ALL SCI-FI

[Bud Brewster]

If you're not a member of All Sci-Fi, registration is easy. Just use the registration password, which is —

gort



Attention members! If you've forgotten your password, just email me at Brucecook1@yahoo.com.
____________________________________________________________________

Wesley Crusher plays a key role in this tale a utopian society which has everything . . . except new kids to keep it going.

Their solution? Kidnap the kids from the Enterprise!
____________________________________________________________________

TNG episode #17: When the Bough Breaks
____________
WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS episode #17 / Air Date: 2/15/88
written by Hannah Louise Shearer; Directed by Kim Manners

_________
___________________

The Enterprise crew come across the mythical planet of Aldea. Riker waxes poetic about this rumored perfect world and society where the people were able to devote all their efforts towards the arts & culture — it's like a space age version of Atlantis.

Aldea has always been hidden, due to some planet-enveloping cloaking technology, but the leaders there have decided to reveal themselves to the Enterprise.

Why? Well, there's the story . . .

_________
___________________

The story, as it turns out, is that Aldea is a deteriorating culture and . . . they need kids.

There are no kids there. For whatever reason, the Aldeans pick out half-a-dozen kids from the Enterprise, plus Wesley, and kidnap them using their superior transporting technology.

Why those 7 kids?

They did a scan beforehand, but I don't get how just 7 kids can turn things around there. Why not take a hundred — that's probably about how many there are on the ship.


_________
______________

It's an interesting starting off point, but the episode isn't able to do much with the premise except point out how there are actual families serving aboard the ship. Oh, and Picard has to stifle his discomfort around kids here. Dr. Crusher gets to worry about her son again (see Justice).

BoG's Score: 5 out of 10


BoG
Galaxy Overlord Galactus
_________________
____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958)