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- From: myempire@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Matt J. Martin)
- Subject: The Official Dorm-Rec review of "Quality of Life" (spoilers)
- Message-ID: <BxuGyv.Er0@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Summary: Well, it's about time
- Keywords: Data is a serious stud
- Organization: Purdue University Computing Center
- References: <BxsCF9.LD5@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> <1992Nov17.022333.22817@mercury.cair.du.edu> <BxuFKK.9r7@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:08:54 GMT
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- This episode is, by far, the best episode this season. The ST writers finally
- managed to recapture the magic that is ST.
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- First of all, Troi wasn't in this episode very much at all, which pleased us
- no end. She said very little and the things she did say weren't all that
- stupid. You know, we've said it before and we'll say it again, we hate Troi.
- A lot.
-
- Geordi's beard is progressing well. We were a bit skeptical at first, but
- it seems to be filling in quite nicely. And you know, it's a shame that they
- couldn't finish the card game. Considering the odds against Crusher it should
- have been an interesting game.
-
- This week, Crusher's bitchliness was transfered to the evil Mining Doctor who,
- by the way, was one of the most annoying one-show characters we've seen. First
- she was evil to Geordi and kissed Data's ass, then she did a 180 and dug into
- Data. She obviously forgot ST tenet #17, Data is always right. And throughout
- the episode, she was a career minded, self-seeking opportunist, which would
- normally be considered a positive boon. But in this episode, since she was
- pitted against Data, this quality was just damned distrubing.
-
- We were pleased to see that the good Doctor Crusher was able to redeem herself
- this week by taking butt-kicking lessons from Worf and giving well-refined
- wisdom to Data.
-
- We saw a contradiction in the actions of the Mining Doctor when she proposed
- that they cut the command pathways to keep the exocomps from protecting
- themselves. To take away the exocomps' abilities to protect themselves is
- to basically admit their sentience. Yet, after that suggestion, she
- continued to maintain that the exocomps were mere machines.
-
- We were genuinely pleased when Riker came up with a very good suggestion to
- ask the exocomps if they would accept the mission. This represents a break
- from his usual ethnocentric behavior. Bravo!
-
- All in all, a very good episode. Of course, it simply doesn't compare with
- the likes of Yesterday's Enterprise or The Defector, but definitely a highlight
- for this season. We did notice, however, that the first half of the episode
- moved rather slowly. They were rather pedantic in getting to the thrust of the
- plot. Not to mention the idea of an unaccepted machine-come-alive is a rather
- tired one. But after everything this season, we'll take what we can get.
-
- The opinions expressed above are those of the Dorm-Rec alone and are subject
- to change without notice.
-
- Affectionately,
-
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