Author: tederick
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Shades of Gray”
“If you drop a hammer on your foot, it’s hardly useful to get mad at the hammer.” Well, here we are – the end of the season, and the notorious clip show. The WGA strike shortened Season Two to 22 episodes, and “Shades of Gray” was hastily installed to cheaply fill out the order. It’s…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Emissary”
“Looks like it’s just us, handsome.” I mentioned the Next Generation poker game’s influence on my life in my post about “The Measure of a Man,” but if there’s a single scene that probably taught me more about how to play the game than any other, it’s the one at the head of this episode…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Manhunt”
“Last time I saw something like that it was being served on a plate.” I’m stupidly fond of this episode even though I realize that it’s not very good; Lwaxana Troi going on a post-menopausal sex jag across the Enterprise is simply too hilarious for me not to mark it as memorable. She even makes…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Up the Long Ladder”
“Antidote. If we’re going to share, let’s share. Now quote me a little of that poetry.” A weird smashup of what seems like three different episodes, “Up the Long Ladder” is charming in parts but can’t escape the vague stupidity of its writing, nor the ramshackle construction of its various plots. It’s most remembered for…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Samaritan Snare”
“I’m just not overly thrilled at the prospect of my innards being made the subject of Starfleet gossip.” “Samaritan Snare” is one of those rare instances of a premise so oddball it actually works, or at least, is really memorable: it’s the one where Geordi gets kidnapped by the race of… really dumb guys. The…
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The stars in your eyes
Auckland – The fellowship is broken. Dave has taken Chris II overland to Auckland, while Demetre and I have chosen to attack it from the sea, which worked so well for us in Wellington. The ferry runs from Coromandel to Auckland in the evenings, a barnstorming run across the strait under a waxing moon that…
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Cathedral cove
Coromandel – As we moved through the North Island we found a more and more commercialized, tourist-ized New Zealand; I must admit that this did not leave me in any great hope for the remainder of our last week here, as we approached the Mecca of all Lord of the Rings tourism – Hobbiton –…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Q Who”
“The hall is rented, the orchestra engaged. It’s now time to see if you can dance.” What is there left to say about “Q Who,” that hasn’t already been said? It’s a great fuckin’ episode. It deserves its place in the pantheon of the very best that Star Trek: The Next Generation ever had to…
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Running with blood on our knees
Rotorua – We’re clattering down towards the end of the road, and every cell in my body can feel it; that juuuuuust-pre-exhaustion of a well timed marathon. We’re ticking the last of the boxes in the North Island, but nowadays when we make friends with other tourists, we’re the ones giving advice rather than taking…