Season 4 contains the 80th episode of The Next Generation, at which point it surpassed the output of the Original Series. A number of extended themes played out during this season delving into both the political backdrop and the personal lives of the crew. These continuing storylines proved extremely popular, however they did not detract from the use of Science Fiction to tell interesting stories. Senior Trekker continues to score every episode with a 5.
Oh dear. It's very difficult to call this episode to mind without focusing on Marina Sirtis's badly-concealed flying harness and the dreadful special effects of her dream world. The only thing to say about these is that they do throw into sharp relief the high quality of many of the other episodes of the time. In so many ways, the production values of The Next Generation were way ahead of their time but occasionally a clunker like this creeps in.
The rest of the script wasn't actually too bad as the remaining cast battle the extreme fatigue and clouded judgement that is associated with lack of REM sleep. Gates McFadden gave a particularly convincing performance and Colm Meaney's turn as a jealous husband was chilling. The story's resolution is a "blink and you'll miss it" anti-climax and probably not worth a re-wind.
Not given much to do in this episode except lay catatonic in sickbay as the unfortunate Betazoid, Ardrus, John Vickery is well known to Science Fiction fans from appearances in both Deep Space Nine and Star Trek Enterprise, not to mention an unforgettable turn in Babylon 5.
Oh dear. It's very difficult to call this episode to mind without focusing on Marina Sirtis's badly-concealed flying harness and the dreadful special effects of her dream world. The only thing to say about these is that they do throw into sharp relief the high quality of many of the other episodes of the time. In so many ways, the production values of The Next Generation were way ahead of their time but occasionally a clunker like this creeps in.
The rest of the script wasn't actually too bad as the remaining cast battle the extreme fatigue and clouded judgement that is associated with lack of REM sleep. Gates McFadden gave a particularly convincing performance and Colm Meaney's turn as a jealous husband was chilling. The story's resolution is a "blink and you'll miss it" anti-climax and probably not worth a re-wind.
Not given much to do in this episode except lay catatonic in sickbay as the unfortunate Betazoid, Ardrus, John Vickery is well known to Science Fiction fans from appearances in both Deep Space Nine and Star Trek Enterprise, not to mention an unforgettable turn in Babylon 5.