"Temba, his arms wide."

good episode -- great episode -- but also this language feels pretty crackable to me, a huge story nerd. i could figure this out in an afternoon. Kevin Costner at the campfire. (Dathon's body language is also just pretty clear.)

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the whole "the whole Bajoran race are terrorists, damnit" thing Starfleet are doing here is gross, and it's upsetting to see it reinforced by people like Riker, who, like, Will, you hang out with a Klingon, your boss was a Borg for a bit, don't be a fucking dick here,

but it sure doesn't surprise me

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I think there's a compelling emotional core here -- a scientist discovers some part of her dead son is accessible through Data, who because of his resemblance to Lore she holds responsible for his death -- but the Crystalline Entity isn't that interesting, the memories she's able to access through him aren't particularly engaging, and I'm tired of the random robo-racists of the week.

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Everyone getting isolated into their own bottle episodes and having to work outside of their comfort zone is fun. Picard assigning those kids jobs he can work with is clever.

I get Ensign Ro's arc is probably about what it does to somebody to be in Starfleet while culturally so outside of it, but I continue to find the main cast's open distaste for her presence to be unpleasant, as well as frequently out of character.

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parents and their game boys am i right

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Think this and part two might be the last appearance of a TOS main character that I definitely haven't seen before. (I know I've seen at least one of the TNG movies.)

They really take their time to get around to actually showing you Spock, but when they get there it does feel like an Event. #startrek #tng

A good use of Spock, I think.

It never becomes the Spock Show, his function is to move the Vulcan/Romulan situation into a new status quo, and I think that's a good way to do something like this.

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We've been over this, but I genuinely and viscerally dislike when they're rude to ensign Ro. Riker should, well, okay, he should go shove it up his ass, but if this is how little control he has over his reaction to a subordinate, everyone around him should consider him unfit for his position.

I can only hope them, uh, getting along as well as they do in this tabula rasa state here does actually meaningfully change this dynamic going forward. #startrek #tng

I think this lands at "good episode" even if its perspective on the issue of euthanasia and how that intersects with Worf's culture lands firmly at being extremely 1990s writers room-brained.

Anyway, just because this doctor does something right at the end doesn't mean she shouldn't go to science jail and have her license to practice medicine thrown in the science incinerator.

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Speaking of 1990s writers room-brained allegories, woof.

I think that's all I have to say about this one.

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hahaha

and also

fuck yes

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A hoot, but I feel like the only thing that really makes this a season finale is that it's a two-parter -- you can kinda find Data's head buried under San Francisco for half a millennium any day of the week, no?

Though maybe I'm saying that based on later shows I've already seen doing this kind of thing more frequently? #startrek #tng

There's a lot to like here -- the stuff with Picard and Guinan, the pretending to be a theatre troupe -- but Mark Twain may be this show's most annoying guest star yet, and the way things resolve is all pretty bog-standard.

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every Barclay episode be like
* Barclay shits himself
* the crew gently tries to get him to at least aim at the bowl
* Barclay keeps shitting himself, just all over the place, it's a real problem
* wanting Barclay to stop shitting himself all over the place, the crew finally take Barclay seriously and start looking into it
* they get Barclay the help he needs
* turns out helping Barclay also resolves the B-plot. wow, convenient.

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When I referred to "Unification" as the last TOS main cast appearance I'd never seen, note that I fully forgot about this one. Scotty! :')

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At my current pace, I'll hit DS9 very soon.

...Do I have a DS9 emojo?  Yeah, that works.

* Would simply not have my entire life ruined by some Frenchman's Main Character Syndrome problems. Pitting Sisko so strongly opposite Picard is a smart choice.
* As is the conflict with the Bajorans -- hard not to feel like they're basically right about Starfleet setting up shop here.
* Have seen this one before, but I don't think I got very far into the season.
* That this show hasn't been remastered really makes TNG's remaster look incredible.

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O'Brien being such a main character on this show gives it all such a workplace comedy vibe. DS9 itself just a big mall.

I assume wormhole visitors will be a recurring go-to thing on this show? #startrek #ds9

geordi

you're investigating a murder and though the structure of Trek means she didn't do it, /you're/ definitely not sure she didn't do it

geordi

this is unprofessional at best

(there's some unhealthy patterns in Geordi's romantic life that this 90s writers' room is just incapable of interrogating -- he was like this with Brahms, too, just instantly making himself part of a "we" with somebody who doesn't get consulted on whether she wants that)

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I think this is a pretty great story, and a great display of exactly what makes the dynamic between Q and Picard tick. Great take on "Christmas Carol"/"Wonderful Life" only TNG could do.

But that whole friendship completely falling apart immediately just because Picard, given the chance, would strongly prefer not to get stabbed in the entire Hades-damned heart, woof, Johnny, make better friends.

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