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One of the things I find fascinating about watching favorite shows on DVD is discovering things I missed during the first viewing. This weekend I watched one of my favorite Star Trek:The Next Generation episodes, The Inner Light. Picard lives an entire lifetime as Kamin as a result of a telepathic link with a mysterious probe. In this alternate life, he has a wife and family. His real life son, Daniel played the son of this alternate persona Kamin.
This was not the only time Patrick and Daniel acted together. Daniel also had a small role in the movie Death Train as a Soviet officer. They also appeared on stage together in Johnson Over Jordan. Recently Daniel played Phileas Fogg in a stage production of Around the World in 80 Days (New York Times review) and his father dropped in for a visit.
Can you tell me which Star Trek: The Next Generation episode this is from? Answer will be in the next post.
So finally I get to my favorite episode, Attached. Well it's my favorite excluding the last 10 minutes. Picard and Beverly through a mind link, finally face their feeling for each other and do nothing. It's not that I was merely disappointed that they did not let the character's relationship evolve, but rather the way it was handled. Yes, they'd established Beverly had a sarcastic streak that she'd learned to keep to herself so as not to hurt others, but the way she shot down Picard, wasn't even sarcastic, it was cruel. After returning to the ship and having the implants removed, she teased him, basically pushed him into making a move and then shot him down with the ever hated, "Mabye we should be afraid..." Um, good going Doc. You'd think she'd have been able to articulate let's take it slowly, a little better than that.
Interesting notes: The final script was much different from the script submitted by Nick Sagan, (Carl Sagan's son). In the original draft, the reason Beverly wanted to hold off on their relationship was because she likened the implants to an addictive drug. She wanted to give them time for the effects of the implants to wear off.
Also, after Picard's experiences with the Borg, one that left him pretty emotionally and psychologically scarred, you would think he would not have enjoyed being linked at all. Here again is the argument that Crusher and Picard are soul mates if you will. He doesn't mind sharing his most intimate thoughts with HER.
A few Picard/Crusher images ...
From "Remember Me"
From "Allegiance"
All Good Things was the 2 hour series finale of The Next Generation. Unfortunately most of the cast/crew were also preparing for the filming of the Generations movie. As such, I think some compromises had to be made due to time, scheduling and probably budget. Overall it was a good episode. Picard timeshifts between past, present and future timelines. And the writers had a few last tweaks with the Picard/Crusher fans. At one point we meet Beverly Picard in the future, but as it turns out, they're divorced. What after 30 years they're just going to give up? It seemed a little cheap/contrived. Then there was that kiss in the ready room ...
