TNG s7e18 “Eye of the Beholder”

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    What do we make of it that this skeleton is a figment? A dream? A fantasy brought on by relationship & psychic trauma?

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      Having recently watched this episode and totally forgotten it since last time, I’m just thrown off by it. Troi experiences these psychic visions left by remnants of a partial telepath. Then she fully hallucinates mimicking some of those actions, including killing Worf, only to snap out of it and mere seconds have passed. Didn’t seem to be a lot of point to it.

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        Then I think the point I’m taking from all of this is that our experience is are real, And they matter, even when they’re just inside our head.

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          Season 7 has some of its best episodes, but over half of them were clearly leftover ideas/filler. How else do we end up with Sub Rosa, Thine Own Self, Masks, Genesis, Firstborn, Bloodlines, Emergence, and so on?

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            Although conversely, All Good Things… was outstanding imho!

            I suppose all good things eventually come to an end, even as other shows began to take its’ place such as DS9 (which I didn’t appreciate until I could binge and thereby catch the running plotlines as intended).