Great Worf episode, but Worf/Troi feels here like such a gag pairing that I dunno how they're gonna sell the idea of doing it for real in the rest of the season.

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I've seen this one before, back when I watched the Enterprise finale. Still think it's pretty good.

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Had to, of course. Forgot how fond I was of this crew. Maybe I /should/ rewatch Enterprise after Voyager.

Troi and Riker look notably older, with Troi's hairstyle (and accent) even totally different, but it's hard to care when all of this is clearly about how fond everyone is of them.

That, plus the main cast appearing not as themselves but as holographic projections of the official record, is kind of a problem.

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Love a good "everyone mourns characters who haven't been told they're dead but may still end up that way" episode.

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In this one, Dr Crusher quits her job to move to Space Scotland and live with her grandmother's ex-boyfriend the Space Scottish Sex Ghost.

I don't dislike it as the show doing something different, but I do think the extent to which it relies on Dr Crusher just losing her mind to this sex ghost kinda sucks. Gates McFadden kinda crushes (ahem) it, though.

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Say, "Upstairs, Downstairs"-ing TNG is a pretty solid concept. Somebody ought-a do a spinoff about characters just like these. Animated, maybe. Could run for a season or five, easy.

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Extremely obvious from the off that Alixus is the reason for all of it.

You can't just force this situation on people!! If there are as many sympathetic to the cause as she insists, surely she could've just recruited for it!!

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See, this is an amnesia episode that works. Still not a great hour of television — it transparently builds up to and then basically competently executes "what if Data was Frankenstein's monster" — but at this point we know Data well enough, and what's inherent to him even without his memory is clear enough, that throwing him at the Planet of the Undereducated is at least /something/.

Troi gets a promotion for being willing to kill Geordi.

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Brent Spiner tries his damnedest to make this work, but it's just not happening.

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Lt. Kwan's behaviour before he ends his own life is so transparently "this man is getting telepathic instructions from some psychic entity" that it's completely absurd that it takes 15 minutes for the episode to stop investigating it as a straightforward suicide.

Good Troi episode, though.

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No show on its seventh season should still be putting out episodes this bad.

And, like, bad on a premise level, not an execution level — it's executed decently, for how bonedead idiotic it is. #startrek #tng

Great premise only DS9 can do, executed wonderfully. Fun to see these three TOS Klingons again as a trio of bickering old bitches, and I like that they're all basically supportive of Dax's transition. :)

The story could've stood to hang the final decision on the conflict a little more on Dax, maybe, instead of keeping her quite so clean, but this is still a great hour of DS9.

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Finally, a TNG that feels like the show has realised it's about to end.

It's nice to see Wesley again, though to see him go all "I hate following rules!" after "The First Duty" is a little, hm, Wes, no, hold on, rules are how people don't get killed. (Ultimately he's right, though, obviously!!)

A stronger exit for the character might've rooted his disillusionment with Starfleet more directly in what happens in that story.

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Oh, direct followup to "Journey's End." Yeah, that kind of thing /would/ have a direct effect on Deep Space Nine, wouldn't it.

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On the one hand, there's something rich to the idea of Future Alexander being in a lot of ways what Worf wants him to be and that clearly not being ideal for everyone involved, but on the other, I just don't really buy that the Alexander we know could become the man who would erase himself from time to save his nearly century-old dad.

I ado ppreciate that this one treats Alexander as a character instead of as a pile of stock kid clichés.

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* There's a region between Federation and Cardassian space. In it, some planets have been settled by Federation populations, some by Cardassians.
* Until the Cardassian government gets a bug up its ass about border security.
* The Federation agrees to give up its planets, all but abandoning its people to Cardassian rule.
* Some of those people have a problem with that and a resistance movement forms.

That seems to me like a legitimate grievance?

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Here I fully buy the core tension. Picard is married to Starfleet, and is bad with kids, but shags around slightly too much for it not to be totally plausible that he just has a kid or two out there somewhere.

Obviously it doesn't end up being true in the end, but I /like/ the way it fills in who Picard is, what we know about how he exists in the world.

(Bok's plan does seem a touch convoluted.)

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Great Garak episode and, honestly, one of #DS9's best episodes yet. Just two great actors in a room giving it their all for a huge chunk of it. (Boyfriends, I say!)

