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“Civility, gentlemen. Always civility.” Oh yeah. This one. Everyone speaks highly of “The Big Goodbye,” and it won all sorts of awards and regularly turns up on lists of the best episodes of Star Trek of all time. It kicked…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Haven”
“Unlike some people, I am in growth.” Deanna Troi was one of the series’ largest ongoing problems – certainly, to hear the writers tell it; and certainly, I agree, in watching. Like all of TNG’s principal characters I remain doggedly…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Hide and Q”
“Oh, I know Hamlet. And what he might say with irony, I say with conviction: what a piece of work is man.” It seems I’m not the only one who’s become interested in Riker – Q returns to the Enterprise…
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Blogging The Next Generation: “The Battle”
“It may be true that headaches were once quite common. That was in the days before the brain was charted. Before we understood the nature of pain.”
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Justice”
“State. The. Purpose.” “Justice” isn’t particularly successful as a piece of drama but it’s a bracingly open shot across the bow on three of Roddenberry’s core beliefs – sexual libertarianism, atheism, and the evils of capital punishment. On the first…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Lonely Among Us”
“Yes. Normal.” “Lonely Among Us” is batshit crazy and generally godawful, a long, meandering joke without a punchline – so I’m gonna talk about the action figures instead. The B-plot of “Lonely Among Us” involves the Enterprise stewarding two groups…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Where No One Has Gone Before”
“Why is this child here?” The first great episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation represents such a substantial elevation over its brethren that it takes a minute or two to become accustomed to its quality; everything about “Where No…
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Electronic Oblivion: A Hymn to the Fallen
My JVC handicam was on its last legs; it was no longer able to play back tapes reliably, and I figured its ability to record would be out the window in short order. This was the small camera I bought…