Review of Schisms

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Schisms (1992)
Season 6, Episode 5
5/10
has to hold the record...
14 June 2006
Warning: Spoilers
...for the most techno-jargon of any episode. The last 15 minutes is one long stream of pulses and containment fields etc. It is mildly entertaining, though an ode to its underlying collectivist premises, but man, they sure bust out the babble toward the end. When they are all around the conference table discussing how to address the MacGuffin of the episode it is almost nonsensical. If someone didn't have some level of buy in to the show, and this was the first episode they saw, I doubt they would have come back for more.

I almost sensed a parody was taking place, and perhaps it was. Of course many episodes have jargon in them, but this one took the cake. You knew they are hatching some sort plot, but it didn't make much sense. The only part about putting a homing device on Riker made much sense at all.
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