{"id":6279,"date":"2015-11-12T06:19:23","date_gmt":"2015-11-12T06:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/417-Night-Terrors"},"modified":"2015-11-12T06:19:23","modified_gmt":"2015-11-12T06:19:23","slug":"417-night-terrors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/2015\/11\/12\/417-night-terrors\/","title":{"rendered":"4.17 &#8212; \u201cNight Terrors\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>4.17 &#8212; \u201cNight Terrors\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> The <em>Enterprise<\/em> finds a missing ship with all but one of its complement of 35 crew dead. The crew appears to have become psychotic and killed each other. Alarmingly, the <em>Enterprise<\/em> is becalmed when its engines fail, and its crew starts to experience their own symptoms, caused by an inability to dream or enter REM sleep. Only Data and Troi are differently affected.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thoughts:<\/strong> This should be a creepy episode, and it kind of is for a while (the morgue is creepy), but mostly it\u2019s a dreary trudge. In retrospect, a storyline that requires everyone on board the ship to act dopey and lethargic does not make for great dramatic television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are echoes of other, better episodes that involve some form of mass psychosis: \u201cThe Naked Time,\u201d \u201cThe Tholian Web,\u201d \u201cWhere No One Has Gone Before,\u201d and even the recent \u201cRemember Me.\u201d Speaking of psychosis, remember \u201cAll Our Yesterdays,\u201d when Spock traveled back in time and found himself slowly reverting back to a more primitive emotional state?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m just filling time here, because there isn\u2019t much to say about \u201cNight Terrors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The basic idea isn\u2019t terrible, but it needs something more. Remember how TOS was obsessed with the subject of fitness for command? They should have made this Data&#8217;s episode, as he slowly realizes the other officers are becoming unfit, and it will be up to him to relieve them and save the ship. Is Guinan also not affected? Unclear. Data and Guinan could have joined forces. Instead, Data passively waits for Picard to relieve himself (that sounds wrong), and for Crusher and Troi to work out a solution through their brain fog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brain fog: not dramatic.\u00a0Telling dialogue: \u201cWe\u2019re adrift!\u201d Yes, a bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Interestingly, one of the background Ensigns is played by Brian Tochi, who played one of the possessed children in TOS 3.4, \u201cAnd the Children Shall Lead.\u201d He also played the voice of Leonardo the Ninja Turtle. <a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Brian_Tochi\">http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Brian_Tochi<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I should download a screen grab of Troi\u2019s dream sequence and turn it into the new picture for this community. That says &#8220;Relive the Majesty,&#8221; right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m feeling generous. 2 out 5 shipboard emergency shelter areas.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Night_Terrors\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Night_Terrors<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        4.17 &#8212; \u201cNight Terrors\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-6279","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\/6279","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=6279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}