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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On the one hand, lovely to see Worf connecting with his Klingon culture, finding not just value but beauty in those traditions.

On the other hand, frustrating that that means being racist to Romulans, that it means trying to force violent and outdated ways of doing things on a peaceful colony of people who are clearly fine without all that junk. #startrek #tng

Between the collaboration between enemies and the personal angle for Picard, enjoyed this one, though I think its ultimate conclusion is just so much bigger than it has space for. Totally get, now, why Discover gave it so much more space.

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Worf might be the only character on TNG you could do a sincere belief in the return of a prophesied messiah figure story with, but even then I don't think this really works. It's all a little too Jesus, and the conclusion it comes to to dodge the Jesus of it all feels like the writers room trying to please Gene's ghost.

Simply too compromised to work.

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Lwaxana Troi has grown on me, and it's fun to watch her removed from the Enterprise, hassling DS9 — and poor old beset-upon Odo. She's so nice to him — the character is always at her best when she has to play vulnerable — when he has to revert to his puddle form.

You just know this evil computer A-plot will never come up again for even a sentence.

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Another one that fully hangs on how good Frakes is and he just /nails/ it, perfectly squaring in on the difference between Will, who loves his life, has everything he wants, and Thomas, who doesn't have any of that and can't. Love that they don't just, say, erase him at the end.

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Fascinating choice to end this new show's first season on the conflict of a religious person trying to rigidly enforce their beliefs on a secular classroom, so much more solidly real than the Borg taking Picard. (Vedek Winn is such a piece of shit.)

I dunno if there /should/ be Roddenberrian balance to be found when one side literally does terrorism about it, but I suppose I respect where Sisko lands on it.

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I enjoy when TNG interrogates what it means to be a person, but even if it wasn't clearly a scheme by Lore, we've /done/ Data's first emotion before, and any appearance of the Borg where they do anything less than killing somebody we care about is always just gonna be diminishing returns.

Liked the DS9 season finale, but this one's just kind of ploddy and dull. #startrek #tng

There's stuff I like here, but this is a deflating followup to an already poorly-inflated balloon.

None of this will change Data in a meaningful way, not really, because Lore hasn't convinced him, he's just controlling him. The rest of the crew get subplots of them running around that are on the level of an overstretched Doctor Who six-parter.

A shame to make this where Hugh goes next, too.

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The Borg were really too scary to be used the way TNG clearly wanted to use them — every encounter with them should've mattered in a way this really didn't.

(Wonder how I'll feel about how Voyager will deal with this.)

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Things far goofier are true on this show all the time, but suddenly Geordi seeing his missing-presumed-dead mom in an unlikely place is "a fantasy"? Damn, gang.

I mean, they're right, but still.

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