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1 - Encounter at Fairpoint
41153.7 The new Galaxy-class UssEnterprise. Captain Picard is going to Fairpoint to meet his new first officer and solve the place's mystery. While on route they meet Q. They try to run, but unable to do so Picard orders the separation of the ship. Worf remains to command the saucer section while higher officers go to battle bridge.
They separate at warp 9.5 or something similar. They stay behind and Picard: "we surrender" to avoid a battle with such a powerful being.
Mid 21st century, post atomic horrors: in such a 2079 court, Q plays the judge. They're on trial accused of being a savage race. Tasha defends them saying that Starfleet saved her, so she gets frozen. After Picard's protests, Q cures her.
Can we spare a second to consider that of the four people on trial, only one is human? Why are the others there? Data has no race at all, and to call Betazoids savage?? Anyway.
We see that Data can repeat what he heard in the same voice he heard it in. Forced to plead guilty, Picard desperately resorts to "test us!" and Q allows it. The Fairpoint Station will be their test.
At Fairpoint we meet Ryker and we start seeing that there's a mystery concerning the station. What's it made of, what's its power source, and how come people immediately get what they asked for?
Ryker talks about it to Doctor Crusher and her son Wesley. She's known Picard for many years; well, not just because he brought back her husband's body as Wesley says, I know that they already knew each other before.
Ryker also meets Lt LaForge. Ryker is beamed on board and watches on tv what has happened :lol I know, a record of it.
Then Ryker must "conduct a manual docking" to unite the two parts of the ship.
Basically we are introduced to everyone. Picard's not comfortable with having children around, LaForge has been blind since birth and needs a visor to see, Tasha is chief of security, Admiral McCoy doesn't like transporters :lol: we know that :-)
Actually Bones has no part in the story at all, but they put him in to make a connection to TOS and it was nice.
We understand there's a romantic history between Troi and Ryker. I always liked the word Imzadi.
I love the holosuites, always loved them. Here Ryker meets Data and they talk. Lt Cmdr Data is trying to whistle and Ryker does it better: "how easily humans can do that" well, not all humans Data, I can't....
"prejudice is very human" unfortunately you're right, Data..
"do you consider yourself superior to us?"
"I am superior sir, in many ways, but I would gladly give it up to be human" ..don't...
"Nice to meet you Pinocchio" :-)
(Can I also comment on that Lt girl helping Ryker find Data? After he goes on his way she checks out Ryker's b-side... :lol
They start investigating this strange construction. Wesley wants to see the bridge, and usually Picard wouldn't allow children in, but he's Beverly's son so he lets him in. Wesley already knows a lot about the ship - we know he's a little genius - A strange ship approaches, very big. It scans the Enterprise then leaves them be and fires on the planet but carefully avoiding the station, because the big mystery here was that the ship and the Fairpoint Station were both living creatures, one enslaved and the other angry.
Q very stupidly tries to sabotage their mission - very very stupidly, basically all Picard had to do was to do the opposite of what Q told him...
They feed the 'station' energy so it can free itself and fly away.
They were beautiful, weren't they? when I was little I loved them very much :-)
Q - John DeLancie
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