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Where Silence Has Lease (TNG Rewatch: Season 2, Episode 2)

Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation after a 20-year break. The Enterprise spends a lot of time in a budget-saving…

5 years ago

The Child (TNG Rewatch: Season 2, Episode 1)

Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation after a 20-year break. As science fiction, this was an interesting premise with great…

5 years ago

Set Phasers to Teach!

Fans of Star Trek have thus already been introduced to the plays of William Shakespeare, and experienced intertextual analysis in action as…

5 years ago

The Neutral Zone (ST:TNG Rewatch: Season 1, Episode 25)

Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation after a 20-year break. Unfrozen humans from the 21st Century annoy the crew while…

5 years ago

We’ll Always Have Paris (TNG Rewatch: Season 1, Episode 24)

Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation after a 20-year break. Another episode that I had never seen before (so this…

5 years ago

Skin of Evil (TNG Rewatch, Season 1 Episode 23)

My rewatch reflection on the Star Trek:TNG episode “Skin of Evil,” in which the crew encounters a malignant oil slick.…

5 years ago

Symbiosis (TNG Rewatch, Season 1 Episode 22)

Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation after a 20-year break. Picard mediates a dispute over a shipment of medicine. This…

5 years ago

Arsenal of Freedom (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 21)

With an A-plot that comments on the Cold War arms race, a B-plot that tests LaForge’s command skills, and a…

5 years ago

Heart of Glory (TNG Rewatch, Season 1 Episode 20)

Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation after a 20-year break. In "Heart of Glory," we get our first real exploration…

6 years ago

Home Soil (TNG Rewatch: Season 1, Episode 17)

The concept was good, and the production values were decent (I really liked the main lab on the planet); however, it…

6 years ago

Too Short a Season (TNG Rewatch: Season 1, Episode 15) When an old admiral youthens, shows bad morale, that’s a facepalm

Rewatching ST:TNG. I was underwhelmed. The Enterprise delivers an elderly Admiral Jameson on a mission to negotiate with terrorists on…

6 years ago

11001001 (TNG Rewatch: Season 1, Episode 14) When Will’s holo-date’s hacked, and the ship gets hijacked, that’s a-facepalm

With the Enterprise in drydock for a computer refit, Riker ends up in the holodeck, fascinated by the sultry hologram…

6 years ago

Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch

I was in college and grad school during the original run of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994), and followed…

6 years ago

Angel One (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 13) Sexist Amazon chief flips Riker leitmotif, that’s a-facepalm

Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation after a 20-year break. The Enterprise visits a sexist planet run by women, where...…

6 years ago

Datalore (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 12) Data’s bro wants to be with a big crystal tree, “Shut up, Wesley.”

In "Datalore," an encounter with Data's more human-like "brother" showcases Brent Spiner's acting talents and the optical FX crew's mad…

6 years ago

Haven (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 10) When a low-stakes rom-com shows Troi’s beau and her mom, that’s amore

Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation after a 20-year break. This low-stakes, character-driven rom-com pulled off everything it set out…

6 years ago

Hide and Q (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 9) Riker, buffed up by Q, grants desires of the crew; that’s a-facepalm

Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation after a 20-year break. The powerful, unpredictable Q conjures a Napoleonic scenario from Picard's…

6 years ago

The Battle (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 8) A Ferengi plots tricks with Picard’s former ship (that’s a-facepalm)

A Ferengi set on revenge tricks Picard into lowering the Enterprise’s shields and unceremoniously beams him into space. Uh, no,…

6 years ago

Justice (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 7) When Wes trips on a fence, joggers’ god gets intense: that’s a-deathcrime

In which Wesley commits a crime on the Legalistic Planet of Blond Joggers. (Rewatching Star Trek: The Next Generation after…

6 years ago

Lonely Among Us (TNG Rewatch, Season 1, Episode 6) Crew-posessing spark roams and a droid cosplays Holmes, that’s a-homecloud

Conflict between two species who petition for membership in the Federation turns out to be the B-plot. On its way…

6 years ago