Eye of the Beholder

When the show begins, one of the crewmembers walks into a reactor and deliberately vaporizes himself despite Commander Riker trying to stop him. Counselor Troi tries to piece together why all this happened and soon finds herself pulled into the same things that caused this other empathic crewman to kill himself. So is she next?

The only element of this episode I particularly enjoyed was the new relationship between Troi and Worf. However, like Worf's glimpse into the possibility of such a relationship in an earlier episode (one with MANY different realities), this one turns out to be unreal. Will the pair later become a pair?

Otherwise, I disliked the show because the ending seemed to come out of no where with lots of bizarre elements which make the viewer say 'what?!'. Like the Voltaire song, the "USS Make S&#@ up", the answer seemed contrived and explained with a long bit of exposition.

A young ensign walks into a plasma stream and soon after it seems the ship itself is sending messages. The most obvious recipient is the ship's best telepath Counselor Troi and they get wierder and wierder for her.

It all has to do with when the Enterprise was being first constructed and a long suppressed incident from that period. Some truths that were buried were revealed though poor Marina Sirtis really goes through it. Being a telepath can have its drawbacks.

In the meantime Troi and Worf begin a romantic relationship and Michael Dorn helps Sirtis over the rough spots in this telepathic crisis.

Plot was a bit confusing here though.

Counsellor Troi experiences visions associated with the death of another crew member.

This is a mostly good episode with a fair story and decent performances, but some aspects feel slightly ropey and a bit pointless.

Although it's not told in a very compelling way to me personally, the mystery is good and has an interesting sci-fi concept. When the reveal comes it is mostly by technobabble but feels like a well thought-out idea.

The downsides are the dramatic hysteria, which Marina Sirtis and the other cast do very well, considering how laughably over the top certain scenes are written. Plus the romance, which feels pointless when you know the eventual outcome for the characters. Michael Dorn is also good.

I like the art direction and set design. The numerous scenes set in engineering are very well done.

In " Eye of the beholder" we are in Deanna hallucination for more than 50% of the episode, but we have no Idea, the plot in fashinating , work Deanna alchimy is great, some good scene with Worf and riker and finally a great plot twist.

Everything you can ask for a Star trek and a TV épisode 8.5/10.

I found myself looking at my phone during this slow, uninteresting "mystery". Only one Troi centered episode works for me. This isn't it.