Unification - Part Two
Commander Riker and the crew of the Enterprise continue with their investigation. It leads them to a Ferengi who reluctantly reveals that he has stolen Vulcan ships and handed them off to someone in the vicinity of the Neutral Zone.
Captain Picard and Ambassador Spock meet with Neral, proconsul of the Romulan Senate. Neral expresses an interest in pursuing reunification with the Vulcans but once they have left his office he contacts some of his allies who feel otherwise.
Commander Data and Ambassador Spock work together to break the Romulan transmission codes. They compare notes, while they are working, about the use of becoming more human.
Captain Picard, Ambassador Spock, and Commander Data are captured by the Romulans. Spock refuses to help the Romulans who want him to broadcast a message preparing Vulcan for peaceful dialogue with the Romulans who are actually sending an invasion force.
Picard, Date, and Spock use what they know to fool the Romulans and get a message out to the Enterprise. The Romulan invasion plan is foiled.
Thoughts
There's a lot going on in this episode. Some things seem to happen extremely quickly. Senator Pardek drops out of the story midway through this episode. The same is true of the Klingon commander who flew them to the Romulan home planet. He is in this episode but by the time Spock and Data start working together to break the Romulan codes he is long gone.
Denise Crosby was in this episode, playing Sela, a Romulan. She was best known for playing Tasha Yar in the first season of The Next Generation. She also appeared in three other episodes as Sela. This was Sela's final appearance.
This was a good watch but it is not great. I enjoyed it. I'm glad I've seen it but as I indicated above I think they tried to squeeze a little too much into this story.
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