Predictably, Picard doesn’t even try and then announces they’re just going to take them home instead. It’s basically like a farmer asking a fox to convince his chickens they don’t want to be eaten by a fox. When the Enterprise returns, Radue asks Picard to help, which is about the stupidest thing anyone does in this episode. Wesley organises some Ghandi-style non-violent resistance and no-one knows what to do, because apparently they’re okay abducting children, but not trying to reason with or discipline them. Apparently the next generation of Aldeans is going to be a bit emo. And Alexandra manipulates shapes into a depressed rhombus (probably). Harry carves a wooden Dolphin that reminds him of his dad. ![]() ![]() But (surprise!) it turns out, they’re all unhappy. Over the intervening days, the kids appear to be enjoying their new lives, carving wood, making mind-music, and manipulating 3D renderings. Picard sets a course back, but who knows what horrors will be visited upon the children while they’re gone? As a demonstration of their power, the Aldeans punt the Enterprise a distance three days away from their planet. “Stop asking difficult questions,” they reply.įlummoxed by the Aldeans’ vastly superior technology, Picard stalls by trying to negotiate a fair price for the children (the tenet of fair compensation is one on which Aldean society is built, rather handily). “What’s behind that strange door?” asks Wesley. “It probably doesn’t matter,” they reply. “Where is the power source?” asks Wesley. Rather than accepting the situation, Wesley starts poking around and asking questions about “The Custodian”, the computer that runs Aldean society. When Riker flat-out refuses, they beam him, Crusher and Troi back, and steal seven children from the Enterprise, including Wesley.Īfter Radue explains to Picard that the kids are staying with them, they’re assigned to different foster families who can help unlock their latent artistic talents (which, for the record, include wood carving, mind-music and manipulation of primitive 3D renderings with a joystick). Riker and Crusher get upset by the suggestion, and Troi rather oddly claims that “Humans are very attached to their offspring” as if a) she’d happily turn over her child to these maniacs and b) The Enterprise doesn’t have other non-human races on it. So they just want a few of the Enterprise’s children to help continue their civilisation. Their leader, Radue, explains that the Aldeans have a problem: infertility. Luckily, they ignore this, but like any shut-ins, they’re a bit upset by bright light, so they go back home taking Riker, Troi and Crusher with them. Everyone pretends this isn’t a bit rude, except Crusher who gets upset and suggests that they’re probably full of lice and parasites and stuff, because they haven’t been through decontamination. Aldea can smell desperation, so they immediately transport onto the bridge. Picard, ever eager to make a date with a new civilisation, invites them on board.
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