Not a bad idea, a bit corny, but watchable. The Enterprise encounter a disabled vessel ... Picard strikes up a conversation with the ships Captain and it's fairly apparent that he is high as a fucking kite. They soon find themselves in the middle of a bizarre situation. There are two planets; one suffers from a sickness while the other provides them medicine. It seems like a good situation. One planet is kept alive while the other makes a few bucks. Right? WRONG. This "sickness" does not exist, the drug planet is just keeping the people addicted to these drugs. Picard puts an end to this funny business let me tell you what. Tasha Yar also gives the dumbest cliched anti-drug speech to Wesley Crusher. Boy, I wish they would kill her off ... wink, wink.
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I remember this episode blew my mind as a kid. It's really corny now and some of the acting is pretty terrible, but it's still a brilliant premise.
And, yeah, that scene where Yar talks about drugs was pretty awful. The episode already did a pretty good job of pointing out how drugs are bad, so they didn't need to sink to the level of an after school special by pointing out the moral.
Yeah. Another cool thing about this episode was that it had that kid that played David Marcus in it. Who evidently died from AIDS at age 29???
Holy shit. I've never made that connection before. I just looked at his imdb page. He was also in Fright Night 2. Who knew there was a Fright Night 2?
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