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The Importance of Being … on time with payments.

Or: “To New Beginnings.” Let us be gin, Richard often says. I like caesura‘s. They are opportunities. Spaces. Places. Moments of freedom. “Mind the gap,” they say (and not just the GAP™), but I like to think of it not … Continue reading

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Thinking about programming

Something is wrong. I don’t think it is the outside temperature or the inside. Not the sheets, the pillow (cases), or my health in general, but I’ve had a hard time falling asleep recently (past week?). I end up with … Continue reading

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ST:TNG S02E07: Unnatural Selection

I’ve never hated Dr. Pulaski as much as many Trekkies seem to, and I do not wish to imply that one ought to dislike her. I can sort of understand the antipathy many feel, as she replaced Dr. Crusher, who … Continue reading

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ST:TNG S01E18: Home Soil

“Ugly bags of mostly water” … yay! At first I did not recall this episode, but once they were on the planet it came back to me. But that aside, even if I hadn’t seen it, I could have predicted … Continue reading

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ST:TNG S01E17: When the Bough Breaks

Hey, it’s that guy from ‘The X-Files’! That had never occurred to me before, since this was the first time I’ve watched this episode in nearly 20 years. But first, the episode, in summary. The Enterprise finds a long-lost, hidden … Continue reading

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ST:TNG S01E16: Too Short a Season

Again we strain credulity … though this time perhaps because it is quite character-centric and so we must somehow smooth over plot difficulties. First: bad makeup.

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ST:TNG S01E15: 11001001

TNG often goes to the same well multiple times … and so it was when this time the Enterprise was getting a ‘check up’ and people were going on shore leave, I expected a different hijacking of this Galaxy Class … Continue reading

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ST:TNG S01E14: Angel One

Some consider this worse than the Space Blacks of ‘Code of Honor.’ The Space Irish are yet to show up. We’ve met the Ferengi … at least they jumped around like monkeys on crack. We have yet to get to … Continue reading

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ST:TNG S01E13: Datalore

“Shut up, Wesley!” Picard and others shout this episode. Even once Wesley is proved right—at the end of the episode for the other characters, from the get-go for us viewers—he gets to return to duty, but gets no “thanks,” or … Continue reading

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ST:TNG S01E12: The Big Goodbye

When it comes to television, movies, even theater, I maintain a rather great level of “suspension of disbelief” … rather, I grant said works a great deal of leeway, perhaps something appropriate when it comes to the motion of a … Continue reading

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