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The episode tries to be a reflection of how people of color were so outcast or thought of less and as Jake's character in the flashback was shot and killed not for stealing a car, but was getting something out of it. The police mistook it as a theft, but he was black, so he must be a criminal. Hence why we see the police change to Cardassians and Vorta because the Dominion sees the universe like that too. If you are not like us, you need to be taken out or oppressed. I get what Avery Brooks was trying to do since he was the director and a college professor on Black History in Entertainment. However, when you look at this and the Season 7 two part premiere, I agree it doesn't really add to the story. Especially when the Orb of the Emissary was saying that the Pa Wraiths were the reasons for the visions and how the Prophets were trying to curb that with Benny overcoming that. It's similar to how they were trying to do with the Maquis, but in the end I felt it was too much over exposure and looking at it now, you can see the similar themes, but it still moves from Roddenbury's vision of overcoming those problems. Here it was basically saying: "Humans learn to move past racial and prejudge by learning they weren't alone in the Universe, but other races, FUCK THat!"

Then they kept Nancy around and made her bi-sexual. She just wouldn't go away.

I was watching Pegasus tonight which is in my Top 10 favorite episodes of all time. Wow! Even all these years later, the episode is one of Ron Moore's best, and the music is great. However, the episode does lack talk between Will and Deanna, which they tried to fix with the final episode of Enterprise almost a decade later. Something that really bothered me was how the Admiral was so smug about everything including seeing his dead crew in engineering. Will shows such emotion and everything comes to a head, but there is one question I have wondered all these years. WHAT THE HELL DID THE FEDERATION GET OUT OF MAKING THE DEAL WITH THE ROMULANS? PIcard says it kept peace the last 50 years, but what happened? They get the neutral zone? That the Romulans would be nice and not try to make their own phase cloaks? Still bothers me to this day, but the rest of the episode, especially when the Enterprise decloaked by the Warbird is one of the best moments in TNG.

Yep, mine was on Monday nights almost always due to living in the midwest.

Yes on many points there. Keiko had to be turned into a mindless lunatic since they introduced the baby plot to write in Nana Visitar's pregnancy. Afterwards that Kieko disappeared and we got the one we had been watching since season 4 of TNG.

I think they were trying to treat it like war time during WWII. Where soldiers were at bars and night clubs both in Europe and the US and even to an extent Vietnam where soldiers went to parties at local towns. However, in the 24th century, especially given the are of space. Those were parts that were too much at times.

Those were great scenes. It was when they had Arnie taking advantage of people's good nature like Dan giving money for what was suppose to be an engagement ring and was a boob job instead. Or the entire sleeping with Jackie was: "Jackie would have had to been so hammered she didn't know what year it was." Was the parts with Arnie that were too much. Let's not get into how they wrote him off with the alien bits and then returning him, which was a big joke later on.

Or the fact they were known to be back stabbers and liars, other worlds listen to them when they said: "Don't trust Voyager, they are worst than us!"

Wow! 30 years, I remember it like yesterday. I really do.

The main problem with this episode was how they were just going to escort Dukat away like that. It was just stupid that something wouldn't happen. However, the true history of everything come out about Dukat. Why the Bajorians hated him so much, even how the Dominion saw what he did as more merciful instead of saying: "You are all going to die!" Which was the Founders outlook when you opposed them. After this episode, I saw just how crazy Dukat was (not that I didn't before). However, at the end when you see him getting away and then where he went with the Pai Wraiths later on. I mean, this guy was sick.

Of course, I can't get over the stupid plot that to writing in Nana Visitar's pregnancy they had to write that a pregnant Keiko went into the Gamma Quadrant (While the Dominion was wiping out Federation ships as often as they could). Add in the fact she wanted Bashire and Kira to go into an astroid field that they both didn't want to. She's a few months pregnant, but what the hell right? Then you add in more with Kira going off to do this. I mean that was too much.

