![]() ![]() Mistakes & Minutiae: This episode contains Tasha Yar’s famous “goodbye” to the fans. TNG LOL: Wesley Crusher gets a good laugh from this episode out of the line “Captain, my console seems to be overloading.” It’s nice that he gets a warning, most of the time the things just explode right in people’s faces. Not least the idea that NO-ONE on Onara has actually tried to discover another cure for their symptoms, or even establish a cause. TNG WTF: Leaving aside Picard’s complete misunderstanding of Starfleet’s top rule and the misunderstanding of its application (If he can’t interfere even to the point of pointing out to the Ornarans that they’re a planet full of crackheads, why did he interfere by saving their lives in the first place?!) this episode has massive WTF issues. We’d better leave immediately.” And they do. Crusher a speech that amounts to little more than “Well, we’ve fixed that problem forever with no further issues left to resolve. With this issue solved, Picard transports the four men back to Ornara and gives Dr. However, he has a last-second brainwave and denies the Brekkans the parts they need to fix their ships, once again citing the Prime Directive (what? They ASKED for help! Oh, whatever, forget it.) With the trading unable to resume, the Ornarans will go through withdrawal and eventually realise that there is no plague and that they’ve all been had. Reluctantly, he must let the Brekkans and the Ornarans leave. That’s probably why he finds his job so hard to do.) She explains it to Picard, and he declares that although he disagrees with what the Brekkans are dong, they can’t help the Ornarans, citing the Prime Directive for about the fifteenth time this series (in later series it transpires that the Prime Directive only applies to uncontacted pre-warp cultures, which suggests Picard has been misinterpreting it throughout season one. ![]() Their “plague” is merely a manifestation of their withdrawal symptoms. As a result, they can barely even fly their own ships, and ask Picard to give them the replacement parts their aging freighters need.īut after watching the Ornarans take the drug, Crusher immediately realises the truth: the Brekkans aren’t ill. Those cardboard sleeves that fit around plastic DVD cases for no apparent reason. The Ornarans, in return, give them everything else. To help relieve the symptoms, the Ornarans agree to let the Brekkans chase the Felicium dragon, explaining that their entire economy is based on manufacture of the drug. But what’s this? Crusher can find no source for the so-called “plague”, even though it affects everyone on the Brekkan homeworld. (For reference, sweating = generic ill, sneezing = allergies, coughing = lung cancer). Picard, belatedly realising that he’s exposed his entire crew to danger once again, sends the Ornarans to sickbay where they start sweating – the most instantly-recognisable symptom of TV illnesses. Understandably, the Onarans aren’t quite so keen. However, because the transaction was not properly completed (on account of one half of it exploding in a sun) the Brekkans want to hang onto their drugs. ![]()
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