- It was amazing how they could make such a dramtic and powerfully emotionally episode based off the Crystal Entity, which only appeared once before in the episode "Datalore", in that episode it was portrayed more has a cartoonish type monster that liked to gobble up people. But here it's shown as a space dweller entity that needs to feed off of other lifeforms in order to survive, which is much more realistic and mature.
- I like Picard's attitude towards the Crystalline Entity, has he reconizes that it's just another lifeform doing what it can to survive, has he would rather communicate with it and find some other way to satify it's needs while others, including Riker would rather just kill it to prevent it from killing more innocent people.
- I was impresseed how constant this episode was with "Datalore". In particular how at first Dr. Marr blames Data for Lore's actions of helping the Crystalline Entity destroy the colony on Omican Theta in which her son was killed.
- The scene at the end was outstanding. Because Data retains the memories of her son, Dr. Marr looks to him to tell her that her son is happier now that the Entity is destroyed, but Data breaks the cold news to her that he would not be happy, that he would be sad at her actions because she destroyed her career, and the reality of what she had done begins to sink in.
- They all seem to be convinced that there is only one Crystalline Entity, and it was responceable for all the attacks, but it is a lifeform, isn't it reasonable to assume that it is capable of reproducing, and it would follow that they would be an entity race of Crystalline Entities, yet this possiblity isn't even explored.
