** Spoilers, Spoilers! You've been warned! **
As the title states, this is one of my favorite TNG episodes, after a fast-paced two part episode with the Borg, clearly everyone needed a break, including our fearless leader, Jean-Luc! He didn't even put up a fight this time! I like these episodes with down-time and love it or hate it, this episode contains a lot of Jean-Luc's backstory.
I saw a comment; "what's with the French with British accents?". I know there's a lot of Trekkies who do not like the new Star Trek: Picard, but it is explained why they have British accents so give it a watch. (However, no mention of Robert in STP.. wth)
The best scene hands-down is seeing the very proper and uptight Picard rolling around in the mud, followed by a drunked French duet with his brother, then trying to explain to Robert's wife exactly how the living room ended up so dirty! "I fell down and then he fell down and then we both fell down..." after we took out a row of grapes lol. It's nice to see these sides of Picard that we don't offend get to see.
I know this comment is going to catch a lot of flak but I've never liked Worf, most of the time anyways. I've always felt he should just embrace being unique, a Klingon raised by humans, rather than embarrassed by it, he goes to great lengths to be an ordinary Klingon, yet not so much that he'd leave Starfleet. With that said, I liked this Worf-story! His parents are great and the story about his trip to the principal's office was hilarious! "Tell me he's an only child!" Nope! He is not! Guinan talking to his parents about his new found love of prune juice which will carry over to his DS9 days!
And Wesley had an important moment, meeting his dad face-to-face, sort of, for the first time that he'll really remember. I know everyone hates Wesley Crusher, I myself like him, but am very confused by this and later episodes. His father makes a comment about Wesley following in his footsteps and in that moment, Wesley glances down, looking at his own Starfleet uniform and he seems proud! And yet he later rebels, saying he was tired of living up to everyone's expectations of him, I don't understand the sudden change of heart.
The one thing I found annoying was Troi butting her nose into everyone's business. I get that she is the counselor but my gosh lady, everything she had to say was negative! Is that such a good idea going home? Maybe we should open old wounds for Wesley! She's always been one of my least favorite characters as well.
All in all though, great episode!
As the title states, this is one of my favorite TNG episodes, after a fast-paced two part episode with the Borg, clearly everyone needed a break, including our fearless leader, Jean-Luc! He didn't even put up a fight this time! I like these episodes with down-time and love it or hate it, this episode contains a lot of Jean-Luc's backstory.
I saw a comment; "what's with the French with British accents?". I know there's a lot of Trekkies who do not like the new Star Trek: Picard, but it is explained why they have British accents so give it a watch. (However, no mention of Robert in STP.. wth)
The best scene hands-down is seeing the very proper and uptight Picard rolling around in the mud, followed by a drunked French duet with his brother, then trying to explain to Robert's wife exactly how the living room ended up so dirty! "I fell down and then he fell down and then we both fell down..." after we took out a row of grapes lol. It's nice to see these sides of Picard that we don't offend get to see.
I know this comment is going to catch a lot of flak but I've never liked Worf, most of the time anyways. I've always felt he should just embrace being unique, a Klingon raised by humans, rather than embarrassed by it, he goes to great lengths to be an ordinary Klingon, yet not so much that he'd leave Starfleet. With that said, I liked this Worf-story! His parents are great and the story about his trip to the principal's office was hilarious! "Tell me he's an only child!" Nope! He is not! Guinan talking to his parents about his new found love of prune juice which will carry over to his DS9 days!
And Wesley had an important moment, meeting his dad face-to-face, sort of, for the first time that he'll really remember. I know everyone hates Wesley Crusher, I myself like him, but am very confused by this and later episodes. His father makes a comment about Wesley following in his footsteps and in that moment, Wesley glances down, looking at his own Starfleet uniform and he seems proud! And yet he later rebels, saying he was tired of living up to everyone's expectations of him, I don't understand the sudden change of heart.
The one thing I found annoying was Troi butting her nose into everyone's business. I get that she is the counselor but my gosh lady, everything she had to say was negative! Is that such a good idea going home? Maybe we should open old wounds for Wesley! She's always been one of my least favorite characters as well.
All in all though, great episode!