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.

This is reasonably good episode that serves as a decent sequel to the previous episode 'Booby Trap'.

I like that the writers followed up a previous episode that fixated a lot on someone's fantasy and this time presented us with the reality. Although entertaining, the story does not exactly present Geordie in a very good light. The subplot is okay but feels stretched out to make up time.

What the writers were trying to achieve with the Geordie and Leah Brahms scenes I am not sure, but if they wanted the viewer to empathise with Geordie due to Brahms 'coldness' it misses the mark with me. If they were trying to show that Geordie is one of those nerdy men who at best ends up being best friends with all the girls, but never romantically involved, they succeed. Even to a single person, I fail to see anything remotely appealing in his character in this episode. She on the other hand does not come across as cold or hard nosed, just a professional who is a bit freaked out by his overfamiliar and generally weird behaviour. That being said, it entertains with general awkwardness and a positive outcome for the two characters.

The visuals were very good back in the early 90s but today the space creatures look very animated.

LeVar Burton and Susan Gibney play their parts excellently and are supported well by the rest of the cast, especially Patrick Stewart and Caryn Johnson.

For me it is a 6.5/10 but I round upwards.

Maybe it's just me or maybe times have changed, but this episode highlighting Geordi LaForge is one CREEPY show! Back a season ago, Geordi created a holo version of the engines' designer, Leah Brahms. Oddly, he became infatuated with her and so when he learns that the REAL Dr. Brahms is coming to see him and the ship, he is excited. When she arrives, Geordi cannot contain his excitement--and he continually makes overtures towards her. Perhaps 'overtures' isn't quite right--more like sexual harassment by his creepy tone and sense of entitlement. I could EASILY see a woman macing a guy who acts like this or getting him fired or reprimanded--and you'd think this sort of boorish behavior would not be tolerated in the 24th century!

As for the rest of the show, it's a pretty dull affair involving some flying space slug...or something. All in all, a very poor and incredibly creepy episode--one that has only gotten creepier since its debut.

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