Whether you find this episode enjoyment or not largely depends on how you perceive the performance of Mark Twain. I enjoyed his larger than life performance and interactions with the crew.
I was honestly a bit disappointed that this is the 'big event' we get to unravel Picard/Guinan's history. It sounds like they went through some crazy adventures if their relationship goes 'beyond friendship/beyond love' but I suppose they might attempt to explain that in Picard Season 2?
There's not much to get out of this episode in terms of an overall message but it was successful in being a fun time travel episode.
Time travel episodes are tricky to make work and it requires a massive suspension of disbelief to buy into Picard sending a message to future enterprise by using a metal fragment and 'coding' the message into data's circuitry. Huh? How about a notepad? I can buy a notepad. We also get the 'villain' telling Picard about her plan and warning him that firing upon the planet could destroy earth (?).
So, there are some problems with this one but it's saved by how much fun it is to see the trek crew on a 19th century adventure when you turn off your brain.
I was honestly a bit disappointed that this is the 'big event' we get to unravel Picard/Guinan's history. It sounds like they went through some crazy adventures if their relationship goes 'beyond friendship/beyond love' but I suppose they might attempt to explain that in Picard Season 2?
There's not much to get out of this episode in terms of an overall message but it was successful in being a fun time travel episode.
Time travel episodes are tricky to make work and it requires a massive suspension of disbelief to buy into Picard sending a message to future enterprise by using a metal fragment and 'coding' the message into data's circuitry. Huh? How about a notepad? I can buy a notepad. We also get the 'villain' telling Picard about her plan and warning him that firing upon the planet could destroy earth (?).
So, there are some problems with this one but it's saved by how much fun it is to see the trek crew on a 19th century adventure when you turn off your brain.