Star Trek meets Rashomon. The fundamental plot idea here is a good one - sifting through different points of view to work out who is guilty of a…
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Month: April 2010
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Star Trek tends to overuse the 'what does it mean to be human' theme. While personally I find being human quite nice, it doesn't seem like it should…
From the Vietnam analogies straight into the Northern Ireland analogies. It's no surprise that this episode was banned in the UK for a very long time. The episode…
This episode would have been better had it been a little subtler. As it was, they might have just used a great big neon sign saying 'bad guy'…
The Romulans do get the short end of the stick. Here they are, being an effective, menacing enemy, but from the point of view of 2010 we know…
Star Trek: CSI. Seriously: this episode has DNA tests, mysterious deaths, super-human databases with all the information that's convenient to the plot, and even photo enhancement that puts…
This was looking like a nice little episode, but then the Ferengi turned up and stunk the place up. The romance between Troi and the negotiator was a…
Geordi gets himself trapped down on a planet with a Romulan. The main weakness of the episode is all the setup they have to go through in order…