Review of Rascals

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Rascals (1992)
Season 6, Episode 7
7/10
Their younger selves
15 November 2017
This has to be one of the silliest episodes in the entire Star Trek franchise history yet it probably is one of the most engaging.

Patrick Stewart, Rosalind Chao, Michelle Forbes, and Whoopi Goldberg while returning to the Enterprise in a shuttle craft encounter an energy storm and return to the Enterprise as they were when they were just about hitting puberty. Gates McFadden thinks with a little work, some genetic readjustment they can be restored. If that was possible Dr. Crusher would get a Universal Noble Prize and be honored more than the discoverer of Viagra.

When some Ferengi however take over the Enterprise it's these younger selves who save the day. It's all quite amusing.

If this is the secret of eternal youth. I'm not sure why these four want to be adults again. They get a chance to do something every one of us dream about, a lifetime do over.

It's that universal lament that I've said thousands of times, "if I knew then what I know now". These kids really do.
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