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Star Trek: The Next Generation reviews — season 7

Star Trek: The Next Generation — 7x10 — Inheritance

Synopsis

Data meets a woman who claims to be his mother.

Remarkable scenes

  • Data describing Lal to Juliana. Good continuity there.
  • I like the music scenes in this episode.
  • Seeing Juliana an android.
  • Data describing the reasons he suspected Juliana was an android before.

Review

This is one of the better "Data's past" episodes. Juliana was essentially the perfect android Soong set out to create, despite the ironic circumstances surrounding her creation. She fooled everybody, even herself. But the episode is severely lacking in overall plot. It's nice to get info about Data's past, but it literally dominated this episode. In the end it feels like a big stretched out waste of time, even if a nicely done one.