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Re: ORV S3: Future Unknown

A charming episode, funny and bittersweet.
The only thing I didn't like was the end bit where Ed and Kelly hold hands, implying they are going to get back together. The whole will they/won't they long-term subplot has always been the weakest part of the show to me. An incredibly cringey concept I thought had died 20 years ago. I was happy when it seemed to have been jettisoned, so I was rolling my eyes and just cringing when it made a return as practically the last moment of the series. That subplot is just made of cringe.

Re: ORV S3: Midnight Blue

Haveena -- “I do not expect you to forgive me.”
Bortus -- “That is a reasonable expectation.”

That was both hilarious and satisfying. She recruited a three year old into a dangerous underground movement. If I said the stream of curses I thought during that scene, I'd get banned from the site.

As I'm writing this, America is ignoring some deeply vile actions from an ally, almost certainly for the sake of preserving a valuable alliance. So I didn't find the Union booting the Moclans believable. But it was satisfying despite coming at a time when I must sigh sadly at how utterly fictional it is.

Re: ORV S3: Twice in a Lifetime

I really felt for Malloy. There was something gleeful and cruel about Mercer's promise to "see him soon". If someone promised to murder my children in front of me while I'm holding a gun, that would be the last mistake they ever made.

Re: TNG S5: The Game

Boring episode. One star from me.

Re: TNG S5: Disaster

Really fun episode, three stars from me. I don't understand the hatred for Troi. She's not a hugely talented actress, but critics act like she's some wooden porn-star type, and I don't see it.

Picard's awkwardness is fun, Data and Riker's adventure is fun, Worf and Keiko are hilarious, and Troi's story is serviceable. Beverly/Geordi's story is the weakest. It could have been removed and the story would have lost nothing.

Re: TNG S6: Face of the Enemy

The magic of the universal translator continues to impress. Troi presumably can't speak Romulan, so presumably the universal translator was doing such a perfect job that she sounded like a native.

Re: TNG S6: Aquiel

"The Thing" ripoff without the time to tell that sort of story.

Re: TNG S6: A Fistful of Datas

I had fun watching this.

Re: TNG S7: Genesis

Since when has Worf been an engineer? The story becomes a wuuuh right off the bat for me because Worf is inexplicably doing something much more appropriate of Geordi.

Re: TNG S2: Up the Long Ladder

I don't really buy that all of the Enterprize crew would reject being cloned. I tend to think that at least 1 in 10 of them would view it as a sort of immortality. On a crew of a thousand, that's still a hundred people, and they only need a handful. Picard's claim sounds like a handwave from the writers to quickly dispense with that obvious solution.