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** The tactical officer who takes Worf's place, and who is assigned to watch Wesley "deactivate his experiment," is played by a young Glenn Morshower, whom you might know as Special Agent Aaron Pierce on ''Series/TwentyFour''.
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** The tactical officer Ensign Burke, who takes Worf's place, place at tactical and who is assigned to watch Wesley "deactivate his experiment," is played by a young Glenn Morshower, whom you might know as Special Agent Aaron Pierce on ''Series/TwentyFour''.Creator/GlennMorshower.
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* NoBudget: The U.S.S. Hathaway bridge is an [[RecycledSet obviously recycled TNG battle bridge]] with completely mismatched chairs, consoles, and displays, all taken from previous episodes and movies.
** Even worse, the Hathaway's Main Engineering looks like a simple theater storage room, and her "warp core" looks less like a powerful antimatter engine, and more like a large fireplace. The whole set would barely meet the standards of [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries TOS-era]] production.
** Even worse, the Hathaway's Main Engineering looks like a simple theater storage room, and her "warp core" looks less like a powerful antimatter engine, and more like a large fireplace. The whole set would barely meet the standards of [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries TOS-era]] production.
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* SpecialEffectsFailure: Kolrami's makeup only goes as far as his hairline. In HD versions of the episode, you can see his natural skin tone through his hair.
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** Kolrami's makeup only goes as far as his hairline. In HD versions of the episode, you can see his natural skin tone through his hair.
** Kolrami's makeup only goes as far as his hairline. In HD versions of the episode, you can see his natural skin tone through his hair.
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* HilariousInHindsight: All of the command staff's protests about combat preparedness not being important for Starfleet became this in a few seasons when it was established that Starfleet was actively fighting a war with the Cardassians at this time.
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* GeniusBonus: In chess (perhaps the closest real-life analog to Strategema), it is almost unheard of for competitors playing black to win games, so a stalemate is considered something of a "win" for black. Data's implicit victory in his second game with Kolrami echoes this.
* MisaimedFandom: Several viewers assumed that the captain being tested in the tactical simulation was Picard. However, given events of this and the previous season - particularly the re-emergence of the Romulan Empire with their titanic Warbird starships, and the new appearance of the Borg - testing in a situation where a promising young command officer such as Riker might be put up in an outdated starship against as overwhelming an opponent as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in command of a Galaxy-class starship would be of great interest to the Federation in developing tactics to fight an overwhelmingly powerful enemy. Kolrami actually ''spells this out'' early on, but it's easily missed.
* MisaimedFandom: Several viewers assumed that the captain being tested in the tactical simulation was Picard. However, given events of this and the previous season - particularly the re-emergence of the Romulan Empire with their titanic Warbird starships, and the new appearance of the Borg - testing in a situation where a promising young command officer such as Riker might be put up in an outdated starship against as overwhelming an opponent as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in command of a Galaxy-class starship would be of great interest to the Federation in developing tactics to fight an overwhelmingly powerful enemy. Kolrami actually ''spells this out'' early on, but it's easily missed.
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** The tactical officer who takes Worf's place, and who is assigned to watch Wesley "[[BlatantLies deactivate his experiment]]," is played by a young Glenn Morshower, whom you might know as Special Agent Aaron Pierce on ''Series/TwentyFour''.
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** The tactical officer who takes Worf's place, and who is assigned to watch Wesley "[[BlatantLies deactivate "deactivate his experiment]]," experiment," is played by a young Glenn Morshower, whom you might know as Special Agent Aaron Pierce on ''Series/TwentyFour''.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint:
** Many people thought Riker's insistence that "combat is a minor province in the field of a starship captain" was silly and anvilicious--but when the Borg do eventually invade, straightforward combat indeed proves useless and the Borg are defeated by guile. The other side of this is that the ''Enterprise'' has already had to resort to violence several times by this episode, and canonically the Cardassian war has just ended.
** Kolrami also seems to be one when he says the ''Enterprise'' has to cut its losses and flee, abandoning the ''Hathaway'' because of TheNeedsOfTheMany, but Riker actually ''agrees'' with him until he finds out new information that lets him come up with a new tactic.
** WebSite/SFDebris pointed out another fairly major flaw in Riker's argument: the use of guile over brute strength in combat has a name, and that name is ''tactics''. So he is complaining about a tactical simulation...in favor of the use of tactics.
