I never got what Riker and Picard saw in Minuet. Frankly, IMO she's a butterface with a weird accent, at least in this episode... but I guess to each their own, I suppose.
The part that took me completely out of the episode was when they wanted to beam back to the Enterprise, and Commander Quinteros said "It's too late! Look!"... then it took what seemed like another 5 minutes for the Enterprise to slowly back itself out of spacedock and jump to warp. Really? No one could run to a transporter pad in that time?
Speaking of the Starbase: the scale of that starbase was completely implausible to me. I know, the real reason was that they just took the design of Starbase One they had used previously in Search for Spock and scaled it up here so the Enterprise D could fit into it. However, the scale of the Enterprise D is so much larger than the Enterprise from Search for Spock, that it would make Starbase 74 seemingly the size of a small planet.
I never got the random male voice for the computer in this episode. It wasn't even the whole episode, if I recall; I think I remember Majel Roddenberry's voice as well. Very odd.
The digital clock for the countdown was very, very dated looking, especially for TNG... but at that point, not only were they fighting a budget but also all (?) of their computer effects were just backlit plexiglass with randomly blinking lights. They didn't have the flat panel displays to fit into the set pieces that they have now. So, I'll let that one slide.
But speaking of backlit plexiglass... the activation/deactivation of the self destruct. It was dramatic looking and all, but it really was kind of cheesy that they just reached out for a random panel and stuck their fingertips on it as some sort of identity recognition thing.
Still... for all my nitpicking, it was still a rather entertaining episode overall.
The part that took me completely out of the episode was when they wanted to beam back to the Enterprise, and Commander Quinteros said "It's too late! Look!"... then it took what seemed like another 5 minutes for the Enterprise to slowly back itself out of spacedock and jump to warp. Really? No one could run to a transporter pad in that time?
Speaking of the Starbase: the scale of that starbase was completely implausible to me. I know, the real reason was that they just took the design of Starbase One they had used previously in Search for Spock and scaled it up here so the Enterprise D could fit into it. However, the scale of the Enterprise D is so much larger than the Enterprise from Search for Spock, that it would make Starbase 74 seemingly the size of a small planet.
I never got the random male voice for the computer in this episode. It wasn't even the whole episode, if I recall; I think I remember Majel Roddenberry's voice as well. Very odd.
The digital clock for the countdown was very, very dated looking, especially for TNG... but at that point, not only were they fighting a budget but also all (?) of their computer effects were just backlit plexiglass with randomly blinking lights. They didn't have the flat panel displays to fit into the set pieces that they have now. So, I'll let that one slide.
But speaking of backlit plexiglass... the activation/deactivation of the self destruct. It was dramatic looking and all, but it really was kind of cheesy that they just reached out for a random panel and stuck their fingertips on it as some sort of identity recognition thing.
Still... for all my nitpicking, it was still a rather entertaining episode overall.
