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IntotheWIldcat t1_jde58e2 wrote

Reply to comment by MadcapHaskap in Comparison of Star Trek Series by IMBD Ratings [OC] by insaneplane

You're correct! Somehow Sub Rosa still has a 4.8 rating which I find extremely generous.

Also, lol. I can't believe season 2 started with Troi getting surprise pregnant from an alien and ended with a clip show.

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MadcapHaskap t1_jde9owt wrote

I think it depends on how much you think Sub-Rosa is aware it's cheesy camp and how much you like that sort of thing.

Whereas even in '87 a stranger impregnating you in your sleep is very rape-y even with the sci-fi premise; then raising the rapist, Troi essentially abandoned to her new motherhood, Riker irritated he isn't the father/rapist ... the "It's a badly adapted phase II script" really shows.

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paulc899 t1_jdef1r2 wrote

There was a writers strike then which was why a clip show occurred.

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mikevago t1_jdehsl9 wrote

They were also hoping for an influx of new viewers (I forget what the cause for optimism was), and they wanted to catch people up on the series. And a clip show was the only way to do that in the pre-streaming era! (I think this was just barely in the VCR era, but you had to be a pretty hardcore fan to tape every episode)

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