In "Where No One Has Gone Before", a Star Fleet engineer and his assistant come aboard the Enterprise to do a few tests and adjustments to the ship's warp engine. The engineer is a bit of a jerk and does whatever he wants. A miscalculation by him causes the Enterprise to shoot off into space to a time and place never before explored. Now he must figure out how to get everyone back. Only Wes realizes that it's actually the assistant doing all the real work. This assistant is a traveler from a far off race that has never interacted with Federation races before. He has capabilities beyond that of Star Fleet and understands time, space, and the power of thoughts at an ability far beyond anything we can comprehend.
This new space the Enterprise is in is pretty wild. Everyone's underlying thoughts can become reality, for better or for worse. Picard knows they need to get back home while they still have some graspe of reality. He asks all personnel to send thoughts the Traveler's way to help everyone get back. The Traveler is dying and in his last act in our time and space, brings the Enterprise back to where they were before. Picard names Wes an honorary ensign for all the help he gave in supporting the Traveler. This comes after the Traveler's parting message to Picard was to cultivate Wes's mind since he is a once in a generation genius. The Enterprise heads out for their next adventure with Wes on the bridge.
Wes is the absolute worst part of this show thus far. Unfortunately for us, this is a very Wes heavy episode. Him and his dumb sweaters have their fingerprints all over it. That being said, I still enjoy this episode to some extent. We get some weird psychedelic visuals on the bridge. Plus I love everyone's surrealist thoughts that become reality. My favorite is the guy eating lunch when suddenly he's in an orchestra. I like Picard's scene with his mom. I found it pretty touching.
I'm not 100% sure I fully comprehend what this plot is supposed to entail with the correlation between time, space, and your inner thoughts but it has that sci-fi quality that I find really endearing. I don't have much to explain why I like this episode but I do.
This new space the Enterprise is in is pretty wild. Everyone's underlying thoughts can become reality, for better or for worse. Picard knows they need to get back home while they still have some graspe of reality. He asks all personnel to send thoughts the Traveler's way to help everyone get back. The Traveler is dying and in his last act in our time and space, brings the Enterprise back to where they were before. Picard names Wes an honorary ensign for all the help he gave in supporting the Traveler. This comes after the Traveler's parting message to Picard was to cultivate Wes's mind since he is a once in a generation genius. The Enterprise heads out for their next adventure with Wes on the bridge.
Wes is the absolute worst part of this show thus far. Unfortunately for us, this is a very Wes heavy episode. Him and his dumb sweaters have their fingerprints all over it. That being said, I still enjoy this episode to some extent. We get some weird psychedelic visuals on the bridge. Plus I love everyone's surrealist thoughts that become reality. My favorite is the guy eating lunch when suddenly he's in an orchestra. I like Picard's scene with his mom. I found it pretty touching.
I'm not 100% sure I fully comprehend what this plot is supposed to entail with the correlation between time, space, and your inner thoughts but it has that sci-fi quality that I find really endearing. I don't have much to explain why I like this episode but I do.