Poetic License
Schisms - Season 6 Episode 5 #131
Schisms is notable for being one of Trek’s most successful attempts at invoking fear. Known by some as “The X-Files Episode,” Schisms deals in nighttime abductions, involuntary amputations, all manner of body horror - one poor dude dies after his blood turns into a liquid polymer. But for some viewers the scariest scene of the whole episode comes at the very start, when the crew of the Enterprise is held captive at a poetry open mic.
Yes, the only good AI ever devised by humanity, Lieutenant Commander Data is at it again, this time overestimating the captain’s interest in anapestic tetrameter before delivering the boundlessly enthusiastic “Ode to Spot.”
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