Days 8-11 in my continued #threadtrek from September.
Day 8 : Romulans
Great villains, they are consistently arrogant, treacherous, isolationists, dangerous, information controllers, but at least, they're not sexist, as women can be in power, and have authority. Rarely, they can be cooperative... ish.
Day 9 :Recovering from trauma
First example is a bad recovery, when, in TNG's The Battle, Bok who lost his son, tortures Picard, whom he blames.
Picard, later in the show, goes home to his Family (yes, that's also the episode title), where his toxic brother ends up "helping" but not enough...
Kira Nerys' arc in DS9, on the other hand, is a very interesting one on the topic of recovery from trauma. She fought in the resistance against Cardassians, she fought through other events on the station, evolving from anger and unease to accomplished.
I can discuss very little about Seven of Nine's recovery from trauma. Abducted by the Bord as a girl, she has to find her humanity after many years as a drone... Part of this story is covered in Voyager, but her arc continues in Picard, which I haven't been able to watch yet.
Day 10 is again, Music (2)
On twitter, I'd originally shared my favorite introduction, which are the early seasons of ...drum roll....DS9 but since I had already done so on day 3, now that I'm copy pasting things into this blog, I decided to add another choice.
The majestic TNG intro, what else ?
Day 11 : Neutral Zone.
TNG season 1 final ep introduces the Romulan Neutral Zone between that empire and the Federation. There are several episodes with either of them crossing it, but I'd like to point to the titular episode with inefficient Starfleet"security"
Indeed, when thawed people out of cryogenic stasis, one of them goes on the bridge during the crisis with the Romulans. The security officers grab him but then releases and just stands there.. Is Starfleet simply too idealistic at that point? no, they do it again, and again, in many subsequent episodes!
I mean... just look at these first few seconds! GRAB... huh, no, release, we need to stare at the viewscreen... what?!
Of note, this is Marc Alaimo's second appearance in Trek, and most often, he gets smug roles, just like Badar, Gul Macet and the super villain Gul Dukat.
My favorite NZ episodes are the ones with Tomalak. Not only it's the same actor as Babylon 5's G'kar with his particular voice, but also delicious dialogues with Picard.
The map, showing where the NZ is
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