Bloodlines

Daimon Bok (from the first season episode 'The Battle') hails Captain Picard.

This is a fairly silly episode, but it is rescued by Patrick Stewart's performance.

'The Battle' for me was a reasonably good episode, but Bok was a forgettable villain that I had no interest in seeing again. The character is reintroduced with a Kahn-like obsession for revenge on Picard. Lots of threats are made, but it's obvious that everything is going to work out fine.

The scenes involving the character Jason are good for one reason: Patrick Stewart. He makes the random concept of a late season 7 appearance of Picard's son to be watchable, due to his realistic performance and eloquent delivery of dialogue.

The sci-fi elements of the story are not great by Star Trek standards, but I can't go into detail with spoiling important parts of the plot.

This is another effort to come up with something worthy to finish off the final season. In this one, Picard, who was forced to blow up a Ferengi vessel in an earlier episode, is confronted by the Ferengi whose son was on board that ship. He has sworn revenge and tells Picard that he has a son, unknown to him, and the D'Aimon is going to execute him. Picard finds the "son" and brings him aboard the Enterprise to protect him. Apparently, the Captain had had some dalliance in the past and this young rebellious guy was the result. Unfortunately, the Ferengi leader seems to have access to the ship and is set upon making PIcard pay. The episode involves Picard getting to know this young man and do what is right. Once again, there is a kind of pall over the episode and it just doesn't work that well.

It doesn't matter how silly the script is or how elegant the words are on paper, Patrick Stewart is an amazing actor. I enjoyed his performance in this very much.

In the first season of "Star Trek: The Next Generation", DaiMon Bok tried to drive Picard crazy and kill him. Well, the fun-loving DaiMon Bok is back--and this time he pledges to kill Picard's son...though as far as Picard knows he doesn't have one! So, the Captain thinks back and realizes that one woman might have given him a son many, many years ago. What follows is a strange little episode, as Picard tries to make up for lost time with a rather irresponsible and strange young man. And, of course, he tries to stop Bok before he can do very bad things.

All in all, this is a decent but forgettable episode. It's mildly interesting to see the Captain think about what his life could have been like and the ending didn't seem all that surprising. Worth seeing but nothing more.

There are more ep's in season 7 that had really out there plots such they I greatly disliked them. This one isn't one of those, but it's not one that I really like either.

Olandt did an ok job, but I was truly creeped out by his making the moves on Troi. In real life their ages are pretty close, but their characters ages are far greater and it just seemed creepy to me.

Again in real life, the Stewart and Olandt age difference makes it possible for a father-son relationship, but for their characters I think by putting together dates and ages over the series makes it a tad unlikely and obviously birth control was used in the future.

It brings back a past adversary and that storyline of itself is ok. So watch it, but you may not like it.