixed w Borg accessories or what?!?!? If I was going to compare this episode (at least the Yuta part) to an original series episode it would be The Conscience of the King. A murder mystery and old grudges. But really this episode seemed like two episodes, plot A, let’s try to negotiate & plot B, who is killing people and why? Plot A doesn’t really get resolved, the wrap up Plot B and just assume that the negotiations will get done. BTW, negotiations like that can’t be done over a day, just saying Two things: This has the weird thing of the computer reconstructing an almost completely obscured image, which seemed stupid at the time this aired, but that they are starting to talk about doing. The other thing, and I don’t think it was intentional, but Yuta’s death marked the end (for the most part) of Riker the Kirk-esque skirt chaser. While they’d been steadily backing off on that aspect of his character, killing Yuta pretty much put at stop to it. After this there’s, like, a holiday thing on Risa, Lilith from Cheers throwing herself at him and Ro when they were amnesiacs (and he still retained feelings for her). Oh, and then the writers indulging the actors by marrying him off to Troi. Or it could be using imaging tech that we see later that is taking in unseen EM but not displaying it. When the user of the program asks for an enhancement the computer takes the data from the other EM range that most images have it left unseen and then brings it into the visible range to produce an enhanced image. Defending Riker’s actions: Defence of self or others. Riker could not be 100% certain that Yuta wouldn’t be able to lunge close enough to Chorgan to transmit the virus. She was actively trying to murder him and lethal force was justified. She also successfully resisted two stun blasts, including one that was clearly not at the lowest level. Whether it was her alien physiology or her genetically-rewritted physiology, she was clearly able to shrug off phaser blasts that few else in Trek-that-we-see could. And the death of Chorgan could have gotten a lot of people killed in the future. Weigh that against the life of one unrepentant genetically-modified assassin. I’m not arguing that point. I agree with Ken that the story has to come first. You can use technical notes to work your way around so many Trek plots. Their technology is so advanced (when plot relevant) that if you applied it to everything possible, it’s basically magic. Why did the DS9 crew u