By this point things are clearly Not What They Seem, which is made even more clear when Troi kills Worf with a phaser. The Worf/Troi romance - which was on shaky ground to begin with because it felt so arbitrary, even when you consider its hinted-at genesis in " Parallels" - devolves into an exercise in absurd jealousy when Troi finds Worf making out with Calloway, who then both laugh at her. Where it stumbles in its melodramatic silliness and overall execution. Truth be told, "Eye of the Beholder" has a perfectly workable - even at times clever - plot. It isn't, of course, but the fact that it does makes these scenes play as an awkward segue from the procedural plot points. This seems like a random piece of business. There's a certain hilarity in watching Worf reluctantly, hesitantly, tentatively go in for the kiss. He also has telepathic abilities and is pointed to with big neon arrows as the bad guy.īut wait, there's more: Worf, after struggling over jeopardizing friendships (with Riker as well as Troi), decides to make a move on Troi. Like " Dark Page," telepathic abilities are a major plot piece, which point to the man who seems to be the key to all of this, Lt. The sci-fi twist is that Kwan was part telepath, as is Troi. Ensign Calloway (Johanna McCloy), who was dating Kwan, indicates that he was happy, as far as she knew - although being elite Starfleet, Calloway seems amazingly less distraught than a person should be who just found out her boyfriend is dead. "Eye of the Beholder" is a murder mystery with a sci-fi twist, and as is always the case with these sort of things, I wonder why it is that sci-fi explanations aren't the first things the crew looks at investigating when we're talking about someone who seemed perfectly normal until the moment he willfully jumped into a plasma stream and disintegrated. Kwan (Tim Lounibos), which prompts an investigation by Troi into the reasons why this seemingly normal man would suddenly decide to kill himself. For that matter, the notion of suicide seems almost foreign, and yet "Eye of the Beholder" begins with the unexpected suicide of Lt. The thing about murder is that it requires human failings, and years of TNG have beaten into our minds the idea that such a thing is beyond the capability of elite Starfleet officers. The murder mystery is something Star Trek seems unable to occasionally resist, even though it more often than not seems incapable of successfully pulling it off. Star Trek: The Next Generation "Eye of the Beholder"
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