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16:24-17:59=95 The episode with Joe Piscopo, entitled  The Outrageous Okona  is one I am sure I haven't seen since it was first on and I know that it wasn't worth any further watchings until now, when I have committed to watching the entirety of the series. It's one of the quieter episodes that began with them helping out a pilot, a dashing rogue who immediately made Troi smile and upon beaming over, made a move on the Transporter operator, who was actually called the Transporter Chief even though that was O'Brien's title. Did they have multiple chiefs? In any event, this Transporter Chief was played by a very young and attractive Teri Hatcher, before her role in Seinfeld, Lois And Clark: The New Adventures Of Superman and Desperate Housewives. But for Okona, one hot woman wasn't enough as he needed three from the Enterprise, though it's not clear if he actually slept with the redhead as he was pulled away from her, by Worf, as they were in mid-embrac...

16:48-17:59=71 And 18:06-18:17=11 Elementary, Dear Data that's is today's episode of TNG that I will be writing about and early in the second season as it is, it's one of the best episodes of said season, which I've liked but not enjoyed. I will surely enjoy this one because it's Data inhabiting the role of Sherlock Holmes and liking Holmes as I did when I was a boy and read my share of mysteries, how can I not like this episode, even though it was one of the quieter stories of TNG as the Enterprise was simply there to wait to rendezvous with another starship. But that wouldn't be for a day or two which gave them enough time to do as they would while they waited. And this story focused on Chief Engineer Laforge and Commander Data. Laforge had served with the captain of the Victory as an ensign and he thought to give him a great gift of the original Victory, a sailing ship from hundreds of years in our past which made it even older for them. And he wa...

16:26-17:59=93 And 18:10-18:23=13 The second season continues with the second episode of season two and we open with Picard exiting his Ready Room and sitting down in the Captain's Chair and Troi knowing that he's worried. His worry is about Riker and Worf. Have we begun the episode in the midst of some trouble for an Away Team made up of only Riker and Worf? That would be an unusually small Away Team. Ah, it's Worf's morning calisthenics and Riker was just joining him this one time. That would be tough for any human, even one as presumably fit as a then young and in his prime First Officer. We got to the meat of the of the episode which was the discovery of a void in space into which they sent two probes before moving in closer. And then they were enveloped into the void and no one on the ship could hear the bridge. That's not good. Fortunately it was a minor interruption as all was right with internal communication when they returned from the comm...

16:44-17:57=73 Season two of TNG has begun, for the purposes of the rewatching because season two came and went a long time ago. The Child is that beginning. It already seems to have a better look to it than the first season. And some of the changes! Riker has a beard that I admit took a moment to get used to this time around. And Laforge is finally sporting the right colour and position that h e had for the bulk of his time as a member of the Enterprise. Chief Engineer. And Worf too is also in the Gold that suited him as Gold was the right colour for both of them, Oh And Dr. Crusher was gone and we were stuck with Dr. Pulaski. Ugh. I was never a fan, even though the actress herself had played two different characters in TOS so she had the bonafides. I just missed the far superior Dr. Crusher and never warmed up to Dr. Pulaski As for the child in question, I had forgotten that Troi had been impregnated at all. And this was how we met her, as she was counselling the...

15:47-17:00=73 I remember this episode and while it can't live up to the excitement of the last episode, where Starfleet was under attack by mutated Trill, which is something that I don't think I knew until today, though that was information from a line of Star Trek Novels and not any series on tv, I'm going to accept it as canon. But its title gives it a chance as it's The Neutral Zone and that means Romulans. And we've known about the Romulans since the TOS. While waiting for Picard who's been summoned to some Starbase, they find an old vehicle in space, which looks like a sattelite and Data asks to explore it and Riker says and orders Worf to go with him. They discover people and bodies in cryogenics suspension and Data asks to take them back to the Enterprise. Riker says yes and they are left with Dr. Crusher who cures them of the ailments that led to their deaths. They have a cure for death in TNG. At least some forms of it because people stil...

23:03-23:59=56 Welcome to one of my favourite episodes of all of Star Trek: The Next Generation and it came during the first season which I came into this period of rewatching thinking was all around bad. I have not thought that through any of the episodes that I have watched this year. And this one is one hell of an episode. It's called Conspiracy and owing to how good it was, I know that it has held up. It begins innocently enough with Laforge telling a sex joke to Data at the helm that Data didn't understand and took it in a different direction than was intended. They were on their way to some place called Pacifica that weas clearly not at all important because we never heard of it again and don't know what happened when they eventually made it there. Not that we can know of all the adventures of any of the ships that we get to see the adventures of in any medium. The reason why we didn't see Pacifica this episode was for the very good reason of the af...