YMMV / Star Trek: The Next Generation S3E10 "The Defector"

• Awesome Music: Ron Jones' score, which deftly uses the Romulan theme he composed for "The Neutral Zone" to build the episode's tension.
  • The quick bit of the "Klingon theme" that triumphantly plays as the birds-of-prey decloak to support the Enterprise also counts.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Admiral Jarok insists that what he is doing is for his young daughter, and asks Picard if he is a father. Picard responds with no, and Jarok gives him a Patrick Stewart Speech on what it is to be one, the sacrifices he is prepared to make. Come "The Inner Light", Picard learns for himself what it is to be a father, and what children mean to a parent.
  • Picard muses about whether or not he'll be able to take Jarok's Suicide Note to his family on Romulus. About twenty years later, that home won't be there anymore.
  • Jarok's assertion to Data that he knew of a host of Romulan cyberneticists who would love to get their hands on him takes on a much darker connotation given the revelations in Star Trek: Picard about the Romulans' true opinions about artificial intelligence, and Word of God confirming that being a 'Romulan cyberneticist' is kind of like being a 'Nazi doctor'. This also adds credence to Jarok's response when Data tells him he doesn't find that appealing with "Nor should you."

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