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“Hod’laii.” This is easily my favourite episode of Season Six; and it’s certainly, far and away, the best Counselor Troi episode in all of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It’s such an achievement over its sixth-season running mates that I…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Aquiel”
“Lt. Aquiel Uhnari.” The ceaseless romantic tribulations of the perennially hapless Lt. Cmdr. Geordi LaForge reach their dizzying zenith in “Aquiel,” where Geordi falls in love with a dead woman. Who turns out not to be dead. It’s a terrible…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Ship in a Bottle”
“My past is nothing but a fiction.” I didn’t have much use for this episode back in the day; it played into my various “meh” factors at the time like holodeck conceptual mysteries; weak use of Barclay; the Sherlock Holmes…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Chain of Command, Part II”
“THERE! – ARE! – FOUR!! – LIGHTS!!!” The history of Cardassia, some of it anyway, is laid out in miniature over the course of Gul Madred’s torture sessions with Captain Picard in Part II of “Chain of Command.” We learn…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Chain of Command, Part I”
“A challenge. You should prove an interesting challenge.” We have arrived at, arguably, the apex of Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s pop cultural power: the week it gave birth to a spin-off. I can’t recall if “Chain of Command” coincided…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Quality of Life”
“Commander – is it your intention to continue to grow your beard?” Time for your annual reminder that Data is a person – by proxy this time, but the principle is the same. Data determines that a group of industrial…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “A Fistful of Datas”
“Felis catus, is your taxonomic nomenclature an endothermic quadroped, carnivorous by nature?” We’re going to be called upon to ask what was in the water at the Star Trek: The Next Generation writers’ offices this month. Last week, the crew…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Rascals”
“I assure you, I am Captain Picard.” Well here it is, the got-dang silliest premise in the history of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the one that should have been this series’ “Spock’s Brain;” an idea so stupid you’re amazed…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “True Q”
“The jury’s still out on that, Picard. Make no mistake.” Imagine the following delivered by a heavily bearded man in a thick, west country accent: “YOU’RE A Q, HARRY!” It wasn’t till this time through “True Q” that I cottoned…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Schisms”
“Felis catus, is your taxonomic nomenclature an endothermic quadroped, carnivorous by nature?” Between this and “Man of the People,” we’re now deep into episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation whose existence had mercifully been deleted from my memory banks.…
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