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Suspicions

(Star Trek - The Next Generation episode production code 248)
  • written by Joe Menosky and Naren Shankar.
  • directed by Cliff Bole
  • music by Dennis McCarthy

Suspicions

Another good season six episode. This one caught my attention though, when it seemed it was trying to play on both sides of a certain Prime Directive / non-interference coin. Really, what arrangements does the Federation have with the Ferengi at this point? In season one of TNG, they were a mysterious group that had had little contact with anyone in Starfleet, the kind of people we might only know through interaction with their spaceships. Obviously, that was no way for writers to exploit the capitalism theme that the Ferengi were intended to represent, so a change sort of morphed its way onto the series, and Armin Shimerman's Quark has no doubt just begun to deliver the definitive take on Ferengi and their Federation relations on Deep Space Nine by this point, and quite rightly too.

In this episode, the non-interference aspects hindering Dr. Crusher seem to want to revert back to that season one Ferengi situation, where they really are the mysterious others. Yet, if the Ferengi are getting pally enough with the Federation and Klingon races to have open scientific exchanges with them (and since Ferengi are all about financial exchange, why not?), it just seems a bit far fetched that Crusher's actions would trigger an "interstellar incident" in which the "Ferengi government" would get involved. It's a family issue for sure, but a government issue - that's going a bit too far to be believable.

Anyway, this is a minor point in an otherwise very good episode. It also gives us a rare visitation from Guinan - if I remember rightly in her only appearance between "Rascals" near the beginning of the season, and the seventh feature film "Generations". Sadly, she seems to be putting Troi out of work for the adventure, but as this has become so rare now, we can easily forgive it.



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DVD Extras include:

  • Mission Overview: Year Six (17 min.)
  • Crew Profile: Lt. Commander Data (18 min.)
  • Bold New Directions (17 min.)
  • Dept. Briefing: Production (15 min.)
  • Dept. Briefing: Dan Curry Profile (19 min.)
  • Select Historical Data (17 min.)
  • Starfleet Archives: Sets and Props (12 min.)
  • Bonus Trailers: Star Trek Nemesis
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Blu-ray features add:

  • 3 Audio Commentaries:
    • "Relics" by writer Ronald D. Moore and
      scenic/graphic artists Mike and Denise Okuda.
    • "Tapestry" by Moore and the Okudas.
    • "Frame of Mind" by director James L. Conway and director of photography Jonathan West.
  • Three-part documentary "Beyond the Five Year Mission - The Evolution of ST:TNG" (HD, 84 min. total) with all seven regular castmembers, plus Colm Meaney (O'Brien),
    Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), John de Lancie (Q), writer/producers Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Ronald D. Moore, René Echevarria, Naren Shankar, Frank Abatemarco, director of photography Jonathan West, and many others.
  • Gag Reel (HD, 5 min.)
  • Deleted Scenes (HD)
  • Episodic Promos
  • plus, all featurettes from the DVD version.
  • Main audio tracks in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese.


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