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Re: TNG S1: The Naked Now
I personally think this episode has greatly improved with time. I saw it when it was first run back in 1987 and hated it.
By far the biggest problem was having a goofy episode where everybody was out of character was way out of place as the first episode after the pilot. We didn’t know these characters at all, and making Picard look like a confused old man while Riker saves the day was awful.
Even Wesley as wunderkind wasn’t that bad the way it played out here, and while developing Wesley in that way was horribly dreadful, it was season wide and not specific to this episode.
This episode could comfortably fit in seasons 3-6 with a 3 star rating.
As for whether it’s “funny”... Trek very rarely does comedy well, so whatevs. There are funny bits here and there but Voyager’s Tinker Tenor is the only Trek episode setting out to be funny that really succeeds, imho.
I personally think this episode has greatly improved with time. I saw it when it was first run back in 1987 and hated it.
By far the biggest problem was having a goofy episode where everybody was out of character was way out of place as the first episode after the pilot. We didn’t know these characters at all, and making Picard look like a confused old man while Riker saves the day was awful.
Even Wesley as wunderkind wasn’t that bad the way it played out here, and while developing Wesley in that way was horribly dreadful, it was season wide and not specific to this episode.
This episode could comfortably fit in seasons 3-6 with a 3 star rating.
As for whether it’s “funny”... Trek very rarely does comedy well, so whatevs. There are funny bits here and there but Voyager’s Tinker Tenor is the only Trek episode setting out to be funny that really succeeds, imho.
Re: TNG S1: Encounter at Farpoint
I was VERY worried when this episode started. Three very worrisome shots in a row at the start.
1) The first shot of the 1701-D floating into view from below and dead on in front... the multicolored deflector dish looks awful and cheap. And the ship looks very ugly and strange. Of course, we’re long used to it now, but after the quite beautiful movie era 1701, yuck.
3) A very badly handled camera shot of Picard strolling through engineering. Very very shaky, shockingly amateurish.
2) Picard/Stewart’s baldness and age. This one was more subjective, me being still a teenager.
Another very early annoyance was the saucer separation. Partly the way over the top music and melodrama. But also, Data insisting it was an *extreme risk* and Picard doing it anyway. Data is a computer... really, the saucer would likely have been destroyed, and possibly the engineering hull as well.
Lol, oh, and Q’s “freezing” of people.
I was VERY worried when this episode started. Three very worrisome shots in a row at the start.
1) The first shot of the 1701-D floating into view from below and dead on in front... the multicolored deflector dish looks awful and cheap. And the ship looks very ugly and strange. Of course, we’re long used to it now, but after the quite beautiful movie era 1701, yuck.
3) A very badly handled camera shot of Picard strolling through engineering. Very very shaky, shockingly amateurish.
2) Picard/Stewart’s baldness and age. This one was more subjective, me being still a teenager.
Another very early annoyance was the saucer separation. Partly the way over the top music and melodrama. But also, Data insisting it was an *extreme risk* and Picard doing it anyway. Data is a computer... really, the saucer would likely have been destroyed, and possibly the engineering hull as well.
Lol, oh, and Q’s “freezing” of people.
Re: DS9 S1: The Forsaken
Modern day ambassadors are often simply political gifts and getting to do travel to interesting places perks of that. Seems to be the dynamic here and why Sisko gleefully pawns them off on noob Bashir. And Lawaxana’s very large personality likely precedes her, particularly with O’Brien on the station.
Modern day ambassadors are often simply political gifts and getting to do travel to interesting places perks of that. Seems to be the dynamic here and why Sisko gleefully pawns them off on noob Bashir. And Lawaxana’s very large personality likely precedes her, particularly with O’Brien on the station.
Re: TNG S7: Journey's End
This was quite like “Code of Honor” in the horribly cliche Indian plot.
The Wesley part wasn’t too bad, and nice to see some story closure.
