Season 7 ended well. That's about the nicest thing that I can say about it. Otherwise the season was mostly bad to mediocre, with only 6 episodes making…
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Month: March 2012
32 posts
And now, the end of the end. Endings are hard. But they pull it off about as well as could be imagined. It's a good story, the stakes…
It's the beginning of the end for The Next Generation. Endings are hard. Just ask the the writers of *Lost* or *Mass Effect 3*. So there's a lot…
It's everyone's favourite SF theme, elections for a religious post. Overall the structure of this episode is quite clever, and it manages to avoid a lot of the…
The Maquis and the Cardassian DMZ are back. That's four episodes now, must be a thing. At last, a good episode of TNG. It's been a while, as…
293 episodes later, it's time to back to the [Mirror universe](http://www.exasperatedcalculator.com/archives/2010/01/trekathon-033-mirror-mirror-tos/). Outside of Tribbles it's hard to think of a more beloved story to return to than the…
The Enterprise evolves into another life form. It's another strange symbolic episode, only this time with an even less enjoyable ending as rather than resolve the problems on…
'Plain and simple' Garak has a complicated medical problem. Fantastic stuff. Not much I can add really. It takes the pieces set up earlier in terms of Garak's…
Picard's son is threatened by the Ferengi. Hang on a minute... Strange that there's been a kind of family trilogy here - Crusher's son, Worf's son, and now…
The fight against the Maquis continues, although it's a bit more complicated than that. Unusually for a Trek 2-parter, this episode actually delivers. It all gets messier than…