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TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name

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[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I like that episode. Like one of two that actually gave Guinan some backstory.

[–] ummthatguy@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Got a bit more about the El-aurians in Generations including Soran, then once more in DS9 via Prince Humperdinck.

Could use a bit of fleshing out.

[–] treadful@lemmy.zip 6 points 4 months ago

I don't even recall those. Welp, an excuse for another round of TNG through DS9.

[–] aaaa@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I always thought the Humperdinck episode highlighted one of my less favorite tropes in sci-fi: that the first person we see of a given race creates the template that all other members of the race must follow.

The idea of the entire El-Aurian species being "a race of listeners," as Odo put it, always came across pretty poorly to me. Granted, they didn't lean too heavily on that for his characterization, but it rubbed me wrong that this "racially enlightened series" still reduced a whole race to a single quality that Guinan happened to be strong in.

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Time's Arrow is a perfect time travel story, just like Back to the Future. They're a matching set.