*snort laugh*

@Susandoyle

Dating me is wild;

You get a sage, a geek, a fellow traveler, a teller of tall tails, a friend, but mostly a guy comfortable with solitude.

@corlin @Susandoyle

Oh, I love this game!

Dating me is wild:

You get a chameleon who can probably match your interests with ease, and is good giving and game elsewhere, too; but whose warmth does not translate to love with ease, and probably won't ever, because that lil' ol' box of a heart is locked up something fierce, and carried around in a body perfectly comfortable being left the hell alone.

(😬 Part cat, part Grimm's Fairy Tale?)

@MLClark @corlin @Susandoyle

Hmmmm, the first part reminded me of Kamala (not that one, lol), the empathic metamorph from ST:TNG. 🤓 🖖

@LiseL @corlin @Susandoyle

You know me perfectly. :) That is secretly the episode of TNG that haunts me to my core.

@MLClark @corlin @Susandoyle

Does she secretly want to be left the hell alone, though, like the likes of us??? 🤔

@corlin @Susandoyle

@LiseL @corlin @Susandoyle

Well that's just it, isn't it?

The question of the episode is whether she made her final choice of her own volition, or because it was the kind of choice that Picard would have made. And if she has "chosen" to take his model for herself, then she'll retain that independent spirit of him, too.

From there on out, she will always have a private life that no one else can touch, and which will always be content simply on its own, as Picard affects he is so often, too.

@MLClark @corlin @Susandoyle

She and Picard are cut from the same cloth, but is it fair to say that she was born to be alone, but Picard chose it?

As an incorrigible pessimist, I assume the metamorph will finally lose "herself" to the one to whom she finally *vows* "I am for you" regardless of what came before. A re-watch is in order.

Excellent choice for a favourite episode! I usually say Chain of Command, though I've been known to change my mind from time to time.

@LiseL @MLClark @corlin @Susandoyle Y’all remember a lot more about this episode than I do. It made an impression, sure, but not many plot details have stayed in my head since I last saw it in 1992.