I had the least to say about this episode. Notes from E03 forward get more detailed.

Summary

The Enterprise receives a strange message from a science ship studying a dying star. The message ends with the sound of a hatch being blown. Away team heads over to find everyone dead, most blown out into space, others frozen solid. Geordi makes physical contact with a frozen corpse and starts acting funny aboard ship. He is infected with some space sickness that makes you act drunk and spreads it to the whole ship… just like in the TOS Episode “The Naked Time”. Wesley takes over engineering and locks them out of control. The star explodes and is about to destroy the Enterprise when Wesley buys them enough time with his reverse tractor beam tech to let Data fix the engineering computer so they can fly away. Crusher develops a cure and all is well. Also Tasha has sex with Data. And Crusher comes on to Picard, but he doesn’t come onto her… that we see.

Observations

Too early in a series run to recycle an old idea. Also too early for comedy. Need to let the audience know the characters before giving us funny, uncharacteristic, versions of them.

Tasha has sex with Data and then is like “It never happened!” Why is she so embarrassed? They were all under the effect of a space virus. Isn’t a woman allowed to have casual sex in the enlightened 24^th century?

Plot nitpicks

I get that they have advanced bio-scans, Crusher even says as much, but you have a group of people coming back from a ship where something mysterious, and undetected, wiped out the crew. Quarantine them!!!