{"id":6232,"date":"2015-10-05T05:17:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T05:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/48-Future-Imperfect"},"modified":"2015-10-05T05:17:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T05:17:32","slug":"48-future-imperfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/05\/48-future-imperfect\/","title":{"rendered":"4.8 &#8212; \u201cFuture Imperfect\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4.8 &#8212; \u201cFuture Imperfect\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Plot:<\/strong> An away team lead by William Riker is overcome by methane gas. Riker awakes to discover that it is 16 years later, he is in Sickbay, and has lost his memory of the years since this accident because of the resurgence of a dormant virus. He is now a Captain, Picard is an Admiral, and there\u2019s a surprise waiting in his quarters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thoughts:<\/strong> Things change in the future, but at least for the sake of our sanity they didn\u2019t shave Riker\u2019s beard. Instead, Picard grows one. And Deanna is in uniform! It\u2019s about time! (It won\u2019t last.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Geordi having eyes is freaky. I don\u2019t much care for Data in red. I do like the new design of Picard\u2019s admiral uniform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TNG is back in form. I find this episode to be entirely engrossing, even though it&#8217;s evident from the beginning that Riker is the victim of a Romulan trick (but wait\u2026!). The position Riker is placed in makes him vulnerable but not weak, which is a good posture for the character. I don\u2019t even mind the return of the trombone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The interior of the Romulan base is groovy, and I believe deliberately recalls the purple and green designs of TOS 3.2 &#8212; \u201cThe Enterprise Incident.\u201d The name Decius comes from one of the Romulan Legionnaire characters in \u201cBalance of Terror,\u201d right? (Yes.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As prophecy, \u201cFuture Imperfect\u201d is strangely comforting. The whole <em>Enterprise<\/em> family will be intact in 16 years, at least while Picard and Troi are visiting. Riker will name his boy Jean Luc, and he will wear a mock turtleneck. I&#8217;m reminded that Star Trek plays to its strengths when it brings characters together. It&#8217;s a shocking guilty pleasure when Riker yells at fake Picard to shut up. It\u2019s such a breach of the decorum we have been trained to expect, which is such a strong groove of the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The ending with the alien is sweet. Everyone gets a boy child in TNG! Crusher, Worf (twice), now Riker\u2026 even Troi that one time. And Picard, temporarily, in \u201cSuddenly Human.\u201d Only Data breaks the mold by having a girl. Do the men on the writing staff all have daddy issues? Is it too hard to write for girl characters?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4.5 out of 5 holographic reenactments of false dead mothers.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Future_Imperfect_(episode)\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/en.memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Future_Imperfect_(episode)<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        4.8 &#8212; \u201cFuture Imperfect\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-6232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek-relive-the-majesty-tng-episode-threads","tag-kevin-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}