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“You know, there was a time when I wouldn’t hurt a fly. Then the Borg came… and they showed me that if there’s one constant in this whole universe, it’s death.”
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Review: THE HOBBIT: THE BATTLE OF THE FIVE ARMIES
I’m Not The Same Hobbit I Once Was. For those who have read The Hobbit, there was always a rather obvious joke implied by the cliffhanger ending of the second Hobbit film,The Desolation of Smaug. The dragon Smaug sweeps dreadfully…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Second Chances”
“I know what I want, I know what I’ve got, and you’d be lucky to do so well.” Well, we’re finally here: the One Where They Deal Directly With Riker/Troi (Albeit With A Sci-Fi Twist). If I remember my Star…
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Review: The RAMBO Movies
The Gulf of America Until I was well into my thirties, the only Stallone movie I’d ever seen was Stop Or My Mom Will Shoot. I gave the Rocky and the Rambo franchises a clean miss, though growing up in the 1980s, they were part…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Rightful Heir”
“Look for me there, on that point of light.” This is a fairly workable episode which deals with a wholly unsuitable (for Star Trek) premise: Worf’s crisis of religious faith. Star Trek, which had been an entirely atheist (or at the very…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Suspicions”
“I don’t know, you tell me, you’re supposed to be wise!” “Suspicions” is emblematic of exactly how bland and unmotivated Star Trek: The Next Generation had become by this point in the run. You want to know what I mean…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Frame of Mind”
“I may be surrounded by insanity, but I am not insane.” I’d always had it in my head that I’d been somewhat unfair to “Frame of Mind” when I was younger. I quite disliked it, but I’ve heard it spoken…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Chase”
“Graciously, Mister Picard! You could accept it graciously!” I love this episode. I love it on principle: an in-diegesis explanation for why all the aliens we’ve ever met on Star Trek look like human beings with bumps on their foreheads,…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Lessons”
“I have a few things to do between now and then.” Let’s settle one thing up front: everybody understands that the Captain is in love with Beverly Crusher. This was revealed at the beginning of Season 1, paid off at…