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

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PostRe: Epic Star Trek Re-Watch - The Next Generation - Season 5 - Week 1!
by Moggy » Thu Aug 04, 2022 4:03 pm

Cheeky Devlin wrote:You're asking if something good happens to O'Brien? :lol:



He's got a fit (if miserable) wife, he's a well respected engineer and he gets to explore space. What a terrible life. ;)

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PostRe: Epic Star Trek Re-Watch - The Next Generation - Season 5 - Week 1!
by Cheeky Devlin » Thu Aug 04, 2022 4:14 pm

I swear the writers spent 7 seasons coming up with ways to torment that man. :lol:

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PostRe: Epic Star Trek Re-Watch - The Next Generation - Season 5 - Week 1!
by Jenuall » Thu Aug 04, 2022 4:16 pm

What a life!

Chief O'Brien at work

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PostRe: Epic Star Trek Re-Watch - The Next Generation - Season 5 - Week 1!
by RetroCora » Thu Aug 04, 2022 4:52 pm

Jenuall wrote:What a life!

Chief O'Brien at work


This was a genuinely upsetting read. :lol:

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PostRe: Epic Star Trek Re-Watch - The Next Generation - Season 5 - Week 1!
by Lagamorph » Thu Aug 04, 2022 5:56 pm

Though O'Brien is canonically the most important person in Star Trek history (Not even joking)

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PostRe: Epic Star Trek Re-Watch - The Next Generation - Season 5 - Week 1!
by Jenuall » Thu Aug 04, 2022 7:18 pm

RetroCora wrote:
Jenuall wrote:What a life!

Chief O'Brien at work


This was a genuinely upsetting read. :lol:

:lol:
Did you read just that one or make your way through the lot?

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PostRe: Epic Star Trek Re-Watch - The Next Generation - Season 5 - Week 1!
by RetroCora » Thu Aug 04, 2022 8:47 pm

I read all of them, it was very moreish :lol:

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PostRe: Epic Star Trek Re-Watch - The Next Generation - Season 5 - Week 1!
by Moggy » Sun Aug 07, 2022 9:45 pm

Disaster

I love that Picard is an awe inspiring leader who can make a powerful speech to change hearts and minds. And then he crumbles to pieces whenever he's near kids. :lol: It takes near certain disaster to open him up.

Worf the midwife :lol: :lol:

I guess a nothingy episide really, but I enjoyed it, disaster movies are always fun and this had a Poseidon Adventure/Towering Inferno feel.

The Game

I'm writing this the same day that site23 asked if we had seen it. The cringiest episode of TV ever and the Netflix description says Wesley ( :x ) is back? What can go wrong?

Ashley Judd :datass:

The episode isn't as cringey as I was expecting. It's very early 90s "video games are dangerously addictive!", but dressing it up as an alien takeover made it feel less like a reactionary anti-games diatribe. And even Wesley was good!

Still, I couldn't shake the feeling that the episode is basically warning Staydead to stay out of VR. ;)

Unification - Part 1

I saw the episode description but it was too late for me to watch it. But Spock being back gave me high hopes!

Unfortunately that hope was misplaced. Not because the episode was bad, but because it was mostly just setting up part 2.

Sarek :cry:

Unification - Part 2

That blues bar scene between Riker and the pianist was appallingly bad. :fp:

This is a difficult one to rate. It was good and it was great to see Romulan society. It's always great to see an Original Series character. But I can't help thinking this should have been much better, it feels like a missed opportunity even though I enjoyed it.

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PostRe: Epic Star Trek Re-Watch - The Next Generation - Season 5 - Week 2!
by Cheeky Devlin » Sun Aug 07, 2022 10:16 pm

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PostRe: Epic Star Trek Re-Watch - The Next Generation - Season 5 - Week 2!
by Cheeky Devlin » Sun Aug 07, 2022 10:23 pm

Yeah Unification is a little bit of a let down.
It's not bad, by any means, it just could have been much better.

