Tag: Rick Berman
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Singularity”
“You’re lucky you’re a decent engineer because you obviously don’t know anything about writing.’” The galaxy is a death-trap, filled with pockets of space, nebula, and gas giants that drive ordinary, well-mannered humans nuts. This being a large galaxy, there’s a whole variety of mental conditions to be derived from spacial events. In “The Tholian…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “The Muse”
“Before I met her, my world was… a much smaller place. I kept to myself, I didn’t need anyone else, and I took pride in that. The truth is, I was ashamed of what I was, afraid that if people saw how truly different I was, they would recoil from me. Lwaxana saw how different…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “A Night in Sickbay”
“I’m told I’ve offended these people twice. Once for eating in front of them. The second time, I don’t even know what for. But if their carelessness has hurt Porthos or God forbid ends up killing him, they’re going to find out what being offended is all about!” Curiously, this is one of the most…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Homefront,” “Paradise Lost”
“Don’t kid yourself, Ben. This Pandora’s Box of yours…we’re opening it together.” Neither the consequence of patriotism nor nationalism, Starfleet Command wages a war against the citizens of Earth by way of fear-mongering. That’s a word we hear much more often these days. After a terrorist bombing is revealed to be the handiwork of the…
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STAR TREK REWIND: “False Profits”
“We have to out-Ferengi… the Ferengi.” Captain Janeway? Neelix? The crew of Voyager? Outwitted by a couple of Ferengi on a distant planet in the Delta Quadrant? Is this possible? The U.S.S. Voyager picks up what appears to be a wormhole and investigate a nearby Class-M planet where Chakotay and Paris discover something less than…
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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: “Rejoined”
“The forbidden love angle is all wrong for an episode of this type. There’s no reason former lovers in different bodies shouldn’t get together, and the rule smacks of fascism. Any rule that infringes upon another person’s privacy (or lays out conditions upon which we are permitted to love) is fascistic, and there’s nothing more…
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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: “Minefield,” “Dead Stop”
“Your inquiry was not recognized.” Enterprise is on its way to a nice-looking Minshara-Class planet when the hull is suddenly struck by something that rips the plating and several chunks out of the saucer section of the ship. There didn’t seem to be a laser blast or torpedo in flight before the attack. T’Pol rigs…
Misadventures in Blissville 