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“A challenge. You should prove an interesting challenge.” We have arrived at, arguably, the apex of Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s pop cultural power: the week it gave birth to a spin-off. I can’t recall if “Chain of Command” coincided…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Quality of Life”
“Commander – is it your intention to continue to grow your beard?” Time for your annual reminder that Data is a person – by proxy this time, but the principle is the same. Data determines that a group of industrial…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “A Fistful of Datas”
“Felis catus, is your taxonomic nomenclature an endothermic quadroped, carnivorous by nature?” We’re going to be called upon to ask what was in the water at the Star Trek: The Next Generation writers’ offices this month. Last week, the crew…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Rascals”
“I assure you, I am Captain Picard.” Well here it is, the got-dang silliest premise in the history of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the one that should have been this series’ “Spock’s Brain;” an idea so stupid you’re amazed…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “True Q”
“The jury’s still out on that, Picard. Make no mistake.” Imagine the following delivered by a heavily bearded man in a thick, west country accent: “YOU’RE A Q, HARRY!” It wasn’t till this time through “True Q” that I cottoned…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Schisms”
“Felis catus, is your taxonomic nomenclature an endothermic quadroped, carnivorous by nature?” Between this and “Man of the People,” we’re now deep into episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation whose existence had mercifully been deleted from my memory banks.…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Relics”
“NCC-1701. No bloody A, B, C, or D.” Ironically, the (arguably) least consequential of the Original Series / Next Gen crossover episodes, “Relics,” is probably the best of the lot. As befits its guest star, it’s a wild and sloppy…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Man of the People”
“I don’t know who that woman was, but she was definitely not his mother.” This flatly ridiculous episode casts Deanna in a bizarre reimagining of The Picture of Dorian Gray, in which Deanna herself is the picture. (In case you…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Realm of Fear”
“There’s a nerve cluster just behind the carotid artery. It stimulates the part of the brain that releases natural endorphins.” It’s back to business as usual on the Enterprise, which brings us the annual Barclay episode (though, I realize, there…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Time’s Arrow, Part II”
“MISTER PICKERD. I’ll be reminding you that it’s one o’clock.” [Majel Barrett Computer Voice] Last time, on Blogging the Next Generation… I was working my way through the complete Star Trek: The Next Generation on blu-ray when the braintrust at…
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