Schisms
I am getting into the habit of apologizing for the delay between posts and episode reviews. Between football season and holidays it has been a difficult few months. With the upcoming new year, however, I hope to be back to reviewing an episode biweekly. Let’s hope.
Schisms is an episode that starts out great, and ends not-so-great. At first all we know is that Riker is super-sleepy, but this evolves into an alien abduction episode triggered by Geordi probing a little too deeply into subspace. There is a great creepy vibe for much of this episode, with Riker finally venturing into the heart of the beast, but it falls a bit flat when we find out they’re just bunch of fish monks. For me one of the best moments is Data reciting his cat poetry.
There is honestly not that much trivia for this episode. For those who care about Mott the barber, this is his very last appearance! If you want to know who impersonates him later in the season, or when we get to hear Data’s poetry again, please read my full review. It’s probably a little better than the episode! You also get to learn what the word schism means.
True Q
True Q is about the same quality. A young intern is visiting the Enterprise, and she has the surprising ability to make puppies appear, move cargo containers and even stop warp core breaches with a single gesture! Q himself shows up and says he’s testing to see if she’s a real Q or not, and if not then he’ll have to kill her. There are a few good moments, but it sort of stumbles across the finish line.
Olivia D’Abo should be known to any child of the 80’s, as Karen Arnold of The Wonder Years. This is also the final episode that Q appears to the Enterprise crew, from now on he only appears to and speaks with Picard! Check out more trivia and my always-incisive commentary by reading my full review.
That’s it for this round. Next time I’ll be posting my reviews for the abominable Rascals and the far superior A Fistful of Datas. Keep checking back, more are coming!
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