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“We may be on a road that has no turns.” From the ridiculous to the sublime – if “The Royale” is my least favourite episode of the year, “Time Squared” is certainly its opposite number. I flipped my lid over…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Royale”
“When the train comes in, everybody rides.” “The Royale” is far and away my least favourite episode of the season – which means, yes, I am putting it below the dreadful clip show, “Shades of Grey.” I hate this one,…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Contagion”
“It’s beginning to make me think we should have run these Galaxy-class ships across a few more drawing boards before we built one.” “Contagion” was candy to me when it first aired, its various elements appealing to every single molecule…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Dauphin”
“I dream of a galaxy where your eyes are the stars, and the universe worships the night.” Wesley Crusher’s first love story is so goddamned adorable that I rank it highly among my favourite episodes of the second season, even…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Measure of a Man”
“From limitless options, I am reduced to none. Or rather one.” I don’t normally go in for extended cut / deleted scene shenanigans, particularly on things I hold sacrosanct, but the opportunity to see a full cut of “The Measure…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “A Matter of Honour”
“If Klingon food is too strong for you, perhaps we could get one of the females to breastfeed you.” I just find the idea of Starfleet running a student exchange program endlessly charming. It carries “A Matter of Honor” a…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Unnatural Selection”
“Scientists believe no experiment is a failure.” Ah, Dr. Pulaski; we hardly knew ye. I admit my relationship to Lady Bones is heartily impacted by my brother’s spastic rendering of her name – “P’LASKI!” – but on the whole I…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Schizoid Man”
“To know him is to love him is to know him?” I respect the fact that “The Schizoid Man” is a marginally better episode than I’m going to grade it; I just don’t like this one very much. For any…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “Loud as a Whisper”
“Before him, there was no Klingon word for ‘peacemaker.’” Huh, a whole episode I’d completely forgotten existed at all. “Loud as a Whisper” is a bit of a strange one, not without its merits, though it never became any kind…
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Blogging the Next Generation: “The Outrageous Okona”
“A monk, a clone, and a Ferengi decided to go bowling together…” I can never quite decide if “The Outrageous Okona” is fucking awful or amazing. It’s certainly memorable. It’s most directly recalled for being the Joe Piscopo episode, where…
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