Near Chris Snellgrove
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Star Trek: The next generation There were many great episodes throughout the seven seasons, but none of them were as influential as “the best of the two worlds”. This ambitious two -term showed how Borg assimilated Captain Picard, forcing Riker to take on the company’s management and eventually prevent the aliens from assimilating the land itself. The thing about the “best of the two worlds” is that it is the best Riker episode ever made. Unfortunately, after this episode, Riker never had much interesting to do on the show.
The best of both worlds and riker
As Redlettermedia has been useful to fans of casual, the “best of the two worlds” is such a great episode of Riker, partly because the name refers to what is happening to him. He starts a two -party moping on whether he should finally be the captain in one of the ships, Starfleet continues to offer him or stay on the company where he is most comfortable. After an unexpected assimilation of the picardy and the promotion of a quick field, Riker was really the best of the two worlds, becoming a captain and staying in the company.
After the “best of the two worlds”, Riker becomes much less interesting as a hero. For example, he becomes mostly a spectator spam who asks questions that the audience will ask in his place. For example, when the chief engineer Geordi La Forge tries to explain the “causes and consequences” of time scissors, Riker follows his relatively technical explanation, asking, “You think we could have come to this room, sit at this table and you had this conversation already There are a dozen times? ”
When you start noticing it, you will see it everywhere. After the “best of the two worlds”, the main feature of the riker as an audience surrogate is enough to diminish things so that even the most spectators understand them. This phenomenon extended the series: First contactAfter the data says Borg uses “chronometric particles” and Picard says, “They make a whirlpool”, Riker has to say things to someone who is still confused (they must not be the materials of the academy), simply saying “,” Time trip .
You probably don’t think about the “best of both worlds” really killed Riker’s character because he still got a funny lines that allowed the actor Jonathan To fully divert your remarkable charisma. But look at the lovely quotes and sexy moments, and you will see that Riker had become a bit like troi and Dr. Crasher, a character who undergoes proposals in almost every episode. Worse is that his circle actually ended with failure. Rikers never received his captain in the series and his possible promotion became a follow -up Nemakeabsolute worst from Tng Movies.
Before you remove your phase and turn off the stunning setting, we should emphasize that we love both the “best of the two worlds” and the commander’s own Riker. But we hate to see good potential wasting, and just as Riker had to get a team faster, TNG writers had to give him proper writing as a kind of comfort prize. Sadly, this beloved character was stuck only by experiencing movements; Even saddest, these proposals are not almost As entertaining as Riker maneuver.
