Not a great start to the new season - not bad, just missed the mark with me. We spend an awful lot of time with Sam Clemens -…
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Month: April 2010
88 posts
The season was chronologically split by the final movie of the original crew, making this a real season of two halves. Prior to *The Undiscovered Country* the episodes…
Silly Data. You're meant to leave your *heart* in San Francisco, not your *head*. Much like *Unification* this episode suffers a bit from the prologue problem - not…
Simple. Affecting. Beautiful. Perfect. 233 down, 504 to go.
G-g-g-g-g-ghost Bajoran! Telling a good Star Trek story is about balancing the philosophical with the plot action. We want to see a good SF idea explored, but also…
Poor old Picard. The war crimes become a lot harder when the kids give your prisoner a name. This is a nice story, and it's very interesting to…
There has been a strange fascination with children in the episodes of this season. Previous seasons have talked about the Enterprise being a family ship, but only this…
Ah, here are the Ferengi, just one week late. They don't get much time to mess things up, at least. There's a germ of a nice little unrequited…
Yuck. Alexander *and* Lwaxana Troi? I presume the Ferengi got lost on the way to the 'worst episode ever' contest. Well, it's not that bad. Even if the…
Wesley's back, and this time he's in trouble. It's another fairly slow, courtroom centred episode. But there are some fantastic scenes, particularly the two big confrontation scenes of…