Tag: Patrick Stewart
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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: “Evolution”
“I’m not sure I’d want my mother flying through space with me. No, I take that back. I am sure. I wouldn’t want her.” The Next Generation’s second season ended with a whimper after the Writer’s Strike of 1988 necessitated truncating television seasons. The show came back strong in September of 1989 with “Evolution,” a…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Penance”
“Q, you are not well.” SPOILERS ABOUND! BEWARE! Star Trek is about a fantastic utopia. It’s a universe that took some two hundred-odd years to bring humanity to a point of peace where war and prejudice were antiquated notions—at least to us. When we move into the galaxy and realize there are other alien races,…
Misadventures in Blissville 