We still can't move beyond silly dress uniforms, evidently, no matter how futuristic the society. Here we have to transport delegates from two races, one furry and one reptilian, but get waylaid by an accidentally acquired alien that hops from body to body via the ship circuitry and wants to go home.
"Something was afoot." We get our first look at Data as Sherlock Holmes, pipe included, which is fantastic, although any time Data acts "more human" he becomes quite arrogant (though I've heard that could just be more "Brent Spiner" given that it's similar to Lore and many of his other roles). We also get an interesting discussion of "mutiny".
While I love the Data scenes, and the real problems of shuttling delegates that hate and want to eat each other make for some easy comedy in the So Bad It's Good department, I'm afraid this one tips the scales into Bad if nothing else than due to the ridiculous finale involving the Captain. Supposedly of his own choosing (which does not fit the character anymore than the episode "Hide and Q" where Riker becomes an arrogant Q) Picard is beamed into space as energy, is found to be incompatible with the aliens, moves his energy back into the computer, and is rematerialized from that using his saved transporter pattern (even though we later can't do something similar with Moriarty in "Ship in a Bottle", but I'm getting ahead of myself). Bad.
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