YMMV / Star Trek The Next Generation S 7 E 5 Phantasms

• Genius Bonus: Data has a holodeck session with the hologram of Sigmund Freud, who quickly interprets his dreams as meaning he wishes to possess his mother and find a (possibly violent) outlet for his sexual desire. When Data tried to explain he had neither a mother nor a sex drive, Freud wouldn't listen. This is a classic demonstration of unfalsifiability, a problem that many modern psychologists have with Freud's theories. However, hologram Freud is right on the money about what Data’s dreams actually signify about the threat to the ship.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Inside Data's dreams, he finds himself having a telephone in him. So that makes Data an Android phone. Combine this with "A Fistful of Datas" and you get unlimited Data.
• Memetic Mutation: "It is a cellular peptide cake, with mint frosting."
• Special Effect Failure:
  • The "Troi as a cake" scene actually looks okay until we cut to an angle (seen on the main page image) where we can clearly see that Marina Sirtis is lying on a table under the cake, not growing out of it.
  • When Riker and Worf discover Data over Troi, brandishing a knife-like tool, Data moves to strike Riker with the tool. As Riker deflects the blow, the “blade” visibly wobbles, indicating that it’s not a metal blade but rubber. (Understandably, as Data is aiming for Riker’s head, and there’s a lot of concern in having a blade that close to Jonathan Frakes’s head in even a brief bit of fighting.)

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