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* StatusQuoIsGod: A bit of a marginal case. After six seasons of UnresolvedSexualTension, the writers demurred to have Picard the Crusher finally get together. This episode does seem to formally announce that they're BetterAsFriends, but Picard's unhappy reaction to Crusher's decision still leaves the door open.
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* StatusQuoIsGod: A bit of a marginal case. After six seasons of UnresolvedSexualTension, the writers demurred to have Picard the and Crusher finally get together. This episode does seem to formally announce that they're BetterAsFriends, but Picard's unhappy reaction to Crusher's decision still leaves the door open.open[[note]]And [[Series/StarTrekPicard a later series]] would show that Crusher's feelings weren't entirely platonic either[[/note]] .
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** When Picard and Crusher fail to make a rendezvous, Mauric, rather than take any actual ''evidence'' into account, immediately assumes that they're working with the Prytt. This, despite the fact that it was the ''Kes'' who requested the presence of the ''Enterprise''.
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** When Picard and Crusher fail to make a rendezvous, Mauric, rather than take any actual ''evidence'' into account, immediately assumes that they're working with the Prytt. This, despite the fact that it was the ''Kes'' who requested the presence of the ''Enterprise''.''Enterprise'', and he had already described the Prytt as xenophobic and distrusting of outsiders, begging the question as to why they'd want help from outsiders.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: For most of the episode, Riker feels that it's necessary to maintain basic courtesy towards the Kes (who are, after all, potential future members of the Federation), and perhaps even hopes that forcing a dialogue between the Kes and the Prytt will help resolve some of their lingering issues. After only a few minutes of listening to said "dialogue", Riker slams a hand down on the table, tells the Kes's representative that there is no way in hell their planet will be admitted, then delivers a not-so-subtle threat to the Prytt's representatives to get Picard and Crusher returned. His tone makes clear that once the ''Enterprise'' has its missing officers back, the ship will be leaving orbit and it will be a ''long'' time before another Federation ship comes their way.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: For most of the episode, Riker feels that it's necessary to maintain basic courtesy towards the Kes (who are, after all, potential future members of the Federation), and perhaps even hopes that forcing a dialogue between the Kes and the Prytt will help resolve some of their lingering issues. After only a few minutes of listening to said "dialogue", which consists entirely of both sides accusing the other of trying to use Federation aid against them, Riker slams a hand down on the table, tells the Kes's representative that there is no way in hell their planet will be admitted, then delivers a not-so-subtle threat to the Prytt's representatives to get Picard and Crusher returned. His tone makes clear that once the ''Enterprise'' has its missing officers back, the ship will be leaving orbit and it will be a ''long'' time before another Federation ship comes their way.
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* {{Irony}}: For all their sniping at each other and the cold war between their people, Lorin and Mauric independently come to the exact same erroneous conclusions, that the other side is working with the Federation to establish a military alliance, and that Riker is just pretending to opposed to either of them, proving that they, and probably their nations, are not so different.
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* {{Irony}}: For all their sniping at each other and the cold war between their people, Lorin and Mauric independently come to the exact same erroneous conclusions, that the other side is working with the Federation to establish a military alliance, and that Riker is just pretending to be opposed to either of them, proving that they, and probably their nations, are not so different.
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** Even aboard the ''Enterprise'', hoping to gain admittance to the Federation, Mauric doesn't trust the crew or their security measures for a moment (he has Worf-- the ship's ''security chief''-- walk first into the provided quarters, scans the room for bugs, and does the same to both Riker and Worf), and it only takes Picard and Crusher failing to make a rendezvous (one that the instructions for their escape route failed to mention) to convince him that the ''Enterprise'' crew is plotting to backstab them to make a military alliance with the Prytt.
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** Even aboard the ''Enterprise'', hoping to gain admittance to the Federation, Mauric doesn't trust the crew or their security measures for a moment (he has Worf-- the ship's ''security chief''-- walk first into the provided quarters, scans the room for bugs, and does the same to both Riker and Worf), Worf, and once he's satisfied with the room, he essentially turns it into his new office, fills it with surveilance equipment from his own planet and is only willing to divulge Riker any information while in the room), and it only takes Picard and Crusher failing to make a rendezvous (one that the instructions for their escape route failed to mention) to convince him that the ''Enterprise'' crew is plotting to backstab them to make a military alliance with the Prytt.
