Bloodlines

DVD, TNG S7 (Bloodlines)

Everything goes a bit Star Trek II there for a while, but I had a kind of feeling Vigo wouldn't be Picard's son after all (mainly because he boos about not having any heirs in the first film), though I'm not sure how Bok was able to resquence his DNA, beam through the Enterprise shields at huge distances and have powerful enough sensors to keep track of all these people! Something tells me Starfleet should get back onto the Subspace Transporter bandwagon... (maybe in a 25th century series?).

I'm all for continuity and bringing back old faces, but the episode didn't live up to the 'The Battle' which as I recall was one of the best episodes of S1. After DS9, and specifically Quark, you realise how badly Ferengi can be done, and the ones in this don't come across as favourably, with little personality or dimensionality. And Deanna seemed easily cowed where usually she'd give as good as she got! It seems to be a tradition that S7's of a series have to have some rather slow episodes, and this is further proof. Not bad, but a little pointless by the end (and if it had been DS9 Jason probably would have died or something).

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