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“From limitless options, I am reduced to none. Or rather one.” I don’t normally go in for extended cut / deleted scene shenanigans, particularly on things I hold sacrosanct, but the opportunity to see a full cut of “The Measure…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “A Matter of Honour”
“If Klingon food is too strong for you, perhaps we could get one of the females to breastfeed you.” I just find the idea of Starfleet running a student exchange program endlessly charming. It carries “A Matter of Honor” a…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Unnatural Selection”
“Scientists believe no experiment is a failure.” Ah, Dr. Pulaski; we hardly knew ye. I admit my relationship to Lady Bones is heartily impacted by my brother’s spastic rendering of her name – “P’LASKI!” – but on the whole I…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Schizoid Man”
“To know him is to love him is to know him?” I respect the fact that “The Schizoid Man” is a marginally better episode than I’m going to grade it; I just don’t like this one very much. For any…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Loud as a Whisper”
“Before him, there was no Klingon word for ‘peacemaker.’” Huh, a whole episode I’d completely forgotten existed at all. “Loud as a Whisper” is a bit of a strange one, not without its merits, though it never became any kind…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Outrageous Okona”
“A monk, a clone, and a Ferengi decided to go bowling together…” I can never quite decide if “The Outrageous Okona” is fucking awful or amazing. It’s certainly memorable. It’s most directly recalled for being the Joe Piscopo episode, where…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Elementary, Dear Data”
“A great monstrous shape, on which I am like a fly stuck on a turtle’s back, adrift in a great emptiness.” I suppose the holodeck episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation don’t really do it for me – which…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Where Silence Has Lease”
“Isn’t that a little like curing the disease by killing the patient?” You want a good example of how to do a bottle show well? “Where Silence Has Lease” is one of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s best, and for…
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Review: STAR TREK NEMESIS (Blogging The Next Generation Christmas Special)
“Don’t be so vain.” I struggled with how, or even if, to include the Star Trek: The Next Generation feature films in Blogging the Next Generation. They are such weaksauce antecedents to the series. Of the four films, only Generations –…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Child”
“Some eager beaver at play.” It is “The Child’s” formidability as a prototype for Next Gen 2.0 that earns it my substantial fondness. The episode’s plot proper isn’t awesome – a hasty affair wherein Troi gives birth to an enigmatic…
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