The best episode Star Trek TNG destroyed the biggest figure

According to Chris Snellgrove
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Star Trek: Another generation He had many great episodes during his seven seasons, but none was as influential as the “best of both worlds”. This ambitious two -tarter showed how Captain Picard was assimilated by Borg, which caused Riker to take over the company command and eventually prevented extraterrestrials from assimilation of the country itself. The thing about the “best of both worlds” is that it is the best episode of Riker ever made. Unfortunately, after this episode, Riker never had very interesting on the show.

The best of both worlds and ricers

As RedletterMedia willingly emphasized more occasional fans, the “best of both worlds” is partly such an episode of Riker, because the name refers to what happens to it. The two -tarter moping begins whether it should finally be a captain on one of the stellar fleet ships that still offer him or stay at the company where he is most comfortable. After the unexpected assimilation of Picard and the quick promotion of the field, Riker really had the best of both worlds by becoming a captain and staying on the company.

After the “best of the two worlds”, however, Riker becomes much less interesting as a character. For example, he usually becomes a viewer of a spare character that asks questions that viewers would ask in his place. For example, when chief engineer Geordi La Forge tries to explain the time curriculum in “cause and effect”, “Riker follows his relatively technical explanation by asking,” You mean we could come to this room, sit at this table and sit at this table and sit at this table and sit at this table Did this conversation have a dozen times? ”

Once you start noticing it, you will see it everywhere. After the “best of the two worlds”, Riker’s primary function is like a substitute audience, that it is stupid enough to understand even the deepest viewers. This phenomenon has expanded around the series: First contactAfter the data says Borg uses “chronometric particles” and Picard says, “They create a temporary vortex,” Riker must tell things for anyone who is still confused (not to be the material of the Academy) by the word “traveling time”. ”

You may not think that “the best of both worlds” really killed Riker’s character because he still got funny lines that allowed actors Jonathan Frakes fully direct his considerable charisma. But look around cute quotes and sexy moments and you will see that Riker has become a bit like Troi and Dr. Crusher, a character passing movements in almost every episode. It is even worse that it is the fact that his arch ended effectively by failure. Riker never got his own captain in the series and his possible promotion has become an additional thoughtful for Nemesisabsolute worst from TNG films.

Before you pull out your phaser and turn off the stun settings, we should emphasize that we love both the “best of both worlds” and the commander Riker. But we hate to see how good potential is wasted, and like Riker, he should have had a command earlier, TNG authors should give him decent writing as a kind of consolation price. Unfortunately, this beloved figure was stuck, just giving movements; even sadder, these movements are not almost Just as fun as the Riker maneuver.