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[Seamus]

I just finished watching "Star Trek: The Next Generation" Season 4, episode 13 (exactly halfway through the series run) entitled "The Devil's Due". In it a woman claiming to be an ancient goddess of darkness comes to a planet ripe for her deception. She claims right to ownership of the entire planet and all beings in, on, or in orbit about the planet through a thousand-year-old contract that amounts to a religious prophecy, yet is a legal contract. Data is called in to arbitrate, as he is unbiased.

Gene Roddenberry really screwed the pooch by allowing this episode to be filmed. He demonstrated that he was either in cahoots with the deceivers or completely ignorant of the law. Picard never even broached the question of whether a man or woman can contract away the lives of their grandchildren. However, in the framework of entire series being a Q-led test of the best of humanity, Picard is the only one who fails. As usual, he is very ego-bound, duty-bound, and morality-bound, and demonstrates his feelings of superiority to the "devil woman". Picard is a sort of human being who is great to have around in a conflict, but when you want peace, this sort has to be re-educated or eliminated.

[Joseph]

Sorry, what does screw the pooch mean? you surely didn't mean he shagged a dog, but I am not familiar with that expression.

[Seamus]

Sorry, what does screw the pooch mean? you surely didn't mean he shagged a dog, but I am not familiar with that expression.

It means that someone did a very sloppy job instead of the good job they were supposed to do.

[roage]

I just picked up all the Q episodes and I will give them a go. See if there was any insight there.