I feel that people may have thought this episode was dumb, but I really enjoyed it. The Federation is giving some planets back to Cardassian control, so Picard is asked to help move the Federation inhabitants off one of the worlds. The inhabitants are Native Americans that have left Earth to preserve their culture on a new planet. They do not want to leave and Picard is sort of seen as a white devil or something. History is repeating itself, with the Native Americans again being forced from their land.
Meanwhile, Wesley is back on board. He is questioning his future in Starfleet, he's kind of losing the passion for it. He is visited by a shaman that helps him see his future clearly. Wesley decides to help the Native's stay on their planet much to Picard's disappointment. Wesley then resigns from Starfleet and that "shaman" reveals himself as The Traveler. You may remember him from such episodes as 6 and such seasons as 1. Wesley decides to leave with the Traveler and and explore the universe. How homoerotic.
The Native Americans decide to leave the Federation and live under Cardassian control. The Cardassians allow them to stay and promise to leave them be. The moral of the story is, you have to fight for your right to look a gift horse in the mouth.
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I'll tell you why this episode is stupid: Star Trek (Next Gen in particular) spent the last few decades talking about how man has evolved so their is no longer a need for religion or beliefs in the supernatural.
And yet... there are still Native Americans? There's no Catholic planet, but there's an Indian planet? I dunno about that. This is one of those stories that was written with the best intentions of honoring Native Americans, but it ended up just being patronizing and offensive.
Oh, and this episode also sucks because Wesley Crusher is dumb fucking cunt.
Yeah Wesley is a cunt.
Now that you say it, that episode was rather offensive...I guess it was saying that Native Americans never evolved??!?!
I still liked it though
I think that's what it was saying.
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