** Many people thought Riker's insistence that "combat is a minor province in the field of a starship captain" was silly and anvilicious--but when the Borg do eventually invade, straightforward combat indeed proves useless and the Borg are defeated by guile. The other side of this is that the ''Enterprise'' has already had to resort to violence several times by this episode, and canonically the Cardassian war has just ended.
** Kolrami also seems to be one when he says the ''Enterprise'' has to cut its losses and flee, abandoning the ''Hathaway'' because of TheNeedsOfTheMany, but Riker actually ''agrees'' with him until he finds out new information that lets him come up with a new tactic.
** WebSite/SFDebris pointed out another fairly major flaw in Riker's argument: the use of guile over brute strength in combat has a name, and that name is ''tactics''. So he is complaining about a tactical simulation...in favor of the use of tactics.
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* StrawmanHasAPoint:
StrawmanHasAPoint: Kolrami is portrayed as a self-important blowhard, but his obsession with pragmatic militarism is actually more reasonable than the show seems to believe.
**Many people thought Riker's insistence Kolrami wants to assess the battle readiness of its captains, but Riker insists that "combat is a minor province in the field of a starship captain" was captain." This is a rather silly assertion considering the number of wars the Federation has and anvilicious--but when will fight, and if Starfleet isn't the Borg do eventually invade, straightforward combat indeed proves useless and the Borg are defeated by guile. The other side of this is Federation's military, what is?
** Kolrami says thatthe ''Enterprise'' has already had to resort to violence several times by this episode, and canonically the Cardassian war has just ended.
** Kolrami also seems to be one when he says the ''Enterprise'' has tomust cut its losses and flee, abandoning the ''Hathaway'' because of TheNeedsOfTheMany, but TheNeedsOfTheMany. Riker actually ''agrees'' with him until he finds out new information that lets him come up with a new tactic.
** WebSite/SFDebris pointed out another fairly major flaw in Riker's argument: the use of guile over brute strength in combat has a name, and that name is ''tactics''. So he is complaining about a tactical simulation...in favor of the use of tactics.tactic.
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** Kolrami says that
** Kolrami also seems to be one when he says the ''Enterprise'' has to
** WebSite/SFDebris pointed out another fairly major flaw in Riker's argument: the use of guile over brute strength in combat has a name, and that name is ''tactics''. So he is complaining about a tactical simulation...in favor of the use of tactics.
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* Foreshadowing: For the events of The Best of Both Worlds a year later where Riker will again face a battle aginst Picard who is in command of a superior vessel and will gain victory by creative methods rather than main force. Also Picard explicitly mentions the tactical drill is part of the response to the then very recent first contact with the Borg at J-25.
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** The Ferengi captain is played by ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'''s Quark.
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** The Ferengi captain is played by ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'''s Quark.Creator/ArminShimerman.
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** WebSite/SFDebris pointed out another fairly major flaw in Riker's argument: the use of guile over brute strength in combat has a name, and that name is ''tactics''. So he is complaining about a tactical simulation... in favor of the use of tactics.tactics.
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* Foreshadowing: For the events of The Best of Both Worlds a year later where Riker will again face a battle aginst Picard who is in command of a superior vessel and will gain victory by creative methods rather than main force. Also Picard explicitly mentions the tactical drill is part of the response to the then very recent first contact with the Borg at J-25.
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* GeniusBonus: In chess (perhaps the closest real-life analog to Strategema), it is almost unheard of for competitors playing black to win games, so a stalemate is considered something of a "win" for black. Data's implicit victory in his second game with Kolrami echoes this.
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* MisaimedFandom: Several viewers assumed that the captain being tested in the tactical simulation was Picard. However, given events of this and the previous season - particularly the re-emergence of the Romulan Empire with their titanic Warbird starships, and the new appearance of the Borg - testing in a situation where a promising young command officer such as Riker might be put up in an outdated starship against as overwhelming an opponent as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in command of a Galaxy-class starship would be of great interest to the Federation in developing tactics to fight an overwhelmingly powerful enemy.
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* MisaimedFandom: Several viewers assumed that the captain being tested in the tactical simulation was Picard. However, given events of this and the previous season - particularly the re-emergence of the Romulan Empire with their titanic Warbird starships, and the new appearance of the Borg - testing in a situation where a promising young command officer such as Riker might be put up in an outdated starship against as overwhelming an opponent as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in command of a Galaxy-class starship would be of great interest to the Federation in developing tactics to fight an overwhelmingly powerful enemy. Kolrami actually ''spells this out'' early on, but it's easily missed.
