Tag: Jonathan Frakes
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STAR TREK REWIND: “The Price”
“Just tell me there’s some chocolate here.” It never fails that when an underutilized character is given the spotlight, it more often than not results in that character’s undoing. Like “The Galileo Seven” with Spock, “The Price” nearly destroys Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis). The same thing happened two episodes earlier with “Booby Trap” and…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “New Eden”
“If you’re telling me that this ship can skip across the universe on a highway made of mushrooms, I kind of have to go on faith.” “New Eden” owes as much to the Voyager episode, “False Profits” (with less “hilarious” results), as it does to The Next Generation’s “Who Watches The Watchers.” Both episodes deal…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Shades of Gray”
“My great-grandfather was once bitten by a rattlesnake. After three days of intense pain, the snake died.” A bizarre excursion into the vaults. The 1987-1988 television season ended with a writer’s strike that saw new production halted for a couple of months in the dead of a very cold winter. The first shows to feel…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Up The Long Ladder”
“Send in the clones.” If there are two episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation that fans get positively stupid about, they are “Code of Honor” from season one, and “Up The Long Ladder” from season two. There are, of course, the Lwaxana Troi episodes, with the exception of “Half a Life” and “Dark Page,”…
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SHIP TO SHIP: A Star Trek Podcast “The Fire In Which We Burn”
SHIP TO SHIP: A Star Trek Podcast “The Fire In Which We Burn” SPECIAL DOUBLE EPISODE! The two Davids review and discuss Star Trek: Generations, as well as make predictions for the new CBS All-Access Picard show starring Patrick Stewart, and why we won’t see HD releases of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star…