Homeward

Worf’s adopted-brother has been quietly studying the people of Borall II until it looks like the whole planet is about to be destroyed. With the help of the Enterprise, he gets out of there, but he brings a village along with him. But they don’t know it because they’re being hidden in a holodeck. The Prime Directive takes a holiday when Homeward goes into the Mission Log. I really wanted to like this one but I just can’t get over the complete lack of consequences for Nikolai. Guess there hasn’t been time for the Space Cops to set up speed traps in asteroid fields and gaseous anomalies yet. Give it a couple of months and they will totally be pulling the Enterprise-D over. It’s a really fascinating story, though. Maybe leaving Nikolai where he is one less witness to mention that Picard et al. were essentially complicit in this massive Prime Directive violation. Now yeah, he forced their hand, but… Nikolai did not just innocently bend the rules, he purposefully broke them, accessing systems on board the Enterprise to pull off his plan. Now once they were on the Holodeck, Picard really had no choice but to help them. Really makes you wonder what kind of security there is between a civilian who’s just arrived on board and large-scale use of transporters and holodecks. We have seen repeatedly non ship personal wander openly and access all kinds of ships systems. How many people just wander through main engineering and the bridge. Just wanted to add one more criticism of Worf. It was that cringey moment of too much information when he said, “Even the stars will be different.” Why even bring that up? Leave that as something for any nitpicker-astronomer who might exist in that group to discover AFTER the relocation. Even then, I imagine it would merit not much more than a “That’s odd” response. Geez, I don’t even remember the last time I checked to make sure all the constellations were in place. Priorities, you know? What the heck was he thinking? Excellent discussion. Even as a kid this episode bothered me. Letting an entire planet die because you have a rule stating you shouldn’t interfere with primitive civilizations is cold. On the other hand, you guys and Dave all have a point about how nobody ever faces any consequences for breaking the rules. Hmm… idea: one of those legal dramas centred around the people who have to litigate the stunts our favourite crews pull. 😉 Ok – So what if an advanced society came to Earth when the Neanderthals were more numerous than homo sapiens and saw that we were hunting and eating them into extinction? Without the prime directive, who would be ruling the planet now? Anyone know why the comments I’ve posted keep being flagged as spam? Maybe I’m doing something wrong, I don’t know. Hey ho… Anyway, to cut my previous very long post short, I hate this episode. No idea…did you copy and paste something or a link? Yeah, this episode has problems. Could have been better if not tied into Worf..just some well meaning anthropologist who smuggles a large shipment of equipment and it turns out to be the aliens….. To quote Spinal Tap. Sh!t Sandwich. A low light of season 7 and the whole series. Don’t know. If you watch this one with your brain off, it is fairly easy and enjoyable to watch I think the absolute worst episode of the entire TNG series is next…ugh…”Sub Rosa”….. So basically the Enterprise in this case is an indifferent god – they could save them from extinction, but chose not to. Not a good look. Once again, an interesting topic gets simplified so much that there’s not much to discuss. It’s one thing not to interfere with the development of another culture, but these people literally have no future otherwise. During the episode I also got to thinking that we don’t really know the Federations attitude towards conservationism. Even without these humanoids, that planet must be teeming with all kinds of life which will be lost forever. But it never crosses our crews minds to save even a