You know what I found amazing? After Professor Galen (Norman Lloyd) stated to Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart) that his archaeological expedition to discover the origin of species would take anywhere from three months to a year, the Enterprise crew and assorted friends and enemies got it all done in the space of an afternoon! Not bad for intergalactic detective work. Spock would have called it 'fascinating'. Although it did take a lot of intrigue and deception on the part of the Humans, Cardassians, Klingons and Romulans to put the ancient mystery to rest. It all hinged on completing a complex DNA strand with its component parts scattered throughout the galaxies, with the one remaining missing piece somewhere in the Vilmoran System. There it was learned that a four-billion-year-old civilization that was dying out planted seed codes out into the infinite cosmos, thereby insuring that future civilizations would spring from them with a common ancestry, hence the reason why so many of the alien life forms encountered throughout the Star Trek universe would resemble humanoids. Makes sense to me, but it seems that revelation should have been made with much more grandeur and scope than a forty-five minute broadcast could offer. Instead, we were left with the wisdom of the Human Progenitor (Salome Jens) who proclaimed - "There is something of us in each of you, and so, something of you in each other." If only warring factions on this planet could get the message.
Review of The Chase
