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They did not end up aborting the baby.

Yet, the physician and the girl did abort the baby. I think you are being kind. The pro-lifers were depicted as being very legalistic, uncaring, and mean -- even spiteful.

The pro-lifers were depicted as being very legalistic, uncaring, and mean -- even spiteful.

The Gemini represenatative did come across that way - a poor advocate for the anti-abortion side. Do we not have similar figures is America, those who hold to strong morals (or claim to) yet come across very poorly when they advocate them?

Yet, the physician and the girl did abort the baby. I think you are being kind. The pro-lifers were depicted as being very legalistic, uncaring, and mean -- even spiteful.

The baby wasn't aborted, It will play into the story line at a later date... agggghhh now I'm doing it... It's only a TV show, It's only a TV...

Yet, the physician and the girl did abort the baby. I think you are being kind. The pro-lifers were depicted as being very legalistic, uncaring, and mean -- even spiteful.

I don't see how you can see it that way, those two seasons were not morality plays...they were focused on the war between civilizations and the practical means for winning it versus taking an ostrich approach and slowly forgetting why you are fighting. Their "liberals" convinced them to give up the fight and try to go back to the way it was....the pro-abortion sentiments were part of that.....in the end, their "liberals" won. The people stopped fighting and tried to mimic their old life in a cold-barren place.....the message was that the enemy is still out there and forgetting that leads to defeat.

Yet, the physician and the girl did abort the baby. I think you are being kind. The pro-lifers were depicted as being very legalistic, uncaring, and mean -- even spiteful.

ST TNG did a pro abort episode as well. A planet had a population whose genetic diversity was so low that they stole DNA from the Enterprise officers. After discovering that they had identical clones of themselves, Riker took a phaser to them, pompously intoning "we have the right to control our own bodies" or some similar nonsense. The point of the episode was so transparent and so brutally handled that it might well have had the opposite effect of what the writers intended.

Aside from several episodes like these, I liked TNG. I thought (unlike many) that Patrick Stewart played a good role as the captain.

TNG episodes that you can safely skip are:
-any episode having Deanna Troi's mom in it
-any where the holideck goes beserk (they used that plot just several times too many)
-The one where Worf joins a group of fundamentalists (who are trying to keep the galaxy from having fun, of course)