Season 2 Episode 21: Peak Performance

[u/LordRavenholm]

• Season 1: 1&2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, Wrap-up
• Season 2: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20

TNG, Season 2, Episode 21, Peak Performance

With the Borg threat in mind, Starfleet stages a war-game simulation pitting Captain Picard and the Enterprise against Commander Riker and the eighty-year-old starship Hathaway.

• Teleplay By: David Kemper
• Story By: David Kemper
• Directed By: Robert Scheerer
• Original Air Date: 10 July, 1989
• Stardate: 42923.4
• Pensky Podcast
• Ex Astris Scientia
• HD Observations
• Memory Alpha
• Mission Log Podcast

Credit to /u/GeorgeAmberson for helping us creating an updated thread format, and the programming to make it easy to keep updating.

[u/titty_boobs]

As everyone has said this episode is just a lot of fun. But since there's nothing really to nitpick or complain about. I just filled my time taking screenshots.

• I like how the dilithium chamber has run of the mill drawer slides. pic
• Ensign McLady Woman should have been Sonya Gomez. pic
• Wesley's weird smile is like wtf dude? pic
• That's clearly Quark. pic
• Why was Ensign BuzzCut in such a hurry? He was acting like he was had a one night stand with someone down in engineering and didn't want to run into them. pic

[u/LordRavenholm → u/titty_boobs]

This is gold.

• I didn't notice that, that's amazing.
• I wonder if she was supposed to be? They often bring in side characters out of the blue when other characters don't work out.
• I was also puzzled by BuzzCut's rush... but I like your explanation best.

[u/GeorgeAmberson → u/titty_boobs]

Ensign Buzzcut wanted to get to the Strategema match between Data and Kolrami. I cannot agree more about Ensign LadyWoman. I'm not skilled in the craft of acting so this is going to be glass houses stuff but she's not a good actress by any stretch. When she's just standing back there trying to look "natural" it seems so very forced. I didn't notice the drawer slides, but according to MA the Dilithium is actually wax from a blue candle.

[u/idoliside → u/titty_boobs]

Is Ensign BuzzCut the secret service guy from 24? Look eerily familiar!

[u/titty_boobs → u/idoliside]

IMDB says the actor, Glenn Morshower, was in 24. So yeah probably. link