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
We pull waaaay back and see a CGI Quantum walking down the red carpet under a spotlight. Thunderous applause. We pan to the box of the Seat Squabbling Subordinates as Riker joins Troi. Bormanis, Coto, and the Reeves-Stevenses are in that box as well. Riker tells Troi he's ready to tell Picard about Pegasus. Which is totally not the way it happens in that particular episode. They are on the Pegasus, enclosed in rock, trapped by the Romulans, and he then decides it's a good idea to ignore Pressman's loud orders and tell Picard. And get thrown in the brig. "So I guess we're through here," Troi says. "I guess we are," Riker says, looking around. Heh -- they don't want to stay for Quantum's speech, either. "Computer," Riker says and turns to lock gazes with Troi, "end program." The scene dissolves into the holodeck grid and Riker and Troi walk out.
TNG music plays as TNGEnterprise soars through rocks. Picard's voice comes through to start the chill: "Space, the final frontier -- these are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission..." We cut to TOSEnterprise and Kirk picks up the chill: "To explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations." Now we're to ENTEnterprise, and the chills stop a bit because they didn't give Bakula enough fancy stuff in his voice to make him sound as cool and sonorous as the other two do. "To BOLDLY go where no man has gonebefore." It was a nice moment; I just WISH -- at this last gasp of the show -- that they could have made Bakula as cool-sounding as the other two. Well, it just goes to show -- you can wish in one hand and crap in the other and see which one gets filled first. Sigh. Goodbye, Star Trek -- visit often.
Commander Charles "Trip" Tucker never leaped home.