#Star trek tng minuet tv#

#Star trek tng minuet tv#

As a kid, I always imagined this as a meta commentary about the fictional worlds created on TV shows, and decided this meant that yes, Awesome Cop's family was waiting for him at home while the holodeck was off, and yes, Picard and the rest of the Enterprise crew really existed and were having adventures even when not actively on my TV.īaby Face Riker asks the holographic Minuet 'how far' their relationship can go, if you know what I mean, and I think you do.Ĭontinuity! The Enterprise is at Starbase Something-or-Other to undergo repairs, including on the holodeck, because it got all death-trap-y a few episodes earlier in 'The Big Goodbye.' Because of the influence of the Bynars who are fixing/hijacking the ship, the holodeck generates Riker's perfect woman, a sultry jazz-loving pickup-line-appreciating brunette who also happens to be a self-aware hologram. At the end of the episode, Dixon Hill's awesome cop friend starts pondering the nature of his existence after being convinced that his world is an illusion ('What happens to this world when you leave? Are my wife and kids still waiting for me at home?'). Not surprisingly, it's also the first catastrophic holodeck malfunction episode, where they can't get out of the holodeck and the fail-safes are off and somebody gets shot. This is the first holodeck episode, so Picard and Data and Beverly are really excited about it. Here they all are in their Emmy-winning costumes, before things start to go wrong, being the biggest dorks imaginable. (I just learned from memory alpha that it won an Emmy! For costume design. This minithon started rather auspiciously with the greatest hour of television ever put to film. Progress on my Star Trek Holodeck Adventure Marathon: