{"id":6544,"date":"2016-10-10T06:26:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T06:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/622-Suspicions"},"modified":"2016-10-10T06:26:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T06:26:10","slug":"622-suspicions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/10\/622-suspicions\/","title":{"rendered":"6.22 &#8212; \u201cSuspicions\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>6.22 &#8212; \u201cSuspicions\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> Beverly Crusher is relieved of duty and prepares to leave the <em>Enterprise<\/em> and her career behind after a series of experiments go wrong, costing the life of two scientists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thoughts:<\/strong> I am reminded of the XKCD cartoon: &#8220;SCIENCE! It works, bitches.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/xkcd.com\/54\/\">https:\/\/xkcd.com\/54\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But not like this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">sunny jim points out that there is no reason to send a manned probe on a highly dangerous mission into the sun when all the data can easily be collected remotely by drone. Nor is there reason to precipitously abandon a promising line of research because of a few unexpected results, or because someone died. This is not a thing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, the premise is complete bollocks. As a murder mystery, it&#8217;s also not particularly good. The Takaran was tipped as the villain from the beginning. The explanation for motive that this respected scientist, present on Beverly&#8217;s invitation, just wants to steal the technology and turn it into a weapon for profit in this post-scarcity economy was unpersuasive. The writers are saying &#8220;I don&#8217;t think you care why this is happening, let&#8217;s move on.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I could overlook most of this if the episode was fun. Gates McFadden\u2019s delivery is so monotone, unfortunately, that Crusher could be diagnosing a patient, directing a play, or declaring that the dead body at her feet has been murdered and it all sounds the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Final request to the writers&#8217; room in 1993: less technobabble, please.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2 of 5 metaphasic shields.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Suspicions_(episode)\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/memory-alpha.wikia.com\/wiki\/Suspicions_(episode)<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        6.22 &#8212; \u201cSuspicions\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-6544","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\/6544","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=6544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}