History Recap / StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E7Rascals

* FountainOfYouth: Picard, Keiko, Ro and Guinan are all turned into children by a malfunctioning teleporter. They still maintain their adult intelligence, but have to adjust to having less strength and stamina.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Though not very much as Keiko is still his wife, as she points out to him. Nonetheless, the paedophilia implications of Keiko's transformation are still rather disturbing to Miles, and when, saddened by Molly's rejection, snuggles against him, he's clearly uncomfortable.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Though not very much as Keiko is still his wife, as she points out to him. Nonetheless, the paedophilia implications of Keiko's transformation are still rather disturbing to Miles.

** Miles O'Brien getting (understandably) creeped out by a young teenage girl cuddling up to him, made all the worse by the fact that he's married to her.

** Averted with Keiko, who finds her own daughter unable to recognize her and her husband deeply unsettled by the thought of physical intimacy in her current state.

** When Miles O'Brien gets creeped out by her affections and starts equivocating when she points out she's still his wife, young Keiko asks him point blank whether her being a little girl now [[OldManMarryingAChild means the end of their marriage]]. Thankfully, the transporter's being able to reverse the effect at the end means he never has to give her a straight answer.

* INeedAFreakingDrink: Miles tries to deal with the awkwardness of Keiko's teenaged state by going to get coffee, until Keiko insists upon getting it herself, which makes the situation even more awkward. [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodSandwich Then they're so upset that neither of them takes so much as a sip from their coffee before setting down the cups.]]
* LivingOutAChildhoodDream: At the episode's end, Bajoran Ro Laren wishes to stay a child for a bit longer so she can draw with crayons, a thing she could never do when she was a fugitive during her actual childhood.

* ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: As stated under Magic Pants, upon being beamed back to the ''Enterprise'', the now-regressed Picard and company's adult-sized uniforms and clothes are technically now oversized and baggy. It's not just as apparent due it only appearing in that shot and then the quartet wearing replicated child-sized outfits after the act break.

Meanwhile, the children on the ship has all been herded into the ship's classroom, including our four adults kids. They try to get access to the computer, but the children's terminal in the classroom is insufficient. Picard masquerades as Riker's bratty son and delivers a coded message to him to give computer access to the classroom. Riker agrees to hand over control of the computer to the Ferengi, and Dunn stipulates that he must also instruct one of his men on its use. At a computer terminal, Riker feeds the Ferengi a stream of beguiling TechnoBabble while he surreptitiously grants Picard's request.

The one where Captain Picard throws a temper tantrum, 4 years before ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact''...

* RevelingInTheNewForm: While most of the regressed group hate their new state of being, Guinian enjoys it and sees it as an excuse to get away with things that are only socially acceptable for children, such as jumping on beds. At the end, Ro also decides that being a kid isn't so bad and decides to wait until later to change back.

* CursedWithAwesome: How Troi tries to get teen Picard to look at his situation in the event that his condition can't be reversed. "You've been given a gift: a second childhood... without the pain of having to grow up again." By contrast, [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Guinan, who is centuries old]], immediately decides to enjoy this second childhood while she can.

* ShapeshiftingExcludesClothing: As stated under Magic Pants, upon being beamed back to the ''Enterprise'', the now-regressed Picard and company's adult-sized uniforms and clothes are technically now oversized and baggy. It's not just as apparent due it only appearing in that shot and then the quarter wearing replicated child-sized outfits after the act break.

* HiddenDepths: Ro Laren indicates an interest in botany, and then promptly denies it:

** Worf gets easily beaten in a phaser fight with a Ferengi, who nimbly dodges Worf's fire and then zaps him dead-center in the chest.
* ThisIsGonnaSuck: When Keiko asks if Picard has figured out a way to get the computer unlocked, Picard answers that he has figured out only one way to do so, in a tone that suggests he's not going to like what he has to do next.

* TheWorfEffect :

** Interestingly, when Crusher approaches young Picard and asks to speak in his ready room, there's plenty of uncomfortable, awkward subtext in the scene considering the [[ShipTease hints at romance]] between the two characters [[WillTheyOrWontThey ever since the show started]]...but instead Beverly simply brings up the fact that they don't know the cause of his condition or if it could worsen (i.e. give him the mind and emotional state of a teenager, not just the body of one), and so he should temporarily allow Riker to assume command. The fact many will have issues taking orders from an apparent 15-year-old captain also isn't addressed until his talk with Troi.

* LivingOutAChildhoodDream: Bajoran Ro Laren wishes to stay a child for a bit longer so she can draw with crayons, a thing she could never do when she was a fugitive during her actual childhood.