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As the heading says, a nice intermission from the typical next generation story line. Overall fun and enjoyable with Worf really doing a great job with some comedic lines.

At the end of the episode, in Picard's Ready Room, the copy of Shakespeare on display is Volume I of A. L. Rowse's "The Annotated Shakespeare". It is turned to pages 354 and 355. On page 354 there is a picture of Patrick Stewart playing Touchstone in a production of "As You Like It" in 1968.

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On the eve of delivering a speech to a Federation archaeology conference on board the Enterprise, Picard is dismayed to find Q once again complicating things - especially as an old flame of Picard comes back into his life.

Nothing but pure silliness in this episode as the TNG crew are thrown into a holodeck-style adventure with Q quipping from the sidelines. It's good to see Hetrick back in an interesting role but this episode will probably be mostly remembered for Dorn's excellent comedic performance as a very unhappy Worf, turning it into a meme for the ages. But apart from that, this is a fairly inconsequential episode that doesn't have much in the way of impact.

What isn't fun about this episode? So much fun as though given a recess between episodes. I respect any show that takes the opportunity to be whimsical. Lighten up people. Jean Luc cannot help but smile as Robin Hood

When you examine this particular TNG episode you realize at times how silly some of the stories can be. But a chance to see John DeLancie as Q and Jennifer Hetrick as Vash is never to be passed up.

No doubt about it Vash and Q are two of the most capricious beings that Captain Picard knows in the Universe. As Vash makes it a no bones fact that she's out for herself first and foremost she and Patrick Stewart can never really get together.

But Q decides to test that relationship by putting them into a Robin Hood fantasy from old earth legends along with the rest of the Enterprise regulars with Vash as Maid Marian. As she's not from the earth Hetrick is slow on the uptake. And chivalry really isn't something she values.

Nevertheless this is Q's attempt to test Picard's romantic inclinations and it doesn't quite go as expected.

Clive Revill is Sir Guy of Gisborne in this amusing story.