Tag: TNG Season Six
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Blogging the Next Generation: “True Q”
“The jury’s still out on that, Picard. Make no mistake.” Imagine the following delivered by a heavily bearded man in a thick, west country accent: “YOU’RE A Q, HARRY!” It wasn’t till this time through “True Q” that I cottoned to the fact that it’s essentially the Harry Potter story, on the Enterprise – with…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Schisms”
“Felis catus, is your taxonomic nomenclature an endothermic quadroped, carnivorous by nature?” Between this and “Man of the People,” we’re now deep into episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation whose existence had mercifully been deleted from my memory banks. I used to know this shit like the back of my hand – my brother…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Relics”
“NCC-1701. No bloody A, B, C, or D.” Ironically, the (arguably) least consequential of the Original Series / Next Gen crossover episodes, “Relics,” is probably the best of the lot. As befits its guest star, it’s a wild and sloppy affair, but wonderfully entertaining and warmhearted. Scotty has, since about the third Star Trek movie,…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Man of the People”
“I don’t know who that woman was, but she was definitely not his mother.” This flatly ridiculous episode casts Deanna in a bizarre reimagining of The Picture of Dorian Gray, in which Deanna herself is the picture. (In case you miss any of the obviousness, the alien race that delivers Ambassador Alcar to the Enterprise…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Realm of Fear”
“There’s a nerve cluster just behind the carotid artery. It stimulates the part of the brain that releases natural endorphins.” It’s back to business as usual on the Enterprise, which brings us the annual Barclay episode (though, I realize, there was no annual episode last year; and there’s two this year, actually). Having previously featured…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Time’s Arrow, Part II”
“MISTER PICKERD. I’ll be reminding you that it’s one o’clock.” [Majel Barrett Computer Voice] Last time, on Blogging the Next Generation… I was working my way through the complete Star Trek: The Next Generation on blu-ray when the braintrust at CBS Home Video gummed up the works completely by delaying the release of the series’…