Synopsis: Picard outsmarts some Romulans by playing with colored shapes.
Memory Alpha Summary: It’s nice to know Sesame Street is around in the 24th century
Review: A solid episode marked by a couple of storytelling issues. The Yamato, which we saw a fake version of a few episodes back, is seen for real this time before blowing to smithereens within a couple minutes. Neither the crew nor the audience know why, so Picard downloads the logs of Yamato’s captain and listens to a whole bunch of them, one right after another. It’s exposition that would make a Bond villain blush. Then, Wesley comes in, talking and talking and talking before finally spewing his inability to cope with people dying in the space military. Thankfully, Picard can’t even finish his “there, there Wesley” speech before his replicator gives him a potted plant to eat with his crumpets.
This plodding section aside, the story is quite sound. A lot of humor is injected with all the malfunctioning systems, culminating with Riker asking for some rocks to use as weapons. And down on the Iconian planet, Picard engages in some quick-thinking by warping himself onto the Romulan ship to save himself.
This marks the first of several times the Federation goes out of their way to save Romulan lives without receiving any love in return. You’d think after a while it would lighten them up.
Death By Troggles 
It’s exposition that would make a Bond villain blush.
This is one of my favorite sentences you’ve ever written. Expect to see me steal it down the line.
“On his blog, Beau had written a line deriding the overt use of exposition. Spooky, then read Beau’s blog. He found Beau’s line about exposition to be one of his favorite things Beau had ever written, and so he set into place a plan to steal the line. The plan would work like this: Kelly would copy the line from Beau’s blog, and then use it in a different place.”
Oh, well done, asshole. I laughed.