Also the good guys shouldn’t really be trying to kill everything. Now, if the bad guys wanna make heads asplode, I’d be cool with that. The collector guy who stole Data had that fucked up illegal gun that slowly disintigrates you while letting you feel it the entire time. The one person it is used on wasn’t as visually stunning, but it was still brutal af given they describe why the weapon is banned.
Yeah that was a good character development for data episode. Just a good episode overall. The bad guy reminded me of some of the ToS flair I also enjoy.
Apparently someone (I forget who, probably the director) was unsure about whether they should go that far. So he showed the final cut of the scene to his five-year-old son. When the kid wasn’t noticeably traumatized, the decision was made to keep the scene in as is.
Settings and duration, maybe. Or a special case because these aliens were hella resilient to the phasers until set at maximum, hit with 2 at once, and the beam was sustained on him for quite a long time compared to any other time we see phaser hits.
I rember being utterly shocked by how gory that scene was when I first watched TNG in order a few years ago. Still kinda am to this day.
Yeah tbh it was too damn much. Tonally way off
Also the good guys shouldn’t really be trying to kill everything. Now, if the bad guys wanna make heads asplode, I’d be cool with that. The collector guy who stole Data had that fucked up illegal gun that slowly disintigrates you while letting you feel it the entire time. The one person it is used on wasn’t as visually stunning, but it was still brutal af given they describe why the weapon is banned.
Yeah that was a good character development for data episode. Just a good episode overall. The bad guy reminded me of some of the ToS flair I also enjoy.
Thats the 80s for you. Someone watched Scanners and was like “yeah, lets do that.”
I gotta wonder if the FX crew was like: eh, this might be the end of the show, who knows if it’ll get picked up… let’s out-do scanners!
Apparently someone (I forget who, probably the director) was unsure about whether they should go that far. So he showed the final cut of the scene to his five-year-old son. When the kid wasn’t noticeably traumatized, the decision was made to keep the scene in as is.
Certainly an attempt at grabbing ratings. Worked, but also paved the way for other weird, gory moments like the Borg body statue by 8472.
I have to wonder, why didn’t hand phasers always explode heads?
Settings and duration, maybe. Or a special case because these aliens were hella resilient to the phasers until set at maximum, hit with 2 at once, and the beam was sustained on him for quite a long time compared to any other time we see phaser hits.
There are loads of species that are also resistant to phasers.
Their heads don’t explodify.
Just saying, lol.
(I also love that moment when Data whips out a hand phaser and takes out a dam from miles away)