Tag: Marina Sirtis
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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: “The Bonding”
“Let’s just hope it doesn’t blow us to kingdom come while it’s figuring out how to blow us to kingdom come.” “The Bonding” is a strange episode for me. It’s a difficult episode. It was, atypically, one of Ronald D. Moore’s first scripts for Star Trek: The Next Generation. I use the word, “atypically,” because…
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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 “This is Fantasy!”
SHIP TO SHIP: A Star Trek Podcast “This is Fantasy!” https://archive.org/download/ShipToShip210Complete/Ship%20to%20Ship%20210%20Complete.mp3 We look at the episodes in which people seek escape by creating illusory worlds around them; either whole communities, or just that one person in their lives to keep them company. This is a study of loneliness in the Star Trek franchise. The Two…