Episode #131: Schisms
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Episode #131: Schisms
SCHISMS - episode #5 of 6th season / Air Date: 10/19/92; Directed by Robert Weimer
written by Brannon Braga, Story by Jean Lousie Matthias & Ron Wilkerson
Riker is arriving late for his shift, his hair mussed; he's not getting enough sleep for some reason. Soon, it becomes evident that other crew members, including Worf & La Forge, are having strange memory impressions, as if from a bad dream. Of course, these are no dreams. The more shocking revelation concerns Riker, when Dr. Crusher discovers what was done to him while he supposedly slept. It becomes apparent that crew members are being removed from their quarters secretly by some dimensional transport technology. Then, another crew member is returned with his blood replaced by some other liquid and he expires. This is seriously warped.
There is a lot of mystery in this episode and it unfolds step by step as the story progresses. The crew have to play detective and the more they uncover, the more chilling it becomes. There is a lot of that techno-babble in this one, so there are some slow scenes. There are no full answers or revelations by the end; the actual motivations of these alien beings remains a mystery. Riker states that more than curiosity must have governed the actions of the entities, since one of the crew is dead and others barely made it; but, alien curiosity may well have been the sole motive: there's that old axiom in quantum mechanics - if you look at something, you automatically affect it just by doing that. BoG's Score: 7 out of 10
TNG Trivia: this was the episode with Data's famous poetry reading of 'Ode to Spot' -
Felis catus is your taxonomic nomenclature,
an endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature.
Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses,
contribute to your hunting skills, and natural defenses.
I find myself intrigued, by your subvocal oscillations,
a singular development of cat communications,
that obviates your basic hedonistic predilection,
for a rhythmic stroking of your fur, to demonstrate affection.
A tail is quite essential, for your acrobatic talents.
You would not be so agile, if you lacked its counterbalance,
and when not being utilized to aid in locomotion,
it often serves to illustrate, the state of your emotion.
Oh Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display,
connote a fairly well developed cognitive array,
and though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,
I nonetheless consider you, a true, and valued, friend.
an endothermic quadruped, carnivorous by nature.
Your visual, olfactory, and auditory senses,
contribute to your hunting skills, and natural defenses.
I find myself intrigued, by your subvocal oscillations,
a singular development of cat communications,
that obviates your basic hedonistic predilection,
for a rhythmic stroking of your fur, to demonstrate affection.
A tail is quite essential, for your acrobatic talents.
You would not be so agile, if you lacked its counterbalance,
and when not being utilized to aid in locomotion,
it often serves to illustrate, the state of your emotion.
Oh Spot, the complex levels of behavior you display,
connote a fairly well developed cognitive array,
and though you are not sentient, Spot, and do not comprehend,
I nonetheless consider you, a true, and valued, friend.
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