So yeah. Troi arrives to counsel Barclay. Again. He’s stationed at the Pathfinder project who are looking at ways to communicate with Voyager. It seems Voyager is the latest thing he’s become obsessed with. Dear God why? Says me writing a blog about it. He’s created a holodeck programme about them and spends time living there with the crew and Janeway. Her? But he’s not obsessed with holocharacters again, so it’s okay. Anyway, shouldn’t his supervisor be checking his holologs? I mean, he knows the guy suffered from holoaddiction.
Apparently not. Barclay has had an idea to contact Voyager but his boss doesn’t want to hear as he isn’t doing his scheduled stuff. Admiral Paris (Tom’s father) arrives the next day and Barclay tries his idea with him but doesn’t go well until he scales back his plans with the Voyager “crew’s” help. Paris (the Admiral not the city) says he’ll initiate a review of his findings. This isn’t good enough for him so goes to the lab at night and does the plan anyway where he’s found and moves to the holodeck. He likes holodecks. It turns out the plan succeeds and they contact the real Voyager. Though I have to say the scene with daddy Paris talking to his son was quite touching. So in summary, if you don’t get your own way, do it anyway.
With the two TNG stars I did notice that there was a lot more tecnobabble. For instance Barclay’s idea about contacting Voyager involves “a tachyon beam at a class B itinerant pulsar, with enough gravimetric energy to create an artificial wormhole”.
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