TNG s7e18 "Eye of the Beholder"
TIL: The Enterprise bulkheads are made of skeletons
this post was submitted on 20 Feb 2025
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And tritanium alloy, but yeah, mostly skeletons.
I guess this is why Federation Captains and crews constantly broke the Prime Directive .... it was all to keep a steady supply of skeletons to build more ships.
Tritanium -- is what, a portmanteau of Tritium and Titanium? I guess there's three elements with anium in the endings... What if Tritanium is an alloy of those three! Uranium, Germanium, and Titanium.
Actually, it probably just sounded cool. ;)
Oh, so that's what they meant by skeleton crew.
What's a "bulkhead"
It's an offensive term for someone who is not smart. I thought we had moved past using these petty insults smh
A bulkhead was a wall-like partition in a starship or space station used to aid structural integrity.
Okay fine, maybe there are skeletons, but there are definitely no ghosts in the bulkheads.
Well, none except on Blazin’ Bev’s deck
What do we make of it that this skeleton is a figment? A dream? A fantasy brought on by relationship & psychic trauma?
Having recently watched this episode and totally forgotten it since last time, I'm just thrown off by it. Troi experiences these psychic visions left by remnants of a partial telepath. Then she fully hallucinates mimicking some of those actions, including killing Worf, only to snap out of it and mere seconds have passed. Didn't seem to be a lot of point to it.
Then I think the point I'm taking from all of this is that our experience is are real, And they matter, even when they're just inside our head.
Except perhaps to fill an hourly timeslot for the show? 🤪
Season 7 has some of its best episodes, but over half of them were clearly leftover ideas/filler. How else do we end up with Sub Rosa, Thine Own Self, Masks, Genesis, Firstborn, Bloodlines, Emergence, and so on?
Although conversely, All Good Things... was outstanding imho!
I suppose all good things eventually come to an end, even as other shows began to take its' place such as DS9 (which I didn't appreciate until I could binge and thereby catch the running plotlines as intended).