The TNG cast is really coming together now, but even beyond that The Bounty is hitting the fan service hard. We’re not anti-fan service, though. We’ll look at a ship museum. We’ll notice that the NX Enterprise refit is canon now. We’re not above this. As for the actual plot, the pacing is rough on this one. In one thread, a Riker/Worf/Raffi away team discovers a new Data that’s not totally Data but is probably Data enough. However, the distance between that revelation and them actually reactivating our favorite android starts to feel like Zeno’s paradox. Back on the Titan, Geordi is mystifyingly unwilling to help his old friends save the universe. Look I get it, the writers want the characters coming together to feel “earned,” plus they have this whole episode marked down as “Geordi works out his family/Picard issues before the adventure continues” in their outline, but they still have to come up with a convincing reason for the conflict. It can’t just be “conflict goes here.” It’s like they have no story to tell but are being forced to tell one anyway.
