I don't feel like there's a lot of depth to plumb here. It's "Die Hard on a starship." It's competently executed, but lacks real stakes and apes the original's character beats instead of making up ones that fit Star Trek.
I dunno. Who should've gotten this? Worf, as he murders his way through twice as many mooks, going "You know how I said I'd kill you last? I lied" while holding a guy in front of an approaching baryon field. Geordi? Who's doing all this with his engineering knowledge plus he's having visor problems and--who knows--has a history with the main thief? Doctor Crusher who can spin kick and hypospray folks into next week at a 0.8 Worfs, but also has to find a way to save them from the sweep? Anyone else?
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It's another episode with no moral, barely any plot, and just enough character stuff to make it interesting, The Wadi suck and I'm glad we never see them again.
Also, I mistook Chutes and Ladders for Candyland. Candyland isn't a game by some definitions because there's no actual randomization and it's all predetermined. I meant no offense to Chutes and Ladders, a different collection of crappy rules sold in a box to children.
I try to end these with a question, so: why would a just god allow this episode to exist?
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What happens when the only solution for peace is having sex with an enemy prisoner of war when she knows the only hope of survival is reciprocating your crappy, emotionally-stunted advances? The fact that I can point to two women this applies to in this situation is a little ewww.
I'm being a little unfair. Birthright is actually one of season six's many underrated gems. One thing I like about late-season TNG is that it swings for the fences. It misses more than it hits, but those hits are pretty good and the misses impress you with their candle ghosts. I mean, "confidence."
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Derek is actually pretty right about the trend in TNG two-parters, which is kind of embarrassing and kind of makin' me proud. Granted, I only have so many, "pride in my son" moments left as Derek's 'Trek cred comes to rival my own.
Would Jaglom Shrek is the only Yridian we've met and he'd still be the worst if we met a Yridian corpse in a decaying orbit around a gas giant comprised primarily of farts. What I'm saying is that the Shrek children's book was written in 1990, so he wasn't even the best Shrek in popular media.
Is Data's story good or not? I say 'no' because it undermines Data's growth. It is well-structured and works with the themes of this episode though.
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I am 100% more compelled by the first five minutes of this episode than the sci-fi idea behind it. Bashir is a legitimately good doctor and has every right to take criticism as validation instead of a humbling gift. I just really like Bashir.
This is the first of a duo of episodes without O'Brien, and so we get Diet Caffeine-Free O'Brien, which is bizarre. I don't think it's a spoiler to say that we to the Starfleet security versus Odo thing but better later in the series.
Maybe that feeds into the "we forgot how this universe works" thing I've brought up a few times. Like when characters beam into a hostile environment for the first time ever because we forgot that we can scan for that kind of thing in advance, and maybe bring gear if it's bad. Similarly, we kind of forget that Dax and Kira should have staff. But they just...don't.
Also, because we bring it up: does Star Trek have immortality now?
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This episode is a rough edit. I'll post a final edit later this week.
I'd be angrier if this episode called itself "Jadzia," because that would have been misleading. We learn a lot about Curzon here, but very little about Jadzia.
Also, where's our feminist compass for this episode? Bashir is clearly creepy for not taking an explicit "no" as a "yes," but his refusal to hit someone (ostensibly) because they're a woman? How the story makes it good that he follows Jadzia? That Sisko wants to punch Curzon, but doesn't punch Jadzia, but only because she's a woman? Trill episodes, to their merit, put gender reckoning into a tailspin so I'm at a loss.
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This is a roughcut episode which will be updated this week.
I know it's a classic, but can we agree that this TNG run has revealed a few hidden gems and a bit too much fool's gold? Look, is old Picard too impulsive or not impulsive enough? Is he altering his character or just a few actions that young Picard is going to retroactively justify? Given that Picard straight up chooses to DIE rather than not be a Starfleet Captain, what's up with later episodes pretending that he might have become an archaeologist?
I feel like if our lesson is clear then that's fine, but I don't see any message here about coming terms with your past action that isn't just a status quo bias. "You're comfortable in the world your flaws made, so isn't it better to live in this world built on your sin because it's easier?" It sounds insane!
I think Derek nails it; learn from your past, but don't regret or idealize it.
Most importantly: Did he or did he not crack a yo-mama joke to a Nausican?
