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Ménage à Troi

  • byJoe Siegler
  • Posted on November 26, 2024March 14, 2025
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Ménage à Troi

This Story: Season 3 Episode 24 (production code 172)
TNG Overall: Episode 72
Trek Overall: Story 172, Episode 174
Airdate: 28 May 1990
Written by Fred Bronson & Susan Sackett
Directed by Robert Legato

Notes

  • Farek the Ferengi was played by Ethan Phillips, who would go on to be a series regular on Star Trek: Voyager as Neelix.
  • This episode is the source of another popular internet meme with Patrick Stewart – the one with his hand outstretched.
  • The majority of Picard’s speech trying to “win” Lwaxana back is directly lifted from Shakespeare.
  • Wesley is promoted from acting ensign to full ensign in this episode.
  • The fact that a Ferengi’s ears are erogenous zones is established here, along with the act of “oo-mox”.
  • The scenes on Betazed were filmed in the space place that the Season 1 episode “Justice” was filmed at (The Huntington Library Botanical Gardens in Pasadena, CA)
  • This episode shows Riker & Troi kissing, which directly contradicts a line that Troi says in the movie “Star Trek: Insurrection”.  In that she says she never kissed him with a beard before.
  • Events of this episode are relayed to Odo when he and Lwaxana were trapped in an elevator in the episode “The Forsaken” on DS9.
  • There is a background character in one scene that is seen wearing the outfit of the character Yareena from the Season 1 episode “Code of Honor“.
  • The way Riker works the computer on the Ferengi ship echoes the way Data was able to manipulate the Borg collective in “The Best of Both Worlds Part II“.
  • Fun observation by the author Keith DeCandido about this episode… “In the “too much information” category, the title is a play on a French term generally used to indicate sex among three people. The episode was co-written by Susan Sackett—who was Trek creator Gene Roddenberry’s personal assistant, and with whom he had a long-term affair—and guest starred Roddenberry’s wife. That isn’t at all weird.”

Links

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

#StarTrekMarathon #StarTrek TNG Ep 72 - Ménage à Troi - 28 May 1990 1/2 A mostly comedic episode which involves Riker, Troi, & Lwaxana Troi being kidnapped by a Ferengi, and the various attempts to get them out. A Ferengi's ears being an erogenous zone is established here. Also, the Ferengi Daimon

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— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) November 26, 2024 at 3:07 PM

#StarTrekMarathon #StarTrek TNG Ep 72 - Ménage à Troi - 28 May 1990 2/2 here is played by Ethan Phillips - Voyager's Neelix. Another Picard meme originates here - the one with Picard and his hand out. Overall an amusing and not terribly serious episode. There's a B plot about Wesley & the academy.

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— Joe Siegler (@joesiegler.blog) November 26, 2024 at 3:07 PM

The meme that came from this episode.

Ethan Phillips (Neelix) as “Farek”.

 

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