Tag: TNG Season Four
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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: “Remember Me”
“They all do. They deserve so much more.” The best Beverly episode and therefore one of my five or six favourite episodes of all time, “Remember Me” is spooky and unsettling in turns, and genuinely thrilling as it races to its climax. It has a strange, Twilight Zone-ish premise that is credibly executed thanks almost…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Suddenly Human”
“As captain of the starship Enterprise, I ask you not to make that sound.” The fever of five-Enterprise episodes of Next Gen breaks with “Suddenly Human,” which feels altogether like a holdover from the first season – and not in a good way. Teen heartthrob Chad Allen, with his perfect shampoo hair, plays a human boy…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Brothers”
“The sons of the prophet were valiant and bold, and quite unaccustomed to fear…” You’d be forgiven for not noticing that one principal character is wholly absent from the perfectly balanced “Family,” for reasons which become apparent with the next episode in Season Four of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Data doesn’t turn up in…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Family”
“Yes… but let him dream.” The third part of an unofficial triptych, bringing emotional closure to the two “Best of Both Worlds” episodes, “Family” is very nearly better than both of the Borg shows, and is in many ways one of the finest episodes that Star Trek: The Next Generation ever put together. It is…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Best of Both Worlds, Part II”
“Last time on Star Trek: The Next Generation…” Star Trek: The Next Generation is the series that taught me to pay attention to television writers. It’s how I learned about how a writers’ room works (and developed a lifelong ambition to work in one); how the production command structure on a series works; and what…