@Vinyl Fluff  
That’s unfortunate, and sounds lazy. This is why I constantly say shows like My Little Pony have more potential than they are willing to use.

@MezzoDragon  

 
Probably too much continuity. Shame, too, because that would’ve been good for us. With lots of shows the producers want to minimize how often you had to have seen a previous episode to understand a current one. MLP included, with reports from the writers saying Hasbro has requested that most episodes be stand-alones, and even nixing some multiple-episode stories.

@Vinyl Fluff  
They should’ve made follow-ups to previously established plot lines. Or would that require too much continuity?

@MezzoDragon  

 
This was the most head-pounding on the desk parts. Here you are, Captain Picard, who is not only a very highly-educated Starfleet captain, but you’ve been exposed to countless cultures, one of your main hobbies is archeology and anthropology, and you’ve said if you weren’t a Starfleet officer you’d basically be a futuristic Indiana Jones. Yet you struggled with simple symbolism that the audience understood immediately.
 
I know they had to drag it out for the episode. Once season 7 hit, you could really tell they were struggling to come up with episodes.

Betcha the masks were courtesy of DisQord.

“But at least you still have your dig…ni…ty…”

@FloydPinkerton  
It was creative. Just lacking in meaningful explanation and the main characters being unable to understand simple symbolism.

I thought it was a really creative episode.

nice, I just watched this episode the other day too

@AdamC  
True.

@MezzoDragon  
Yeah, if you want a bad episode you go for Shades Of Grey or some of the dredge from Season 1.

@Background Pony #0D37  
Masks is not a bad episode. It is not be the best, but it’s far from the worst.

@AdamC  
I also instantly saw it and went. “hah, star trek.” then I’m like. cool episode.

….. Huh. I not only instantly knew the reference, but it was one of my favorite episodes. Neat. ^^

I did enjoy that episode :3

@MezzoDragon  
I just like the bad episodes for some reason lol

 
“Let us never speak of this again Luna.”

@MezzoDragon
 
A lot of Star Trek eps fell into the “never mentioned again” trope.

I’d seen that episode. Barely anything was explained, and the entire event was never mentioned again.