Tag: Jean-Luc Picard
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Et In Arcadia Ego, Part 2”
“Something in my head seemed to just… go away. Like a child’s sandcastle collapsing.” So: what was Picard — season one anyway — about? Let’s start with logistics. Patrick Stewart is roughly 79 when Star Trek: Picard films its first season. The original Rick Berman productions were notorious for their shooting days — 16- or…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “The Impossible Box”
“That’s not my name.” In “The Impossible Box,” we arrive at what I’ve elsewhere described as ur-text of any modern Picard story: the now-seemingly-inevitable narrative debt to Locutus of Borg. “The Best of Both Worlds” gets trotted out for the umpteenth time as the defining trauma of Picard’s life, as Picard finally visits the Artifact…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Inner Light”
“Tell them of us, my darling.” Here’s another canonized episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation about which I am highly conflicted. Even now, having watched the episode again for the first time in ten years or more, I can’t quite figure out where to land on it. It’s unarguably well-made and is as unique…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The High Ground”
“Jean-Luc, there are some things I want to tell you…” The best outcome of Gates McFadden’s return to Star Trek: The Next Generation was the emergence of proper Beverly episodes, which (strangely enough) never happened in Season One. With them, we have the arrival of what I’d call the True Beverly, and it begins here:…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Skin of Evil”
“Au revoir, Natasha.” I never saw “Skin of Evil” in its original run, which I guess is just as well, although it did result in me tuning in for the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation and wondering, “Where’s Tasha?” like a dumb kid whose parents were lying to him about the disappearance…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Arsenal of Freedom”
“The name of my ship is the Lollipop. It’s just been commissioned; it’s a good ship.” Here’s an episode that set my 12-year-old heart thundering: “The Arsenal of Freedom,” a proper run-and-jump-and-rayguns show that also pressed the eternal near-romance of Captain Picard and Dr. Crusher into a confined space beneath a planet ruled by a…