@ultramookie I'm totally with you. This episode makes no sense. Adding to your comment. How did they get the solution? 4 Bynars? Even 2 Bynars over 2, meaning 2^2 equals 4. But 4 in binary would be 100. Does that mean the solution to 4 Bynars laying around is 4 times a "1" in a binary code of unknown length? How many permutations are possible then? Endless, I guess. The episode then is named "11001001" which equals "201" in decimal, "311" in octal or "C9" in hex. So there is no way they could figure it out in this very second in the episode! Very disappointing! I'm tending to rate this episode to 4 because of this logical failure. Did the makers in '88 think no one will bother or even get it? Or I am missing something?
Shout by mookieBlockedParentSpoilers2021-06-16T22:14:26Z
There are two issues I have with this episode. The Binar's intention were to save their world, that I get. But, why did they make it so difficult for Picard and Riker to get to where they needed to? For instance locking off the turbolift to the bridge, why do that? And it was made clear that the Binar's had pre-meditated this whole thing including trapping Riker in the Holodeck just in case the Binars needed help. The Binars also said that they had no intention of keeping Picard on the ship, it was just a happy accident. But, that makes no sense since at the end, in order to save their world they had locked the files and it needed two people working in tandem to unlock the files. If Picard had not accidentally wandered into the Holodeck, then Riker could not have help save the Binar's world.