The Russell Macklemore Experience #20
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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 aforementioned conspiracy that was involving the whole of Starfleet with some people dying and others changing as they couldn't remember shit that they should remember.
Picard beamed down and was greeted with a phaser pointed at him by one captain as two other captains, including his longtime friend, the one who called him to come to change his course and meet him at the point where they met.
He was not inclined to believe their talk of some terrible conspiracy but he still talked about it with Troi, without going into detail.
Meanwhile, he gave Data a mission that was perfectly suited to him. One of research into the orders of the last six months.
Data found what he needed to find to make them all certain that there was indeed something happening.
And they decided the best course of action was to head to Earth to visit Starfleet to get to the heart of the matter.
They reached Earth orbit without incident and when contacted by Starfleet Command three admirals were sitting around a table, including one we had seen only recently who had come aboard the Enterprise all concerned about things.
Yes, when i wrote about that earlier episode, Coming Of Age, I made pretend that the sthings brought up in the course of that episode weren't going to be picked up at a later time.
Of course I knew otherwise but wasn't going to spoil anything about the episode that I knew was coming.
And the is that episode.
Yuck.
Picard made it to dinner, after some conversation which included a mocking rememberance of the Horatio, the ship captained by his old friend who had warned him of this very conspiracy.
Dinner was dusgusting to us humans, us watching the show and those. who were still human, who had to eat what was offered.
Picard had had enough and was set to leave when Riker met him at the door, having recovered after a brief fight that he had had with not Quinn who also took out Laforge and Worf.
It was Doctor Crusher who took him out with a phaser.
Shades of McCoy when he killed the salt creature?
The long and the short of it as the end of the day approaches is that Riker was only pretending to be one of them and he had brought a phaser and together with Picard, they took out all the taken over members of Starfleet, including Remmick who was long since not Remmick and housed the mother alien.
That was a great episode that could have easily been a two parter.
A pity shame that it wasn't yes?
Yes, a pity shame that it wasn't.
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 aforementioned conspiracy that was involving the whole of Starfleet with some people dying and others changing as they couldn't remember shit that they should remember.
Picard beamed down and was greeted with a phaser pointed at him by one captain as two other captains, including his longtime friend, the one who called him to come to change his course and meet him at the point where they met.
He was not inclined to believe their talk of some terrible conspiracy but he still talked about it with Troi, without going into detail.
Meanwhile, he gave Data a mission that was perfectly suited to him. One of research into the orders of the last six months.
Data found what he needed to find to make them all certain that there was indeed something happening.
And they decided the best course of action was to head to Earth to visit Starfleet to get to the heart of the matter.
They reached Earth orbit without incident and when contacted by Starfleet Command three admirals were sitting around a table, including one we had seen only recently who had come aboard the Enterprise all concerned about things.
Yes, when i wrote about that earlier episode, Coming Of Age, I made pretend that the sthings brought up in the course of that episode weren't going to be picked up at a later time.
Of course I knew otherwise but wasn't going to spoil anything about the episode that I knew was coming.
And the is that episode.
Yuck.
Picard made it to dinner, after some conversation which included a mocking rememberance of the Horatio, the ship captained by his old friend who had warned him of this very conspiracy.
Dinner was dusgusting to us humans, us watching the show and those. who were still human, who had to eat what was offered.
Picard had had enough and was set to leave when Riker met him at the door, having recovered after a brief fight that he had had with not Quinn who also took out Laforge and Worf.
It was Doctor Crusher who took him out with a phaser.
Shades of McCoy when he killed the salt creature?
The long and the short of it as the end of the day approaches is that Riker was only pretending to be one of them and he had brought a phaser and together with Picard, they took out all the taken over members of Starfleet, including Remmick who was long since not Remmick and housed the mother alien.
That was a great episode that could have easily been a two parter.
A pity shame that it wasn't yes?
Yes, a pity shame that it wasn't.
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