Star Trek TNG - Season 2 - Episode 19
Star Trek TNG - 2x19 - Manhunt
Originally Aired: 1989-6-19
Synopsis:
Picard is subjected to Lwaxana's amorous advances. [DVD]
Problems
- Lwaxana speaking during transport at the end is a little ridiculous.
Factoids
- Mick Fleetwood, the drummer for the band Fleetwood Mac, played the Antedean dignitary in this episode after requesting a cameo role on Star Trek TNG
Remarkable Scenes
- O'Brien appearance.
- Worf admiring the comatose aliens.
- Lwaxana's reaction to the transporter / comatose aliens.
- Mister Homn drinks the whole bottle Picard brought in one swig.
- Picard using Data to get revenge on Lwaxana for her deception.
- Picard relaxing whilst the hologram wants to kill him.
- Picard with a cigarette.
- Lwaxana being tricked by the holodeck.
- Lwaxana discovering the assassins.
My Review
Lwaxana's "amorous advances" in this episode took obnoxious to a new level. As is the way she always treats Troi like a child. All in all this episode focuses on Lwaxana's non-issue of attempting to find a mate and not on anything that matters. There were some nice moments though, so not a total waste of time.
The following are comments submitted by my readers.
- Given Lwaxana's dislike and distrust for transporters, why are they beaming her aboard the ship? She is traveling in a "small transport craft." A shuttle craft? Why not just dock the craft in one of the shuttle bays and let her walk off. But then we wouldn't have had the "Legs, where are the legs?" scene.
- Doesn't Troi have a dress uniform? Every time the delegates come or go, Captain Picard gets in his dress uniform, but Troi wears the same outfit for the whole show.
- Troi takes her mother out into the hall to have an intimate conversation about her mother's condition (because Mr. Homm is in Lwaxana's quarters). On top of that, they have the conversation out loud when they could communicate telepathically. Not a very private conversation!
- After exposing the Antedian assassins, Lwaxana states that it was quite easy for her to read their minds. If it was so easy, why wasn't Troi at least able to get a sense that the Antedians were up to no good?
- In "The Big Good-bye," Picard begins coughing immediately after lighting up a cigarette. In this episode, Picard just starts puffing away.
- Also, in "The Big Good-bye" Picard wore his uniform into the holodeck the first time he entered. Several holodeck creations commented that he looked like a bellboy. In this episode, Riker wears his uniform into Rex's bar and no one gives it a second look.
I agree with the overall sentiment on this episode, but it makes me smile, so I can't hate it altogether.
I have a hard time believing that Lwaxana doesn't know what a holodeck is, but the bit with she and Picard in her quarters is priceless. The alien-of-the-week here was ridiculous as well.
The first half of the show has a lot of funny moments that are fun to rewatch. The seconf half, after Picard steps onto the holodeck for some Dixon Hill, is very boring.
It's worth noting that Robert O'Reilly, who plays the wide-eyed villain who grabs Dix/Picard's lapels in the Holodeck returns in the future, still with wild, staring eyes, as Gowron.