Review of Bloodlines

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Bloodlines (1994)
Season 7, Episode 22
5/10
REVIEW 2022
18 October 2022
Warning: Spoilers
An unmanned probe is closing in on our position. There are no identifiable armaments but it does contain a holographical image of a Ferengi who has a message for the ears of our captain.

Who is Jason Vigo? Who is Miranda Vigo? Does our Captain have a son?

We're off to the Camor System at warp five. I have to say that at this stage in the TNG story I found it hard to take threats from the Ferengi seriously, especially with the familiarity that had formed with the Ferengi characters that were by now appearing on the DS9.

It's a boy... and so we are going to suffer another 35 minutes of son trying to bond with father and neither of them getting very far. There are bound to be recriminations at the fact that Jean-Luc impregnated Miranda and then did a runner. Clearly, the difference of opinion with Bok is bound to take a back-seat to the father/son story development and I feel we are all going to be the poorer for that fact.

This episode supposedly has links to the season one episode, The Battle, although there has clearly been a realignment as to the significance of certain characters. I truly phased out of this one a good twenty minutes before the end although Bok's character was interesting. Otherwise it's cringesville.

This Episodes Clue: Daimon Birta

(Answer's to all episode clues will appear in the reviews of season seven, episode 25: All Good Things, Part One.)
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