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Conundrum

  • byJoe Siegler
  • Posted on January 7, 2025March 13, 2025
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Conundrum

This Story: Season 5 Episode 14 (production code 214)
TNG Overall: Episode 114
Trek Overall: Story 211, Episode 216
Airdate: 17 Feb 1992
Story by Paul Schiffer
Teleplay by Barry Schkolnick (and Joe Menosky uncredited)
Directed by Les Landau

Notes

  • The Lysian Central Command ship was the Eso “God” in “Justice“.
  • A song Riker plays is the same song he played with the holographic band in “11001001“.
  • The third and final time Picard is seen at the helm of the ship.  The other two were “11001001” and “Booby Trap“.
  • This episode won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Special Visual Effects.  It shared the award with another TNG episode – “A Matter Of Time“.

Links

[ Wikipedia | Memory Alpha | IMDB | Amazon US DVD | Amazon US Blu-Ray ]

#StarTrekMarathon #StarTrek TNG Ep 114 - Conundrum - 17 Feb 1992 1/2 The Enterprise crew (and part of the ship itself) had their memories erased, and a "new bridge crew person" is amongst them. We as the audience obviously know what is going on. The kind of story that makes you yell at the crew to

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— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) January 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM

#StarTrekMarathon #StarTrek TNG Ep 114 - Conundrum - 17 Feb 1992 2/2 open their eyes. The unknown character making the crew do what they want has a bit of "Mary Sue" fan fiction to it. Little surprised the show went this route. While some individual moments are OK, the story overall is kind of meh.

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— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) January 7, 2025 at 6:07 PM

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