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Blogging the Next Generation: “Data’s Day”
“Some days you get the bear, and some days the bear gets you.” Another reeeeaaaally good episode from the cream of Next Gen‘s crop, “Data’s Day” does what it says on the tin: it spends a day with Data – who, surprising no one, does a lot of awesome shit in the course of the…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Loss”
“I look around me and all I see are surfaces without depth…!” “The Loss” is an episode I quite disliked when it first aired, and then – when I grew up a bit – realized was actually a pretty clever piece of writing. Why did I dislike it? Well, because it was about Counselor Troi…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Final Mission”
“I was always proud of you.” Wil Wheaton’s proper swan song with the franchise (complicated by the fact that he returned later for a couple of really good episodes, and a couple of really poor episodes) finds the young ensign on his way to Starfleet Academy at last – but not before he’s given one…
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Another Hero (2013)
Filmed on location in the North Island of New Zealand, as we all search for another hero.
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Future Imperfect”
“Mr. Data, we must hurry or we shall miss Commander Riker’s party.”
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Reunion”
“qab jIH ngIl.” Great storytelling has depth, by which I don’t mean layers, levels, or profundity; but merely the kind of top-to-bottom richness that results in its leaving a deep imprint, which can be seen for a long time afterwards. “Reunion” is such a story. Not only was it one of the most rousing, entertaining…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Legacy”
“It will cost you twenty to make that determination, sir.” As a huge Tasha fan, “Legacy” was candy to me when it aired in 1990. It brings us to Turkana IV, Tasha’s home colony, mentioned infrequently throughout the first season as a lost colony overrun by rape gangs. It gives us Tasha’s younger sister, Ishara,…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Remember Me”
“They all do. They deserve so much more.” The best Beverly episode and therefore one of my five or six favourite episodes of all time, “Remember Me” is spooky and unsettling in turns, and genuinely thrilling as it races to its climax. It has a strange, Twilight Zone-ish premise that is credibly executed thanks almost…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Suddenly Human”
“As captain of the starship Enterprise, I ask you not to make that sound.” The fever of five-Enterprise episodes of Next Gen breaks with “Suddenly Human,” which feels altogether like a holdover from the first season – and not in a good way. Teen heartthrob Chad Allen, with his perfect shampoo hair, plays a human boy…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Brothers”
“The sons of the prophet were valiant and bold, and quite unaccustomed to fear…” You’d be forgiven for not noticing that one principal character is wholly absent from the perfectly balanced “Family,” for reasons which become apparent with the next episode in Season Four of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Data doesn’t turn up in…