[from Mary Powers 950929]
Bruce Abbott 950929]
No! I want the answers now! Now, now, now, now, now! If I
don't get the answers now, I'm going to hold my breath until I
turn blue.
Where have I heard this dialog before? Ah, Captain Picard.
Bruce! Get ahold of yourself, your behaving like a two-year-old
Show some self control.
The line went "I want my dad...now,now,now, etc." Out of (self)
control? Picard?
This was the episode (one of my favorites - ST:TNG "Rascals") in
which a transporter screw up or a space/time glitch or something
has Picard, Guinan, and Ensign Ro return to the Enterprise as
children, just when the Ferengi have captured the ship. Picard
stages this tantrum for a Ferengi in order to get to see his
"dad" (Riker) on the bridge, so that Riker will switch the
schoolroom computer over from kid stuff to a main frame station
from which Picard, Guinan, Ro, and Worf's boy Alexander can gain
control of the ship.
The tantrum is for the purpose of control. Tantrums usually are.
Two-year-olds don't have a lot of other ways available to them.
Mary P.