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“As you know, I provide the most memorable deserts.” Believe it or not, there was a time in my life when “avatar” was a fairly obscure concept. So it was when “Silicon Avatar” aired, one of those rare episodes to…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Ensign Ro”
Like “The Wounded” before it, “Ensign Ro” is one of the key building blocks of what became Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, with the introduction of the Cardassians’ other halves, the Bajorans. Those two intertwined races and their decades-long conflict…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Darmok”
“Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra.” Rebounding significantly from the weak-ass season opener, the second episode of Season Five is one of my favourites of the year. “Darmok” is built around a concept so brilliant it almost renders itself unworkable: a…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Redemption II”
“It is a time to celebrate! For tomorrow, we all may die.” As of the start of its fifth season, Star Trek: The Next Generation was officially past its heyday. The fifth and sixth seasons still contained some of the…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Redemption”
“He is human. And humans have a way of showing up where you least expect them.” The fourth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation concludes on a note nearly as rousing as its high-water mark in the season prior,…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “In Theory”
“And a very good job I did of it too.” In which, to the chagrin of fangirls everywhere, Data turns out to be the worst boyfriend ever. While the Enterprise is flying through a dark matter nebula, Data decides to…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Mind’s Eye”
“Will there be any physical evidence of what you are going to do to him?” The big takeaway from “The Mind’s Eye” wasn’t anything to do with the plot proper of the episode itself, which sees Geordi brainwashed, Manchurian Candidate-style,…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Host”
“If you can find those things in the man we know as Will Riker, accept them. Accept the love.” Not only is “The Host” a fairly kickass Dr. Crusher episode and one of my favourite love stories on the show…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Drumhead”
“I’ve brought down bigger men than you, Picard!” This grim and somewhat silly episode puts a plodding, McCarthy-ish witchhunt aboard the Enterprise, which slowly expands its circle of accusation from a visiting Klingon functionary to a mid-career Starfleet crewman to…
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