Review of Booby Trap

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Booby Trap (1989)
Season 3, Episode 6
9/10
Textbook sci-fi, and Star Trek TNG at it's best...
19 March 2014
Warning: Spoilers
It doesn't get any better than this. The Enterprise rolls up on a long dead battle cruiser. Captain Picard insists on going over to check it out, finding it's crew still at their posts, and even a data module of the captains last log entry, taking responsibility for the ships demise and praising his crew. Soon the crew realize that they are trapped in the same situation that killed the Prometheans'.

Anyway, Geordi finds a way to get the Enterprise out of the same energy draining trap that killed the Promethian's ship. By using a simple stick and rudder setup, with Picard at the controls, they get through the field.

After ward, they destroy the old ship so that no one else has reason to investigate and get trapped as well.

I know this is a common theme in Sci-Fi, perhaps one of the oldest and most basic, but for me, it never gets old. I always imagine that I am the one the gets to go over and take a look, and I would have the same reaction as Captain Picard when he got back. "Thrilling, Just thrilling!"
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