This episode is a bit of an appetizer to wonderful episodes that will come a long in future seasons. Space, time, thought are not the different things they seem to be. The traveler is essentially a hippie from the 1960's who is hitch hiking it's way across the universe making new discoveries. It ties up the hippy theme by having the enterprise crew use the power of love to help the Traveler return the crew to it's proper location.
Highlights of this episode:
A good sci fi trek episode.
Highlights of this episode:
- Kosinski is great as a diva/rockstar engineer. You could call him the middle management of this episode ---- taking undo credit and possessing an unearned ego.
- Riker is miffed about Kosinski being a jerk and he completely ignores Wesley's attempt to warn him about the traveler's condition. I relate this scene to moments in my life when my judgement is clouded by an agitated state. I am probably reading too much into it ---- I doubt there was a message implied in this scene.
- The visual effects look pretty good for 1987 and a definite improvement over the mess of 'The Last Outpost'.
- Wesley is apparently a gift genius according to the traveler. Picard takes this to heart and makes him an active ensign ----- we are on our way in the surrogate father arc.
- Beverly Crushers hair is vivid and vibrant in this episode.
A good sci fi trek episode.