Month: April 2010

You know what I’d like? I’d like an episode which starts out with Lwaxana Troi showing up, but then jumps straight into an episode like Q Who, Yesterday’s Enterprise or Best of Both Worlds. This was not that episode. In fact, this was close to the opposite: start with Lwaxana Troi, and then add extra…

Surprisingly enough, this is actually the first substantial cross-over between The Original Series and Next Generation (I’m not counting the 30 second cameo of Bones in the pilot). Sarek is an interesting character, and the Vulcans have been very underused in Next Generation so far (in fact, according to the indispensable [Memory Alpha](http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Vulcan) there are…

I’m pretty sure this is on the [Evil Overlord](http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html) list: “I will not threaten to kill a trusted subordinate who has developed a liking for a prisoner of mine to get the prisoner to do what I need, as the trusted subordinate will surely help them escape.” If it’s not, it should be. My favourite…

Yet another episode that skirts around the subject of Holodeck porn. Because do we seriously think that Barclay was just talking with his virtual Troi and Crusher? And there’s no regulation against this kind of thing? Seriously? Surely the Star Fleet sexual harassment guidelines alone would suffice – that’s really what Barclay was doing here.…

Another episode parked in the middle of the road, spiced up with a little bit of Romulans (although they don’t last very long). So far Next Generation hasn’t ever done a fantastic job with any episode that’s centred around a guest star. The main cast have all got the hang of their jobs and positions…

Star Trek does the action romantic comedy. It’s a bit of a change of pace, and some quite new territory for Picard. And while I spent a lot of the episode wishing that he’d put his shirt back on, it worked better than I expected. While the Vash character is a bit derivative, she is…

This episode tried to do something different by exploring the same theme (command) in different ways in the A and B plots of the episode. The problem is, neither half really gelled. The false Picard on the Enterprise was interesting, but the point was largely lost on me: was he trying to be slightly different,…

I have to admit, I was only half watching this episode initially, as it looked firmly directed into ‘blah’ territory – a Klingon officer learns to love the Enterprise crew and accept the way that they do things. And then, about a third of the way in, it was almost like the writer decided ‘nah,…

No, not the band. That probably would have been better. Instead, it’s Data creates his own daughter. I suppose it was about as good an implementation of that idea as we’re likely to see. There was some interesting bits of interpersonal drama, but the best that the episode could manage in terms of driving conflict…

This is, without question, the very best bit of Star Trek that I have watched so far in this project. I’m always a bit of a sucker for a good alternate timeline story, enough so that I’m usually willing to put up with the usual conceit that the changes to the timeline have somehow resulted…