Tag: Tasha Yar
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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: “Redemption II”
“It is a time to celebrate! For tomorrow, we all may die.” As of the start of its fifth season, Star Trek: The Next Generation was officially past its heyday. The fifth and sixth seasons still contained some of the series’ best overall episodes, but the intermediate adventures in between those high points began to…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Redemption”
“He is human. And humans have a way of showing up where you least expect them.” The fourth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation concludes on a note nearly as rousing as its high-water mark in the season prior, “The Best of Both Worlds.” Though not as dynamic a cliffhanger as Captain Picard’s transformation…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Mind’s Eye”
“Will there be any physical evidence of what you are going to do to him?” The big takeaway from “The Mind’s Eye” wasn’t anything to do with the plot proper of the episode itself, which sees Geordi brainwashed, Manchurian Candidate-style, to kill a Klingon politician. No, the big “squee!” moment back in ’91 came because…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Legacy”
“It will cost you twenty to make that determination, sir.” As a huge Tasha fan, “Legacy” was candy to me when it aired in 1990. It brings us to Turkana IV, Tasha’s home colony, mentioned infrequently throughout the first season as a lost colony overrun by rape gangs. It gives us Tasha’s younger sister, Ishara,…
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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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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…