I like this episode because it doesn’t wuss out. Maybe it was the influence of the more realistic, grittier DS9, but it is good to hear that our friends on the Enterprise think about doing it once in a while.
Picard and Dr. Crusher have doohickeys attached to them that eventually enable them to read one another’s thoughts. Comedy ensues. Also: something else: we so rarely see intraplanetary mishigoss. It is nice to think that there will still be a thing as nationalism on planets of the future.
