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Which one is this? The Vegas diamond caper. Who’s who in this one? Connery (Bond); Lee (M); Llewelyn (Q); Maxwell (Moneypenny); Burton (Leiter). Where did you first encounter this one? On TV when I was twelve. Who’s the bad guy,…
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From A To Bond: Casino Royale
Which one is this? The reboot. Who’s who in this one? Craig (Bond); Dench (M); Wright (Leiter). Where did you first encounter this one? On release to theatres in 2006. Who’s the bad guy, and what does he want? Mads…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “When the Bough Breaks”
“The legend will die, but the people will live.” I get this episode mixed up with its predecessor, “Too Short a Season;” they both deal with the notion of age in one way or another, and they both have particularly…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Too Short a Season”
“Annie, with the golden hair.” One can admire “Too Short a Season” for its ambition, certainly, being a story about a nonogenarian admiral who ages backwards, Benjamin Button-style, to respond to an old threat. One can admire Clayton Rohner’s performance,…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “11001001”
“You got that straight, slim. Too real is too right.” Few episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation have benefited from the blu-ray upgrade as completely as “11001001,” which also happens to arguably be the first season’s best episode; that…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Angel One”
“Blogging the Next Generation” returns today after a one-week TIFF 2012 break, and now moves weekly, posting on Tuesdays, for the remainder of the series. At the advice of my brother, I’m also now incorporating a new feature: Enterprise ratings!…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Datalore”
“Are you prepared for the kind of death you’ve earned, little man?” For an episode that is generally well-remembered and which ceded Star Trek: The Next Generation one of its most popular recurring characters in Data’s evil duplicate, Lore, “Datalore”…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Big Goodbye”
“Civility, gentlemen. Always civility.” Oh yeah. This one. Everyone speaks highly of “The Big Goodbye,” and it won all sorts of awards and regularly turns up on lists of the best episodes of Star Trek of all time. It kicked…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Haven”
“Unlike some people, I am in growth.” Deanna Troi was one of the series’ largest ongoing problems – certainly, to hear the writers tell it; and certainly, I agree, in watching. Like all of TNG’s principal characters I remain doggedly…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Hide and Q”
“Oh, I know Hamlet. And what he might say with irony, I say with conviction: what a piece of work is man.” It seems I’m not the only one who’s become interested in Riker – Q returns to the Enterprise…
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