Episode Report Card Keckler: C- | 1097 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to YesterTrek
By Keckler | Season 4 | Episode 22 | Aired on 2005.05.13
Riker stops by to tell Troi that it won't be long before they find the Pegasus. He then decides to tell her the top-secret information that I don't believe he ever would have told her in the actual TNG episode. They just put it here to explain the backstory, which, in my opinion, wasn't necessary. Riker had a decision to make. It involved Pressman and his former position on Pegasus. That's it. If people wanted to learn more, there are ways of finding that stuff out. Watch the episode. Look it up on startrek.com. Don't waste valuable ENT finale time explaining it. Not only are you taking screen time away from Trinneer, Blalock, Montgomery, Keating, Billingsley, Park, and oh, fine, Bakula, but more importantly, you are losing all subtlety. In a nutshell, Pressman and Pegasus experimented with a cloaking device -- something that is a big no-no with the Romulan Neutral Zone Treaty Thing -- and seventy-one people died. It was covered up, and the returning crew was sworn to secrecy. Now, those that developed the cloaking device want to pick the experiment up where they left off. "What they're doing is wrong -- it will jeopardize the treaty," Riker explains. "And you want to tell that to Captain Picard," Troi understands. "I took an oath of secrecy -- Pressman still outranks the Captain," Riker explains. Troi talks about making hard decisions and so forth. She has confidence that he'll do the right thing. So do we. Because we've seen the episode.