About this episode

The episode discusses the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode 'Rascals' and its themes involving children and transporter malfunctions.

Remember when the transporter, Holodeck, warp core, etcetera malfunctioned and then, fill in the blank disaster happens? Yeah, this episode THAT happens! It’s episode 6, Season 6, “RASCALS” and it’s kids, kids, kids! Up the space butt with the kids! And the show had just promised us it would tone down on the kids, didn’t it? Did it, or was that just Ambassador Andrew’s wishful thinking? Seems the Enterprise transporter has gone all wicky-wack, but in the tykiest of ways! Picard, Guinan,...

Topics covered

• Star Trek
• comedy
• transporters
• holodeck
• kids
• season 6
• episode recap

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