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VHS Nostalgia, Part I
I don’t think you all realize how good tapes were. You’d have a tape. Big, wodgy thing. The size of a book, made of licorice. Inevitably noisy — predetermined to clatter, especially if you dropped one, which, don’t worry, they were basically indestructible, until they weren’t. The machines that handled them were noisy too: sound…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “All Good Things…”
“And the sky’s the limit.” There’s that shot at the end of “All Good Things…,” the last episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, where Captain Picard starts dealing a poker hand to his crew – he’s never, in seven years, sat at that table, though he was always welcome – and as the cards…
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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 Next Generation’s third season. The first is “Booby Trap,” which became rather more… controversial?… in…
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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 have suggested Star Trek to me at all if she’d had any notion of what…