From: jstevens@martha.carleton.ca (Jonathan Stevenson)
Subject: Rascals: blooper (RVN?!!!)
Summary: What the heck is RVN?!!
Keywords: rascals, spoiler
Organization: Carleton University
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 15:31:49 GMT

SPOILER ALERT!!!

Everyone should have seen this episode by now, but just in case, here
are the obligatory CRTL-L's:

(Hope they worked this time!)

Anyways, I thought the episode had potential, up to the point when
Crusher did her little techno-babble speech on "genetics", and I
started to steam a bit at the term RVN.  Shouldn't that be RNA, which
any grade 11 high school student would know?!! Or is there some gap in
my understanding of genetics (any genetisist, feel free to jump in
here!)  How could Paramounts "Technical Advisors" miss such a glaring
error?  They must think we are all stupid or something!

Then, just to really infuriate me (and annoy my wife, who thinks I
take TNG a bit too seriously), there was the manner in which the Big E
got taken over so easilly.  Just about any other plot would have been
better then this lame one!!!  I mean, what the hell do they teach at
Star Fleet academy (certainly not military competence).  Just to list
only a few of the problems/improbablilities that I can remember (only
saw the show once):

1) Star Fleet's flagship (pop 1000+) taken by two Klingon BOPs (pop 48
or so, remember "The Search for Spock"); where the F?#$ was security
during the boarding ???.

2) During the brief ship-to-ship, why was the BIG-E's response time so
SSLOOOWWW ? I clocked a good minute of the BOPs blasting away, while
the BIG-E only shot phasers once?  How about a few Torpedoes for
crissake!  (According to the Tech Manual, at least 1/2 dozen are on
stand-by at any time)

3)        In the heat of battle, you do NOT have time to chit-chat
with your engineering officer.  He should know what to do already.
After the crisis is handled (i.e. threats neutralized), THEN you can
talk to him. (Unless, of course there is something really serious
happening like an imminent core breach!) 

4)        Where were the security force fields during the boarding, which
could have been activitated (I would hope) by any security officer? (I
mean they even used it to STORE the ferengi in the Transporter near
the end).  I assumed that the purpose for these fields was to prevent
such a rapid take-over.

5)        Worf missing a 30-40 foot shot?!! Yah, right! 8-/!!!

6)        Yet another Ferengi atrocity (When is the Federation going
to finally do something about these pests??)

7) etc..etc.

In conclusion then, apart from the RVN thingy, I thought the kiddie
story line was the only redeeming part of this episode (especially the
way they got the kid actors to take on the traits of their grown up
counterparts, like when Picard adjusts his jacket just before stepping
out of the turbolift onto the bridge).  I just wish they hadn't
included the Ferengi storyline which was ill-concieved, inconsistant
and impossible to believe!





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