Memory Alpha I’ve always found Star Trek’s old person make-up very disturbing (when they take a young actor and apply prosthetics to age them), more so than any of the aliens or other stuff. At first I thought it was …
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Angel One, just… it tries. It tries so hard to deliver a message of equality between the sexes that somewhere along the way it did a 180 and didn’t even notice. 11001001 on the other hand, is probably the best …
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Memory Alpha This brings me to half way through the first season. Thank Q I’ve managed to survive. So basically, an away arrives on the planet Data was found on and within minutes of bumbling manage to find a secret …
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Memory Alpha It was another sunny morning in jolly England. Cool air blew in through an open window, bringing with it the morning chorus as I furrowed my brow and looked down at the coffee stains on my desk. I …
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Memory Alpha This episode is notable as it marks the first appearance of one Lwaxana Troi, daughter of the fifth house, holder of The Sacred Chalice of Rixx, and heir to The Holy Rings of Betazed, and probably a whole …
Memory Alpha Haha… it’s the Ferengi. Oh, wait… we’re still supposed to be taking them seriously as villains at this point. Still, this episode isn’t too bad. Not great, but compared to everything that’s gone before it’s David blooming Copperfield. …
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1×07 ‘Lonely Among Us’ was… it was dull. There were some dog and lizard people, something about a cloud, Data had a pipe, there was a fish… and that’s all I remember. Even though I only watched it yesterday, I’ve …
This episode teaches us how dire the consequences can be if you don’t respect Wesley. I don’t really like it when you’re just told a character is special – we get it: he’s a boy genius. We’ve already seen him …
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A historic episode as it marks the first appearance of the Ferengi, and much importantly, the first appearance of Armin Shimerman as a Ferengi. But more importantly than anything else, Tasha Yar isn’t totally useless. Hooray! There’s also some guff …
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