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“The intervals between blinks were governed by the Fourier system, the same mathematical system my father used to give my blinking pattern the appearance of randomness.” And now, because we’ve done the one with Geordi’s Mom, and had a final…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Force of Nature”
“Geordi, I cannot stun my cat.” Star Trek: The Next Generation’s paean to the dangers of air pollution is one of the series last, and most syrupy, Message Shows. The episode’s hook – that warp drive is destroying the fabric…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Attached”
“Coffee and croissant.” We’re down to the dregs of the Next Generation barrel so, like Riker and Troi at the end of the last season, it’s finally time to do an episode that directly addresses that thing between Beverly and…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Dark Page”
“Moment.” Like Geordi a few weeks ago, Deanna’s personal history gets a final-season “enhancement” (in this case, call it more of a retcon) in this strange and complicated episode in which we learn that Lwaxana Troi had another daughter, before…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Phantasms”
“It is a cellular peptide cake. With mint frosting.” Star Trek: The Next Generation answers the eons-old question “do androids dream of electric sheep?” with a resounding NO in “Phantasms,” wherein Data’s dream program gets its inevitable follow-up. A bunch…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Gambit, Part II”
“If you would overlook this incident, I would like to continue to consider you my friend.” Oh hey – what the fuck is the “gambit” of the title, anyway? Picard going undercover with a bunch of loser space pirates? My…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Gambit, Part I”
“I have an open wound. Right here. It hurts like hell.” God, this one is the worst. The actual worst. And they made two of them. I hate “Gambit,” an idiotic two-parter in which Picard has faked his own death…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Interface”
“Forgot what a handsome guy I am.” So it’s come to this: the one with Geordi’s Mom. Furthermore, the one with Geordi’s Mom… and Virtual Reality. “Interface” is an example of the deep-cut approach to the seventh season of Star…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Liaisons”
“That is an incredibly outmoded and sexist attitude. I’m surprised at you. Besides, you look good in a dress.” In the annals of low-rung Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes which have vanished completely from my memory (of which we…
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Blogging the Next Generation New Year’s Special, Part Two: “Descent, Part II”
“And now, the conclusion.” As has become the unfortunate tradition for the summer-spanning two-parters of Star Trek: The Next Generation, “Descent I” raises intriguing questions – about the Borg, Hugh, Lore, and most of all Data – that “Descent II”…