Yeah I agree, there were variables that neither side was seeing. Jack also thought that the Dominion was just be: "Ok, the Federation is done, we'll just absorb them into the Dominion." No, as we found out, Earth would have been burned and most likely Kronos the rest of Romulas and Remos. I mean the Founders told the Jemha'dar to Scorch Earth Cardassia after they turned on them, instead of getting the hell out of Dodge. That was a waste of resources too as then the remaining Cardassian Fleet took apart their fleet returning home. Same goes with Section 31, despite the intelligence of everyone, they didn't see the virus or Section 31 going to extremes that even the Dominion didn't think of.

I agree on that and they just aired the episode where Bev offered to take care of baby for Jackie and Fred and where the phrase: "Call her Bev or Seahag" came from. I have a problem because Fred wasn't in the wrong. I mean, he didn't live with Roseanne and Jackie growing up and had the hatred they had towards Bev because of her letting their dad beat them. I love how Dan stepped in saying: "She was great taking care of the kids." My problem is that they have DJ doing some very stupid and weird stuff just to fit the plot that Fred finds DJ so odd. Putting the baby in a cooking pot, putting magnets on his head hoping he'll get a headache. I get Jackie is just used to it, but she could have just said to Fred: "That's your nephew now, you except the rest of the family weirdness, why not DJ?" The episode comes off weird at times. Especially with Roseanne faking her stress situation during her pregnancy and puts poor David in the middle. Another issue with Becky, when Roseanne said she was knocked down and David was ahead of her. These years with Sarah as Becky were just too much. I hated them and Mark didn't come off any better.

They also built the salon up for a while with the characters and Roseanne could have gone farther, but as we know. That would mean Roseanne would have to move beyond her means of living by going to cosmetology school or anything. Of course, she could have learned from Marcia very well and then done it and been a partner in the salon. However, we had to get the diner and Leon instead.

Yep and something Sisko didn't want, he wanted to be the change, be in charge and make things better for everyone. Instead, he and even Picard were shown "desk 24th century TV suits" who had a one track mine and hated if they had to do anything or remembered what it was like when they were Captains to begin with. I remember in the original series with the Commandant how Kirk had said: "You forgot what it's like to be in that chair. How?"

I agree, they tried, but as the old say goes: "If it's not meant to be, it's not meant to be." I'm just with what most people said: "Give the show a proper final episode."

I'm torn on the episode, Identity Crisis. For one, it is an amazingly filmed and Make-Up/FX episode with some very eerie moments in the episode. However, as even Michael Pillar said: "it wasn't not their best script." Many plot points didn't make sense. We know when the episode was doing the flashbacks with Geordi and Susanna it was just before La Forge went to the Enterprise when they were both on the USS Victory. However, when they investigated during the original Away Mission, it sounds like the outpost/colony was there a short time like a year or so, yet everyone was transformed in a short amount of time. Unlike the Away Team that took 5 years before they started showing and even in Dr. Crusher's talk: "Some were showing signs weeks in advance and some just got up and left." When they were trying to return to the planet. Plus, in 5 years nothing weird was showing up on transporter and medical check ups? They had transporters not wanting to beam Riker aboard when he had that alien virus in season 2 or being paranoid about beaming aboard virus and germs and the computer saying: "No, it's good" or "hope bad!" Another problem with the script was how at the end when Geordi told Susanna he didn't know her or anything, but trusted her and saying how the aliens ran on instinct. So, how the hell did they reframe enough knowledge of who they were to run transporters, fly shuttle craft up to a point (Lt. Hickman apparently at that point didn't remember how to land the shuttle and died as it exploded in the atmosphere). Yet, the other two officers remember how and then tore out of their uniforms and joined the Pack. Another thing was just leaving Geordi by himself, Data would have been assigned during the entire time or that when they found the parasite that was transforming them, why Crusher didn't have La Forge taken to Sick Bay instantly since he was just in early shaking signs by then. There are way, way too many plot holes, but I will hand it to LeVar Burton taking 4 hours for the body suit and make-up for only 2 hours of filming. They said they filmed the final scene on the planet in an hour and then just moved him to do the quick transporter scene that took 20 minutes for takes and that was it. All other make up was quick and a half an hour. Unlike the other actors who had the same 4 hours with full body suit make up for 20 seconds of running away and filmed in that first hour of recording. Speaking of alien pathogens I still can't get over Season 2's premiere of The Child with the alien bacteria and how they couldn't throw it in space because it would go into spawn and infect the next ship or planet it came into. I was like: "You can't put it out in space, put a few probes to attach to it and then throw it into a star or super nova? I mean, it was like basic logic and the use of technology in the 24th century was limited besides constant passing comments about what they could do. Not to mention they wanted the Enterprise to do it when they could have gotten a medical ship with limited crew to transport instead of a ship fill of families and so forth. Plot before character and logic right?

