Post by Atoz 77 on Jul 2, 2009 7:36:31 GMT -6
Many Star Trek episodes are mind-bogglingly great. The vast majority, even if not in that league, are still solid drama that we love to watch again and again and again. But let's face it, there's still that tiny, tiny few which are so bad, we have to ask "Why?" One or two even defy logic and common sense to the extent that the simplest solution seems to be just to pretend they never happened. It don't like to do that, because it contradicts my standard assumption that every Star Trek episode is at least based on the actual log entries of the starship Enterprise. So I figure if we put our heads together, maybe we can come up with a scenario which explains the contradictions.
My first nominee for the Y files is "Brothers". In this story, Data somehow shuts down life support to the Bridge. While everyone else is hot-footing it for engineering, Data uses the opportunity to take control of the Enterprise and lock everyone but himself (including Picard) out of the ship's computer. Then he hijacks the ship, takes it to an unnamed planet, and has himself beamed down. The reason for his odd behavior turns out to be Dr. Soong, who it turns out didn't die on Omicron Theta after all. He had a convenient "escape route" and for some unexplained reason he has been lying low the past 31 years without once trying to contact his "son" -- that is until now, when he has merely activated a "simple homing device" installed in Data's positronic brain!
If that weren't bad enough, we also discover that Lore wasn't destroyed (at the end of the first season episode "Datalore") either! He has just been drifting in space until he was picked up by a Pakled ship. This story begins to sound more like a comic book than a Star Trek episode.
My first nominee for the Y files is "Brothers". In this story, Data somehow shuts down life support to the Bridge. While everyone else is hot-footing it for engineering, Data uses the opportunity to take control of the Enterprise and lock everyone but himself (including Picard) out of the ship's computer. Then he hijacks the ship, takes it to an unnamed planet, and has himself beamed down. The reason for his odd behavior turns out to be Dr. Soong, who it turns out didn't die on Omicron Theta after all. He had a convenient "escape route" and for some unexplained reason he has been lying low the past 31 years without once trying to contact his "son" -- that is until now, when he has merely activated a "simple homing device" installed in Data's positronic brain!
If that weren't bad enough, we also discover that Lore wasn't destroyed (at the end of the first season episode "Datalore") either! He has just been drifting in space until he was picked up by a Pakled ship. This story begins to sound more like a comic book than a Star Trek episode.