Vince Schiavelli, one of my favorite character actors from that era, plays a computer-generated arms dealer. There is no civilized life left on the planet du jour because the weapons got just too danged smart.

Riker, Tasha, and Data fight ever stronger iterations of a weapon.

Picard and Dr. Crusher, who beamed down because of reasons, fall into a hole and have an opportunity for some heart to heart bonding.

Geordi is uncomfortably in charge during a crisis situation.

Wesley, thankfully, is absent for the second time in a row.

This one suffers from too many subplots. There is not enough time to go into depth on any of the stories.

The one that is handled the best, IMO, is Geordi takes command. A weakness in this new Enterprise is that the command grade officer pool is too thin. Data, who is third in command, lacks the common sense to be a long term captain. Geordi, while being a technical genius and a nice enough guy, just doesn't have the necessary command presence to earn the respect of his peers. In a previous episode, Worf had to remind him to stay on the bridge and let another engineer handle the tech stuff. Heck. Worf should be in charge, especially in a command situation. He could order Geordi to focus on all that technobabble stuff while he himself keeps the crew in line. While I would never be so overtly subordinate, I sort of sympathized with Logan. Having the nice guy nerd in charge wouldn't inspire confidence. Still, he does get the job done in a reasonably credible fashion.

Hooray.