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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...

21:10-22:13=63 It took me some time past the watching of the latest episode,  We'll Always Have Paris , which was a hella cool story about time, that also touched on the personal past of Picard as he just so happened to have had a thing with the the now wife of the scientist who caused the time effect, or hiccup as some unseen captain of another ship called it as the effect spread a long distance away from the planetoid where the experiment had taken place. I would say that Jean-Luc had been a fool to turn away from the very beautiful woman who had once been of great importance to him but had he stayed with her, he surely would have resented his choice and it is better that he regretted leaving her behind than regretted not choosing space because that was where he belonged. And the scientist made her happy so everyone won right? We saw several scenes of crew interacting with different versions of themselves along the timeline, fortunately on a very small scale, like the mo...

20:44 Skin Of Evil Troi has been away and is returning on a shuttle while the Enterprise has been doing work on the dylithium crustals so it has no warp power. As often happens, something goes wrong, this time on the shuttle carrying Troi. As this was happening, Yar had just had a coversation with Worf about a tournament she was set to be competing in.   Warp power was restored and they raced off to the crash site of the shuttle cotnaining Counsellor Troi. Surely she was okay? No doubt. But it would be too easy if they got to her without any trouble. It would also be a little lacking in excitement. And the trouble was some kind of lifeform thast was a skin of evil that had no love or liking for anyone and didn't allow the Away Team to get to Troi and the pilot. Yar wasn't going to take no for an answer though and tired to get past it and he threw her a few feet away and she was dead. Just like that. They did try to revive her on board the Enterprise bu...

21:16-23:17=121 The episode that I have just begun to watch, after fer not watching one yesterday is The Arsenal Of Freedom and I just don't have it in me to write about this one, though it stands out as one of the episodes I most remember, it does not lend itself well to a review in verse and if you've been reading the reviews of late that were written in prose, they have been lacking. So what's a Trekkie to do? Well, I can at least write a little, which is the other thing that the reviews have been, light on detail. They've come to a planet totally lacking in people. Selling weapons is profitable, but the people of Minos, the name of this particular planet, which was never mentioned again because how often would you reference a planet with no people? The people of the planet had become rich by selling weapons, which was clearly good for a time but things got out of hand and all the people died. Oops! I'll grant you weapons are needed, but you best be...

10:20-11:45 Oh Heart Of Glory What's your story As you head but in To the Neutral Zone Though it should be known I'm gonna like Whatever tale  They've written for us today Because I'm a Trekkie And I've regarded Yes all the episodes Of TNG With more of a liking Than I thought that I would As the way that I remember things Was that the good Wasn't in the first But was the very worst Of a great good show They found a drifting ship And after some show and tell As suddenly They told us that We'd get to see What Geordie sees On his goodly visor Which was cool and all But surely wouldn't last Going forward far Into the show's bright future It's Klingons Said Riker with A level of disgust That I could not trust To bode but well Like the makers were saying Yeah we gotta do The Foreheaded ones Because the better episodes Of the first good series Often had them yes And we guess So should ours Now set as it wa...

21:07-22:43 Coming Of Age is tonight's episode and it's about Wesley Crusher, who was not a fan favourite as I recall, but wasn't an issue for me. And look it's an admiral an old friend of Picard's and his assistant. It would be interesting if they were to prove pivotal in a future episode because they came onto the Enterprise with an agenda that was going to cause some upset. But what are the odds of that? Damn, Wesley, the cute human is crushing on you? Ugh, I already don't like Mr. Remmick again. Wesley has this doesn't he? Of course he'll be the one chosen, though it's stupid if you ask me that Starfleet only has one slot available. Unless there are that many who apply each year. Or so many stay that they have almost too many in Starfleet? Oh noes, Jake, the previously unmentioned friend of Wesley who we only met in this episode has justy gone and stolen a shuttlecraft and he's going to burn up above a planet, just at the ti...

21:28-22:24=56 I am watching Home Soil, which is an episode about the terraforming of an entire world, which has sent the director into a state of high bother. Thank you Troi for sensing this in him and not being blocked by some higher power, which happened a time or two. Spoilers? The show has been finished for 26 years now. Walter Gotell? Cool, they got a Bond villain to guest as the director of this terraforming effort? That was a get. The woman of the effort has a strange way of speaking. And now someone's dead. Nope, apparently he's only critically injured. Director Mandl is charming now that they are there. Data turned the drill back on and it went after him and would have destroyed him if he wasn't Data, a much faster and smarter being than an ordinary human. Not long after Data survived the drill incident, which it turned out wasn't alive, but was just reprogrammed to to seemingly protect against the discovery of a lifeform. They didn't...

23:05-23:53=48 When The Bough Breaks is tonight's episode of still the first season of TNG. A planet has just come into view of the Enterprise, a legendary planet called Aldea, which much like Atlantis is on Earth and some other such place on another world, is one of legend. Riker, Dr. Crusher and Troi were selected to be the Away Team. when surely others like Data and Yar or Worf would have been selected for this mission. But for a people needing children, I guess that was an Away Team that made sense. And that is what they took. They stole a bunch of children from the Enterprise, including Wesley Crusher, who was on the bridge when they began to scan the ship. How did such an advanced people let themselves come to point in their history where they couldn't have children and were clearly in danger of becoming extinct. It's  a terrible fate for anyone to suffer from and I would hate for us to suffer from a similar problem. Of course, with almost 8 billion in...

Untimed Too Short A Season is tonight's episode of the first season of TNG and by the title alone, it is all too sadly fitting what with the cancelling of the rest of the seasons of the NBA and the NHL, though there's hope on the part of the NHL for having the playoffs. More on that later. Right now, I am writing about this episode. Hostages have been taken on some planet and they call on an old dude who negotiated a deal there when he was young and not looking older than than his stated age of 85 because man, he looked much older than that. Dare I say, as old as Admiral McCoy, who had a cameo in Encounter At Farpoint. But he had started to take a stupid therapy that started to make him young. Though it cost him the immediate affections of his wife, who was disgusted by his choice to use this therapy. And then we found out that the governor of the planet had taken the hostages himself. He had unfinished business with Admiral and Negotiator Mark Jameson from t...

Untimed It's late at night on a Sunday but I have time enough to watch another first season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, this time the episode 11001001 which had the Enterprise park at a Starbase, it's not important which one to have the ship's computer be upgraded. The upgrading was to be handled by the Binar's, who are a strange race, by human standards where they work in pairs and not gendered. Okay, the last part is fractionally less unusual now but it is their normal and who are we to say their normal isn't right for them, just as they have no right to tell us our normal isn't right. And as the ship was parked at a starbase, the crew was  absent from the ship as they had surely earned the r and r, what with their being on the flagship of the Federation. So that was the main story but as there often was, there was another story and this one was about Riker as he tested out the just completed improvements made to the ships computer whi...

20:45-23:58 Tonight's episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation that I will be writing about is Angel One. They have just begun to orbit around a matriarchal world and the first impression of this world is that they are assholes. And yes, women can be assholes. Oh Wesley, you know that Picard is not fond of kids and you had the misfortune to let a snowball hit him. Meanwhile, the women of Angel One, who are very sexist have agreed to let the Enterprise have the survivors of a wrecked freighter, which is why they have come to the planet. They're the kind of sexist that most men just aren't anymore. Admittedly I'm biased as a man, but they were hard with the men suck and are incapable and need big strong women to handle the real tasks. The second story which seems like it was accidental, even though it wasn't because it was scripted, was a virus that began with the kids and caught up Picard and Worf thanks to the snowball incident. Oh Riker got laid. ...