History YMMV / StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E24Conspiracy

* BizarroEpisode: Starfleet command has apparently been infiltrated by parasitic slugs that inhabit the brain of the host creature. This is obviously an event of considerable political magnitude, but it is never again referenced. However, it was {{foreshadow|ing}}ed several episodes earlier, making it a kind of AbortedArc.[[note]]The story was originally intended to have a purely human conspiracy within Starfleet, but Creator/GeneRoddenberry himself vetoed that because of how it clashed with his vision of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' as a {{utopia}} where all humans work towards a common goal in harmony. So they added mind-controlling alien infiltrators to the {{plot}}. It was intended to be the hook for the major villains of the series. The thing was, it [[ParanoiaFuel created too much paranoia]] that they wanted to avoid, so they changed the concept over to the Borg.[[/note]] It is explored a little further in the Expanded Universe where it was revealed the parasites were the descendants of Trill symbionts that had been driven insane due to medical experiments performed on them.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: A meta version. Creator/MichaelBerryman loved his makeup for Captain Rixx, and he decided to leave it on while picking up his girlfriend’s kids from school so he would look cool. Being late, he started driving faster than he usually did and caught up to a cop, who was visibly angered Berryman caught up to him. Berryman promptly mouthed “My ship. I’m going to be late for my mothership.” The cop burst out laughing, much to Berryman’s shock, since he though he was going to get a ticket at best or be arrested at worst.

* BizarroEpisode: Starfleet command has apparently been infiltrated by parasitic slugs that inhabit the brain of the host creature. This is obviously an event of considerable political magnitude, but it is never again referenced. However, it was {{foreshadow|ing}}ed several episodes earlier, making it a kind of AbortedArc.[[note]]The story was originally intended to have a purely human conspiracy within Starfleet, but Creator/GeneRoddenberry himself vetoed that because of how it clashed with his vision of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' as a {{utopia}} where all humans work towards a common goal in harmony. So they added mind-controlling alien infiltrators to the {{plot}}. It was intended to be the hook for the major villains of the series. The thing was, it [[ParanoiaFuel created too much paranoia]] that they wanted to avoid, so they changed the concept over to the Borg.[[/note]] It is explored a little further in the Expanded Universe.

* SpecialEffectFailure: The mother slug alien that busts out of Remmick's body is a stiff puppet blatantly screened in over the prop body. The screening effects are less obvious in the remastered version of the episode. The smaller parasites are portrayed with choppy StopMotion effects whenever they crawl around.

* VindicatedByHistory: Though controversial at the time for being so dark and violent, the fandom now appears to regard the episode as an underrated classic and one of the only bright spots for Season 1 of TNG.

* FunnyMoments: A meta version. Creator/MichaelBerryman loved his makeup for Captain Rixx, and he decided to leave it on while picking up his girlfriend’s kids from school so he would look cool. Being late, he started driving faster than he usually did and caught up to a cop, who was visibly angered Berryman caught up to him. Berryman promptly mouthed “My ship. I’m going to be late for my mothership.” The cop burst out laughing, much to Berryman’s shock, since he though he was going to get a ticket at best or be arrested at worst.

* FightSceneFailure: The fight scene between Riker and Quinn uses an ''extremely'' obvious (and much younger) stunt double for Quinn. The choreography itself is nothing to write home about either.

* BizarroEpisode: Starfleet command has apparently been infiltrated by parasitic slugs that inhabit the brain of the host creature. This is obviously an event of considerable political magnitude, but it is never again referenced. However, it was {{foreshadow|ing}}ed several episodes earlier, making it a kind of AbortedArc.[[note]]The story was originally intended to have a purely human conspiracy within Starfleet, but Creator/GeneRoddenberry himself vetoed that because of how it clashed with his vision of ''Franchise/StarTrek'' as a {{utopia}} where all humans work towards a common goal in harmony. So they added mind-controlling alien infiltrators to the {{plot}}. It was intended to be the hook for the major villains of the series. The thing was, it [[ParanoiaFuel created too much paranoia]] that they wanted to avoid, so they changed the concept over to the Borg.[[/note]] It is explored a little further in the Expanded Universe.