Remember Me

After greeting her old friend Dr Dalen Quaice who is travelling on board the Enterprise, Dr Crusher begins discovering that a small number of the crew have apparently disappeared including Dr Quaice. Even more alarming is that nobody has any recollection of the missing crew at all, forcing Beverly into an existential crisis.

Easily the best episode focused on Dr Crusher to date, this is a welcome return to form for the show after the debacle of the previous episode. There's a growing sense of dread throughout the episode as the mystery gradually reveals itself before an underwhelming climax involving Wesley (because, of course!) and the Traveller, a character most viewers might not even remember. It's a good episode and one of the more memorable ones but it doesn't quite stick the landing.

This episode was actually a nice story but lost some interest in finally production. One of the crew, just so happen to be Doctor Crusher, thinks that she is losing her mind when people that she knows keeps vanishing from the ship. The rub is that Doctor Crusher is the only one that notices anything is wrong. The rest of the crew acts normally and believes that the Doctor is delirious. The situation with Doctor Crusher gets so bad that near the end, the entire Enterprise consist of the good doctor and Captain Picard. It seems to be that an experiment that Wesley was working-on could be behind the missing crew members.

With an intelligent story line, this episode should have been an exciting trip though a confused mind but the script left us even more baffled than Doctor Crusher. When reviewing what made the show less interesting, it seems to fall right in the lap of Gates McFadden. For a person that is experiencing the disappearance of everything she knows, she put little emotion into her problem other than talking to herself. And it was strange when Doctor Crusher goes the entire episode and figures out the solution to her problem all by herself while the rest of the cast needs someone called a 'Traveler'.

This was not a poor episode but such a nice story it should have been better. With a little more imagination in the script and a different ending, this could have been one of the better episodes in the collection. Alas, we are left with a show that makes for an average watch.

Shortly after welcoming her mentor on board, Dr. Crusher notices that he's disappeared and no one else remembers him being on the ship. Soon, Dr. Crusher witnesses more people disappearing and no one can remember them, and a strange vortex is trying to suck her to who-knows-where, possibly to where all the other forgotten people have gone.

The first time I saw this, I was enthralled the whole time. Fortunately, that was before individual episodes were listed on IMDb and before I got a Netflix subscription. In both instances, the mystery of the first two-thirds of the episode is ruined by the description. Though, for those of us who got to see it without knowing what's actually happening, it has a very special place.

It's one of those Twilight Zoney type episodes that is best first viewing, but I think it holds up well in multiple viewings.

McFadden does a great job. I think a few bits of the script were excessive, particularly Beverly's outburst to Picard on the bridge, but she played it very well.

Also, excellent callback to the first season episode.

I liked this episode quite a bit. Gates McFadden gives a tour de force, as Crusher gets sucked into a warp bubble, and creates a new reality based on her own thoughts.

Watch Dr. Crusher descend into madness, as her world narrows, and gets weirder and weirder. McFadden truly does a great job with the material that she is given, and shows she's capable of leading an episode on her own.

However, the episode was way too forced for my comfort. We later find the real culprit of this new reality, but to be honest, the payoff was very disappointing in my opinion. Still, this is a very decent episode. My only wish was that the stakes were much higher,