Tag: Counselor Troi
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Face of the Enemy”
“Hod’laii.” This is easily my favourite episode of Season Six; and it’s certainly, far and away, the best Counselor Troi episode in all of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It’s such an achievement over its sixth-season running mates that I actually find it startling. I mean, last week we were on “Aquiel,” and the season…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Night Terrors”
“Eyes in the dark. One moon circles.” One of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s infrequent attempts to do a proper ghost story on the Enterprise, “Night Terrors” is one of the more memorable ones for good and bad reasons. Good because it does create a genuine sense of unease through solid plotting and performance, and…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Loss”
“I look around me and all I see are surfaces without depth…!” “The Loss” is an episode I quite disliked when it first aired, and then – when I grew up a bit – realized was actually a pretty clever piece of writing. Why did I dislike it? Well, because it was about Counselor Troi…
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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 lived in that could produce such a judgment is long past. Aside from a very…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Manhunt”
“Last time I saw something like that it was being served on a plate.” I’m stupidly fond of this episode even though I realize that it’s not very good; Lwaxana Troi going on a post-menopausal sex jag across the Enterprise is simply too hilarious for me not to mark it as memorable. She even makes…
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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 of a memorable favourite for me (obviously). The episode explores its own idea well enough,…