Remember Me

Here we have the proof that the Force exists in Star Trek. All the mumbo-jumbo spouted by the traveler could have been said by Yoda or Obi-Wan. Once again we see that Wesley is the Chosen One.

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.

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.

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.

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,