Epic Star Trek Re-Watch - The Next Generation - Movie Week 2!

[Lagamorph]

The idea of an unbalanced training exercise is probably to get an idea of how to go up against superior foes,

Unless the Borg allow kids on board to check on science experiments, it wasn't going to be training that would help.

Hey if it works the Borg might just adapt it into their arsenal.

[Moggy]

The idea of an unbalanced training exercise is probably to get an idea of how to go up against superior foes,

Unless the Borg allow kids on board to check on science experiments, it wasn't going to be training that would help.

Hey if it works the Borg might just adapt it into their arsenal.

The Borg are definitely Spurs fans.

[gaminglegend]

Indeed it's not the strongest week for TNG, but Emissary and Peak Performance are decent enough.

Up the long ladder and Shades

Really enjoy the Emissary though

[Cheeky Devlin]

Up The Long Ladder
After me Lucky Charms/10

It's objectively bad, but I don't hate it. To take a line from Picard, "Sometimes you have to bow to the absurd".
The plot with the society of clones is more interesting and I would have tried to lean on that a bit more.
Not the worst episode this week.

[Moggy]

Up The Long Ladder
After me Lucky Charms/10

It's objectively bad, but I don't hate it. To take a line from Picard, "Sometimes you have to bow to the absurd".
The plot with the society of clones is more interesting and I would have tried to lean on that a bit more.
Not the worst episode this week.

They might have well as made them look like this:

[Lagamorph]

Up The Long Ladder
After me Lucky Charms/10

It's objectively bad, but I don't hate it. To take a line from Picard, "Sometimes you have to bow to the absurd".
The plot with the society of clones is more interesting and I would have tried to lean on that a bit more.
Not the worst episode this week.

They might have well as made them look like this:

[Tineash]

No, the episode with the chirpy space Irish and their space farm animals and space whiskey and space Irish lasses is one of the worst ones, very comfortably.

[Cheeky Devlin]

[Moggy]

Evolution

Wesley

Not a bad opening episode, it's not ever going to be one that's going to be ranked highly but it's enjoyable.

At first it reminded me of the Animated Series episode "The Practical Joker". I was hoping for a "Kirk is a Jerk" style message, but guess they struggled to think of one for Picard.

The Ensigns of Command

Another of those episodes that suffers from the ending feeling rushed.

Ignoring the rushed ending, I liked it but that might be because Data is such a great character. I did like the solution being outpedant the pedantic aliens.

The Survivors

Not the Destiny's Child tribute I was expecting.

Troi is a terrible actress.

Aside from Troi's awful performance this had the makings of a fantastic episode, but ended up feeling flat at the end. I am bored of immortal and superpowered energy beings. It would have been better if the old guy had just had some sort of deal with the aliens. Interesting that the Federation doesn't have any laws on genocide though, really Picard?

Who Watches The Watchers

4.2 gigs watts? Great Scott!

All that scrabbling around over the rocks, I was expecting the Gorn to show up!

A good episode, I feared that the primitive people meet advanced people story was going to be as horrendous as previous similar episodes, but they just about managed to avoid the worst clichés. The Prime Directive took a beating here though.

[RetroCora]

It's starting to get a little less patchy now and hit its stride. Season 3 is the turning point for me where TNG starts to get really solid.

[Jenuall]

Yeah here on out it's pretty much good stuff, there's the occasional clunker of course but it's more than balanced out by some absolute corkers as well

[Moggy]

Yeah here on out it's pretty much good stuff, there's the occasional clunker of course but it's more than balanced out by some absolute corkers as well

I watched a strawberry floating APPALLINGLY bad one earlier. You'll read my furious review in a few months.

[Jenuall]

Yeah here on out it's pretty much good stuff, there's the occasional clunker of course but it's more than balanced out by some absolute corkers as well

I watched a strawberry floating APPALLINGLY bad one earlier. You'll read my furious review in a few months.

Always good to have something to look forward to!

Where are you up to now? There's definitely some terrible individual episodes right to the end, a lot of people's least favourite is from the final season

[Moggy]

Yeah here on out it's pretty much good stuff, there's the occasional clunker of course but it's more than balanced out by some absolute corkers as well

I watched a strawberry floating APPALLINGLY bad one earlier. You'll read my furious review in a few months.

Always good to have something to look forward to!

Where are you up to now? There's definitely some terrible individual episodes right to the end, a lot of people's least favourite is from the final season

I'm not too far off the end of season 5.

[Lagamorph]

Season 3 seems to be the point that TNG, DS9 and VOY all really find their stride.

[RetroCora]

Yeah here on out it's pretty much good stuff, there's the occasional clunker of course but it's more than balanced out by some absolute corkers as well

I watched a strawberry floating APPALLINGLY bad one earlier. You'll read my furious review in a few months.

Always good to have something to look forward to!

Where are you up to now? There's definitely some terrible individual episodes right to the end, a lot of people's least favourite is from the final season

I'm not too far off the end of season 5.

Oh you have an absolute belter to come in season 7.

[Jenuall]

Evolution

Dr Kelso is a prick. Wesley is also a prick. They get along like a house on fire.

Really stepping up the Wesley is a super being gooseberry fool here - now he's able to create a whole new species of mechanical life as part of a science project!

The Ensigns of Command

This is a nice episode, we get some good Data development and screen time and Picard gets to do his best "getting politely pissed of with aliens" schtick. Although given that Data is seen communicating with the ship a lot it doesn't really make sense why he's doing solo negotiation to get the people on the planet to see sense about leaving - couldn't they have just setup a Teams call and conferenced in the Enterprise crew to help!?

Highlight of the episode is 100% the self satisfied little pursed lips grin Picard gives himself when he's realised he can shaft the aliens with bureaucracy:





The Survivors

This always feels quite TOS, or season 1 TNG to me. It's not a bad episode at all (a classic Worf line like "Good tea, nice house" pretty much ensures that alone!) but like Moggy says the "super powered being" thing is getting a bit tiring.

Who Watches The Watchers

All hail The Picard!

I don't mind this, although it's a bit of a fluff episode and the setup is pretty unbelievable. Why couldn't the people watching just disguise themselves like Troi and Riker did? Why did they need to build their spy bunker in a way that was so visible when the shield failed - surely they didn't need an actual physical window to watch people through, this is 24th Century FFS!

[Cheeky Devlin]

[Lagamorph]

Hehe, Booby

[Moggy]

For strawberry floats sake, I just accidentally deleted my reviews for this weeks episodes and can't get them back.

So from memory:

The Bondage

Err uhh umm wait.. wrong video...

The Bonding

I remember writing that kid actors are almost always awful and that energy beings being fascinated with humans is overdone. But learning more about Worf and Klingons is always welcome.

It wasn't one of my favourites.

Booby Trap

Hehe boobies

Re-writing this with future knowledge makes what Jordi does even more creepy

Jordi really needs to get laid, the horny bastard

The trap was interesting, reminds me of land mines here on Earth, weapons that are just left for people years later to stumble into.

The Enemy

We'll live and die in these towns....

Cracking episode. I do like the Romulans and it was great to see a mix of reactions from the main players. Worf's a racist, Jordi has empathy, the Romulans are trigger happy etc etc.

Great stuff!

The Price

Meh.

I liked the idea of the wormhole and the civilisation that knew it couldn't really use it but could sell it. All of that was good.

But I really couldn't have give a gooseberry fool about Troi's love life and the Ferengi were not just annoying but way too bloody stupid.