Okay, time for another chart. How have the characters fared on their second mission? Let's see.
The first thing that is immediately apparent is that Q, despite being all-powerful and a godlike figure, can't hold the number one spot for more than one episode, and is toppled by a mere girl! Oh, the shame! Oh the humanity, if he was human which he's not so why I'm saying it I don't know!
Yes, thanks to her, um, liaison with a "fully-functional" Data, Yar takes top spot for this episode.
The only other mover upwards is also a lady, none other than the ship's CMO, who rises from last episode's 5 to take the number 2 slot, a jump of three places and kicking her love - eh, captain down, where he lands at the ignominious postion of 5, falling three places and actually now occupying the slot Bev was in, but far from being a cozy encounter for our favourite bald-headed space adventurer, poet and all-round stiff-neck, she's said "See ya! Wouldn't wanna be ya!" and has broken the glass ceiling, leaving poor old Jean-Luc to stare up wistfully at the upper echelons of the chart, perhaps feeling like Lieutenant Picard in "Tapestry." Oh dear. Never mind Captain, I'm sure you'll be back on the bridge real soon. For now, haven't you bilges to scrub?
Nobody else is having a good time either, and this episode shows that none of them exactly covered themselves in glory, bar the two ladies. Despite saving the ship, Wesley's antics while under the, um, influence, coupled with his mom's power-leap and that of Tasha mean he's falling two spots from number 5 to number 7, and while Riker is barely slipping from two to three, his love interest is a bigger faller, from four to six. Geordi and Data remain the best of friends, holding on and sharing the number four spot for the second episode running, while there's no glory for Worf as he falls to the lowest possible position, now number 8, dropping three from his previous position of 5, accompanied by poor old Miles O'Brien, currently the Ensign With No Name, as they both prop up the bottom of the chart.