Actually I quite enjoyed this episode, but “Tucker gets stranded/abducted” is the centre square on Enterprise Bingo
It could have been cheesily amusing if Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra was made into a run-in the Enterprise show had with the same species.
You forgot pregnant. There’s also Tucker gets pregnant. I got to get myself some of those light up rocks.
He doesn’t l’or to talk about that.
Phlox has a whole blog dedicated to it though.
The TNG episode is better than the movie, Enemy Mine, it was based on.
I’m gonna chalk this travesty of a comment up to cultural differences. That film was a masterwork of human achievement and I DARE you to name a better pregnant-male-coded-alien-bearded-human couple in cinema, ever.
Arnold Schwartzenegger in Junior?
beardless!! But, also a masterpiece.
*TOS