Tag: Star Trek: The Next Generation
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Review: STAR TREK FIRST CONTACT (Blogging The Next Generation Christmas Special)
“Well I sure as hell am not going up there sober.” The popular “best” of the four Star Trek: The Next Generation feature films, Star Trek: First Contact is actually my least favourite. It’s hard for me to imagine a more stupidly, or crassly, conceived franchise property than this. The film drips concept rather than storytelling,…
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Blogging The Next Generation: “Unification II”
“It was I who committed Captain Kirk to that peace mission, and I who had to bear the responsibility for the consequences to him and to his crew.”
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
“Geordi… tell me about Tasha Yar.” Well, here we are – the episode that many would argue is not just the best of Star Trek: The Next Generation, but possibly the best of Star Trek, period. I don’t rank it quite that highly – it’s my third-favourite Next Gen episode, after “All Good Things” and…
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Review: STAR TREK INSURRECTION (Blogging the Next Generation – Movie Release Week Special)
“All field units. Intercept the android.” There’s a new Star Trek movie in theatres, and I’ve got pretty serious problems with it; which makes this a perfect time to continue my backwards troll through the endlessly problematic Star Trek: The Next Generation feature films, bringing me to Star Trek: Insurrection, a.k.a. Star Trek 9, and…
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Review: STAR TREK NEMESIS (Blogging The Next Generation Christmas Special)
“Don’t be so vain.” I struggled with how, or even if, to include the Star Trek: The Next Generation feature films in Blogging the Next Generation. They are such weaksauce antecedents to the series. Of the four films, only Generations – yes, Generations – bears any real stylistic, thematic, or conceptual relationship to the television show…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “We’ll Always Have Paris”
“I can’t compete with a ghost from his past.” I was twelve years old, and I had seen Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and, perhaps, a couple of episodes of The Original Series with my mom, who would not have suggested Star Trek to me at all if she’d had any notion of what…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “11001001”
“You got that straight, slim. Too real is too right.” Few episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation have benefited from the blu-ray upgrade as completely as “11001001,” which also happens to arguably be the first season’s best episode; that it is chock-a-block with magnificent visual effects is beside the point, but a nice bonus…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Lonely Among Us”
“Yes. Normal.” “Lonely Among Us” is batshit crazy and generally godawful, a long, meandering joke without a punchline – so I’m gonna talk about the action figures instead. The B-plot of “Lonely Among Us” involves the Enterprise stewarding two groups of delegates, the Anticans and the Selay, to peace talks on a planet called Parliament.…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Naked Now”
“It never happened.” The Data/Tasha Yar sex scene remains a standout of not just Star Trek: The Next Generation but the entire Star Trek franchise, and possibly the whole history of shipping and slash fiction and cosplay and ooey-gooey SF sexual what-would-happen-ifs. That Data/Tasha comes in the middle of an episode that most folks consider…