Aka stonedposting p2!
I’ll give a refresher by describing the cold open:
Picard is resting in his quarters when he is abducted a device. It gets detected Data, so Worf orders a security team to the Captain’s quarters. It cuts to Picard who attempts communicate with the ship, but gets no response. We cut back to Worf, who sees nothing wrong!
What do you like about it? What happens next? What’s your favorite scene? What insights does it give to the star trek universe?
Allegiance always reminds me of the episode Where Silence Has Lease with Nagilum; similar idea where an Alien race performs experiments on other races and the Crew has to figure it out.
Overall Allegiance is a better episode with better acting by the Doppelgangers and a more satisfying ending.
The thing that gets me about this episode is how it compares to All Good Things.
In AGT there’s a scene where Picard is in the past on the bridge and he’s ordering them into the anomaly, an act which seriously threatens to destroy the ship, and for which he gives no good reason. The crew reasonably objects, and Picard launches into an unpersuasive and platitudinal speech about how awesome the crew is. And the crew goes along with it.
Contrast this with the scene in Allegiance where “Picard” orders them into the anomaly, an act which seriously threatens to destroy the ship and for which he gives no good reason. “Picard” assures them with an unpersuasive and platitudinal speech. And the crew mutinies.
While it’s true that in Allegiance the crew were already suspicious, it’s also true that in the AGT scene the crew didn’t know Picard well enough to give him the benefit of the doubt.
I’d argue that not knowing Picard very well gave them no reason to question him either.
On the other hand, the few things they do know about him includes that he disobeyed orders cancelling the Farpoint mission, declared red alert in drydock, and that he has conversations with letters of the alphabet.
“conversations with letters of the alphabet” hahahah fair. But also like, in their defence, you would assume that someone being placed in command of the flagship of the Federation would have been thoroughly vetted before hand wouldn’t you?
They also put children on the ship, so maybe the admiralty isn’t so smart.
