"Welcome to the twenty-fourth century."

This was TNG's "Space Seed" episode. I like this episode. One because I like the story and two because it has everyone's favorite enemy...ROMULANS!

Cryogenics. That's something I haven't heard about for a while. It was in the news here or there in the short past, but you haven't really heard anything about it for years. Common sense should have applied when waking up their new friends from centuries gone by. They have never seen aliens. Why would you bring Worf anywhere near them until they adjusted to their new situation?

A classic Dataism: "Homemaker. Must be something to do with construction."

What Riker said in this episode is something I am amazed at as well. "Hard to believe humans survived beyond the 21st century." That is damn true. We can't get along with each other in our own countries let alone other countries, all our time and resources are devoted to sex (especially) and other forms of media crap that is destroying our minds and our dignity as human beings made in God's image, we have no respect for the traditions and spirituality that make up our souls and no respect for the dignity of ALL human life no matter what stage in life.

We, as humans, have become a race of sub-standard idiots who have forgotten what's important and believe the sun sets on our pathetic little heads in this giant cosmos of life and awe for which we know jack squat about although we THINK we know it all. All we care about is money and possessions and that self-centered jerk OFFENHOUSE is an exact representation, as Picard said, of our infancy as a people.

Hell, we today are no better than the Ferengi. We laugh at them in the show because how dumb they are and their obsessions with power, money, and female nudity, but WE ARE THEM! They were patterned out of our current society. Do you want to be pathetic power hungry and sex crazed Ferengi? Or are we better than that? It's sad to think, according to Roddenberry's vision in Trek that a war that almost destroys all of humanity is what turns us around to a race of good and not evil as we have become today.

Crusher looked happy when that southern guy slapped her butt huh? One thing that is good about this episode is that it shows they still have the pattern to make a guitar in their replicator. What ever happened to guitars in 24th century huh? I personally couldn't survive if I didn't have my guitars!

Romulan Warbirds have always been one of my favorite enemy vessels and this is where we see one for the first time. Woohoo!

"We are back" Gul Dukat as a Romulan. Interesting. Picard's life is a lot more complicated considering they run into the Romulans often in TNG.

A very good episode with a very good story and point. Not to mention Romulans and the beginning of setting up the Borg. 5 of 5.

RATING:

out of 5

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