Star Trek TNG - Why did they never follow up with this episode

[silverpig]

Description at wikipedia

With their phasers at maximum setting, Picard and Riker simultaneously fire at Remmick, whose head and upper torso explode. Dozens of dead alien bugs fall from the corpse, then a large creature rises from the remains of Remmick's lower torso and shrieks in anger. Riker and Picard fire until it disintegrates.

Picard and Riker return to the ship. Dr. Crusher reports the parasite inside Quinn has dwindled to nothingness. Apparently, they cannot survive without the mother creature that was inside Remmick. The lingering question is what those creatures are and where they come from. Data indicates that before Remmick was killed, he was sending a signal toward a distant quadrant of the galaxy. It appears to be a homing beacon, perhaps to guide something to Earth.

This was a pretty cool episode... They totally could have done a follow up where the bugs try to attack again but they never did.

 

[nakedfrog]

They could have done a lot of things.

 

[slugg]

I just started watching TNG... It's the first ST series I've ever seen while taking it seriously. I used to watch some Voyager when I was younger, just because I never had cable TV and it just happened to be on, but I didn't pay attention to it.

That being said, I've seen all the episodes in order from season 1 to episode 5 of season 3 as of right now. Now that you mention that episode, I agree that it may have been interesting to watch, but I must admit that I'm far more interested in Q and the Borg. That's all I have to say for now, since I'm not done watching the series. Good stuff though!

Edit: If you like parasite aliens so much, maybe you should watch Stargate SG-1? It's amazing, trust me.

 

[silverpig]

Yeah I've seen most of SG-1... all of Atlantis. I know of the Goa'uld (or however you spell that).

It's just that TNG revisits the borg, the romulans, certain klingon arcs and other races a few times, but these guys just got the one off passing treatment despite being set up for more.

 

[ballmode]

Originally posted by: slugg
I just started watching TNG... It's the first ST series I've ever seen while taking it seriously. I used to watch some Voyager when I was younger, just because I never had cable TV and it just happened to be on, but I didn't pay attention to it.

That being said, I've seen all the episodes in order from season 1 to episode 5 of season 3 as of right now. Now that you mention that episode, I agree that it may have been interesting to watch, but I must admit that I'm far more interested in Q and the Borg. That's all I have to say for now, since I'm not done watching the series. Good stuff though!

Edit: If you like parasite aliens so much, maybe you should watch Stargate SG-1? It's amazing, trust me.

WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN!!

Keep watching and catch up

 

[So]

Originally posted by: silverpig
Yeah I've seen most of SG-1... all of Atlantis. I know of the Goa'uld (or however you spell that).

It's just that TNG revisits the borg, the romulans, certain klingon arcs and other races a few times, but these guys just got the one off passing treatment despite being set up for more.

IIRC, they decided the federation being controlled by evil bugs was way too dark for the tone they wanted to set.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: silverpig
Yeah I've seen most of SG-1... all of Atlantis. I know of the Goa'uld (or however you spell that).

It's just that TNG revisits the borg, the romulans, certain klingon arcs and other races a few times, but these guys just got the one off passing treatment despite being set up for more.

IIRC, they decided the federation being controlled by evil bugs was way too dark for the tone they wanted to set.

Right. I remember that too.

 

[TheVrolok]

I'm into season 5 of my ... billionth.. watch through of TNG.. so good.

 

[octopus41092]

Eh, that one was okay. It was more his head exploding, the bug popping out and screaming that was cool than the plot though.

 

[dennilfloss]

According to Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion, the aliens and the homing signal the parasites began were originally supposed to lead in to what would become the Borg, who would be an insectoid race and the parasites be a first wave, but budgetary reasons made them into cyborgs instead.

Check the Background Information regarding the violence also.

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Conspiracy_(episode)

During the dinner scene, Jonathan Frakes accidentally swallowed a few grub worms

 

[irishScott]

Don't mean to hijack, but SG-1 did the same thing with the Retoo. Sure they killed the one rebel cell that infiltrated the SGC, but seriously. We've got invisible alien terrorists who actually look alien, and almost blew up the SGC. How do you not follow up on something like that? Hell bring the good ones in as allies or something. Retoo vs Anubis FTW!

 

[Molondo]

When riker fought that guy, i couldn't stop laughing. What the hell was that?

 

[mrkun]

DS9 was so much better from S4-S7.

 

[Shadowknight]

FYI: originally, they found signs of someone scooping cities/land from planets BEFORE they ran into the Borg; originally the Ferengi were going to be the ones doing that, but then they changed it to the Borg. I always thought it didn't make any sense a species in another galaxy was responsible for that...

 

[Newbian]

Originally posted by: Shadowknight
FYI: originally, they found signs of someone scooping cities/land from planets BEFORE they ran into the Borg; originally the Ferengi were going to be the ones doing that, but then they changed it to the Borg. I always thought it didn't make any sense a species in another galaxy was responsible for that...

Well they knew where humanity was and were collecting their technology to examine.

 

[Steve]

Actually, it kinda was a follow-up episode - there was one earlier that season where people were talking about strange orders coming from HQ, and of course one with Remmick (maybe it was the same episode?).

In any case, don't forget that the first season was affected by the writer's strike of '87. I suppose after that was over the writing went in a different direction.

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Molondo
When riker fought that guy, i couldn't stop laughing. What the hell was that?

:laugh:

Riker has pretty high kicks, doesn't he?

 

[alkemyst]

Maybe it's a conspiracy why it wasn't continued....

 

[Fritzo]

I actually wondered that myself. I think they forgot. It was probably the best 1st season episode.

 

[zebano]

That episode gave me nightmares...

 

[mundane]

Originally posted by: zebano
That episode gave me nightmares...

 

[JeffreyLebowski]

This episode was shown once when it was 1st aired and then not shown on broadcast TV for amost 10 years.

 

[AstroManLuca]

I tried watching the first season of TNG recently and I couldn't do it. I gave up after the pre-intro teaser on the third episode. It's just so bad. I'm amazed it didn't get canceled.

Tip: Pick it up around season 3, or maybe watch a few of the good episodes from season 2 and then start watching all of them with season 3.

 

[Insomniator]

Man TNG was so freaking good.

The first season was pretty awful though...

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: silverpig
Yeah I've seen most of SG-1... all of Atlantis. I know of the Goa'uld (or however you spell that).

It's just that TNG revisits the borg, the romulans, certain klingon arcs and other races a few times, but these guys just got the one off passing treatment despite being set up for more.

IIRC, they decided the federation being controlled by evil bugs was way too dark for the tone they wanted to set.

Right. I remember that too.

This episode always stood out to me as kind of out of place in TNG. I liked the episode, but it was creepy and much darker then TNG generally was.