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Monthly Archives: October 2011
ST:TNG S01E08: Justice
Wesley maintains his sweater this week. And we almost get to kill him. This is the ‘famous’ Wesley-gets-the-death-penalty-for-falling-in-flowers episode. It’s the paradise-planet-with-a-secret episode. It’s the planet-of-the-blonds episode. It’s an episode I actually like a lot. And while it’s silly, I … Continue reading
ST:TNG S01E07: Lonely Among Us
‘Lonely Among Us’ begins what kind of becomes a trend in TNG episodes … useless ‘B-stories’. Let’s take our cobra-people vs. our long-snouted-dog-people, for example: we begin the episode with them, we check in on them throughout the episode, their … Continue reading
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ST:TNG S01E06: Where No One Has Gone Before
The Traveler! Susie and I were watching the utter genius that is ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band‘ (1978) and who should show up as ‘Brute’ but Carel Struycken? And I thought of ST:TNG … and for a moment I … Continue reading
ST:TNG S01E05: The Last Outpost
In ‘Encounter at Farpoint’ the Ferengi were introduced—a new TNG race/villain, perhaps to replace the overused Klingons and Romulans—in passing and made to sound both threatening and mysterious. In ‘The Last Outpost’ we are set up to encounter them in … Continue reading
ST:TNG S01E04: Code of Honor
… only a few episodes in and while we haven’t yet had the Space Irish™, we’ve had Data hooking up with Yar and, now, arguably one of the greatest misfires in the series … the Space-Untrustworthy-Primitive-Africans™. Before I continue let … Continue reading
ST:TNG S01E03: The Naked Now
A day later, another episode—this time a normal length one—of ST:TNG, this time ‘The Naked Now,’ episode ‘3’, given that ‘Encounter at Farpoint’ comprised one and two.
ST:TNG S01E01&02: Encounter at Farpoint
In the summer Susie and I decided—perhaps over a beer or two [I do not recall]—, as we were (are!) both Trekkies of sorts, to work our way through seven seasons of ‘The Next Generation.’ We went boldly.