Want more posts like these, straight to your inbox?
-
“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…
-
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…
-
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…
-
Blogging the Next Generation: “Where Silence Has Lease”
“Isn’t that a little like curing the disease by killing the patient?” You want a good example of how to do a bottle show well? “Where Silence Has Lease” is one of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s best, and for…
-
Review: STAR TREK NEMESIS (Blogging The Next Generation Christmas Special)
“Don’t be so vain.” I struggled with how, or even if, to include the Star Trek: The Next Generation feature films in Blogging the Next Generation. They are such weaksauce antecedents to the series. Of the four films, only Generations –…
-
Blogging the Next Generation: “The Child”
“Some eager beaver at play.” It is “The Child’s” formidability as a prototype for Next Gen 2.0 that earns it my substantial fondness. The episode’s plot proper isn’t awesome – a hasty affair wherein Troi gives birth to an enigmatic…
-
Review: THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
All good stories deserve embellishment “I think I’m quite ready for another adventure,” 130-year-old Bilbo Baggins proclaimed at the very end of The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, before stepping onto an Elven ship bound for…
-
Blogging the Next Generation: “The Neutral Zone”
“Heck, it’s the same dance, it’s just a different tune.” The last episode of the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation has a lot going against it – it’s a cheap knockoff of the basic plot of the…
-
Blogging the Next Generation: “Conspiracy”
“Tonight’s a quiet night.” We close out the year with two of the most renowned episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, starting with “Conspiracy,” which goes beyond renowned to being outright legendary. It certainly reads silly on paper: a…
-
Blogging the Next Generation: “We’ll Always Have Paris”
“I can’t compete with a ghost from his past.” I was twelve years old, and I had seen Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home and, perhaps, a couple of episodes of The Original Series with my mom, who would not…