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“Go on. You’ve wanted to tell him for a long time.” I really hated this episode back when it first aired. It’s better than I remember, but still skeeves me out – something in the execution is way, way off.…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Who Watches the Watchers?”
“The Mintakans are beginning to believe in a god – and the one they’ve chosen is you.” This Prime Directive morality play and anti-religious fable doesn’t play as strongly as I remember, although the pieces are all here. Picard and…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Survivors”
“I didn’t just kill one Husnock or a hundred or a thousand… I killed them all. All Husnock, everywhere.” Star Trek: The Next Generation Season Four is coming in hot – released in just ten weeks – so I’ll be…
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Review: STAR TREK INSURRECTION (Blogging the Next Generation – Movie Release Week Special)
“All field units. Intercept the android.” There’s a new Star Trek movie in theatres, and I’ve got pretty serious problems with it; which makes this a perfect time to continue my backwards troll through the endlessly problematic Star Trek: The…
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Review: STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS
Bandersnatch in a Bandit Hat So here we are. Star Trek has completed its metamorphosis from a science fiction framework built on new and innovative storytelling into a “greatest hits” reboot where the entirety of its narrative tension is derived…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Ensigns of Command”
“That’s the short definition of ‘captain.’” It took 23 years but I finally found out what the title, “The Ensigns of Command,” refers to, which has been kicking the back of my head all this time. It’s a line from…
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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…
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Love in the time of apocalypse: Spock and Uhura
I didn’t think much about the Spock/Uhura romantic matchup in the 2009 Star Trek film when I first saw it. I took it for what it was — a cheeky wink at the series’ established continuity by the people who were…
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Blogging The Next Generation: “Peak Performance”
“Don’t confuse style with intent.”