Tag: Riker
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “The Bounty”
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. “Can someone explain why a 19th-century villain is guarding a 25th-century black site?” A whole-ass reunion episode, “The Bounty” brings everyone in the Next Generation…
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Blogging the Next Generation: Picard — “Nepenthe”
“Oh, MAN!” After a furious week or so of writing and scheduling posts for this rebooted Blogging the Next Generation, I took about a month off between “The Impossible Box” and today’s entry. I recall something similar happening when the first season of Star Trek: Picard was airing: this show is a slog, man, particularly…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Icarus Factor”
“Anbo-jyutsu! The ultimate evolution in the martial arts!” One is called upon to wonder exactly what keeps Riker, a career Starfleet officer, out of the captain’s chair that is trotted out for him so regularly on Star Trek: The Next Generation. (IRL, we know the answer: the producers want to keep him on the show.…