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It's a good Troi episode, listeners. The premise is insane, but who gives a crap because it serves a good story. And honestly, anyone who can't get over that has decided not to get over it.
Like a lot of TNG's best episodes, there isn't much more to add.
It does lack a 'moral core' because it's all driven by Troi's desire to survive, but if we were to add a moral choice to it, what would that look like?
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I reviewed a Star Trek fanfiction/fanproduction called Enterprise One, where everyone from TOS, TNG, DS9, and VOY are all on Kirk's Enterprise together. It's a wild idea.
At least we learned the very important lesson that uh...uh...damn.
So we learned nothing, underused John de Lancie, and made an episode that would taste like vanilla frozen yogurt, if you could order a "mild" vanilla frozen yogurt.
At least we can all agree this is the worst Q episode right? Even the one where the asks [REDACTED] to [REDACTED] him isn't as bad or the time where he uses the USS [REDACTED] as a boarding [REDACTED].
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New life forms and new civilizations? Check. O'Brien suffers a bit? Check. Needlessly mysterious aliens? Double-check. Strong, moral idea at its core?
...uh-oh.
There's a lot to be said for this week's aliens. Like, "Is there a planet full of filthy gym socks in this universe?" and "Can those aliens go and suffocate in its core?"
It's fun, but I feel like we stretch a bit to get the story beats we want and it's ultimately unsatisfying. Am I being too harsh? Should we just accept Sisko's decisions here as being reasonable, in-universe?
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This starts a period of The Beige and The Bold where some episodes include Derek and me, and others include a special guest co-host instead of Derek. This week's special guest co-host is Brady Hendricks of The City Within the Walls Podcast. We talk about Moriarty, holodeck programming, and Inception.
Brady raises a good question: After everything we've been through with Barclay, do we trust him with the holodeck? He's familiar with it, but is he too familiar with it?
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Chain of Command, Pt II is one of the best episodes of the series. We get payoff on our construction of Jellico and the Cardassians in that we see the almost self-destructive need for control that runs through both.
And I'm done with my defense of Jellico. Obviously, the narrative is against him, but I don't think that's reason enough to scuttle him. I'm a "death of the author" guy. A story can make a character that's a laudable person even while it's trying to undermine them morally. "Paradise Lost" is the example that's easiest to call up.
But Jellico brings nothing to the table. If you're a person who is pleased by the exercise of power on behalf of your ingroup, you might admire his hard line on the Cardassians, but Picard is just as capable of doing that and he didn't put all of his skill points into "raging as--jerkhole."
Am I too down on US culture here? Can I flog my own culture over Guantanamo Bay, then flog them slightly harder because they didn't listen to Star Trek? Except, instead of flogging, it's whipping the brickwork of the wall around their estate with a wet noodle.
More clearly: is Star Trek any good if it makes people excited over starship aesthetics, camp plots, and the finer points of the history of the Star Trek Universe instead of making them outraged over their country's immoral behavior?
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Like many of my opinions on Star Trek: The Next Generation, my opinion of Captain Jellico, specifically, has come full circle. I wish there was some nuance in his character, but he's just gratuitously aggro. No conflict with the Cardassians was so imminent that he couldn't just let Riker finish a sentence. Granted, our leads burrow into their roles as planets orbiting Captain Picard instead of breaking out as their own independent characters, so both of our bike tires are flat this time.
It turns out the nerd fraternity is Lambda Lambda Lambda, which was actually a fraternity for black students that within the fictional "Revenge of the Nerds" universe allowed the nerds to use it.
Really, the harping I do about Star Trek losing its ideological way reaches its climax here. I know other people (and me. Actually, most me) gripe a lot about Star Trek: Picard, but STP is really a natural extension of the changes in Star Trek most clearly seen in "Chain of Command." I mean, is there any context in which "Starfleet does covert ops and does them badly" doesn't leave us pretty far from the space where we started? And are there any merits to that deeper space?
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I was pleasantly surprised by this episode. I don't think I'd seen it since it originally aired. There are flaws in it, especially how they test for sentience, but I don't remember the story being this compelling. There are so few instances of Riker having good leadership moments in later seasons that this one where he knuckles down ends up being one of the better ones?
Should the exocomps have come back? What if they're sentient, but non-sapient? With neither a drive to reproduce nor aspirational intelligence? Is it moral to create beings strictly for labor, even if it's labor they enjoy? What happens when the particle fountain is completed? Do you ship them across known space for another project despite the fact that it's less efficient than creating new exocomps locally and painlessly switching the old ones off?
How mentally undeveloped do your synthetic slaves have to be before it's moral to create and use them for your own ends?
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It continues the proud tradition of TNG episodes using the holodeck and an improbable technical issue to fully commit themselves to genre episodes.
I mean, maybe not "proud."
It's got a ton great ideas: Data being a bunch of different dudes, Worf spending quality time with Alexander, Troi being cool and into Westerns. It just doesn't really get there with the plot and the Trek-ness of it.
I mean, if we're not going to let Troi light some dudes up, then let Worf replace all the guns with bat'leths, y'know?
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We're back on track and it's just Derek and me all the way through the halfway point of the season and the start of the Deep Space Nine series.
We talk about Amanda Rogers' bland taste in men, the yikes factor of turning Doctor Crusher into a dog, and what is the deal with the Q even? It's an episode that's all over the place and the last thing we care about the fate of some character we just met and will never see again.
Sorry, I guess that's a spoiler for Voyager when Amanda Rogers and all of the questions she raises are ignored. Honestly, that's to Voyager's credit because it did all of this better.
"Voyager did all of this better" is a red flag in terms of episode quality, but welcome to season six! *Evil madman laughter*
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The Road to Deep Space Nine continues as I struggle through the bewildering house which Unsolved Mysteries made. I am legitimately struggling to understand how this episode came out before both "Fire in the Sky" and "The X-Files." Nimoy hosted "In Search of..." in 1977, so that's not a proximate cause.
Am I too mean here? About stories where there's always *some* way to win? Obviously, you can't have a series where ALL of our heroes' actions are doomed to fail, but certainly, there's something to be said for acknowledging when bold action just won't work. When resistance is--oh wait.
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It's important in crossovers that we make sure that the characters from different worlds don't automatically know each other are protagonists. I think a lot of fans would accept that, but it wouldn't be earned. What is cool is throwing characters together in a situation that's so dire that folks are willing to throw in with anyone who isn't trying to kill them right now.
I am interested in seeing the Picard throughline replaced with a Worf throughline. Worf being, I dunno, a nerd for weapons systems of this era, as these are the guys who the Klingons considered formidable foes. And Scotty's all, "you couldn't tell that by talking to them" and Worf gives that smirk he gives sometimes. That'd be great, right?
Any older character could really fill those roles though. Maybe the issue is that Geordi isn't defined by being an engineer or an aspiring officer so Scotty can't interact satisfyingly interact with him on those levels. Again, we get an (ostensible) Geordi episode that doesn't tell us about Geordi. Could we have had Scotty have a different A-plot with another, non-Picard, non-Data character?
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The Road to DS9 continues and I think it's one of those roads where it gets longer every time you take a step on it.
There's this yin and yang to The Beige and The Bold. A balance. A comme ci, and a comme ça, if you get what I'm saying. What I'm saying is...enjoy this solo episode.
Also, when I say "crazy" here, I mean it in a way that we accept Barclay has a host of problems but we still accept him. The problem in his first appearance wasn't really his problems, but everyone else on the ship being unable to work around them. And now, despite everything I say about "Realm of Fear," Barclay isn't any less anxious, really; the crew of the Enterprise--and I hope the viewer at home--has learned to accept that about him.
But I say a lot of stuff in here, so maybe forget me?
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There's no better benchmark of TNG's slide from "not so cerebral, but still serious" show to "situation drama" show than the season five closer, "Time's Arrow."
It's a fun show, but it's clearly lost so many, er, ferrets that it's stopped altogether looking for its lost ferrets. Where's Riker coming from? Where's the 'only Data can do this'-to-'now we can do this' thread of logic? Where's the cultural traction?
Also, props to Derek for asking about holocommunicators before Star Trek figured out it could do holocommunicators. They were right about those bones though; the bones we have from more than 500 years ago were specially preserved, which makes sense because we'd have a lot of bones otherwise.
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The Road to Deep Space Nine continues as I try to understand how Derek picked "The Next Phase" over "The Inner Light." I don't know why this episode works and I feel like it's down to an ineffable combination of pacing and acting.
