The Stochastic Game
Ramblings of General Geekery

I reached the end of season 01 of Star Trek: The Next Generation! Fun times! But who the hell put some “body snatchers”-style conspiracy and gore in my Star Trek? I mean, I like it a lot, but it was clearly too hastily made. Should have, at the very least, been a two-part episode IMHO.

A weird alien bug escapes from its human host after she has been killed. Big "WTF" moment followed by some giggling from me
The obligatory "we love to eat something you find disgusting", to really show the mind-controlling aliens are weird and bad.
Picard and Riker don't think twice before killing the host of the alien leader. That was very surprising for a Star Trek -- usually the whole shtick of the series is that the characters do whatever they can to avoid taking a life. I guess the writers ran out of time.
Some fun 1990's gore with the mutilated corpse of the human host to the alien leader... or at least that's what we suppose it is.

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