Barclay is a starship systems diagnostic engineer yet oddly hes extremely nervous about transporters. When he finally plucks up the courage to step into the thing and de materialize, Reg makes a startling discovery. An encounter with a creature from within the matter stream spooks the living bejeepers out of him. Is it a lifeform? Could it be alive?
The thing floats and then zaps his arm. Barclay steps out from the transporter pad a completely shaken and changed man, convinced life will never be the same again. He suddenly develops a thirst for water and believes time is running out.
Yeah! its got to be transporter psychosis, right? or was it the creature in the transporter stream?
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7 comments:
I always love the Barclay episodes, and that one did give me the creeps. It's awful for a person that is paranoid about something to find out their right about things being messed up. It just feeds their psychosis. I would have spent the rest of my life saying, 'See! I told you!'
Yeah, just because Barclay was totally 'paranoid' didn't mean he was wrong.
You know, I never thought about it before, but Barclay was a pretty brave guy to enlist in Starfleet at all, given all his phobias.
At least he didn't disappear like Hoshi! Or never rematerialize like Admiral Archer's dog! Or get himself purposefully stuck in a transporter sequence for decades like Scotty!
Poor Reg thought he was going mad but eventually realised the USS Yosmites crew were trapped within the transporter beam and needed to be rescued!
This was as mind-mending episode. That was TNGs specialty.
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