Star Trek TNG S04E16-18 Galaxy’s Child, Night Terrors, Identity Crisis – “Attack of the Space Calzones” | First Time Reaction – To Baldly Go Podcast (Ep. 063)

First-Time Watch – Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 4, Episodes 16-18 This week on The To Baldly Go Podcast, we continue our first-time, release-order journey through Star Trek with three episodes from the fourth season of The Next Generation. This week, we get: World building for the fans A potentially interesting, but possibly underdeveloped idea Incomplete victories We covered: Galaxy’s Child Night Terrors Identity Crisis In “Galaxy’s Child,” the real Dr. Leah Brahms visits the Enterprise and discovers the holodeck simulation Geordi created in her image. Meanwhile, the crew accidentally kills a massive space-dwelling life-form and must save the newborn creature left behind. We discuss creepy Geordi, the differences between Geordi and Barclay, Easter eggs for longtime fans, speed and distance in Star Trek, radiation measurements, Picard’s speech about destroying a life-form, Guinan messing with Geordi and whether the creature looks more like an empanada or a calzone. “Night Terrors” begins with the Enterprise discovering the USS Brattain adrift, its crew dead except for a single traumatized survivor. The Enterprise soon becomes trapped in the same region of space as its crew gradually loses the ability to dream. We discuss whether the episode’s central idea received enough development, its similarities to other episodes, Starfleet ship classes and crew complements, real-life lessons from Star Trek and old Star Trek DVDs from China. In “Identity Crisis,” Geordi reunites with Susanna Leijten, a former member of an away team whose surviving officers have begun disappearing five years after visiting Tarchannen III. As Geordi and Leijten undergo a mysterious transformation, the Enterprise attempts to reconstruct what happened during their original mission. We discuss why Geordi could seemingly have done everything from Sickbay, another round of Enterprise security problems, shuttlepods versus shuttlecraft, How I Met Your Mother, Earth: Final Conflict and a resolution that only feels partially successful. Join us as we discuss Star Trek: The Next Generation, Season 4, Episodes 16-18: “Galaxy’s Child,” “Night Terrors” and “Identity Crisis.”