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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302457087
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302457084
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: May 31, 1995
Running Time: 46 minutes
Sales Rank: 57189
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: September 26, 1987
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Following faint energy signals like a trail of bread crumbs, the Enterprise ends up in the Epsilon Minos system. Riker is excited because this is the area where the mythical world of Aldea is located, an advanced civilization rumored to be centuries old, peaceful, self-contained, and technically sophisticated, where the inhabitants devote themselves to art. What luck, then, that they end up parked just outside of the orbit of this legendary planet and lines of communication open up. Good luck turns to bad when the Aldeans kidnap a bunch of children from the Enterprise and try to pay off the parents by giving them advanced technology. Turns out the Aldeans are impotent and dying off, and need a new generation of children to help repopulate the planet. They try to be good surrogate parents, opening up the kids to their artistic potential, but that doesn't placate the birth parents. "When the Bough Breaks" capitalizes on a natural mistrust of artist colonies, combined with a fear of forced adoption. --Andy Spletzer
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As a math teacher, I was thrilled to see the start of this episode. A young boy running through the corridors of the Enterprise collides with Riker and falls down. He was running from his math class and his father catches up. The father scolds the boy, telling him that everyone needs a basic understanding of calculus. This is stuff to prime the heart of mathematicians everywhere. Unfortunately, after that stellar beginning, the episode collapses.
The Enterprise is following a trail of faint ... Read More
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The Enterprise happens upon the Epsilon Minos system, legendary as the supposed home of a lost utopian colony. Supposedly, hundreds of years earlier, colonists built a life upon Aldea, a life devoted to culture and the arts. So they wouldn't have to focus on science or industry, hundreds of years ago they built a supercomputer that does most of the mental work for them, and helps them to control force fields around the planet, etc.
The Aldeans seem eeriliy friendly - thrilled even to have ... Read More
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"When The Bough Breaks" is such an inconsequential Star Trek: The Next Generation episode that it immediately fades from memory once the closing credits pop up on the screen. If there's any equivalent to newspaper or magazine filler in the television medium then this is it. Well, they can't all be winners.
The Enterprise-D discovers the planet Aldea. However, it turns out the "accidental" meeting between the ship and the planet was planned in advance. The Aldeans have lost the ability ... Read More
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The Aldean Abductors
Unable to repopulate their species; the inhabitants of the planet Aldea steal some children from the Enterprise. Because of a defect in their planets' atmosphere reproduction is impossible. The short version of this one? Wesley and the kids have a hunger strike to protest their abduction. Picard refuses to exchange information for the children. The Aldean leader wanted to exchange technological information for them. It's cold and just stupid. Who in their right mind ... Read More
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