Category: Blogging The Next Generation
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Identity Crisis”
“I decided that I’d pre-judged him unfairly. And then I decided that I’d been right in the first place.” Anyone remember the one where Geordi turns into a glow-in-the-dark man-lizard? Of course you don’t, why would you. While not quite as bad as the Star Trek: Voyager episode where Janeway and Paris turned into a…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Night Terrors”
“Eyes in the dark. One moon circles.” One of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s infrequent attempts to do a proper ghost story on the Enterprise, “Night Terrors” is one of the more memorable ones for good and bad reasons. Good because it does create a genuine sense of unease through solid plotting and performance, and…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Galaxy’s Child”
“Captain! The creatures are accelerating their approach! They are changing colour!” Geordi’s hologram fantasy dream girl returns, and this time, she’s real! Except, whoops, she’s married. And not a hologram fantasy dream girl. I guess Geordi forgot to check her relationship status on Spacebook. I remember, while I was cyber-dating about a decade ago, chatting…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “First Contact”
“I will have to say, this morning I was the leader of the universe as I know it. This afternoon I’m only a voice in a chorus. But I think it was a good day.” No, not that First Contact. Of the many reasons that the feature film Star Trek: First Contact pisses me off…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Clues”
“It took me a little while to figure out just exactly what I was supposed to do with these.” In precise opposition to the preceding “Devil’s Due,” the mystery in “Clues” is quite good, and keeps the narrative moving at an engaging pace. Picard and company slowly begin to realize that they’ve lost a day…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Devil’s Due”
“Impudence is pretending to be Fek’lhr of Klingon!” Is this the last episode from the treasure trove of (usually terrible) unproduced Star Trek Phase II scripts used on Star Trek: The Next Generation? I think so. I have a weird relationship with “Devil’s Due,” in that I’ve never particularly thought it was very good, but…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Wounded”
“His father’s sword, he has girded on, and his wild harp slung behind him.” This fairly unassuming episode from Star Trek: The Next Generation’s fourth season has gone on, in the years since, to become one of the major feats of worldbuilding for the whole franchise. At first, its novelty was simply that it was…
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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…