The Russell Macklemore Experience #15

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I am watching Home Soil, which is an episode about the terraforming of an entire world, which has sent the director into a state of high bother.

Thank you Troi for sensing this in him and not being blocked by some higher power, which happened a time or two.

Spoilers? The show has been finished for 26 years now.

Walter Gotell? Cool, they got a Bond villain to guest as the director of this terraforming effort?

That was a get.

The woman of the effort has a strange way of speaking.

And now someone's dead. Nope, apparently he's only critically injured.

Director Mandl is charming now that they are there.

Data turned the drill back on and it went after him and would have destroyed him if he wasn't Data, a much faster and smarter being than an ordinary human.

Not long after Data survived the drill incident, which it turned out wasn't alive, but was just reprogrammed to to seemingly protect against the discovery of a lifeform.

They didn't immediately determine that it was that, because it was inorganic, but we all knew that it was.

I'm sure that I knew that was what it was even then, no matter how young I was.

The woman didn't talk so oddly when she was with Riker.

And no, they didn't do it, like I thought that they were about to.

But the odd way of talking was back when the survivors were in the Conference room with Picard and Yar.

The Lifeform, or LifeForce as Dr. Crusher called it was the one who killed Malencon.

Ugly Bags Of Mostly Water eh.

Well, that's a bit of a kick in the face.

As for arrogance, that the LifeForce charged the Enterprise with, what about its arrogance ssaying they were too primitive to trust?

The Hell?

You're the arrogant one LifeForce.

Yes, you have the right to be angry because the terraformers were unknowingly killing them, but to say that they're arrogant?

Nah man, that's you.

And to say come back in three hundred years, who are you to, well apart from living on the planet that is.

What are your great accomplishments?

Yeah, I'm pissed at the superior lifeforce and am glad that it is a forgotten life in the annals of Trek.

Good riddance to bad life.

That may be a l;ittle harsh, but it's how I feel after just rewatching the episode.

That being said, I still liked the episode, I just didn't like its inability to see its own arrogance.

  

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