Rascals
- Episode aired Oct 31, 1992
- TV-PG
- 45m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
3.3K
YOUR RATING
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.
David Birkin
- Young Jean-Luc Picard
- (as David Tristan Birkin)
Isis Carmen Jones
- Young Guinan
- (as Isis J. Jones)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis is the first of two "Next Generation" episodes directed by Adam Nimoy, the son of Leonard Nimoy. The other is Timescape (1993).
- GoofsWhen 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
[Picard, turned into a child and under the ruse of being Riker's son, accidentally calls him "Number One"]
Young Jean-Luc Picard: He's my number one dad!
- ConnectionsFeatured in Top 10 Star Trek Technobabbles (2008)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage
Featured review
Reasonably good but could have been better
Captain Picard, Ensign Ro, Guinan, and Keiko O'Brien are physically transformed into children due to a transporter accident.
This had a lot of potential to be a great episode. Unfortunately there were some creative decisions that do not quite work for me, but overall it is not bad.
The plot involves a great concept that has so much potential entertainment, and in some scenes it delivers, but unfortunately it shifts direction when the Ferengi arrive and all the possible humour and awkwardness is substituted for a silly Enterprise takeover.
It starts off superb for me, with scenes like young Keiko and her family and young Picard on the bridge being suitably awkward and compelling. The different outlook on childhood between Guinan and Ro Laren is also a great idea that starts and finishes very strongly, but the less said about the 'you were a jumper' scene the better.
The scenes involving the Ferengi are ill conceived and as one other reviewer already stated you have to switch off your brain to appreciate them. They will likely irritate those who take Trek too seriously, but fortunately I do not. However, I think it would have been so much better if they had just focussed on more awkward scenes of interaction with the central characters going about their normal lives in the twelve year old bodies.
The child actors do a decent job with the material they have, particularly David Birkin and Megan Parlen. I like how all four portray their characters' body language perfectly. Also, little touches like young Picard running a hand through his hair is cool. Jonathan Frakes has a pretty decent episode, especially playing all the technobabble for laughs.
I think it comes down to how funny you find the overall episode to judge its success. It has some strong moments but I think it missed an opportunity be excellent.
This had a lot of potential to be a great episode. Unfortunately there were some creative decisions that do not quite work for me, but overall it is not bad.
The plot involves a great concept that has so much potential entertainment, and in some scenes it delivers, but unfortunately it shifts direction when the Ferengi arrive and all the possible humour and awkwardness is substituted for a silly Enterprise takeover.
It starts off superb for me, with scenes like young Keiko and her family and young Picard on the bridge being suitably awkward and compelling. The different outlook on childhood between Guinan and Ro Laren is also a great idea that starts and finishes very strongly, but the less said about the 'you were a jumper' scene the better.
The scenes involving the Ferengi are ill conceived and as one other reviewer already stated you have to switch off your brain to appreciate them. They will likely irritate those who take Trek too seriously, but fortunately I do not. However, I think it would have been so much better if they had just focussed on more awkward scenes of interaction with the central characters going about their normal lives in the twelve year old bodies.
The child actors do a decent job with the material they have, particularly David Birkin and Megan Parlen. I like how all four portray their characters' body language perfectly. Also, little touches like young Picard running a hand through his hair is cool. Jonathan Frakes has a pretty decent episode, especially playing all the technobabble for laughs.
I think it comes down to how funny you find the overall episode to judge its success. It has some strong moments but I think it missed an opportunity be excellent.
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- snoozejonc
- Nov 13, 2021
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- Runtime45 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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