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“Jean-Luc, there are some things I want to tell you…” The best outcome of Gates McFadden’s return to Star Trek: The Next Generation was the emergence of proper Beverly episodes, which (strangely enough) never happened in Season One. With them,…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Hunted”
“We cannot interfere in the natural course of your society’s development. And I’d say it’s going to develop significantly in the next few minutes.” An intense and focused thriller, “The Hunted” is another highlight of a season full of highlights.…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Defector”
“These are not my stars. Even the heavens are denied me here.” A favourite of mine, not just of the third season but of the entire run of Star Trek: The Next Generation, “The Defector” brings epic badassery to the…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Vengeance Factor”
“Parthus à la Yuta!” Strongly into the gooey middle of the endless run of “The _______” episode titles in the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, we find “The Vengeance Factor,” which I’ve never really liked much. I…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Price”
“Who needs rational when your toes curl up?” Hump Trek: The Next Degradation! I recall there being quite a flurry of indignation when “The Price” first aired, because it was (supposedly) quite graphic for Star Trek; whatever vanilla era we…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Enemy”
“I never lie when I’ve got sand in my shoes, Commodore.” Here’s the second great Geordi episode in a row, “The Enemy,” in which the good chief engineer is stranded on a storm-ridden planet with a single stranded Romulan. It’s…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Booby Trap”
“My God, I bet I had a Promelian battlecruiser too…” Against the claim that there are no good Geordi episodes, I stake that there are at least two, and they are (oddly enough) back to back in Star Trek: The…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Bonding”
“Go on. You’ve wanted to tell him for a long time.” I really hated this episode back when it first aired. It’s better than I remember, but still skeeves me out – something in the execution is way, way off.…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Who Watches the Watchers?”
“The Mintakans are beginning to believe in a god – and the one they’ve chosen is you.” This Prime Directive morality play and anti-religious fable doesn’t play as strongly as I remember, although the pieces are all here. Picard and…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Survivors”
“I didn’t just kill one Husnock or a hundred or a thousand… I killed them all. All Husnock, everywhere.” Star Trek: The Next Generation Season Four is coming in hot – released in just ten weeks – so I’ll be…
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