“Now Klingon. It’s between you and me.”
Good commercial break. And then Bev shows up to save the day.
I had one just like it when this episode first aired.
Except it wasn’t spray-painted silver, of course.
I think I may know why. :rolleyes:
“I’m going to have to do a full internal scan.”
Yes. Clearly that’s the way to go. Of course, if you had bothered to do a rudimentary external scan, you might have saved some time.
I wonder how much it cost the budget for that computer display of the host.
Never had those. I had Woolworth binders.
I think I may know why. :rolleyes:
giggle You’re right, though. Needed a flying scissor-kicks and tumble-rolls.
Frakes said some of those grub worms did “cross” his lips.
You can tell they’re creepy aliens, because they allow a lowly security guy to sit at the same table with admirals.
That Vulcan wasn’t very good at the neck pinch.
Admiral Aaron’s got some speed. He was booking.
Look at that, I’m speaking 80s lingo. Booking!
The little claymation bugs are so sad. Even back then, they looked like crap.
This might be an episode that would really benefit with some updated special effects.
“We seek peaceful coexistence!”
Picard looks at Riker. fires
And that boys and girls is What JTK would do.
Be a beacon…
“To seek out new life and new civilizations”
…and then burn them down.
Poor Remick. He rolled a very hard six. 
From Memory Alpha:
- The neural parasites have thus far never reappeared on-screen, but have been shown in a comic book taking control of a spacefaring species called the “Onglaatu” in a DC TNG story entitled “The Broken Moon!”.
- The parasites have also returned in Pocket Books’ new DS9 series of novels. Several books in the Mission: Gamma series leading up to the novel Unity have revealed that the parasites are closely related to the Trill, and join with a host body in very much the same manner as a Trill symbiont does. They also reveal the Trill symbionts and the neural parasites have been fighting a long secret war, with several species worth of hosts and governments as their weapons against each other. The parasites’ latest gambit has been the continued fervor for Bajor to join the Federation. For unknown reasons this would represent a great victory to their secret plan.
- In the novel Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume 2, Trill & Bajor by Andy Mangels and Michael A. Martin, the parasites are revealed to actually be genetically modified Trill symbionts, created on the remote Trill colony of Kurl. A deadly plague had been killing symbionts, and the experiments were intended to develop a cure. However, the experiment failed, and the symbionts so affected became violent and xenophobic - the parasites - and swore revenge on Trill society for this disaster.
This episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Makeup for a Series.
How far we have progressed.
I never got how they were “forced” to destroy the “mother creature”.
Much less why they were forced to blow up Remick’s head.
Um, haven’t you people heard of force fields?
Also from Memory Alpha:
The fate of those officers infested by the aliens after the death of the mother creature is unknown. Those shot by Picard and/or Riker may well have died, given the aliens’ resistance to the “stun” setting. In his last log entry, Picard states that Admiral Quinn has recovered but makes no mention of the others, possibly implying they did not.
Captain Scott
Interesting stuff. The parasites always intrigued me.
Seemed a shame to build up this big enemy and then never mention them again.
Yeah. It was a very primitive reaction. Ewww, bug! Kill it! Kill it!! But they only had an hour. This is one of the highest rated first season episodes. I wonder how it would have fared if it ended with the capture and study of the alien.
Good point. Even Picard’s disgust at eating worms earlier in the episode rang false, knowing him as we know him now. I mean, it’s not even all that unusual among humans to eat bugs, much less among alien races.
Well, sometimes its about entertaining the audience and sometimes its about educating and pushing our perceptions.