Disaster

Very enjoyable episode, all main characters have a role to play. While there are several disaster movie cliches, overall they contribute nicely. Worf delivering a baby is one of the funniest things in the whole series. There are a few plot holes which have to be ignored to enjoy this episode fully (why is absoloutly no one in engineering, why is an unqualified idiot like Troi able to be in command?).

In this episode the Enterprise hit some big quantum disturbance and the ship is badly damaged. Power and communications are knocked out and no one knows if there is life support on other levels of the ship. Now the crew, which are marooned on different parts of the ship, have problems they must face in order to save the ship and keep alive.

Counselor Trio is the the highest ranking officer on the bridge and will have to face a dilemma about sacrificing others to save a few. Captain Picard is along in an elevator with three needy kids. Doctor Crusher and Geordi are in a section that is leaking radiation. Riker and Data will try to gain control of the ship by interfacing Data's electronics to the ship's computer. And Worf is in hot water when Keiko goes into labor in a different part of the powerless ship.

There are many things going on in this episode. In fact perhaps too much - as some interesting situations had to be squeezed in order to return to another part of the story. Some situations were entertaining, like having Trio making hard decisions which was against given advise. Some were less interesting as in the Crusher and Geordi problem. But overall this episode held the viewers attention as we were right in the middle of each person's conundrum. Good watch.

But somehow the episode is not that awesome, because of not great directing, its a shame because the story got every single thing a Star trek episode could Dream of, but some scene feels flat Data head, Laforge and Beverly risking death or Worf giving birth, I dont understand why because this is actually 3 crazy awesome plot , but somehow the directing show them like its not a big deal... Im sure in another episode it would have been absolutely Amazing to see Data with his head off. But here its like nothing special happen A waste of an awesome plot. Still a 8/10 but could have been 10.

OK, now how did those three young children get Pickard out of the turbo lift?

Decent episode.

But I have a question. In cargo bay they don't have small bottles with breathing air for emergency situations ? (to use them in this episode Dr.. Crusher and Geordi )