When the Bough Breaks
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When the Bough Breaks

The imaginary planet of Aldea turns out to be real – and it has a real problem. Its inhabitants can no longer reproduce. Their solution: kidnap kids from the Enterprise. Oddly enough, this does not go over well with Captain Picard and the crew. Can Picard overcome the incredibly advanced technology possessed by Aldea and with the children back? Find out, When the Bough Breaks all over the Mission Log.

 

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  1. someone says:
    May 15, 2016 at 7:01 pm

    Regarding sending the Enterprise so far away that when they got back the children would be grandparents, I would have liked them to discuss traveling at relativistic speeds. At warp 9, the Enterprise crew could get back in weeks as the kids on Aldea saw decades go by.

    • Low Mileage Pit Woofie says:
      May 23, 2016 at 12:01 pm

      The rest of the universe would have seen decades go by as well; I suspect that’s why near-relativistic travel is generally avoided, at least among Starfleet vessels.

  2. Low Mileage Pit Woofie says:
    May 28, 2016 at 1:04 pm

    It never occurred to me until your observation in the podcast that the Aldeans weren’t prepared to listen to Picard and crew until Riker and Data had taken out the defences and left them no choice. I’m assuming Picard was operating on the wisdom of Admiral Al Capone: “You can get much further with a reasoned explanation and a phaser than you can with just a reasoned explanation.”

  3. Stephen Boro says:
    August 29, 2016 at 1:16 pm

    Hi Guys! Love the show! I started a few months ago from episode 1, and just got to TNG last week. Enjoy it tremendously. One small correction. Kim Manners is a guy, and went on to direct and produce tons of X-files. He passed in 2009.