Angel One
- Episode aired Jan 23, 1988
- TV-PG
- 46m
IMDb RATING
5.7/10
3.9K
YOUR RATING
Riker, Troi, Data and Yar beam down to a planet ruled by a matriarchal government in the hopes of locating a missing freighter crew.Riker, Troi, Data and Yar beam down to a planet ruled by a matriarchal government in the hopes of locating a missing freighter crew.Riker, Troi, Data and Yar beam down to a planet ruled by a matriarchal government in the hopes of locating a missing freighter crew.
Leonard Crofoot
- Trent
- (as Leonard John Crofoot)
James G. Becker
- Youngblood
- (uncredited)
Jeffrey Deacon
- Command Division Officer
- (uncredited)
Susan Duchow
- Operations Division Officer
- (uncredited)
David Eum
- Odin Crewmember
- (uncredited)
Curtis Fairchild
- Odin Crewmember
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis episode marks the first mention of the Romulans in The Next Generation.
- GoofsNear the end, Data tells Riker that the Enterprise would have to leave for the Neutral Zone in 48 minutes, in order to reach it in time at maximum warp (which, for the Enterprise, is ordinarily about warp 9). A little later, that deadline has gone down to 17 minutes. Yet when Picard thereafter retakes command, he orders the ship to proceed to the Neutral Zone at warp 6, in which case they would not reach it in time.
- Quotes
Lieutenant Worf: Engineering reports computer ma... a... ATCHOO! I'm sorry - I'm getting sick.
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge: I'm sure half the ship knows that by now.
- ConnectionsEdited into Star Trek: The Next Generation: Samaritan Snare (1989)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage
Featured review
In the category of Worst Realization of a Promising Premise in a Star Trek episode, we hardly have to leave Season One of TNG. Plenty of terrible episodes abound, but then comes "Angel One" which magnificently is incapable of understanding its own premise. -- or rather, it assumes a premise that is so shallow as to be useless.
But surely it's OK, we tell ourselves; this is science fiction, so aren't the rules different? The short answer is no, and so is the long answer, because -- sci-fi or no -- these stories are supposed to be moral lessons, which they can't be if they don't reflect any real situation.
Yes, there's a decent idea here: having men be subordinate to women rather than vice-versa. The shortcoming is that this grievously misunderstands what patriarchy or matriarchy is, how either functions, or why anyone would choose such structures. Instead it simply presumes have-vs-have-not privilege, cries 'foul' and presumes to know better.
The result is the worst kind of moralizing: having to invent a straw-man situation to support a simplistic argument, whose premise wasn't really understood in the first place. A useful example of how good intentions don't necessarily excuse poor results.
But surely it's OK, we tell ourselves; this is science fiction, so aren't the rules different? The short answer is no, and so is the long answer, because -- sci-fi or no -- these stories are supposed to be moral lessons, which they can't be if they don't reflect any real situation.
Yes, there's a decent idea here: having men be subordinate to women rather than vice-versa. The shortcoming is that this grievously misunderstands what patriarchy or matriarchy is, how either functions, or why anyone would choose such structures. Instead it simply presumes have-vs-have-not privilege, cries 'foul' and presumes to know better.
The result is the worst kind of moralizing: having to invent a straw-man situation to support a simplistic argument, whose premise wasn't really understood in the first place. A useful example of how good intentions don't necessarily excuse poor results.
- skinnybert
- May 27, 2023
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Details
- Runtime46 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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