Takara_Soong 4 Posted May 27, 2005 Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation Season: 5 Episode #: 5 Production #: 205 Episode Name: Disaster Original Air Date: 10.21.91 Review not yet available. Cast: Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard Jonathan Frakes as William Thomas Riker Brent Spiner as Data LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge Michael Dorn as Worf Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi Guest Cast: Cameron Arnett as Ensign Mandel Colm Meaney as Miles O'Brien Jana Marie Hupp as Ensign Monroe Michelle Forbes as Ro Laren Erika Flores as Marissa John Christian Graas as Jay Gordon Max Supera as Patterson Rosalind Chao as Keiko O'Brien Director: Gabrielle Beaumont Teleplay By: Ronald D. Moore Story By: Ron Jarvis & Philip A. Scorza Related Items: Depressurization Cosmic string fragment emergency hand actuator internal power grid Gonal IV Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HRH The KING 0 Posted June 5, 2005 A pretty good episode. This episode finally allowed some depth to be given to Deanna Troi, who actually served a useful purpose in this episode, and it was about time she felt some stress and a sense of duty after nearly five years of sitting in her chair with her silly jumpsuits telling the Captain that the Alien on the viewscreen threatening to kill them all was feeling "a lot of hostility". This episode was about people being placed in unfamilar circumstances. Troi had to take command of a Galaxy Class starship, Picard had to deal with his biggest fear....yes....KIDS!!!!! which he did well. His character needed something like that. Three other stories played out in this episode (I love fractured narratives). Geordi and Beverley were trapped in a cargo bay that was ready to explode at any time as a plasma fire spiralled out of control, threatening to detonate barrels of explosive material. There was a pretty cool scene where they depressurise the cargo bay door and are almost blown out into space by the escaping air. Riker and Data were trapped in Engineering, with a cool scene where Riker has to use Data's head to gain control of the warp systems. And the famous plotline where Worf hilariously delivers Molly O'Brien, with a priceless line: "You may now give birth". Rosalind Chao and Michael Dorn were both superb. Excellent episode. Rating = 5 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
youbroughtheryouRiker 2 Posted January 19, 2008 I also have to give it a 5. So much going on, yet it didn't feel compounded or too complicated. Cool work overall from everyone. Though I wouldn't think kids in the 24th Century would actually know "Frere Jacques". Just a hunch. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites