Tag: TNG Season Two
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Royale”
“When the train comes in, everybody rides.” “The Royale” is far and away my least favourite episode of the season – which means, yes, I am putting it below the dreadful clip show, “Shades of Grey.” I hate this one, and always did, and am amazed watching it now that it hangs even more limp…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Contagion”
“It’s beginning to make me think we should have run these Galaxy-class ships across a few more drawing boards before we built one.” “Contagion” was candy to me when it first aired, its various elements appealing to every single molecule of my teenaged self. The starship Yamato destroys itself via accidental antimatter core dump; the…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Dauphin”
“I dream of a galaxy where your eyes are the stars, and the universe worships the night.” Wesley Crusher’s first love story is so goddamned adorable that I rank it highly among my favourite episodes of the second season, even though I know full well that there are some beats missing in the storytelling and…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Measure of a Man”
“From limitless options, I am reduced to none. Or rather one.” I don’t normally go in for extended cut / deleted scene shenanigans, particularly on things I hold sacrosanct, but the opportunity to see a full cut of “The Measure of a Man” that is well over a third longer than the broadcast version was…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “A Matter of Honour”
“If Klingon food is too strong for you, perhaps we could get one of the females to breastfeed you.” I just find the idea of Starfleet running a student exchange program endlessly charming. It carries “A Matter of Honor” a long way in my eyes. I’m not huge on the Klingon episodes generally, and that…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Unnatural Selection”
“Scientists believe no experiment is a failure.” Ah, Dr. Pulaski; we hardly knew ye. I admit my relationship to Lady Bones is heartily impacted by my brother’s spastic rendering of her name – “P’LASKI!” – but on the whole I like her well enough; were it not for my immense love of the character she…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Schizoid Man”
“To know him is to love him is to know him?” I respect the fact that “The Schizoid Man” is a marginally better episode than I’m going to grade it; I just don’t like this one very much. For any of Season Two’s strengths – and I do believe it’s a pretty good year –…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Loud as a Whisper”
“Before him, there was no Klingon word for ‘peacemaker.’” Huh, a whole episode I’d completely forgotten existed at all. “Loud as a Whisper” is a bit of a strange one, not without its merits, though it never became any kind of a memorable favourite for me (obviously). The episode explores its own idea well enough,…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Outrageous Okona”
“A monk, a clone, and a Ferengi decided to go bowling together…” I can never quite decide if “The Outrageous Okona” is fucking awful or amazing. It’s certainly memorable. It’s most directly recalled for being the Joe Piscopo episode, where (in the episode’s B-plot) Data enters the holodeck to try to learn the nature of…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Elementary, Dear Data”
“A great monstrous shape, on which I am like a fly stuck on a turtle’s back, adrift in a great emptiness.” I suppose the holodeck episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation don’t really do it for me – which is odd, because on basic terms, I love the setup, especially as it’s applied here.…