Tag: TNG Season Seven

“If you would overlook this incident, I would like to continue to consider you my friend.” Oh hey – what the fuck is the “gambit” of the title, anyway? Picard going undercover with a bunch of loser space pirates? My theory about these episodes having been written by the chess club is gaining ground. Let’s…

“I have an open wound. Right here. It hurts like hell.” God, this one is the worst. The actual worst. And they made two of them. I hate “Gambit,” an idiotic two-parter in which Picard has faked his own death to go on a secret mission with a band of space pirates or something. I…

“Forgot what a handsome guy I am.” So it’s come to this: the one with Geordi’s Mom. Furthermore, the one with Geordi’s Mom… and Virtual Reality. “Interface” is an example of the deep-cut approach to the seventh season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. The characters have long since arrived at lived-in status, so there’s…

“That is an incredibly outmoded and sexist attitude. I’m surprised at you. Besides, you look good in a dress.” In the annals of low-rung Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes which have vanished completely from my memory (of which we will see many this season), behold “Liaisons,” the one where… uh… three alien ambassadors in…

“And now, the conclusion.” As has become the unfortunate tradition for the summer-spanning two-parters of Star Trek: The Next Generation, “Descent I” raises intriguing questions – about the Borg, Hugh, Lore, and most of all Data – that “Descent II” turns out to have no interest in answering. The material about Data’s emotional discordance falls…