Tag: Star Trek: The Next Generation
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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: “Crisis Point”
“You don’t create “hero”-types and then make them completely unlikeable and unrelatable unless you have an ax to grind like say Rebecca Sugar, the creator of Steven Universe. It becomes an even bigger problem when you use your writing as a form of personal therapy.”
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STAR TREK REWIND: “Veritas”
“Hey! What are you two doing back here? You’ve drawn my attention.” Is there something wrong with me? Is there … something I’m just not getting about Lower Decks? Has humor evolved to such a point that you have to be of a certain age to understand it? Is it that the new crop of…
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FRANCHISE REWIND: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, 1991 (William Shatner) Paramount Pictures “Second star to the right. And straight on ’til morning.” I think we go back to being dark in the Star Trek franchise because, while we had humor throughout the franchise, Star Treks IV and V embraced and then went overboard with high hilarity.…
Misadventures in Blissville 