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“For humans, the sexual act brings a closeness, an intimacy. It can be a very pleasurable experience. Inseminating a husk…” “The Outcast” is Star Trek: The Next Generation’s LGBTQ episode, and it has aged well by aging badly, if you…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Ethics”
“You take shortcuts. Right through living tissue.” After a fairly amazing year in Season Four (“Remember Me” and “The Host” being the highlights), Dr. Crusher gets the hell shafted out of her in Season Five. She’s basically been a day…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Power Play”
“Lunchtime, Miles!” Once a year or so, Star Trek: The Next Generation gets it into its head to do a ghost story of one kind or another, of which “Power Play” qualifies – though thankfully, it moves away from any…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Conundrum”
I’m glad for rare opportunities like these: the episodes I don’t really remember. It took me a while to suss out that “Conundrum” was the one where Riker sleeps with Ensign Ro, and then backtrack that to its status as…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Masterpiece Society”
“What about the rights of the ones who will stay behind?” In which we once again spin the age-old science fiction trope of the eugenics society. The Enterprise comes upon a colony under threat by a passing stellar fragment –…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Violations”
“It’s Obachan! My grandmother! We arrive at the notorious “mind rape” episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Credit where it’s due, at least Next Gen was willing to do an episode about rape, which (in 1991) was still relatively…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Hero Worship”
“I would gladly risk feeling bad at times if it also meant I could taste my desert.” And speaking of episodes built around kids (“Disaster” and “New Ground” down, “Imaginary Friend” to come), the unofficial running theme of Season Five…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “New Ground”
“You don’t care about me! All you care about is your honour!” In 1980s and 1990s television, there was perhaps no greater death knell for a show’s creativity than the introduction in the later seasons of a new child or…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “A Matter of Time”
“LaForge remained below…!” I’m writing this on November 25th, two days after the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, so it’s perhaps inevitable that the Doctor Who parallels that passed by completely unnoticed when I saw “A Matter of Perspective” back…
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Review: STAR TREK FIRST CONTACT (Blogging The Next Generation Christmas Special)
“Well I sure as hell am not going up there sober.” The popular “best” of the four Star Trek: The Next Generation feature films, Star Trek: First Contact is actually my least favourite. It’s hard for me to imagine a more…
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