By Chris Snellgrove
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Star Trek: The next generation Had many major episodes throughout his seven seasons, but none was as influential as “the best of both worlds”. This two ambitious parts showed how Captain Picard was assimilated by the Borg, which means that Riker took command of the company and ultimately prevents extraterrestrials from assimilating the land itself. The thing about “the best of both worlds” is that it is the best episode of Riker ever realized. Unfortunately, after this episode, Riker never had much interesting to do in the series.
The best of both worlds and Riker
As RedletterMedia has done it usefully stressed it to more occasional fans, “The Best of the two worlds” is such a big episode of Riker in part because the title refers to what happens to it. He begins the jaw by two parts to find out if he should finally be a captain on one of the ships that Starfleet continues to offer him or stay in the company where he is most comfortable. After the unexpected assimilation of Picard and a rapid promotion on the ground, Riker really had the best of both worlds by becoming captain and staying in the company.
After “the best of both worlds”, Riker becomes much less interesting as a character. For example, he mainly becomes a substitution character for the spectator who asks the questions that the public would ask in his place. For example, when the chief engineer Geordi the forge tries to explain the temporal deformation in “cause and effect” “, Riker follows his relatively technical explanation by asking:” You mean that we could have come into this room, seated At this table and had this conversation already a dozen times?
Once you start to notice, you will see it everywhere. After “the best of both worlds”, the main function of Riker as a substitute for the public is stupid things enough for the most Dimmans viewers to understand them. This phenomenon extended after the series: in First contactAfter the data indicate that the borg use “chronometric particles” and Picard says: “They create a temporal vortex”, Riker must spell things for anyone who is still confused (they must not be academics) by simply saying: ” Time travel. “”
You may not think that “the best of both worlds” really killed the character of Riker because he always has funny lines that allowed the actor Jonathan Frakes To fully channel his considerable charisma. But look beyond cute quotes and sexy moments and you will see that Riker had become a bit like Troi and Dr Crusher, a character who goes through the movements in almost all the episodes. Aggrave things is the fact that his bow was effectively ended with a failure. Riker has never obtained his own captain on the series, and his possible promotion has become a reflection after the fact Nemesisabsolute worse of the Tng movies.
Before taking out your phaser and extinguishing the stunning frame, we must emphasize that we love both “the best of both worlds” and Commander Riker himself. But we hate seeing good potential wasted, and just as Riker should have obtained a command earlier, TNG writers should have given it a decent writing as a kind of consolation price. Unfortunately, this beloved character was stuck through the movements; Even sadder, these movements are not almost As entertaining as Riker’s maneuver.
