1.05 Where No One Has Gone Before

Rating: 2

A routine tuning of the Enterprise engines by a Starfleet approved team of an obnoxious Starfleet officer and a mysterious alien turns sour when Enterprise goes on a sleigh ride and ends up millions of light-years from home.

Comments

The Enterprise arrives at a place where the line between thought and reality is blurred. This plot device was later resurrected, in a slightly different form, as The Nexus in the movie Star Trek: Generations. Personally, I didn’t like it then, and I don’t like it now.

Wesley is revealed by The Traveler as being akin to a child prodigy like Mozart, but with high aptitude in propulsion and science (which finally explains why he keeps saving the ship).

Wesley wears an orange/pink shirt that looks very much like a bedspread.

The Traveler acts, looks, and sounds like he is from a race of stereotypical computer geeks.

The final scene, when Picard appoints Wesley an acting Ensign, and Wesley sits on the bridge, feels so much like a Disney-after-school-special moment it hurts. J

Memorable Moments

•    In the first scene when The Traveler and Wesley are fine-tuning the graphic animation at the terminal, the shots of the graphic and the Traveler’s head are well-done. The animation seems to be flowing from his mind