![]() ![]() Almost.Īs its title suggests, "Conspiracy" is an episode in which Captain Picard inadvertently discovers that Starfleet Command has been infiltrated by parasitic aliens that live inside humans and make them act like creeps. (Which, what? Did the Enterprise's senior officers mess around and pull all-nighters while Picard slept? Considering how cranky Picard is in Season 1, maybe some kind of weird work schedule was the culprit.)Īnyway, Picard being asleep while everyone else is clearly awake and working is almost as weird as the crazy chest-bursting alien at the end of this episode. Then, after getting a super-secret transmission, Riker has to rouse Captain Picard from sleep, which is really weird because it indicates that at some point on The Next Generation Picard took a nap while the rest of crew were pulling their regular shift. The episode actually opens with Riker and the rest of the bridge crew shooting the breeze about how much they like swimming, even though Worf and Data aren't fans (because apparently Klingons and androids don't dig baths). On some level, the entirety of the episode "Conspiracy" could classify as a 45-minute WTF Moment. And yet this strange moment in Trek history is still highly watchable and utterly entertaining. Among all the episodes of The Next Generation, the episode "Conspiracy" is easily the most bizarre and decidedly un- Star Trek. The first season was especially rife with these fun, uncharacteristic instances, many of which were foisted on Commander Riker.Įarly on, Riker gets beat up by a feeble old man, and later he and Picard have to blow the head off another dude who has a parasitic Alien-esque chestburster coming out of his body. ![]() The first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation had many of the hallmarks of the classic series, but from time to time audiences got a glimpse of genres far outside its stately sci-fi focus it was those odd moments that suggested that it was influenced by its era.
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