Is it weird that this episode and Deep Space Nine's "Far Beyond the Stars" are considered among the best episodes of Star Trek DESPITE not being episodes which really function like Star Trek episodes?
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This episode's path to glory was creating a good drama to distract us from the bad science or to make the science good, and therefore compelling and worth thinking about. All it really did was show that when you try hard for the Picard episodes and punt your Geordi/Ro episodes, the Geordi/Ro episodes will suck for completely non-mysterious reasons.
Also, with the mind-swapping episodes and the reverse aging episode (it's coming) and the hyper-aging episodes and the shrinking episode (it's coming) are there any broad, sci-fi ideas that Star Trek hasn't done that need to be unraveled as we do? I feel like there's gotta be a few.
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It's a classic, apparently. It's weird how neither I nor Derek expected to see Hugh again. The...inertia of the series is pretty well-developed by this point.
The less-obvious lesson you could draw from this episode is one about Doctor Crusher. Is it better for her to cooperate with an unethical, although perhaps justified, operation because she has the opportunity to soften that operation? Or is it preferable that she preserve her own moral cleanliness and walk away?
I'm 100% sure what the correct thing to do in real life is. As a rule, at least. But damn, I'm trying to ask questions here, y'know?
Because that "ShOuLd PiCaRD hAvE uSeD tHe CyBeRwEaPoN?" question is a non-starter.
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This is the first episode of The Road to Deep Space Nine, where Derek and I pick up the pace and skip a few episodes of Derek's choice. You don't skip them; you get a solo adventure.
I don't know how I mixed up "Peggy Sue Got Married," a 1986 Back-to-the-Future-by-way-of-Somewhere-in-Time drama with "Drop Dead Fred," a 1991 black comedy about an imaginary friend and psychological healing.
I feel like Imaginary Friend is just a few degrees off from making sense, but nothing can redeem an episode where an obvious Troi speech is punted to Picard...for some reason. It's the misogyny, right? Can we agree on that?
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I feel like doing an episode which accepted so many messed-up assumptions could have worked in service to so many other great ideas. Whats up with the male social push to engage the the performances which allow us the chance to engage in intercourse...but a woman? That's a great angle for an episode of Star Trek. What about the examination of traditional, Western ritual monogamy through marriage as viewed through a lens of a bona fide people-pleaser who DOESN'T have a convenient monogamy lock-down timer installed in her uterus? Not great, but still a concept worth examining.
I was so looking forward to sharing this classic episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation with Derek, but the I watched it. I would apologize for Star Trek: Picard ruining my enjoyment of TNG, but your apologies should come from the STP production staff. I think it is the best option for us to just cut through this to get to Deep Space Nine.
After all, it's not like watching a classic series like DS9 could disappoint.
Surely. Right?
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This could--nay SHOULD--be a straight-up dramatic episode, but instead we get metal parasites and two stories mated as smoothly as the gears in my truck's busted transmission.
I know I talk a lot of trash about the novels, but surely in the novels Lwaxana and Alexander had a bit more of a relationship with each other. Granted, if they did Deep Space Nine would have been different.
Also, props to Derek for calling out two or three episodes. Does the Thomas Riker episode count? Did I miss any?
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It's a pretty good Wesley episode. I get how if you already like Wesley, this may feel like a betrayal, but I also see how it could get people who haven't liked Wesley on-side.
For whatever that's worth. I never realized Wesley was in two episodes in season five, zero in season six, and then another two in season seven. Not a bad average.
Does it matter what Picard did? I mean, after watching Star Trek: Picard, I'm not sure if anything Picard has ever done has mattered. But is the noodle incident that Boothby helped him with important? Ostensibly, it could have caused his expulsion from the academy. Wesley got a dude killed, covered it up, and still wasn't expelled. The more I think about it, the more I want to know what happened because there's things I'm willing to forgive and things I'm not and it sounds like whatever Picard did was borderline.
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It's an ironic title for an episode in which many things which happen don't cause anything because everyone is stuck in a time loop. Everything causes the destruction of the Enterprise until it causes it not to be destroyed.
It's one of those solid episodes that shows TNG in its stride; characters we know, cool sci-fi concept, and a fun mystery. It's hard to say anything about an episode that's generally good.
