. It's a minor point, but at the end, Troi tells Riker, "Oh, and the next time you call me aristocratic...". Man, I wish "aristocratic" was the worst thing I'd ever been called.
Maybe it means something else on Betazed?
I think she means, "Don't you dare say I'm just like my mother!"
Picard orders "All stop.", then Ensign Allenby comments that they have resumed moving, but in space isn't some movement to be expected?
Picard tells Troi that most captains have to depend on Human counselors. With all the races in the Federation, why are most Ship's Counselors Human? (And Troi is half Human herself.)
Why does Ensign Cabbagehead, I mean Allenby, have to ask what a Cosmic String is? Doesn't Starfleet consider Cosmic Strings to be Navigational Hazards?
Why does Picard think that a photon torpedo in the path of the 2-dimensional creatures, would be effective when those exploding out of plane had no effect? Think about it . The creatures have width and depth, but no height. An explosion expands outward from the point of explosion. The explosion in plane had no surface to act upon, because the creatures have no height, while the out of plane explosions hit the creatures full on their width and depth. Picard was just guilty of thinking 3-dimensionally.
In the NextGen Guide II on page 268, ironically in the section that Phil begins, "To avoid any possible misinterpretation...", there is a mistake in the last sentence he wrote, "If the string travels at a constant speed toward the string,..." I think he meant to write, `If the ship travels at a constant speed toward the string,...'
If the creatures' emotions were so intense, then why didn't Troi sense them long before the ship encountered them?
Isn't it remarkable that the Enterprise was traveling in exactly the same plane as the creatures?
If the creatures were 2-dimensional then why did they travel the way they did? Wouldn't it be more likely that they would travel in such a way as to actually be able to 'see' each other. If they only had width and depth, but no height, then wouldn't they only be able to see what's above and or below them, but not what's beside them in the same plane?
NANJAO: I thought the scene in which Troi broke down & cried on Riker's shoulder to be very moving.
GREAT SFX: The Cosmic String Fragment was very well done.
Ensign Brooks does a worse job at hiding her accent than Ewan MacGregor in "The Island". Seems kind of narrowminded that she had to be Americanized. This is the 24th Century!
Should Counselor Troi be talking about her patients' private therapy with just anyone she comes across? At one point, she talks to Captain Picard about how she's been counseling Ensign Brooks on her inability to deal with the death of her husband. Isn't this confidential information? Is it not really really really really bad for a counselor to discuss this with someone else without their permission?
Yeah, Troi has a history of that. She does similar things in The Schizoid Man and Loud as a Whisper.
As well as in Hollow Pursits.
Yeah, really. Riker was the one who stormed into the holodeck, but Troi was the one who insisted they not deactivate the program so they could get a glimpse into Barclay's problems.
Would the fact that she is not in private practice, but instead is a member of the command staff affect this?
Also an argument could be made that as captain Picard has a right to know of potential problems with crewmembers.
Yes, but she shouldn't be broadcasting them to others. Confidentiality should still apply.
Okay. It'd been a while since I'd seen any of those episodes & didn't remember those scenes.
Not one of my favorites. Sorry, John .
quote:KAM: If the creatures were 2-dimensional then why did they travel the way they did? Wouldn't it be more likely that they would travel in such a way as to actually be able to 'see' each other. If they only had width and depth, but no height, then wouldn't they only be able to see what's above and or below them, but not what's beside them in the same plane?
quote:Luigi Novi: Yeah, Troi has a history of that. She does similar things in The Schizoid Man and Loud as a Whisper.
when they introduce the cosmic string, they announce it as being "only 108 meters long" , now I don't have the specs on the Enterprise's size but I thought it was more then 100m from top to bottom and I thought was somewhere in the neighborhood of 800m long. However in all subsequent shots it looks positively massive in relation to the enterprise.
JoshM: What did she do in Loud as a Whisper?
Luigi Novi: In the teaser of that episode, she publicly announced to everyone the troubling emotions he was feeling, rather than discussing them with him or Picard in private.
The Enterprise-D is 641 meters long, according to the Encyclopedia.
Thanks Luigi. So the Enterprise is over 6 times as long as this thing according to the dialog. yet according to the visuals you could few a few Enterprises in that thing and have room to spare.