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“I will have to say, this morning I was the leader of the universe as I know it. This afternoon I’m only a voice in a chorus. But I think it was a good day.” No, not that First Contact.…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Clues”
“It took me a little while to figure out just exactly what I was supposed to do with these.” In precise opposition to the preceding “Devil’s Due,” the mystery in “Clues” is quite good, and keeps the narrative moving at…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Devil’s Due”
“Impudence is pretending to be Fek’lhr of Klingon!” Is this the last episode from the treasure trove of (usually terrible) unproduced Star Trek Phase II scripts used on Star Trek: The Next Generation? I think so. I have a weird…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Wounded”
“His father’s sword, he has girded on, and his wild harp slung behind him.” This fairly unassuming episode from Star Trek: The Next Generation’s fourth season has gone on, in the years since, to become one of the major feats…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Data’s Day”
“Some days you get the bear, and some days the bear gets you.” Another reeeeaaaally good episode from the cream of Next Gen‘s crop, “Data’s Day” does what it says on the tin: it spends a day with Data –…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Loss”
“I look around me and all I see are surfaces without depth…!” “The Loss” is an episode I quite disliked when it first aired, and then – when I grew up a bit – realized was actually a pretty clever…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Final Mission”
“I was always proud of you.” Wil Wheaton’s proper swan song with the franchise (complicated by the fact that he returned later for a couple of really good episodes, and a couple of really poor episodes) finds the young ensign…
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Another Hero (2013)
Filmed on location in the North Island of New Zealand, as we all search for another hero.
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Future Imperfect”
“Mr. Data, we must hurry or we shall miss Commander Riker’s party.”
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Reunion”
“qab jIH ngIl.” Great storytelling has depth, by which I don’t mean layers, levels, or profundity; but merely the kind of top-to-bottom richness that results in its leaving a deep imprint, which can be seen for a long time afterwards.…
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