Show's really grown its beard.

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Holodeck mayhem pile-up!

Maybe not the strongest hour of television, but still, love to get a big holodeck episode as the show is on the way out. Yeah, man, throw all the goofy holodeck ideas at me! Knights on the Orient Express! Sentient ship! The ol' New York backlot!

Eos, I'll miss TNG.

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Interesting to make this so explicitly a sequel to "Mirror, Mirror," a world altered by its events so specifically that Other Kira recaps its events for audience stand-in Kira. Previous TOS connections were more like, oh, yeah, this guy /would/ still exist in the world.

Another rock solid hour of Star Trek.

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Strong choice to dedicate the final hour before the end of the show to a chapter in the Maquis story that will ultimately be two other shows' responsibility to carry on with. TNG will end, but Deep Space Nine and Voyager still have twelve seasons left to come.

Ro Laren's defection here really works for me, and it all makes the Maquis even more sympathetic.

(Not that it really feels like TNG is actually working towards an ending, mind!!)

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Love Kira's righteous fury at the DS9 equivalent of a concentration camp guard.

(Man, fuck Kai Winn.)

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If it's possible to nail a finale more thoroughly than this, I haven't seen it. Picard does "The Constant," a big ol' sci-fi idea — but ultimately what we care about is these /people/.

Beautiful way to sign off. :')

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The whole business with the Cardassian courtroom is a bit over the top, but the danger to O'Brien always feels very real, and ultimately it's a good episode because it's a series of compelling angles on every character who gets caught up in it.

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The "the Siskos and the Quarks go camping" comedy episode turns into a big season finale spectacular halfway through. Top 10 anime betrayals. Strong episode to introduce a bunch of big new stuff in. Armin Shimerman is really good in this one.

(Blowing up a Galaxy-class ship to show the Enterprise would've got fucked here, too, is maybe a little "did we learn nothing from how quickly the Borg became too strong to deal with.")

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The vibe shift as the station prepares for war is palpable. Unlike anything TNG ever could have done.

Everyone gets good little moments here. A good little Sisko speech, how upset Odo is and everyone trying to help him, Quark knowing exactly where not to be but Sisko knowing exactly how to play him. Everyone talks each other into everything. Love these nerds.

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Odo's crush on Kira caught me off-guard last season, but now that they're clearly doing it on purpose, I'm totally on board with it. It'll never work out, though, of course.

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Love watching Quark get swept up in some absolute nonsense for no reason other than his own hubris.

This episode never sacrifices the integrity of its characters or world for a laugh while still being a great comedy episode.

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This could easily have fallen into the familiar "episode where people don't behave like themselves for the whole hour" problem the era falls into so often, but instead it's a great little character study — Kira is always gonna be Kira no matter who they try to make her believe she is.

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The Brigadoon planet that only exists once every sixty years is a fine planet of the week type of thing — though I found Ben and Dax's goodbyes very moving — but the B-plot of Quark trying to con Kira into letting him record her holo-image for a richo is (creepy, yeah, but) a hoot.

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RE: https://beepboop.one/@Alexis/116216501934688697

"a bit" turned out to be "three days"

Love Riker walking in on the setup for a pretty basic Kira Nerys' Day Off episode like he's the hottest babe on syndicated television.

Love, then also, the twist of which Riker.

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The kind of episode that's just, yeah, I'm sure this kind of silly nonsense happens on DS9 kinda all the time, but just about the only thing that stands out here is it's good to check in on Miles and Keiko's marriage. It doesn't quite pull off any of the rest of it.

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"Same year as it was yesterday, 2024."

woah, the Bell Riots. you know they're gonna come up eventually, but I don't think I knew they actually went to them.

Now that's an episode of television.

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Doesn't quite live up to the first half, but still, just a great hour of #StarTrek.

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Ahh, a fresh new Star Trek show.

This is the 90s Trek I'd seen the most of before this go-around — for a few years it was just on all the time right when I'd come home from school, which means I have a fondness for #Voyager specifically that no wider reputation will ever beat in combat.

It'll be interesting to see how well I remember it — this pilot matches my memories quite well, though only now do I realise it crosses over with #DS9.

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