Remember Me

One of the extremely few good episodes I saw from this show. Very plot driven interweaving character story with a plot worthy of old school classic Star Trek.

The episode starts off with a mystery vibe. A missing person that has simply vanished with no trace of them whatsoever. The story escalates from there as it evolves into something more than just a missing person's report.

The only unfortunate aspect is that the series here uses the phenomena to give the ship's doctor a kind of alleged mental disorder. That is the episode appears to examine what's happening with someone whose experiences are different from everyone else's. So, even though there's a very strong plot here the episode falls into the character-examination trope.

The action is again kept to a minimum, but the story energy is very high, and it kept this old school fan riveted to the screen.

As Siskel and Ebert might say; two thumbs up.

He is not a mere wunderkind anymore, no. He is, in fact, the next step of human evolution.

In the mean time, Star Trek is slowly turning into an experiment of how little effort from one single character can ruin an entire franchise. And with every bit of this obnoxious nonsense they are getting closer and closer to their goal.

Was there no one around to slap Roddenberry in the face!? With the truth, of course...

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.

For a bit I thought we were going to see a TNGversion of The Lady Vanishes/ But this story involving one of Wesley Crusher's experiments is a good deal more complex than that.

Gates McFadden greets an old friend and medical Bill IIrwin. The next day he plain vanishes and then others vanish until there's only Dr. Crusher left.

Not saying what s happening but an old friend of Wil Wheaton has to klend a helping hand to get the Enterprise to ts proper reality.

Gates McFadden owns his 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,