The Binars copy their computer onto the Enterprise computer, and then when it is wiped they restore it using the Enterprise backup. It turns out that the Binars have stolen the Enterprise because something is going to wipe the computer on their planet.
As soon as the ship gets away from the starbase the magnetic field repairs itself. Riker and Picard are on the holodeck, but nobody can contact them. The sequence where the ship is abandoned and sent out into space so the explosion is away from the starbase is bloody excellent, you get a real sense of how big the crew is. Suddenly, the antimatter containment field starts to collapse and so they evacuate the Enterprise. There is a really nice scene in the upgraded holodeck where Riker creates a fantasy woman in a Jazz bar in the 1950’s, and plays a bit of trombone. Many of the crew leave for some shore leave (as much of the ship has to be shut down to facilitate the upgrades) – for example Worf and Tasha go and play a game called Parisee Squares (a game we hear about a lot but don’t see) and Riker spends the first fifteen minutes getting the brush off from everyone as they all have other things to do, and he is pretty much the only person left on the ship apart from Picard, Wesley and the upgrade team (four Binars).
#Star trek tng minuet upgrade#
The premise is simple: the Enterprise is in a starbase having it’s first upgrade, including an upgrade on the holodeck. Riker in particular does well out of this episode – there aren’t all that many episodes that give him a lot to do, but this one does. This episode is so simple, in fact almost nothing happens in it, yet somehow it is great.
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