Reminds me of his first moments in the Nexus.
professor sounds like a jilted lover
“Maintaining a dull and bloated Empire.”
Interesting.
Oh SNAP!! Look!! The script:
http://www.st-minutiae.com/academy/literature329/246.txt
With deleted scenes.
Hmmm, how often do Picard and Deanna enjoy a stroll in the arboridum?
The final episode contains no explanation for the destruction of the Yirdian ship attacking Galen’s shuttle following a single phaser blast from the Enterprise. However, the original teleplay contains a line by Data immediately following the ship’s destruction that explains this (“The Yridian vessel was overloading its power generators. That, combined with the phaser blast, caused it to explode”). Yet, even the original teleplay does not explain exactly why the ship was overloading its power generators.
This episode marks the first time that Humans, Klingons, Romulans and Cardassians appear in the same episode.
in post-Roddenberry universe, suggestions the Federation wasn’t an absolute utopia crept in. wonder how Majel felt about it
Despite Picard’s obvious delight at being given the Kurlan naiskos in this episode, he casually discards it among the wreckage of the Enterprise-D in Star Trek Generations.
That bothered me. Among other things about that film that must not be spoken.
The production staff dubbed this the most “Roddenberry-esque” TNG episode.
Imagine that.
yes. me as well. took me a while to warm up to Generations. for many reasons
Jonathan Frakes remarked, “The speech that Salome Jens makes at the end would make Roddenberry very proud I think. It’s a great cast and it’s wonderful to have all those villains and aliens in one place.”
However, Rick Berman was not overawed by the finished episode. “Conceptually, it’s very interesting. I always had some problems with dealing with the whole idea of these kind of prehistoric creatures who are the fathers of us all. It’s not Roddenberry-esque, it’s very sixties Roddenberry-esque.”
More and more curious.
“See if they have the same protein fragment.”
Hmmm, no one else has stumbled on this, Sherlock.
that doesn’t surprise me. the optimism of all these races having a common origin is very Gene-tic 
right. well, Berman is never the best source for…just about anything 
(Don’t mince words, D, tell us what you really think 
)
giggle
Picard shouted in Klingon.
This episode is interesting but it has much hand-holding throughout.
Love Data’s impassionate indifference.
“What the hell?”
Geordi, time to get a new firewall. Call Juan.
yes, and the adversaries seem more-than-usually cartoonish