It’s comical that the Traveller tells Wesley to have faith the humans/Cardassians can solve their problems on their own. Wesley’s response should have been “you know how many times I’ve saved their a$$?”
This was quite like “Code of Honor” in the horribly cliche Indian plot.
The Wesley part wasn’t too bad, and nice to see some story closure.
It’s comical that the Traveller tells Wesley to have faith the humans/Cardassians can solve their problems on their own. Wesley’s response should have been “you know how many times I’ve saved their a$$?”
Re: TNG S3: The Enemy
It does seem Picard should have simply ordered Worf to do the procedure. It’s insane to expect Worf to come to terms with his past out of the blue like this in these tense circumstances, like, apparently a few hours at most. And Worf’s rationale was clearly based in racism and anger.
Picard has certainly ordered people to do far worse things.
It does seem Picard should have simply ordered Worf to do the procedure. It’s insane to expect Worf to come to terms with his past out of the blue like this in these tense circumstances, like, apparently a few hours at most. And Worf’s rationale was clearly based in racism and anger.
Picard has certainly ordered people to do far worse things.
Re: VOY S3: Sacred Ground
I always has a different take on this whole episode--- that the entire thing was contrived, perhaps even starting with Kes's initial injury.
It was quite clear the aliens had Janeway's number right from the get-go, and it was also made amply clear they were quite technologically advanced. Perhaps they had even heard of Voyager already before it arrived.
Voyager and Janeway often have way more than a little quasi-Ugly American "walk around like we own this quadrant" attitude and certainly Janeway's "I'll just do your little endurance ritual thing" is extremely condescending.
If the entire setup was contrived, that makes the repeated "it's all meaningless" even more on the nose. Certainly it seems like a possible lesson and I would bet that Janeway pondered this event many times later on.
So I'm suggesting ultimately that the aliens simply cured Kes and protected Janeway when she carried her up the temple.
I always has a different take on this whole episode--- that the entire thing was contrived, perhaps even starting with Kes's initial injury.
It was quite clear the aliens had Janeway's number right from the get-go, and it was also made amply clear they were quite technologically advanced. Perhaps they had even heard of Voyager already before it arrived.
Voyager and Janeway often have way more than a little quasi-Ugly American "walk around like we own this quadrant" attitude and certainly Janeway's "I'll just do your little endurance ritual thing" is extremely condescending.
If the entire setup was contrived, that makes the repeated "it's all meaningless" even more on the nose. Certainly it seems like a possible lesson and I would bet that Janeway pondered this event many times later on.
So I'm suggesting ultimately that the aliens simply cured Kes and protected Janeway when she carried her up the temple.
Re: TNG S5: The Inner Light
Conundrum was insanely over the top though. Macduff was able to seize control of the Enterprise and its computer, alter its data, give everybody (INCLUDING Data!) amnesia, yet the enemy he's attempting to destroy is over 100 years behind the Enterprise in weapons technology?
Ridiculous, but still a fun episode.
In The Inner Light, yes, their technology seems primitive, but there is no reason to believe all humanoid species would progress technologically at the same rate... Perhaps the Kataanians understood minds/memories/spirits way better than humans and thus mind VR was early tech for them.
Also, they may be more advanced than they appear, similar to how the Ba'ku were far more technologically advanced than they appeared to be.
Conundrum was insanely over the top though. Macduff was able to seize control of the Enterprise and its computer, alter its data, give everybody (INCLUDING Data!) amnesia, yet the enemy he's attempting to destroy is over 100 years behind the Enterprise in weapons technology?
Ridiculous, but still a fun episode.
In The Inner Light, yes, their technology seems primitive, but there is no reason to believe all humanoid species would progress technologically at the same rate... Perhaps the Kataanians understood minds/memories/spirits way better than humans and thus mind VR was early tech for them.
Also, they may be more advanced than they appear, similar to how the Ba'ku were far more technologically advanced than they appeared to be.
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