THE LAST OUTPOST (Season 1-Episode 4) Star Trek TNG

Feel free to check out the awesome trailer that was aired before the episode aired! Oh man these trailers are terrible!! ha ha - but fun!



This is the first time we meet the Ferengi in TNG! They seem like bumbling idiots - however the crew still treats them with some level of kindness and dignity despite their lack of tact as a people! This may be the first time that Ferengi appear in the entire franchise of Star Trek.

I do enjoy the fact that Picard mumbles to himself much more in the first season! And Geordie sure is touchy-feely with his engineering crew when he's excited about making evasive maneuvers! ha ha! Though this is also the begining of Picard's displays of pensiveness.

I do enjoy that Deanna is so level headed at the begining of the series! I wonder how Picard would have survived his years in command of the enterprise without her! I do wish at times that they hadn't played on her femininity so much during the series and just stuck to her being such a strong and reasonable/logical woman! At the very least however, it is sometimes nice to see a female character that has balance of being collected/pragmatic and emotional.

But every episode has to have a DATA moment!! And here it is!!!


I am interested in the fact that the few races in the Star Trek universe that are openly viewed negatively are the races that can't deal with equality between men & women and/or cannot stand equality or at least diplomacy between different races (i.e. ferengi, etc).

I love that this whole episode is built on the philosophy Sun Tzu (Chinese war philosopher). Early on in the episode when Sun Tzu is first quoted, Picard is glad that Riker is familiar - because it is implied that he learned these teachings at Starfleet Academy. It makes a lot of sense to me that the federation would be interested in these kinds of philosophies - as Starfleet is built on diplomatic relations first - war battle only if there is no other option!

But the best part of the whole episode is when Riker suggests that they send a box of Chinese finger traps to the Ferengi as a gift! Oh Riker!! LOL!!

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