S1: Episode 20: The Crew of the Enterprise Really Needs to Do a Team Building Exercise Thingy

Sorry for the hiatus last week, y'all. Family stuff came up!

Anyhow, we're back, and I am as confused as ever because don't these people live and work together like 24/7, pretty much 365 days a year? If so, they really need to work on their interpersonal communication because damn do they not know each other well. Like do some trust falls, or a Ropes course, or play two Datas and a Lore, y'all.

So basically Picard seemingly sets up this ruse so that he and the rest of the crew can ask Levar about his awesome space visor, like basic stuff, like "what can you see through there" and Levar patches his visor-vision through to the main screen so they can see it, and I feel embarrassed  for Levar that he has to answer the types of questions I feel like he should have gotten day one...like does no one make small talk? Or is talking about space visors a breach in Starfleet ettiquette, hence the elaborate ruse?

Well it turns out it's not a ruse! It's a violent attack by Ferengi! Psych, that's what everyone on the Enterprise thinks when they stumble upon a beat up coal transport ship and the ruins of another ship. But it's not, they're just spacist. Again. Seriously, what did the Ferengi do to Starfleet for this treatment?! It's an ugly look Starfleet. You're ugly.

Turns out the transport ship is harboring some super dicey Klingon characters. And yet again we see how little the crew knows each other, as FOR NO REASON AT ALL, Worf's loyalty is questioned just because he's a Klingon too. Picard clutches his pearls when he finds out his Klingon subordinate Worf is *gasp* a Klingon! Surprise, I did not like this episode.

Featuring: Spacism! Some weirdly religious stuff the visiting Klingons say that sounds like church recruitment! Innocent Ferengi being blamed for the universes' problems! Picard awkwardly asking Levar about his visor vision in a way that makes me think maybe it's politically incorrect to ask about it in this world! Space terrorists! Really terrible security! Kidnapping! Just kidding it's just a wayward child! A lack of basic knowledge in gun fighting. Oh and two more nameless Starfleet people dying that no one cares about, they don't even get named! RIP security guys 1 and 2.

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