A powerful, potentially dangerous energy life form, intent on scouting out the Enterprise, steps into the role of a girl's imaginary friend.A powerful, potentially dangerous energy life form, intent on scouting out the Enterprise, steps into the role of a girl's imaginary friend.A powerful, potentially dangerous energy life form, intent on scouting out the Enterprise, steps into the role of a girl's imaginary friend.
- Crewman Nelson
- (uncredited)
- Crewman Martinez
- (uncredited)
- Gardener
- (uncredited)
- Ensign Russell
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn early drafts, Isabella was much more benign and curious. This was changed in part due to the producers feeling the resulting story was dull, and also because they felt it was too similar to The Child (1988).
- GoofsWhen Troi confronts "Isabella" and Clara tells Troi "Isabella's" threatening response, Clara is clearly scared--and Troi, being an empath, should be able to sense Clara's fear. Yet in the next scene, she acts as if Clara was just acting out.
- Quotes
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [to "Isabella," the energy life form] You are seeing this ship, all of us, from a unique perspective - from a child's point of view. It must seem terribly unfair and restrictive to you. As adults, we don't always stop to consider how everything we say and do shapes the impressions of young people, but if you're judging us, as a people, by the way we treat our children - and I think there can be no better criterion - then you must understand how deeply we care for them. When our children are young, they don't understand what might be dangerous. Our rules are to keep them from harm, real or imagined, and that's part of the continuity of our Human species. When Clara grows up, she will make rules for *her* children, to protect them - as we protect her.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Star Trek: Voyager: Collective (2000)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage
An alien being happens to board the ship.
So of course these two wind up together to cause mayhem.
I can understand trying to shoehorn circumstances together to move a plot along, Worf having his redundant organs bring him back to life, from a few episodes earlier, for example, but this is a bit ridiculous to me.
While I understand that the crew is out in the middle of the galaxy, in largely unexplored areas, filled with aliens who don't know or understand us, did the writers really feel the need to dream up excuses to explain human behaviors on virtually every episode?
The staff must have had serious writers' block this week!
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- Aug 16, 2024
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- Runtime45 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1