ST:TNG The Drumhead

This was a good one. Family, knock on consequences of Worf and Picard's choices, and basic rights and freedoms.

"You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy: ' With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.' Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on we’re all damaged. I fear that today..."


It would be less depressing if this sort of warning wasn't needed so continuously.

ST:TNG Half a Life

Lwaxana Troi rocks. I like it that they do all the same usual things she always does but then it turns out serious and you can see how she gets her position, because she's fierce and articulate and persuasive and loving and doesn't back down at all. I like the bit where she talks about how her life has been full... okay, overflowing sometimes... because it's like she knows she can be a bit much but it's because she's bouncing it back. She lives just as large as she possibly can. Is good.

I obviously do nto like the idea of killing everyone when they're 60. Killing anyone ever is a bad idea. Letting them kill themselves is just wrong. Live every last drop of it, is the only way.

I read on Memory Alpha something comparing this ep to Sarek, with aging there meaning loss of mind and dignity. But if that's supposed to be the extreme then that's still a life with plenty in it. People loved him and looked after him and respected him too. The bit in this ep where the guy says that one love isn't enough to keep living for is just plain wrong.