Trek Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
11 PM Eastern - 8 PM Pacific
“Baby needs a new pair of shoes.”
During this episode, I wondered if there was a novel called ‘The Royale’.
In America, we call it “The Quarter Pounder”. 
From Memory Alpha:
Tormé requested the pseudonym Keith Mills to protest rewrites by Maurice Hurley. Hurley rejected the surrealism and claimed that Tormé’s premise was too derivative of the Original Series episode “A Piece of the Action”. “There were gangsters in this one, gangsters in that one, and both based on a book.”
Time check? I started late.
Listen for a homage by Dr. Pulaski to another favorite Trek doctor.
Picard is such a geek.
ABout to start the second Youtube. ~ 8:30
BTW, Picard gives his little arrogance speech about Fermat’s Last Theorem, which was itself ironically arrogant, as the proof was published just a few years after this episode aired. 
I did too. I’m only 2:30 in.
“Antique doorway.”
Come on. They don’t have revolving doors anymore!
Really? That’s so funny.
“I’m not afraid of MickeyD.”
Um, weird hivemind.
I’ll say right now that this may in fact be my least favorite TNG episode.
It’s confusing. Doesn’t make a lot sense. And not much interesting happens.
I happy to mock and comment on it though.
OK, they’re just about to enter the revolving door for me.
“What are these…things?” snarl
Worf is so much fun on Away teams.
The writer disowned it as well.
Tormé commented, “I’ve completely disowned the piece. I suppose skeletally it’s my story, but when I started to reread the rewrite, I got ten pages through it and I got sort of a cold chill and had to put it down. An interesting thing is that the cast, the crew and even secretaries went out of their way to tell me how much they liked my draft, and they asked me in a totally puzzled manner, what on Earth had happened and why we had changed it. All I could do was shrug. Of course this is all my opinion, and you’d probably hear something different from the other side…I felt like a lot of the comedy was taken out. A lot of the surrealism was taken out. I feel that it’s very heavy-handed now, and it’s gone from being a strange episode to being a stupid episode.”
Why would they? They don’t even have doorknobs anymore.
Most of it’s way over my head, of course.
I’m not afraid of Mickey D, but that Burger King guy really creeps me out.
The dealer looks like the guy who solved Fermat’s Last Theorem.
