Galaxy's Child

Can a navy guy tell us what would happen if a ship's captain risked his / her ship and crew to save an animal, as in this episode. There are two main plots going on, the running 'Leah Brahms' plot with La Forge and the Enterprise playing midwife. A bizarre and disjointed episode on par with some of the poorer season 3 original series episodes.

After meeting the real-life Leah Brahms, La Forge is challenged by her actual personality which is in stark contrast to his holodeck fantasy version of her. Meanwhile, the Enterprise is put at risk by a previously undiscovered space-dwelling creature that puts a serious strain on the ship's energy levels.

This is not one of season four's strongest efforts as it's badly written and needlessly revisits the cringe-worthy relationship between La Forge and Brahms, played by a still-unconvincing Gibney. The show is also hindered with some poor CG in places and the subplot involving the new alien creature never feels believable. Surely Picard would be devastated by his actions, only for such consequences to be retconned immediately after the commercials. Not good and very skippable for binge watchers.

In this episode Lt commander Laforge is very happy to finally met his dream girl, he told guinan " im sure we're gonna be good friends" he is sincère there, no reasons not to be talking to guinan.

So he offer his frienship to leah by beeing nice and friendly right from her arrival. But to his surprise she was very cold and even mean for no real reasons, she was like this right from the start even before meeting Geordie ( she latter admit she had a Bad opinion of Laforge before meeting him) , its totally innapropriate to be cold with someone for no reasons.

Of course Geordie secretly wanted more than a frienship but never make that clear to her, he was friendly maybe a bit to much for her not seeinf his intentions . He totally respect her décision not to stay for dinner and right from the moment she told him about her beeing married. He immediately treat her only as a proffesional. She was upset for the holodeck but once again the holodeck is a fantasy world, Geordie Can Do whatever he want to do without having to justified.

In the end, Leah finally apologies for her innapropriate behavior and they are good friends just like Geordie wanted.

Here's a curious case of bringing back an obscure holodeck plot device (Dr. Leah Brahms, whose real self is even more attractive at maximum aloofness). All of the stuff about Geordi fantasizing about a hologram doesn't tend to make our Chief Engineer look well-adjusted (or his love life, but it all turns out alright in the end).

The better material lies in the other plot line, with the Enterprise being attacked by an expectant space organism . . . and then performing a phaser C-section after the being's been killed. This really hit upon the space exploration angle of Star Trek, and I thought was pretty well done.

7/10

Honestly, I was more upset about Picard casually killing a poor, pregnant space creature than the La Forge/Brahams debacle. I felt so far for that poor baby space creature. When it attached itself to the Enterprise I almost cried, just thinking about the poor little orphan searching for its Mom. The story with Geordie was just stupid. Geordie isn't stupid, yet he acted like what happened in the holodeck actually happened. I'm sorry, but no one of his intelligence level would realistically act so inappropriately. Everything we have ever seen of his character suggests that he would never behave that way; everything he did was out of character. It's just...sorry to repeat myself incessantly...stupid. I can't believe also that he wouldn't have known she was married. Guinan, as usual, offers great advice; I really wish they would just make Guinan Counsellor and get rid of the wooden, egotistical, useless Troi.