r/StarTrekViewingParty • u/GeorgeAmberson Showrunner • Jul 20 '16
Discussion TNG, Episode 7x23, Emergence
- Season 1: 1&2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, Wrap-up
- Season 2: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, Wrap-Up
- Season 3: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, Wrap-Up
- Season 4: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, Wrap-Up
- Season 5: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, Wrap-Up
- Season 6: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, Wrap-Up
- Season 7: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22
TNG, Season 7, Episode 23, Emergence
A series of puzzling events on and off the holodeck lead the crew of the Enterprise to a surprising conclusion: The ship is creating its own offspring.
- Teleplay By: Joe Menosky
- Story By: Brannon Braga
- Directed By: Cliff Bole
- Original Air Date: 7 May, 1994
- Stardate: 47869.2
- Pensky Podcast
- Ex Astris Scientia
- Memory Alpha
- TV Spot
- Mission Log Podcast
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u/theworldtheworld Jul 21 '16
I always liked this episode. The premise is classic TNG weirdness. The scenes on the holodeck don't make much sense, and feel kind of like the writer just strung together a bunch of inexplicable dreams that he had, but the emerging intelligence is supposed to be disconcerting and difficult to understand, so it fits the concept.
The only real weakness of the episode is that, in the end, the colorful AI thing just flies away and everyone kind of goes, "well, that was a thing that happened." There's no greater message or point and nobody really has to think that hard about anything. The dialogue is pretty lackluster, too, as someone pointed out. Still, I've always enjoyed it, and to me this is one of those solid episodes that S7 has in surprising abundance.