Star Trek: The Next Generation analysis of season 1 episode 16 (When the Bough Breaks)
Happy LANDBACK Day! Mike and Nic come back after a long break full of piss and vinegar, ready to review an episode jam-packed with complex themes. What we lack in regular posting, we make up for in rowdiness. And conversations about dog poop (you'll see!).
When the Bough Breaks is doing a LOT - we ended up identifying something in the range of 10 major ideas that this episode introduces and tackles to varying degrees of completion.
We do our best but can't cover all of it; most of our analysis focuses on the idea of family, parental expectations of their children, the dangers of insinuating some races (species) don't care about their kids, and what it really means for a culture (or a people) to persist.
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S1E18 Coming of Age: The One in Which Snitches Get Stitches
S1E17 Home Soil: The One in Which the Crew Gets Read for Filth by an LED Light
S1E15 Too Short a Season: The One in Which Age Ain't Nothing But a Number
S1E14 11001001: The One in Which Riker Falls in Love with a Manic Pixie Dream Hologirl
S1E13 Angel One: The One in Which Riker Overcomes Reverse Sexism
S1E12 Datalore: The One in Which Data Gets a Widdle Brudder
S1E11 The Big Goodbye: The One in Which Bev Gets Picard-Blocked
S1E10 Haven: The One in Which Deanna Almost Gets Married
S1E9 Hide and Q: The One in Which Riker Learns with Great Power…
S1E8 The Battle: The One in Which Picard Gets a Headache
S1E7 Justice: The One in Which Wesley Gets Murdered for Stepping on Flowers & Picard Meets God
S1E6 Lonely Among Us: The One in Which Picard Turns into Pure Energy
S1E5 Where No One Has Gone Before: The One in Which Wesley Meets the Traveler
S1E4 The Last Outpost: The One in Which Star Trek Does an Antisemitism
S1E3 Code of Honor: The One in Which Star Trek Does a Racism
S1E2 The Naked Now: The One in Which The Crew is H*RNY
S1E1 Encounter at Farpoint: The One in Which it Went on Too Long
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