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ST:TNG S01E09: The Battle
“As you hew-mons say, ‘I’m all ears’.” —Kazago the Ferengi, conferring with Riker The problem with “The Battle” is similar to the problem with “The Last Outpost” (our first Ferengi encounter) and “Lonely Among Us” … the audience is considerably … Continue reading
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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.