Author: tederick
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Gambit, Part II”
“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…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Gambit, Part I”
“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…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Interface”
“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…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Liaisons”
“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…
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Blogging the Next Generation New Year’s Special, Part Two: “Descent, Part II”
“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…
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Blogging the Next Generation New Year’s Special, Part One: “Descent”
I watched “Descent” in the recently-finished basement at my parents’ place, just after school ended in the summer of 1993. We had the whole posse over, and Mark and I showed some of our movies beforehand, and we got into a waterfight to settle various year-long grudges besides. Everything was damp and hormonal. I had…
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The GODFATHER Trilogy on Boxing Day
Wherever possible I do a marathon of The Godfather trilogy on Boxing Day. I’ve been doing it since the DVD boxed set came out, so at least ten years, maybe more. I converted over to blu-ray like a good boy when that became an option. I suspect I’ve missed it for the last few years running, but once…
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Review: STAR TREK GENERATIONS (Blogging The Next Generation Christmas Special)
“You know, there was a time when I wouldn’t hurt a fly. Then the Borg came… and they showed me that if there’s one constant in this whole universe, it’s death.”
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Review: THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES
I’m Not The Same Hobbit I Once Was. For those who have read The Hobbit, there was always a rather obvious joke implied by the cliffhanger ending of the second Hobbit film,The Desolation of Smaug. The dragon Smaug sweeps dreadfully down from his lonely mountain towards the defenceless city of Lake-town, and we smash-cut to…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Second Chances”
“I know what I want, I know what I’ve got, and you’d be lucky to do so well.” Well, we’re finally here: the One Where They Deal Directly With Riker/Troi (Albeit With A Sci-Fi Twist). If I remember my Star Trek: The Next Generation lore correctly, the unrequited Deanna/Will romance was part of the series…