I am not really rating this episode, but I simply want to point out the very interesting coincidence that the main underlying plot for it, i.e., an extradition hearing (here for "Chris in the morning"), is the same as that of Episode 7 of the first season of Star Trek Deep Space Nine (entitled "Dax")that aired exactly two months later (02/14/93) and centered around an extradition hearing for Lieutenant Dax. In both cases the somewhat improvised defense was successfully made on the grounds that the person being sought for extradition was no longer the same as the one who had committed the alleged crime (parole violation for Chris, murder for Lt. Dax) as a result of an extensive change of their personality (becoming a radio show host for Chris, changing host body for Lt. Dax). The "icing on the cake" is that for both episodes the hearing judge is played by the SAME actress, Anne Haney.
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Not the Same Person
Hitchcoc6 March 2024
To briefly respond to the previous writer. Of course, Dax was literally not the same person. A classic law school puzzler is one where a person convicted of a capital crime and set for execution, receives some sort of treatment which erases all the events of his or her life. In other words, they are set for punishment for something they have no memory of committing. What do we do. Interesting. Here, Chris's attorney argues that since he took off for Alaska, leaving hs parole officer behind, he has become a completely different. He does remember and is willing to pay the consequences. That's the beauty part. So our judge has quite the dilemma finding a way to enforce the law and yet accept his situation. I have a feeling that in the real world, he would be doing three years, but it's quite the situation.
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