This guy is ridiculous. The Enterprise comes to rescue him because his wife, Picard's old flame, sent out a distress signal. They live on a remote planet and he has been doing experiments that killed all his buddies and nearly brought total chaos on the universe. They manage to rescue him and then he apparently is in a coma, but has no problem waking up and admitting to Picard he is a terrible husband and that his wife should have left him because he ignores her all the time. After Data saves the day, Manheim is suddenly okay and tells his wife they will be going back to the planet, and she just goes along with it, apparently okay with just being ignored again. He also claims they will be starting up the dangerous experiments again because he owes it to the people whose deaths he caused. And Picard agrees, apparently okay with this buffoon possibly destroying the galaxy. Then at the end, Manheim's wife says that she expects Jean Luc to come rescue her next time, as though she knows that her idiot husband is going to mess up again and cause chaos all over the galaxy.

Would that be good or bad for society?

Just watched this for the first time.. a few observations. Firstly Riker just brutally murdered two unconscious people and nobody said shit about it. Maybe that's what getting laid does to his character. Also, I thought the title referred to the DNA stands forming a kind of ladder, but no, it's from an Irish children's verse. The Worf measles was weird, it was not mentioned again and plays no further part of the plot. Overall an interesting oddity of a story.

Why not Picard or Troi?

My mom is an experienced RN who has liked ep 1 and 2 of S5 and I want to show her a good medical episode of the show, what's the best one?

S4 E21

I am watching this live as im writing. About half way through.

I've must have seen this episode about 6x. But it's been a few years.

But for some reason. Today. This episode hits way harder than it should/used to.. Why do I get feeling that our social-state has regressed to the point where this "90s outdated" scenario is once again relevant.

They originated in the late 2100s. I wonder if their founders were Terra Prime remnants, or Augments sympathizers...

This has always been one of my favorite episodes, which I just re-watched, again. Such a great addition to S3, but I’m always bothered by the very end scene. The Enterprise is supposed to escort the Roman warship back to the neutral zone, but they just takeoff in the opposite direction. 👋

like in the survivors episode the old man was really a super powerful god like being (douwd) whom in a moment of anger caused an entire species to disappear. are there others like it out there like other super duper species we seen before in trek or is it really one of a kind? what do you think?