There was a germ of a good episode in here somewhere, but it kinda got lost somewhere in the fourth or fifth long, talky, scene. It's great to…
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Gene Roddenberry did have some great ideas. But kids and families on a starship? This is a warship in more danger week to week than the average Navy…
There was a while there when I didn't think this episode would ever end. Egads it dragged on. And I'm still not really sure what the point was.…
Yay! TNG's first self destruct sequence.[^1] This episode takes a while to get going, but the 'slice of life' thing is quite entertaining, and helps to draw the…
It was pretty subtle, so you may have missed the message of the episode: "sexism is bad". When the B-plot about everyone on board the Enterprise getting the…
There is nothing I hate more in TV than the idiot plot. You know the one, the plot that relies entirely and solely on the characters beings idiots…
At long last, the inaugural Holodeck malfunction. The Holodeck is just such a magnificent concept though. Without the malfunctions it wouldn't make for good television. But while watching…
Star Trek is a very influential show, and so I'll be looking at a few other TV show episodes, movies and games inspired by Star Trek as part…
Picard sums this one up perfectly in the last minute of the episode: "I was not amused". Neither was I. Another obvious attempt at 'the funny' falls flat…
The good episode of this performance is the Q versus Picard dynamic. Both actors do a fantastic job. But the writing is pretty clumsy, and undermines everything else…