Tag: Ensign Ro
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Blogging the Next Generation — Picard: “Imposters”
This entry was written during the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike. Without the labor of the actors currently on strike, this television series wouldn’t exist. To learn more, visit the SAG-AFTRA strike site. “Oh, I have been rehearsing this conversation for thirty years.” The big fan-service reactivation I was stumping for in season three of Star Trek: Picard…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Preemptive Strike”
“Laren, what’s going on?” The penultimate episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation ties off the series’ last great recurring character, with a final visit for Ensign Ro, here promoted to Lieutenant. Since her introduction in Season Five, Ro transitioned quickly from thrilling new blood in the post-Wesley cast, to disappointing non-starter. Michelle Forbes was…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Next Phase”
“Now I suppose I’ll never know what you were gonna say about me.” Finally, Season Five gives us an episode that actually feels like a Next Gen episode. And thankfully, it’s a grand old time to boot, an admittedly flyweight science fiction adventure romp in which Geordi and Ro get “phased,” rendering them invisible to…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Disaster”
“I’m alive… what the hell happened?!” A disaster movie set aboard the Enterprise, wheee! Of all the latter-day attempts to revive the ‘70s disaster story structure (groups of unrelated individuals coping in parallel circumstances to an unexpected crisis), “Disaster” knocks the pants off Independence Day, Volcano, or Poseidon. (And Sharknado, obvies.) And “Disaster” has so.…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Ensign Ro”
Like “The Wounded” before it, “Ensign Ro” is one of the key building blocks of what became Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, with the introduction of the Cardassians’ other halves, the Bajorans. Those two intertwined races and their decades-long conflict forms the spine of DS9, and if the Bajorans are slightly off-model in “Ensign Ro”…