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** Probably not an intentional one, but we can see Picard's fire-making skills have improved since [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E2Darmok Darmok]]."
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** Probably not an intentional one, but we can see Picard's fire-making skills have improved since [[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E2Darmok "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E2Darmok Darmok]]."
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** Mauric thinks that the Federation Council will listen to him, an ambassador from a prospective member world, rather than the highly-respected Captain and First Officer of the flagship when they say the planet isn't ready to join.
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** Mauric thinks that the Federation Council will listen to him, an ambassador from a prospective member world, rather than the highly-respected Captain and First Officer of the flagship when they say the planet isn't ready to join. He also thinks the Kes are entitled to have their membership application heard and granted, even as he is accusing those same officers of conspiring with the Kes' rivals.
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* NotHelpingYourCase: When Riker assures Lorin that the Kes' application for Federation membership will be denied, Mauric objects that even though the ''Enterprise'' crew has been conspiring with the Prytt since they arrived in the system, the Kes still intend to seek membership in the Federation.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: Lorin threatens to open fire on the ''Enterprise'' if they don't stop trying to open negotiations. Worf quickly determines that their weapons pose no threat at all to the starship, and Riker seems to find the threat more annoying than anything else.
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* SmallNameBigEgo: SmallNameBigEgo:
** Lorin threatens to open fire on the ''Enterprise'' if they don't stop trying to open negotiations. Worf quickly determines that their weapons pose no threat at all to the starship, and Riker seems to find the threat more annoying than anythingelse.else.
** Mauric thinks that the Federation Council will listen to him, an ambassador from a prospective member world, rather than the highly-respected Captain and First Officer of the flagship when they say the planet isn't ready to join.
** Lorin threatens to open fire on the ''Enterprise'' if they don't stop trying to open negotiations. Worf quickly determines that their weapons pose no threat at all to the starship, and Riker seems to find the threat more annoying than anything
** Mauric thinks that the Federation Council will listen to him, an ambassador from a prospective member world, rather than the highly-respected Captain and First Officer of the flagship when they say the planet isn't ready to join.
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* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: In order to get the Prytt to play ball, Riker threatens to have even more starships show up scanning every meter of the planet, calling every official at every level, and generally being as obtrusive and obnoxious as possible to drive the xenophobic Prytt insane.
* CoolAndUnusualPunishment: In order to get the Prytt to play ball, Riker threatens to have even more starships show up scanning every meter of the planet, calling every official at every level, and generally being as obtrusive and obnoxious as possible to drive the xenophobic Prytt insane.
* ImproperlyParanoid:
** Lorin has Picard and Crusher abducted out of a paranoid assumption that the Federation is forming a military alliance with the Kes, when in reality, they only came to Kesprytt III to evaluate the Kes' application to join.
** Mauric feels the need to scan his quarters on the ''Enterprise'', as well as the ship's first officer and chief of security, for bugs, and quickly assumes that they're conspiring against the Kes the moment things don't go according to plan.
** Lorin has Picard and Crusher abducted out of a paranoid assumption that the Federation is forming a military alliance with the Kes, when in reality, they only came to Kesprytt III to evaluate the Kes' application to join.
** Mauric feels the need to scan his quarters on the ''Enterprise'', as well as the ship's first officer and chief of security, for bugs, and quickly assumes that they're conspiring against the Kes the moment things don't go according to plan.
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* ImproperlyParanoid:
** Lorin has Picard and Crusher abducted out of a paranoid assumption that the Federation is forming a military alliance with the Kes, when in reality, they only came to Kesprytt III to evaluate the Kes' application to join.
** Mauric feels the need to scan his quarters on the ''Enterprise'', as well as the ship's first officer and chief of security, for bugs, and quickly assumes that they're conspiring against the Kes the moment things don't go according to plan.
** Lorin has Picard and Crusher abducted out of a paranoid assumption that the Federation is forming a military alliance with the Kes, when in reality, they only came to Kesprytt III to evaluate the Kes' application to join.
** Mauric feels the need to scan his quarters on the ''Enterprise'', as well as the ship's first officer and chief of security, for bugs, and quickly assumes that they're conspiring against the Kes the moment things don't go according to plan.
