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“The moon, yes. That will be my home. My paradise.” It’s “Flowers for Barclaynon,” in a return engagement for Dwight Schultz as Barclay that’s very nearly as good as his inaugural appearance in “Hollow Pursuits” the previous year. The inept…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Identity Crisis”
“I decided that I’d pre-judged him unfairly. And then I decided that I’d been right in the first place.” Anyone remember the one where Geordi turns into a glow-in-the-dark man-lizard? Of course you don’t, why would you. While not quite…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Night Terrors”
“Eyes in the dark. One moon circles.” One of Star Trek: The Next Generation’s infrequent attempts to do a proper ghost story on the Enterprise, “Night Terrors” is one of the more memorable ones for good and bad reasons. Good…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Galaxy’s Child”
“Captain! The creatures are accelerating their approach! They are changing colour!” Geordi’s hologram fantasy dream girl returns, and this time, she’s real! Except, whoops, she’s married. And not a hologram fantasy dream girl. I guess Geordi forgot to check her…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “First Contact”
“I will have to say, this morning I was the leader of the universe as I know it. This afternoon I’m only a voice in a chorus. But I think it was a good day.” No, not that First Contact.…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Clues”
“It took me a little while to figure out just exactly what I was supposed to do with these.” In precise opposition to the preceding “Devil’s Due,” the mystery in “Clues” is quite good, and keeps the narrative moving at…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Devil’s Due”
“Impudence is pretending to be Fek’lhr of Klingon!” Is this the last episode from the treasure trove of (usually terrible) unproduced Star Trek Phase II scripts used on Star Trek: The Next Generation? I think so. I have a weird…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Wounded”
“His father’s sword, he has girded on, and his wild harp slung behind him.” This fairly unassuming episode from Star Trek: The Next Generation’s fourth season has gone on, in the years since, to become one of the major feats…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Data’s Day”
“Some days you get the bear, and some days the bear gets you.” Another reeeeaaaally good episode from the cream of Next Gen‘s crop, “Data’s Day” does what it says on the tin: it spends a day with Data –…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Loss”
“I look around me and all I see are surfaces without depth…!” “The Loss” is an episode I quite disliked when it first aired, and then – when I grew up a bit – realized was actually a pretty clever…
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