Memory Alpha So this is it.  The episode in which we say farewell to Lieutenant Natasha Yar.  She got to phaser some aliens, so it’s not like her time on board was entirely wasted.  But, yeah, Denise Crosby apparently wasn’t …

Star Trek – The Next Generation:  1×23 – Skin of Evil Read more »

Memory Alpha If you like shipping characters, you’ll probably hate this episode.  Picard and Crusher come so close to confessing their feelings, only to be interrupted by the bloody plot. Anyway, they arrive at the Minos, Riker gets frozen by …

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Memory Alpha This is the main thing anyone takes from this episode… the first time outsiders have witnessed the Klingon Death Ritual, where they scream at the ceiling and then help themselves to the dead fellow’s boots. But it’s also …

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In Home Soil, a sentient grain of sand threatens to take over and destroy the ship.  It’s like Deanna Troi looked into Anakin Skywalker’s mind, found his worst nightmare, and… made an episode of a TV show about it.  It’s …

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Memory Alpha This episode really annoyed me, and weirdly not because of any of the kids who are in it.  It’s just that the whole conflict at the centre could have easily been avoided if the characters had any intelligence. …

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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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