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* NotSoStoic: Worf is visibly annoyed by Mauric's susp
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* NotSoStoic: Worf is visibly audibly annoyed by Mauric's suspparanoia, letting out an irritated sigh when Mauric insists that Worf enter the provided quarters first.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: The escape plan that the Kes provide for Crusher and Picard fails to mention that they're supposed to rendezvous with two Kes operatives, so they naturally avoid what appears to be Prytt guards trying to recapture them. [[ConspiracyTheorist Mauric]] takes this as incontrovertible proof that the ''Enterprise'' is collaborating with the Prytt.
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* CallBack: Beverly admits to insulting a date's beard in her youth. She pronounced beards a mere affectation and tried to get Riker, Worf, and Geordi to stake theirs on a poker game in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E9TheQualityOfLife The Quality of Life]]."
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* CallBack: CallBack:
** Beverly admits to insulting a date's beard in her youth. She pronounced beards a mere affectation and tried to get Riker, Worf, and Geordi to stake theirs on a poker game in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E9TheQualityOfLife The Quality of Life]]."
** Beverly admits to insulting a date's beard in her youth. She pronounced beards a mere affectation and tried to get Riker, Worf, and Geordi to stake theirs on a poker game in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS6E9TheQualityOfLife The Quality of Life]]."
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: The Prytt clearly didn't think out the ramifications of abducting two Starfleet officers, let alone the ''captain of their flagship.'' Riker even points this out when chastising Lorin. He says that unless both officers are returned peacefully and unharmed, their nation will become swarmed with Starfleet officers demanding answers.
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* DidntThinkThisThrough: DidntThinkThisThrough:
** The Prytt clearly didn't think out the ramifications of abducting two Starfleet officers, let alone the ''captain of their flagship.'' Riker even points this out when chastising Lorin. He says that unless both officers are returned peacefully and unharmed, their nation will become swarmed with Starfleet officers demandinganswers.answers.
** Mauric seemed to think that accusing (at minimum) the captain, first officer, and chief medical officer of the Federation's flagship of colluding with the Prytt would have no effect whatsoever on the Kes' application for Federation membership, despite the fact that the whole reason the ''Enterprise'' came to the planet in the first place was to evaluate them for exactly that reason. Riker and Picard both strongly imply that he's basically torpedoed any chance they had of joining for the foreseeable future.
** The Prytt clearly didn't think out the ramifications of abducting two Starfleet officers, let alone the ''captain of their flagship.'' Riker even points this out when chastising Lorin. He says that unless both officers are returned peacefully and unharmed, their nation will become swarmed with Starfleet officers demanding
** Mauric seemed to think that accusing (at minimum) the captain, first officer, and chief medical officer of the Federation's flagship of colluding with the Prytt would have no effect whatsoever on the Kes' application for Federation membership, despite the fact that the whole reason the ''Enterprise'' came to the planet in the first place was to evaluate them for exactly that reason. Riker and Picard both strongly imply that he's basically torpedoed any chance they had of joining for the foreseeable future.
* {{Hypocrite}}: After being beamed aboard the ''Enterprise'', Lorin describes her abduction as an "outrage", despite having done the same to Picard and Crusher (and with far less benevolent motives, to boot).
* ImproperlyParanoid:
** Lorin has Picard and Crusher abducted out of a paranoid assumption that the Federation is forming a military alliance with the Kes, when in reality, they only came to Kesprytt III to evaluate the Kes' application to join.
** Mauric feels the need to scan his quarters on the ''Enterprise'', as well as the ship's first officer and chief of security, for bugs, and quickly assumes that they're conspiring against the Kes the moment things don't go according to plan.
* InsaneTrollLogic:
** When Picard and Crusher fail to make a rendezvous, Mauric, rather than take any actual ''evidence'' into account, immediately assumes that they're working with the Prytt. This, despite the fact that it was the ''Kes'' who requested the presence of the ''Enterprise''.
** After abducting Picard and Crusher, Lorin justifies their imprisonment by charging them with spying... on a planet they never set foot on prior to their abduction.
* {{Irony}}: For all their sniping at each other and the cold war between their people, Lorin and Mauric independently come to the exact same erroneous conclusions, that the other side is working with the Federation to establish a military alliance, and that Riker is just pretending to opposed to either of them, proving that they, and probably their nations, are not so different.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: The threat of ''more'' Federation ships putting the Prytt under (in Riker's words) "a very large, very uncomfortable microscope" convinces Lorin to allow Picard and Crusher to return to the ''Enterprise''.
** Lorin has Picard and Crusher abducted out of a paranoid assumption that the Federation is forming a military alliance with the Kes, when in reality, they only came to Kesprytt III to evaluate the Kes' application to join.
