Chris Snellgrove | Published
Captain Picard made many crazy decisions Star Trek: Next Generation This ranged from refusing to wiping Borg to precocious teenagers flying businesses. But perhaps his wildest choices were made none while vaporizing a relatively harmless assassin. The fans spent year We’re trying to understand whether Picard said nothing in the climax of “The Factor of Vengeance,” but the real reason he stood quietly while Riker killed the woman is that Patrick Stewart can’t help but ruin the optical special effects of Riker’s deadly phaser blast.
In this episode, our brave crew discovers that a young woman named Utah is in fact an assassin. She advances towards the target, and Riker warns her and shoots her with a stronger phaser blaster, eventually the captain quietly evaporating. Picard’s lack of response at the end of “The Vengeance Factor” is very strange, but episode director Timothy Bond later explained that he wanted the captain in the shot where Utah was killed, but the optical effect required him to stay motionless.
is recorded in Captain’s Log: An Unfair Complete Trekking VoyageBond decides to have Picard in the most shocking scene of “The Factor of Vengeance.” The moment when Riker evaporates the assassin. He thought the captain’s presence was “really neat,” but to pull everything apart was “putting some layers of elements into the shot, and Picard had to stay still for it to work properly.” The director admitted that Picard sat down and did nothing and was “not for good reason” and that it was too late, “When I saw it, I actually regretted the decision.”
Interestingly, Picard’s actor Patrick Stewart was as confused as the fans with his character’s inaction at this climactic moment in “The Factor of Vengeance.” According to Bond, the actor was very trusted and asked, “I should just sit here and do nothing?” The episode’s director fell behind and realized this was a bad thing, but he initially felt it was the best course of action.
If you’re a Picard fan you’ve spent now Decades This explanation seems unsatisfied when asked why he did nothing in the “frustration factor.” For example, it makes sense from a special effects perspective, but it’s totally odd when you see Picard sitting there and saying nothing while Riker speaks, and finally killing Utah in four minutes. Timothy Bond agreed, and turned out to point out, “What I should have done is what you normally should do – you didn’t put him in the shot.”
What makes all this even more crazy is that Riker doesn’t have to kill Yuta… we see that she can’t be unsure of a low setting, but the first mate fires at her only twice before maximizing the phaser. Maybe there was a setting between “Stan” and “Vaeration” that could have knocked her out? Furthermore, he claimed that he had a laser gun and that she was a clear and current threat that she could not be captured, as she only had glass. very Fuzzy at best.
The moral awfulness of Riker’s big moments makes Picard’s silence and inaction very strange with the “venge factor.” But we know that this strange moment was caused by the need for the captain to be completely stationary during the optical effects. Unfortunately, this effect has done more than killing Utah… in the eyes of many fans, in the face of a deputy officer who killed Picard’s character and murdered someone before him, making him look indecisive and indeed passive.
