History Recap / StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E7Rascals

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Though not very much as she is still his wife [[{{Narm}} as she points out]]. The {{Lolicon}} implications of Keiko's transformation are still rather disturbing to Miles.

* DebateAndSwitch: 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 [[{{Lolicon}} being a little girl now]] [[OldManMarryingAChild means the end of their marriage]]; [[FridgeHorror which is an awfully good question, come to think of it]]. Mercifully, the transporter's being able to reverse the effect at the end means he never has to give her a straight answer.

* {{Technobabble}}: Riker distracts Morta with this so he can, [[FailedASpotCheck with his free hand]], release the computer lockout where the kids are so they can begin to retake the ship.

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: The crew even forget they largely outnumber the pirates.
** Especial egregious since the crew is explicitly stated to be over a thousand while the intruders number only in dozens.

* TheWorfEffect : {{Exaggerated}} since not only does Worf promptly get shot, but Riker along with about 1,000 other crew manages to lose the Federation's flagship against no more than two dozen Ferengi pirates using refurbished old Klingon birds of prey. Odo would later justly troll Worf about this incident (among others) when he complained about the seeming laxity of station security on Deep Space Nine as compared to that of the ''Enterprise''.

* AdultsAreUseless: PlayedWith. The Enterprise and its crew are saved by the same old Picard trapped in a kid’s body. He’s helped by his three other rejuvenated comrades, Riker and Alexander. Yes, Alexander is more useful than [[TheWorfEffect his father]] and hundreds of other adults.

* BrickJoke: Young Picard gets a scene where he gets to run his hands through a full head of hair. Once he's restored, he touches his once-again bald head.

* CharacterTics: Notably Picard's shirt tug and Guinan's eye roll are carried on by their younger selves.
* ContrivedCoincidence: It's not explained how or where this temporal anomaly that stripped out vital parts of the four's DNA came from, only that it was in the exact right place, at the right time, to cause the episode's events.

* DullSurprise: (Young)Keiko's actress for the majority of the episodes.

* 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.

* PrettyBoy: Young Picard. And from the looks of it, he enjoys being back there for some time.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: It has always applied for Guinan, but it applies even more to her in this episode.

* StatusQuoIsGod: Of course, but there's nothing that says it has to happen right away, as Guinan points out to Ensign Ro.

* CursedWithAwesome: How Troi tries to get Kid!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."

* ForgotAboutHisPowers: The crew even forget they’re largely outnumbering the pirates.

** ([[FridgeHorror Luckily]]) such realism was spared Picard's artificial heart!

* TheWorfEffect : {{Exaggerated}} since he’s not only shot, but manages to lose with Riker a 1000 manned Flagship against two dozens of Ferengi pirates who use old Klingon birds of prey. Odo will justly troll Worf about this incident in [=DS9=].

* TheWorfEffect : {{Exaggerated}} since he’s not only shot, but manages to lose with Riker a 1000 manned Flagship against two dozens of Ferengi pirates who use old Klingon birds of prey.

* FridgeLogic: Why Alexander knows he’s talking to Captain Picard? Everybody on the ship already knew what happened, except the Ferengi pirates?

* TearJerker: When Molly fails to recognize her mommy in the transformed Keiko, it hits Keiko - and us - hard.

* TheWorfEffect : {{Exaggerated}} since he’s not only shot, but manages to lose with Riker a 1000 manned Flagship against two dozens of Ferengi pirates who use old Klingon birds of prey.
* YouLookFamiliar: The child actor who played Young Picard previously played Picard's nephew in "Family". Unfortunately he'd gone through a major growth spurt since then (just check out the shot that shows him to be almost as tall as the gigantic Jonathan Frakes!) which rather undercuts the whole helpless child thing.

* MagicPants: Picard, Ensign Ro, Keiko, and Guinan are in a transporter accident that beams them onto the Enterprise as 12-year-old children while their clothes all shrink to fit their child bodies perfectly. In the end, they show Picard turned back into an adult with the transporter and again, his clothes grow with him.
** This ([[FridgeHorror luckily!]]) must also be the case with Picard's artificial heart!

** This ([[FridgeHorror luckily!]]) seems to be also the case with Picard's artificial heart!

** This ([[FridgeHorror luckily!]]) somehow seems to be also the case with Picard's artificial heart!

* YouLookFamiliar: The child actor who played Young Picard previously played Picard's nephew in "Family".

* WouldHurtAChild: Lurin is quite the monster, threatening to kill all the children if Riker doesn't release computer control.

* ForgottenPhlebotinum: This is actually the ''second'' time the ''Enterprise's'' transporter has de-aged somebody (the first was [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E7UnnaturalSelection "Unnatural Selection"]]. Yet still nobody seems to realize the [[FountainOfYouth implications]] of this beyond the immediate issue!

* WouldHurtAChild: Lurin is quite the monster, threatening to kill all the children if Riker doesn't release computer control.

* {{Emo}}: How 12-year-old Ro chooses to take her transformation, until a little coaching from Guinan.

* TheCaptain: As always. But crossed with a bit of NarmCharm when he needs to act like a little kid to get on the bridge (and much younger than his perceived age, but the Ferengi don't know that!)
* ContrivedCoincidence: It's not explained how or where this temporal anomaly that stripped out vital parts of the four's DNA came from, only that it was in the exact right place, at the right time, to cause the episode's events.