Trek Tuesday, September 21st, 2010
11 PM Eastern - 8 PM Pacific
“I said shut up! As in close your mouth and stop talking.”
You can watch the episode on YouTube
I love this episode for its production values. I love all the “time travel” stuff and the glimpse into the “future”.
Oh, Riker. You’re so odd.
This is a good mind frak episode.
Home come there’s no chairs are around the edge of the bridge? Uhura got to sit down at least.
That crewmember at the console has an amazing bubble butt.
Just pointing that out. 
Carbon dioxide, methane, hydrogen sulfide…
Are they in a sewer? :eek:
The transporter tech? Yes. Yes she does.
That it is.
Also just pointing out that I’m still here… 
To Riker being the captain is a nightmare. He’s such a slacker.
Nope. Los Angeles.
I keed. I keed.
Sad that you’re noticing butts, and I’m noticing lack of chairs.
I’m quite the bore.
Director Les Landau observed, “It was an opportunity for Jonathan to take charge of an episode and it just shows the dynamic quality of Riker to have to deal with not only having aged fifteen years, but to discover that you have a son and have been married and [are] captain of the Enterprise. Can you imagine waking up one day and finding out that you’ve skipped fifteen years on your CD? There were lots of tricks and false leads, and yet there was something universal about the theme of this alien at the end which was the embodiment of this little boy. The final moment where Riker sees this alien being in the caverns of this other world and says I will take you with me and you will always be a part of me, goes back to the basics of what Star Trek is all about. It’s that caring for the human condition, love for the universal being. It sounds very esoteric and snobbish to talk this way, but that’s when Star Trek is at its best.”
He’s the continual leader of the future…
Things I love in this episode: Riker’s grey hair streak.
I’ve got more gray hair than Riker there, and I ain’t not fraking star ship captain yet.
Things I love in this episode: Geordi’s eyes.
Things I love in this episode: Ferengi at Navigation.