Well, it's hard to say anything except, "YOU HAD TIME TO DO BOTH!"
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It's a heavy one that's got no time for a b-plot. Derek and I cover a LOT of "The Outcast"'s messages. Trans allegories, homosexual allegories, definitions of gender, societal callousness, social control, bullying...we didn't get deep on any one thing, but if there's something we didn't touch on, please let us know.
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I Still Believe - These movies are excruciating. Chirley Kemp? Sad Disease Girl II? Gulf Tears? Every cliche in the book. IDEA: Religious inspo-porn, but every 4th scene is them talking about how immigrant kids deserve to be taken from their parents.
Respect - My dad said “interesting” to himself during this trailer, which is itself pretty interesting.
“The Call” - Oh man, Harrison Ford is gonna get out-acted by a fucking CGI dog in this movie, isn’t he?
30 seconds of theater ID, then “Now, our...ad for the theater’s own subscription service.”
Barb and Star in Whatever - It’s obnoxious. It feels like a SNL skit made into a movie. SNL skits are sprints; they’re like Gimli, good over short distances. And that’s what this feels like. All respect to Kristen Wiig. She’s great, it’s just hard to find a good leading role for her. If the lord had descended from high and made people act like adults and possibly written something good for Leslie Jones, maybe we’d be having a Ghostbusters reboot right now.
But as far as Barb and Star, that’s gonna be no for me dawg.
Worf and Crusher can carry an episode and while I think this episode generally gets stuck in the front of the middle of the pack when people think back on TNG, that's a shame. They've got good throughlines and McFadden and Dorn nail it. I'm glad that the series takes a look back at this episode in "Parallels."
This is where I usually ask a question, but I can't think of too many that don't directly lead into workshopping policy on assisted suicide. How were your holidays? This is our first episode produced wholly in 2020 and I think it's pretty good.
Also, I wanted to remind you all that I will be doing Picard when it comes out on Thursday and for non-Patreons, it will be going up as a bonus episode on the following Thursday. Stay tuned!
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I say I've been supporting Warren because that'll get rid of the Bernie supporters who were never going to shrug off their self-perception as downtrodden underdogs. They aren't going to read this and I'd rather they fuck off and find that one fault they need as a pretext to disregard the rest of this. Adios, morons.
For the rest of you reasonable people, I'm going to go down the questions, see how hard they are and judge in aggregate. I could assign a score from one to five, but ultimately this is all subjective. I have subjective judgement.
And if we can all agree on that, we can all agree that you have subjective judgment as well. People notoriously have a double-standard for what is considered 'fair' for their candidate and the same question can read unfairly to different people. My take is that CNN hosted the debate where everything was said and opted to put the screws to folks just so something would happen. They were hard on everyone last night and everyone will take it personally.
Going off of the transcript from the Des Moines Register, let's get to it:
TW: Child abuse, sexual abuse. Dwayne Johnson has incredible charisma and he puts it to great use here. If you watch this sketch, you basically never have to watch Venture Brothers or Robot Chicken because The Rock does every one of their jokes better. It’s outstanding.
And evil. It's literally evil.
9. Teacher Fell Down (2018)
This isn’t just a stupid skit; it’s peak stupid skit. It’s so fucking unintelligent. So pointless. It defies expectations in that it has no jokes. Just when you think it’s going to get on track and give us a setup/punchline it just keeps being smart as rocks.
It’s a monument to Kate McKinnon’s ability to carry a skit based on nothing but pure Kate-McKinnonness. I couldn't just put "Kate McKinnon" on this list, but Teacher Fell Down is her Alesia. See also: Casablanca, all of 2016 when she played Hillary Clinton, and that 1-800-flowers one.
It's a big action scene episode with no idea in it, but it's clever and tense and I had no idea what was going to happen next. Not every episode of Star Trek should be like this, but I'm glad we get these sometimes.
I just love that Marina Sirtis and Brent Spiner get to do stuff like this that's so different than their regular characters. It's a shame that "Captain Schumar" has so much more character and presence than Troi does; it drives home how little Sirtis gets to work with.
If Star Trek is going to be a series that's about action and big ideas and science, isn't ok cool if every so often it leans extra hard into one or two of those ideas and forgets one or two of them?
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