The Game is a weird one to rate. It's basically a take on Invasion of the Body Snatchers, which is a movie I love (50's original and 70's remake included) and in that it's mostly succesful, but it does mean it's a bit predictable. The fact it's a Wesley episode means it's automatically a bit gooseberry fool.
But Ashley Judd, so.... :wub:

I do enjoy Disaster as well. Lots of little vignettes, but as Moggy correctly identified Worf helping to deliver Molly is the best. "You may now give birth". :lol:

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PostRe: Epic Star Trek Re-Watch - The Next Generation - Season 5 - Week 2!
by SEP » Mon Aug 08, 2022 8:12 am

Cheeky Devlin wrote:Lots of little vignettes, but as Moggy correctly identified Worf helping to deliver Molly is the best. "You may now give birth". :lol:


I love that (DS9 spoilers ahead) this gets referred to when Worf finds out that Keiko is pregnant again, and Worf stutters that he's going to be away from the station on the due date. Whenever it may be.

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PostRe: Epic Star Trek Re-Watch - The Next Generation - Season 5 - Week 2!
by Cheeky Devlin » Mon Aug 08, 2022 8:45 am

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Cheeky Devlin wrote:Lots of little vignettes, but as Moggy correctly identified Worf helping to deliver Molly is the best. "You may now give birth". :lol:


I love that (DS9 spoilers ahead) this gets referred to when Worf finds out that Keiko is pregnant again, and Worf stutters that he's going to be away from the station on the due date. Whenever it may be.

:lol:

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PostRe: Epic Star Trek Re-Watch - The Next Generation - Season 5 - Week 2!
by Moggy » Sat Aug 13, 2022 3:21 pm

Spoiler for the late in S3 episode of DS9 that I just watched

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PostRe: Epic Star Trek Re-Watch - The Next Generation - Season 5 - Week 2!
by Cheeky Devlin » Sat Aug 13, 2022 6:57 pm

Moggy wrote:Spoiler for the late in S3 episode of DS9 that I just watched

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It get so strawberry floating good. :datass:

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PostRe: Epic Star Trek Re-Watch - The Next Generation - Season 5 - Week 2!
by Moggy » Sat Aug 13, 2022 8:04 pm

Cheeky Devlin wrote:
Moggy wrote:Spoiler for the late in S3 episode of DS9 that I just watched

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It get so strawberry floating good. :datass:


The very next episode didn't :lol:

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PostRe: Epic Star Trek Re-Watch - The Next Generation - Season 5 - Week 2!
by Jenuall » Sat Aug 13, 2022 9:35 pm

:lol:

But yeah it's pretty epic gooseberry fool from here on out in DS9 land :datass:

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PostRe: Epic Star Trek Re-Watch - The Next Generation - Season 5 - Week 3!
by Cheeky Devlin » Sun Aug 14, 2022 8:58 pm

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PostRe: Epic Star Trek Re-Watch - The Next Generation - Season 5 - Week 3!
by Moggy » Sun Aug 14, 2022 9:01 pm

A Matter of Time

Pretty good episode without being spectacular.

Most of the way through I was assuming that he was lying about being fro the future, but I was expecting him to be from the "present", being from the past was a nice twist.

New Ground

American TV/movie + kid = annoying

The secondary plot was far more interesting, warp without warp drive. I don't know if it'll ever come back up again, but it's good to see the Federation is still inventing new tech. Other than the fancier sets and touch screens, the tech doesn't seem to have moved on since the days of Kirk.

Hero Worship

Usually I hate episodes with kids in. But I thought this was great. The kid wasn't a great actor but he did the job and managed not to annoy me.

The black cluster and destroyed ship was a nice mystery and the solution was believable.

Not a top tier episode, but definitely way above mid table.

Violations

A rather nasty little episode. The mind rape was vile and the resolution was poor.

Meh.

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PostRe: Epic Star Trek Re-Watch - The Next Generation - Season 5 - Week 3!
by Cuttooth » Sun Aug 14, 2022 9:02 pm

That's a rough set of episodes. :dread:

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PostRe: Epic Star Trek Re-Watch - The Next Generation - Season 5 - Week 3!
by Moggy » Mon Aug 15, 2022 11:15 pm

strawberry float me, I never thought bloody Star Trek could make me shed a tear, but what I just watched was devastating.

strawberry floating hell :cry:


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