tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post5010339107421013607..comments2024-03-29T05:43:36.177-04:00Comments on Doux Reviews: Star Trek The Next Generation: Suddenly HumanBillie Douxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17141769005175631213noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-13130812080677989642024-03-13T07:57:57.139-04:002024-03-13T07:57:57.139-04:00Agreed on the main points of the review. An intere...Agreed on the main points of the review. An interesting subject and idea, handled rather ham-fistedly. It had some glaring contrasting ways of handling things that didn't make sense taken together, and 100% agreed that Picard was not the best choice to handle Jono.Morellahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08852528242739450099noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-76862452594780444082018-12-08T07:05:00.941-05:002018-12-08T07:05:00.941-05:00I enjoyed this one more than you, and am enjoying ...I enjoyed this one more than you, and am enjoying the fact that TNG chose to start season 4 with three consecutive episodes about family. It's a nice change in emphasis for the series. I always felt the original series and to a lesser extent TNG seemed a bit disconnected from the norms of human life by the format: a starship roaming the galaxy in search of strange worlds. To me, this is where Star Trek began to work with more human stories.<br /><br />While you're right that Picard becoming the boys mentor was contrived, quite a few TNG episodes are built on similar contrivamces (Riker being called in as prosecutor of Data for example). Yes, Worf in particular would have made sense given his similar background, though his parents raised him to know himself as a Klingon. Though it did serve to emphasize the boy's strong allegiance to authority figures--it was noteworthy that he only agreed to entertain the Federation as an option after discovering that his grandmother outranked Picard. Also, I thought many of the guest actors were excellent in this episode. Endar was terrific, conveying a sincere concern for the boy. The Admiral's sense of loss and desire to build a connection with the grandson she had never known made it almost plausible that the Federation would make the (clearly terrible) decision to wrest the boy from his adopted father.<br /><br />DS9 returned to a similar theme in the excellent but painful Cardassians some years later.magrittenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-12047029785680262432016-06-20T20:18:39.534-04:002016-06-20T20:18:39.534-04:00Good review. A rebuttal to your continuity niggle...Good review. A rebuttal to your continuity niggle...<br /><br />Tapestry in season 6 is where we saw Picard get stabbed through the heart, but it was not the first mention of the artificial heart. It was first introduced in the Season 2 episode "The Samaritan Snare." I think the Borg might have respected Picard for having a mechanical heart.<br /><br />With everything that happens to Picard during the series, I get the impression the Artificial heart issue in the 24th century is far safer and more manageable the we could perceive today.Icebox17https://www.blogger.com/profile/07921451306466709647noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-6153132935089655452016-06-19T18:06:00.367-04:002016-06-19T18:06:00.367-04:00He was good, Next Gen seemed to get some really go...He was good, Next Gen seemed to get some really good guest actors over the course of its run!Juliettehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00203399623895589924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13727952.post-28924353977712467072016-06-19T16:21:22.905-04:002016-06-19T16:21:22.905-04:00Nice review, Juliette, and I agree with your point...Nice review, Juliette, and I agree with your points. This one had its flaws but it was a lot better than I expected. We don't often see the Enterprise crew in the wrong, and it actually took awhile before it was obvious they were wrong. I felt bad for the boy's grandparents. I wonder if they added some obvious sexism so that Picard could do all of the important scenes with Jono instead of Troi?<br /><br />"Jono" later got a full time job doing a couple of hundred episodes of <i>Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman</i>. He didn't do a bad job here, did he?Billie Douxhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17141769005175631213noreply@blogger.com