Tag: dr. pulaski
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Up the Long Ladder”
“Antidote. If we’re going to share, let’s share. Now quote me a little of that poetry.” A weird smashup of what seems like three different episodes, “Up the Long Ladder” is charming in parts but can’t escape the vague stupidity of its writing, nor the ramshackle construction of its various plots. It’s most remembered for…
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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 like her well enough; were it not for my immense love of the character she…
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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 alien child, who then allows himself to die when he realizes he is jeopardizing the…