after too many bad memory and i take to skip this episode each time it show up in the season 2 sequence . i recently watch it again just to remind me why . i have always consider this the bad st representtng episode ( with the exception of shade of gray and which barely count a an episode at all ) . i keep listen to the clunky dialogue and thinking of the script red pencil by the author write 101 teacher represent show and dont tell . from deanna troi pronouncement and and everyone else constant elbow reminder about what a charming and dangerous rogue okona be and to guinan explanation about how funny her droid joke be ( it isn not ) and to the who care resolution to the conflict and there isn not a plot point that isn not highlight and triple underlined for our edification and and there ain not a believable moment in any of it . unfortunately and bill campbell and a charming actor in other circumstance and be too puppy dog huggable to be the center of the machination of the plot . on the other hand and it could be that no one short of john barrowman ( jack harkness from doctor who ) could pull of this underwritten placeholder of a role . ( zero point and by the way and to the data subplot . while i think joe piscopo stop be funny decade ago and he and brent spiner have nothing to work with here . although the jerry lewis bit be funny in a stupid way . ) on a good day and you may be able to think of this a a charming little homage to a less original series episode . me and i would rather skip ahead to time square or q who .