Story: Angel One
Written By: Patrick Barry
Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Year: 1988
What a god-awful episode. Sexist crap. The message they are TRYING to convey is one of “sexism is bad” but unfortunately it is so poorly written that it does NOT come off that way. The Enterprise is trying to find survivors from a crashed freighter on a planet dominated by woman.
They try to make a point about male dominance on Earth, but it just comes off kind of condescending to women…and men. The women, who are totally cruel towards men for no real reason, treat the men like slaves. They are like Hitlers with Vaginas. But Riker bangs their leader because at this point in the series, he is just a makeshift Kirk.
Also we get a good taste of how useless Troi will always remain throughout the rest of the series’ run. Unlike the pilot, in which she was utterly over the top, now she has settled into the role in a far subtler way. She can sense what others are feeling…unfortunately what she senses are pretty much the equivalent of reading peoples faces (they are hiding something but I don’t know what). She settled faster into her role then most of the cast…unfortunately she remains this way until the end.
NEXT TIME: In For Repairs
Written By: Patrick Barry
Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Year: 1988
What a god-awful episode. Sexist crap. The message they are TRYING to convey is one of “sexism is bad” but unfortunately it is so poorly written that it does NOT come off that way. The Enterprise is trying to find survivors from a crashed freighter on a planet dominated by woman.
Also we get a good taste of how useless Troi will always remain throughout the rest of the series’ run. Unlike the pilot, in which she was utterly over the top, now she has settled into the role in a far subtler way. She can sense what others are feeling…unfortunately what she senses are pretty much the equivalent of reading peoples faces (they are hiding something but I don’t know what). She settled faster into her role then most of the cast…unfortunately she remains this way until the end.
NEXT TIME: In For Repairs