Synopsis: Enterprise D: Judgment Day
Memory Alpha Summary: No ticket!
Review: It’s been a full season since the holodeck nearly killed members of the crew, so what the hell; let’s bring it back one last time to try and kill off the entire ship.
This episode has a lot of neat imagery, but it feels mostly hollow to me. The babble about how the Enterprise computer could have become self-aware and created a new lifeform is half-assed, and then nobody seems worried that the computer won’t just do this again someday and jeopardize the crew. The third to last episode of TNG was representative of season seven, recycling old ideas with lazy writing.
Death By Troggles 
Huh. I definitely don’t agree with this one being so low. It’s probably middle third for me.
And I think the whole “didn’t deal with the potential issues raised for the future by this episode” thing falls more on the shoulders of DS9, etc. Since this was the end of the line for TNG, they can’t be blamed for not dealing with the issue.
I don’t think they had to “deal” with the issue. But they could have at least raised the issue. It was like, “Hey, our computer just nearly killed all of us, but we survived just in the nick of time. Ah well, next mission!”
This one used to be middle third for me, too. But when I listened to it just a few months ago, it did absolutely nothing for me. I think in the past I was swayed by the pretty cool visuals.
Visuals are part of the episode, too.
I suppose that brings up a good point. How much are the visuals to be judged in how “good” something is. A horrible special effect can be just as derailing to the enjoyment of an episode as a clunker of a line (the wolves in The Day After Tomorrow, though it’s not like that movie needed any help being awful). Why couldn’t a particularly well done special effect have the reverse effect?
In this case it wasn’t so much the special effects as it was the location and costumes.
But it’s a good point. Would I like “The Matrix” as much if I just listened to it? Doubtful. But it’s not all that’s there. Just like with TNG, if I listened to the Matrix, I would remember the awesome visuals I’ve seen several times, so I would still enjoy it, probably just as much.
But I think there are definitely cases where the visuals can make you miss some bad dialogue or significant plot holes, especially on a first time viewing. Now that I realize how lazy the script is for Emergence, I don’t think I could watch it and really care much about the visuals anymore.
I haven’t seen this, but for me, no visual can save a bad script. I suppose this should be obvious to those of you who know me, though.
For instance, I just saw, and absolutely hated, Avatar.
Crap. I go away on holiday with the family for a few days, and I must have missed “Justice”.
So, this is the ep with the butler from “The Nanny”, right?
Daniel Davis? He played Professor Moriarty twice. If he had a role here I didn’t catch it.
Sorry, I didn’t figure that holodeck accident comments required snark html — my bad.
“Justice” is his second favorite episode, his favorite is “Conspiracy”.
Pretty much, yes.
“Conspiracy” does have my favorite ST name in it, that being Una Carapledes.