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“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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Review: THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
All good stories deserve embellishment “I think I’m quite ready for another adventure,” 130-year-old Bilbo Baggins proclaimed at the very end of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, before stepping onto an Elven ship bound for…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Neutral Zone”
“Heck, it’s the same dance, it’s just a different tune.” The last episode of the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation has a lot going against it – it’s a cheap knockoff of the basic plot of the…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Conspiracy”
“Tonight’s a quiet night.” We close out the year with two of the most renowned episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, starting with “Conspiracy,” which goes beyond renowned to being outright legendary. It certainly reads silly on paper: a…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “We’ll Always Have Paris”
“I can’t compete with a ghost from his past.” I was twelve years old, and I had seen Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and, perhaps, a couple of episodes of The Original Series with my mom, who would not…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Skin of Evil”
“Au revoir, Natasha.” I never saw “Skin of Evil” in its original run, which I guess is just as well, although it did result in me tuning in for the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation and wondering,…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Symbiosis”
“Wesley, I hope you never do.” “Symbiosis” is inevitably a poignant episode of the series for reasons having nothing to do with its content; this is the last Star Trek appearance by Merritt Butrick, who played David in Star Trek…
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From A To Bond (Appendix B): The Other Casino Royale
Which one is this? The spoof. Who’s who in this one? Niven (Bond); Huston (M); Bayldon (Q); Bouchet (Moneypenny). Where did you first encounter this one? Never seen it before. Who’s the bad guy, and what does he want? Orson!…
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From A To Bond (Appendix A): Never Say Never Again
Which one is this? The renegade. Who’s who in this one? Connery (Bond); Fox (M); McCowen (Q); Salem (Moneypenny); Casey (Leiter). Where did you first encounter this one? On TV when I was growing up, probably aged 10 or 11.…
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