Rascals

Episode aired Oct 31, 1992
TV-PG
45m

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

3.5K

YOUR RATING

David Birkin, Isis Carmen Jones, Caroline Junko King, and Megan Parlen in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Action Adventure Drama Sci-Fi

An emergency beam out renders four crewmen down to childhood shortly before renegade Ferengi take over the Enterprise and offload the adults.An emergency beam out renders four crewmen down to childhood shortly before renegade Ferengi take over the Enterprise and offload the adults.An emergency beam out renders four crewmen down to childhood shortly before renegade Ferengi take over the Enterprise and offload the adults.

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

3.5K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
This is the first of two "Next Generation" episodes directed by Adam Nimoy, the son of Leonard Nimoy. The other is Timescape (1993).

Goofs
When the boy Picard sits at the classroom computer devising his plan to retake the ship, he shows to the girl Ro and the girl Guinan the path they need to take to get to Engineering. He shows them that they will have to travel through a Jefferies tube and then cross an open corridor to get to their destination; however, the diagram the computer displays is clearly of a slice of the saucer section, port side. Engineering is in the secondary hull, below the saucer section, some 20-odd decks below where the children are.

Quotes
Commander William T. Riker: So, son, how are you?
Young Jean-Luc Picard: I'm okay.
Commander William T. Riker: And how are your friends Keiko and Guinan and Ro?
Young Jean-Luc Picard: They're okay, too. But...
Commander William T. Riker: What's wrong?
Young Jean-Luc Picard: Well, we don't have anything to do. None of the games are working.
Commander William T. Riker: I know. The Ferengi made Daddy turn off the main computer.
Young Jean-Luc Picard: [pointedly] Well, can't you just turn on the kids' computer? In schoolroom eight. We just want to play a few games.
Commander William T. Riker: I don't know if they'll let me, Jean-Luc, but I will ask.
Young Jean-Luc Picard: Thanks, Number One.
[Berik looks over at them, suspicious]
Young Jean-Luc Picard: [quickly] He's my number one dad!

Connections
Featured in Top 10 Star Trek Technobabbles (2008)

Soundtracks
Star Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage

User reviews27

Featured review

5/10

Maybe a different threat would've helped

'Rascals' is the first TNG episode in a long time to . . . eh, it just doesn't do anything for me. It's clear that they were going for something light-hearted with a title like that, but it's the execution that's a problem. The science involved is flimsy (it's just there to explain the problem away) and even though the child actors are able, the absence of Patrick Stewart just saps this of any dramatic wright.

And then the Ferengi walk in, and things were already silly enough.

5/10