Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 6, Episode 5

Schisms (17 Oct. 1992)

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Commander Riker's inability to fall asleep begins to show in other members of the crew in other forms, putting the Enterprise on the trail of a mystery.

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Commander Riker has not been sleeping well but Dr. Crusher can't find anything wrong with him. He is constantly exhausted and has images of object in his mind that he can't quite place. He is not the only one with a sense of deja vu and with others, manages to piece together what has been happening. It would seem they are being taken from the ship during their sleeping hours by a race conducting experiments on them. Who they are and what they hope to achieve is unknown but everyone agrees it must be related to the inter-dimensional hole in space that is somehow being created in one of the cargo bays. Written by garykmcd

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Beverly diagnoses Riker as edgy because of lack of REM sleep, which afflicted the entire crew in Star Trek: The Next Generation: Night Terrors. See more »

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There was a containment field surrounding the rupture on cargo bay 4. However, when Riker takes Rager through it just before it's closing, they fall away to some distance of it, as if there isn't any field in place. See more »

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Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Have we any idea what came through the rupture before we were able to shut it down?
Lt. Cmdr. Data: No, sir. We were unable to track it once it left the cargo bay.
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge: Maybe it was a probe of some kind.
Lt. Cmdr. Data: Possibly they were simply curious, explorers, like ourselves.
Commander William T. Riker: Ensign Rager and I were lucky to have escaped. Lieutenant Hagler is dead. Whoever it was that sent that thing was more than simply curious.
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has to hold the record...
14 June 2006 | by (next to waldo) – See all my reviews

...for the most techno-jargon of any episode. The last 15 minutes is one long stream of pulses and containment fields etc. It is mildly entertaining, though an ode to its underlying collectivist premises, but man, they sure bust out the babble toward the end. When they are all around the conference table discussing how to address the MacGuffin of the episode it is almost nonsensical. If someone didn't have some level of buy in to the show, and this was the first episode they saw, I doubt they would have come back for more.

I almost sensed a parody was taking place, and perhaps it was. Of course many episodes have jargon in them, but this one took the cake. You knew they are hatching some sort plot, but it didn't make much sense. The only part about putting a homing device on Riker made much sense at all.


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