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Blogging the Next Generation: “All Good Things…”
“And the sky’s the limit.” There’s that shot at the end of “All Good Things…,” the last episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, where Captain Picard starts dealing a poker hand to his crew – he’s never, in seven years, sat at that table, though he was always welcome – and as the cards…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Preemptive Strike”
“Laren, what’s going on?” The penultimate episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation ties off the series’ last great recurring character, with a final visit for Ensign Ro, here promoted to Lieutenant. Since her introduction in Season Five, Ro transitioned quickly from thrilling new blood in the post-Wesley cast, to disappointing non-starter. Michelle Forbes was…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Emergence”
“I’ll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth…!” The seventh season of Star Trek: The Next Generation is awful. I’m on the record with that throughout: people grouse about Seasons One and Two, and there are certainly some magnificent misfires in those years; but in its early days, Next Gen was possessed…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Bloodlines”
“You’ll never look at your hairline again in the same way.” For reasons I’ve never been able to suss out, Star Trek: The Next Generation spends one of its very last episodes doing a sequel to the ridiculous first-season episode “The Battle,” and does so by conjuring up a David Marcus-ish, long-lost son for Captain…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Firstborn”
“I don’t want to be a warrior!” And now that we’ve concluded things with Wesley Crusher, we move along to Alexander Rozhenko, Son of Worf, Nephew of Kurn, problematic “puppy” addition to a long-running series, who has all but disappeared since the middle of the sixth season. And what a dispiriting conclusion he gets: Future…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Journey’s End”
“I think that’s the first time anyone’s used that particular word to describe me.” With the end barreling towards us, Star Trek: The Next Generation takes the time to tie off three of its recurring characters: Wesley, Alexander, and Ensign Ro, starting with the former – and in the case of “Journey’s End,” it’s a…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Genesis”
“He transformed into a spider and now he has a disease named after him.” In the “so bad it’s good” files, few delight me more than “Genesis,” which isn’t just a bizarre attempt to do body horror on the USS Enterprise, but is also Gates McFadden’s sole directorial credit on Star Trek: The Next Generation.…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Eye of the Beholder”
“Mr. Worf, you sound like a man who’s asking his friend if he can start dating his sister.” To tie off the strangest romance inception in series television history – in which Worf went to a parallel universe where he was married to Counselor Troi, then figured he might want to try to hit that…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Masks”
“Masaka is waking.” Buckle your shit up everyone, because things are about to get terrible. With “Lower Decks” behind us, it’s now a nearly straight run of unadulterated garbage from here to “All Good Things…” with only a couple of so-bad-it’s-good reprieves in the meantime. “Masks” is not one of those reprieves. Now, I admit,…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Thine Own Self”
“You are an ice man.” This is such a straight-ahead idea for an episode that it’s somewhat surprising it didn’t turn up earlier in the run of the series: Data crashes on an alien planet, develops amnesia, and is adopted by a local pre-industrial society, where his android skill set allows him to solve the…