Can't stab you again if the blade is broken.

Q parts are fun
But I've always found this episode cringe worthy. The laughing stabbing. The uncomfortable May December sex. The even more uncomfortable old man trying to teach young kids to be responsible while hanging out with them. The awkwardness after the fight is avoided. It's all just squick, squick, squick.

MSG, its not really figuring out what the stone does, it's more like what was the point of it in the narrative if it didn't seem to do anything that mattered to the story. And also that they had a similar psychic prop just 5 episodes ago.

I really think the way they handle the secret services is very childish. Especially the way they keep say the name over and over again. You could have a successful drinking game based on the many times Troi or someone else says "Talshiar". Could you imagine some replacing it with "KGB" and see how silly things seem…

Highly Logical, because 1) There's no large group of Germans in the US trying to reclaim their proper identity. And there isn't the same wide disparity. We don't call Duetsches Mongolians.

They've been airbrushed to the point
where they are unrecognizable. Those could be any of a number of women pretending to be lesbians in any lad magazine. Except I could probably see those other girls naked. In any case, snoooooore.

I also like the fact that, just like Troi's previous boyfriend in Man of the People, she needed a stone to do some telepathic voodoo with him. Man, were they really hard up for ideas that they repeated a motif like this in the same season? And what, dramatically, was the point of that ceremony scene?

Because Indians are people who come from a country called India. And they usually use that term on their casinos because that's going to attract the kind of people who don't understand the nuances of the term "Native American".

But why would she be attracted to that? I mean, they gave reasons for Troi and Worf too - she spent a lot of time helping him with Alexander. It doesn't mean it's not a dumb reason.

But the Picard/Bev relationship was understandable. It had history. It played on the fact that these people lived before the show started. The Janway/Chekotey thing was just there to be there. Like Worf and Troi. There was no point to it.

It's not that relationships weren't shit before this episode, its that they seemed to have become a priority after this and it shows. Worf and Troi. Worf and Dax. Dax and Bashir. Kira and Vedic Whatever. Odo and Kira. Sisco and Pirate Lady. Janeway and Chekotay. 7 of 9 and Chekotay. Paris and Torrez. Kes and Nelix.…

Here's a gem from Memory-Alpha
"We now portray the twenty-fourth century as being full of single people…It seems to me that's not the comment we should be making - that marriage and serious relationships do survive into the twenty-fourth century." - Jerry Taylor on creating a new love interest for Geordi in "Aquiel".

Face of the Enemy is strangly weak
It's not just you, Zack. I find this episode unlikable for reasons I can't explain well. Maybe its because, like a lot of intense situations TNG doesn't handle well - romance for instance - this episode comes off as a bit juvenile instead of serious. The tal-shiar aspect seems like…

Hmmm, I've written several tirades on women in Trek and this didn't really pop up on my radar. I don't even think she was unreasonable. The idea that something she made herself being alive *should* have been unbelievable to her. On top of that she's dealing with the stress of the project, getting it ready for the…

Too much of a "Measure of a Man" ripoff.
One has to wonder why a scientist has to build something so complex that it could become self aware just to diagnose a problem and create the proper tool. The M5 could do similar stuff, it wasn't alive. The ship's computer isn't exactly dumb. It's not alive (oh no, I mean not…

They could also jut get a new Captain and that would weird them out too. If they love Picard and respect him they would adapt quickly. I know I would.

Man, were did they find all those clips of Riker grunting.

This wasn't a temporal problem. They didn't warp back in time. Bev clearly said it was a genetic problem. Their genes became that of adolescents so Guinan would become the same level of development as the rest of them.

Why is looking young problematic
These kids are as big as full grown Binars. It confuses me why, in a universe full of different looking aliens, it would be problematic for someone the size of a 12 year old to command a ship.

Yeah, I have the same thing. There's a picture of my wife on a highschool id card where she looks like a sexy political demonstrator. She looks like a child (most people under 20 look like children to me now), but I can't help thinking if I was a teenager I'd totally fuck that.