** Mauric feels the need to scan his quarters on the ''Enterprise'', as well as the ship's first officer and chief of security, for bugs, and quickly assumes that they're conspiring against the Kes the moment things don't go according to plan.
* InsaneTrollLogic:
** When Picard and Crusher fail to make a rendezvous, Mauric, rather than take any actual ''evidence'' into account, immediately assumes that they're working with the Prytt. This, despite the fact that it was the ''Kes'' who requested the presence of the ''Enterprise''.
** After abducting Picard and Crusher, Lorin justifies their imprisonment by charging them with spying... on a planet they never set foot on prior to their abduction.
* {{Irony}}: For all their sniping at each other and the cold war between their people, Lorin and Mauric independently come to the exact same erroneous conclusions, that the other side is working with the Federation to establish a military alliance, and that Riker is just pretending to opposed to either of them, proving that they, and probably their nations, are not so different.
* KnowWhenToFoldEm: The threat of ''more'' Federation ships putting the Prytt under (in Riker's words) "a very large, very uncomfortable microscope" convinces Lorin to allow Picard and Crusher to return to the ''Enterprise''.
* NotSoStoic: Worf is visibly annoyed by Mauric's susp
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* OnlySaneMan: Riker gets quite a workout in his dealings with Mauric and Lorin.
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* OnlySaneMan: Riker gets quite a workout in his dealings with Mauric and Lorin.Lorin; while they both confidently assert that they "[[ImproperlyParanoid know]]" about the supposed alliance between the Federation and each opposing side, he's barely keeping his patience while insisting on Picard and Crusher's safe return.
* TheParanoiac: Both Mauric and Lorin, and this is implied to be the [[PlanetOfHats hat]] for Kesprytt III:
** Even aboard the ''Enterprise'', hoping to gain admittance to the Federation, Mauric doesn't trust the crew or their security measures for a moment (he has Worf-- the ship's ''security chief''-- walk first into the provided quarters, scans the room for bugs, and does the same to both Riker and Worf), and it only takes Picard and Crusher failing to make a rendezvous (one that the instructions for their escape route failed to mention) to convince him that the ''Enterprise'' crew is plotting to backstab them to make a military alliance with the Prytt.
** Lorin has Picard and Crusher abducted on the ''assumption'' that the Kes are planning to form a military alliance with the Federation, mentions that they're officially charged with spying (worth noting is that Picard and Crusher hadn't even set foot on Kesprytt III before Lorin kidnapped them), and threatens to open fire on the ''Enterprise'' for simply trying to negotiate.
* TheParanoiac: Both Mauric and Lorin, and this is implied to be the [[PlanetOfHats hat]] for Kesprytt III:
** Even aboard the ''Enterprise'', hoping to gain admittance to the Federation, Mauric doesn't trust the crew or their security measures for a moment (he has Worf-- the ship's ''security chief''-- walk first into the provided quarters, scans the room for bugs, and does the same to both Riker and Worf), and it only takes Picard and Crusher failing to make a rendezvous (one that the instructions for their escape route failed to mention) to convince him that the ''Enterprise'' crew is plotting to backstab them to make a military alliance with the Prytt.
** Lorin has Picard and Crusher abducted on the ''assumption'' that the Kes are planning to form a military alliance with the Federation, mentions that they're officially charged with spying (worth noting is that Picard and Crusher hadn't even set foot on Kesprytt III before Lorin kidnapped them), and threatens to open fire on the ''Enterprise'' for simply trying to negotiate.
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'''Riker''': They will also listen to the reports of the Captain of the ''Enterprise'' and its First Officer! And I can tell you right now that the First Officer's report will go something like this: "Kesprytt, a ''deeply'' troubled world with social, political, and military problems that they have yet to resolve. The Kes, while a democratic and friendly people, are driven by ''suspicion'', ''deviousness'', and ''paranoia''. It is the opinion of this officer that they are not ready for membership."
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'''Riker''': They will also listen to the reports of the Captain of the ''Enterprise'' and its First Officer! And I can tell you right now that the First Officer's report will go something like this: "Kesprytt, a ''deeply'' troubled world with social, political, and military problems that they have yet to resolve. The Kes, while a friendly and democratic and friendly people, are driven by ''suspicion'', ''deviousness'', and ''paranoia''. It is the opinion of this officer that they are not ready for membership."