I will agree, Ross was pretty confident. I even like how he said: "I never liked this Emissary Role" yet he realized why it was so important.

I agree, my wife and I had two uncles with their friends stole a car, but they were 16, could legally drive. They took their parent's "cool cars" and one got stuck in a snow bank and the other got a flat and had no spare. They told their dads the cars were stolen and given the circumstances. They never found out. The problem with DJ, he was way too young and we never eve had Dan and Roseanne deal with the kid who dared DJ. Granted, DJ did it, but at the same time, who put him up to it? Who dared him? Yet, that was never addressed. I hate episodes like that, or they have it where the kid is caught and the other parents defends the kid when seriously, they did something very stupid.

Something that always bothered me was when Rom figured out how the mine field could be destroyed and yet, this NEVER, I mean NEVER crossed his mind? I agree on the CGI and we are also suppose to believe that when the Prophets took out the Dominion's other fleet in the wormhole that was the beginning of the end for them? They never had more ships try and go to Cardassia. It was: "Crap! We have to use what we have from now on!"

If CMT does pick it up, I wonder if they will do it like with Hulu and split the costs. I can see guest stars out and maybe a good reason to write off Kristin, Ryan and Boyd for saving money even saying goodbye to Chuck. The problem is, will Tim Allen be able to get away with his political talk on CMT or will he be praising President Trump left and right (which we know in real life he has been back and forth on). If anything, they need to get the show back to making sense again and enough of straw man or plot lines that just end and Vanessa having a brain again. If anything, at least give the series a better send off instead of the embarrassing final episode on ABC.

Which is funny both in Star Trek the Motion Picture and last year with Star Trek Beyond. How both versions of Kirk thought about taking a desk job as Admiral and then realized it was a mistake. Because as Kirk Prime said: "When you are in that seat you make a difference." Sadly, what Admiral did we ever see do that? Hell, back in the original series when Commodores were shown, they were like: "Duh, what me do?" Apparently going to rank 5 and 6 meant your brain left you.

The problem that started on TNG to Voyager was how the hell any of these people ever became Admirals or the fact they wanted to put it as: "They have been behind a desk too long." Do soldiers of old lose who they are to boracay and laziness? Oh sure, it happens. However, I remember watching the various Star Trek's in the 90s and went: "Do any of these admirals know anything?" Seem like it was: "Hey, you should be promoted, here be an admiral." "Duh... OK, me in charge now!"

Pretty much, they said they didn't do anything new with the show. They saved it just to have a new show. Ratings never went up, more to give the show a conclusion or to milk anything left from it. I know they will be airing LMS episodes on Netflix most likely once seaosn 6 concludes next year. However, the show had ran out of steam just like Nashville did and while many are happy it will get a better send off. Others are saying: "So you are just saving the show to have a show on your network?"

You know, after what happened with Nashville. I wonder how this will work out for LMS. I don't get CMT. So, we'll see.