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“You stay on in this house, and you keep that damn candle, I’ll not be responsible for what happens!” Of all the crazy shit Star Trek: The Next Generation ever attempted, “Sub Rosa” might well be remembered as the craziest:…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Homeward”
“I find no honour in this whatsoever, Captain. You will forgive me if I don’t stay.” a.k.a. the One Where Worf’s Brother Is Paul Sorvino. Worf, who doesn’t apparently have a good enough brother already, is retrofitted with a human…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Pegasus”
“’Captain Picard Day?’” One of the few great episodes of Season Seven, “The Pegasus” is a tight morality play which also bears the distinction of being my introduction to the wonderful Terry O’Quinn, who plays the antagonist-of-the-week, Admiral Eric Pressman.…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Parallels”
“I do remember. I just remember it differently.” With nothing better to do in its final year, Star Trek: The Next Generation adopts the craziest “will they/won’t they” pairing in all of Star Trek, and has Worf develop feelings for…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Inheritance”
“The intervals between blinks were governed by the Fourier system, the same mathematical system my father used to give my blinking pattern the appearance of randomness.” And now, because we’ve done the one with Geordi’s Mom, and had a final…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Force of Nature”
“Geordi, I cannot stun my cat.” Star Trek: The Next Generation’s paean to the dangers of air pollution is one of the series last, and most syrupy, Message Shows. The episode’s hook – that warp drive is destroying the fabric…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Attached”
“Coffee and croissant.” We’re down to the dregs of the Next Generation barrel so, like Riker and Troi at the end of the last season, it’s finally time to do an episode that directly addresses that thing between Beverly and…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Dark Page”
“Moment.” Like Geordi a few weeks ago, Deanna’s personal history gets a final-season “enhancement” (in this case, call it more of a retcon) in this strange and complicated episode in which we learn that Lwaxana Troi had another daughter, before…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Phantasms”
“It is a cellular peptide cake. With mint frosting.” Star Trek: The Next Generation answers the eons-old question “do androids dream of electric sheep?” with a resounding NO in “Phantasms,” wherein Data’s dream program gets its inevitable follow-up. A bunch…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Gambit, Part II”
“If you would overlook this incident, I would like to continue to consider you my friend.” Oh hey – what the fuck is the “gambit” of the title, anyway? Picard going undercover with a bunch of loser space pirates? My…
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