Story: Samaritan Snare
Written By: Robert L. McCullough
Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Year: 1989
Terrible episode. I see what they were trying to do, but it didn’t work. We get this slow, practically retarded, race of people who want help. The problem is that the writers turned them somewhat sinister, instead of really working with the issue at hand.
It is a bad episode because the writing didn’t move in the right place, instead of really working to make it a strong slower paced episode, the writer decided that it had to have a villain, and the results are poor.
And the aliens are annoying.
The only nice thing about this is the smaller subplot of Picard and Wesley on a shuttle together. We get a nice story about Picard’s youth, and learn he has an artificial heart…I hope that goes on to affect a future episode in some way…
NEXT TIME: Irish Immigrants
Written By: Robert L. McCullough
Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Year: 1989
Terrible episode. I see what they were trying to do, but it didn’t work. We get this slow, practically retarded, race of people who want help. The problem is that the writers turned them somewhat sinister, instead of really working with the issue at hand.
And the aliens are annoying.
The only nice thing about this is the smaller subplot of Picard and Wesley on a shuttle together. We get a nice story about Picard’s youth, and learn he has an artificial heart…I hope that goes on to affect a future episode in some way…
NEXT TIME: Irish Immigrants