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* MisaimedFandom: Several viewers assumed that the captain being tested in the tactical simulation was Picard. However, given events of this and the previous season - particularly the re-emergence of the Romulan Empire with their titanic Warbird starships, and the new appearance of the Borg - testing in a situation where a promising young command officer such as Riker might be put up in an outdated starship against as overwhelming an opponent as Captain Jean-Luc Picard in command of a Galaxy-class starship would be of great interest to the Federation in developing tactics to fight an overwhelmingly powerful enemy.
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** The officer assigned to watch Wesley "[[BlatantLies deactivate his experiment]]" is played by a young Glenn Morshower, whom you might know as Special Agent Aaron Pierce on ''Series/TwentyFour''.
** The Ferengi captain is played by Deep Space Nine's Quark.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: Many people thought Riker's insistence that "combat is a minor province in the field of a starship captain" was silly and anvilicious - but when the Borg do eventually invade, straightforward combat indeed proved useless and the Borg were defeated by guile. The other side of this is that the Enterprise had already had to resort to violence several times by this episode, and canonically the Cardassian war had just ended.
** The Ferengi captain is played by Deep Space Nine's Quark.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: Many people thought Riker's insistence that "combat is a minor province in the field of a starship captain" was silly and anvilicious - but when the Borg do eventually invade, straightforward combat indeed proved useless and the Borg were defeated by guile. The other side of this is that the Enterprise had already had to resort to violence several times by this episode, and canonically the Cardassian war had just ended.
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** The tactical officer who takes Worf's place, and who is assigned to watch Wesley "[[BlatantLies deactivate his experiment]]" experiment]]," is played by a young Glenn Morshower, whom you might know as Special Agent Aaron Pierce on ''Series/TwentyFour''.
** The Ferengi captain is played by ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep SpaceNine's Nine]]'''s Quark.
*StrawmanHasAPoint: StrawmanHasAPoint:
** Many people thought Riker's insistence that "combat is a minor province in the field of a starship captain" was silly andanvilicious - but anvilicious--but when the Borg do eventually invade, straightforward combat indeed proved proves useless and the Borg were are defeated by guile. The other side of this is that the Enterprise had ''Enterprise'' has already had to resort to violence several times by this episode, and canonically the Cardassian war had has just ended.
** The Ferengi captain is played by ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space
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** Many people thought Riker's insistence that "combat is a minor province in the field of a starship captain" was silly and
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* RetroactiveRecognition:
** The officer assigned to watch Wesley "[[BlatantLies deactivate his experiment]]" is played by a young Glenn Morshower, whom you might know as Special Agent Aaron Pierce on ''Series/TwentyFour''.
** The Ferengi captain is played by Deep Space Nine's Quark.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: Many people thought Riker's insistence that "combat is a minor province in the field of a starship captain" was silly and anvilicious - but when the Borg do eventually invade, straightforward combat indeed proved useless and the Borg were defeated by guile. The other side of this is that the Enterprise had already had to resort to violence several times by this episode, and canonically the Cardassian war had just ended.
** Kolrami also seems to be one when he says the ''Enterprise'' has to cut its losses and flee, abandoning the ''Hathaway'' because of TheNeedsOfTheMany, but Riker actually ''agrees'' with him until he finds out new information that lets him come up with a new tactic.
** WebSite/SFDebris pointed out another fairly major flaw in Riker's argument: the use of guile over brute strength in combat has a name, and that name is ''tactics''. So he is complaining about a tactical simulation... in favor of the use of tactics.
** The officer assigned to watch Wesley "[[BlatantLies deactivate his experiment]]" is played by a young Glenn Morshower, whom you might know as Special Agent Aaron Pierce on ''Series/TwentyFour''.
** The Ferengi captain is played by Deep Space Nine's Quark.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: Many people thought Riker's insistence that "combat is a minor province in the field of a starship captain" was silly and anvilicious - but when the Borg do eventually invade, straightforward combat indeed proved useless and the Borg were defeated by guile. The other side of this is that the Enterprise had already had to resort to violence several times by this episode, and canonically the Cardassian war had just ended.
** Kolrami also seems to be one when he says the ''Enterprise'' has to cut its losses and flee, abandoning the ''Hathaway'' because of TheNeedsOfTheMany, but Riker actually ''agrees'' with him until he finds out new information that lets him come up with a new tactic.
** WebSite/SFDebris pointed out another fairly major flaw in Riker's argument: the use of guile over brute strength in combat has a name, and that name is ''tactics''. So he is complaining about a tactical simulation... in favor of the use of tactics.
