Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1: Difference between revisions

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101 & 102: '''Encounter at Farpoint''' ''[[1987]] [[September 28]]''

Being the first episode of the series, and really relatively early in all of Star Trek considering how much came after, I won't nitpick about everything that seems a bit off 26 years later. But one thing that really stuck me as weird was when Counselor Troi said something like "I'm only half Betazoid. My father was a Starfleet officer." Those are totally unrelated things, unless we're either supposed to assume that every Starfleet officer is human (clearly not, though a disproportionately large amount) or male Betazoids are prevented from serving in Starfleet.

103: '''The Naked Now''' ''[[1987]] [[October 5]]''

The Ugly: Seriously, who thought it was a good idea for the first episode after the pilot to have the crew acting stupid and sex-crazy? INCLUDING THE MACHINE!? It's a minor miracle that the Yar-Data hookup got put to dramatic use in The Measure of a Man next season.

104: '''Code of Honor''' ''[[1987]] [[October 12]]''

Zach and I found it interesting that while the Enterprise crew had a plan in place so the fight to death wasn't actually to the death, nobody tried to save the guy in the audience that got scratched by the poison weapon.  Also worth noting this is the episode the "I'm not entitled to ramble on about something everyone already knows." bit of the Picard Song comes from.

105: '''The Last Outpost''' ''[[1987]] [[October 19]]''

Considering how awesome the Ferengi became on DS9 it's really weird to look back at this early time when they were supposed to be a new rival to the Federation. But looking at it now, there's more of the later Ferengi there than I remembered. Though they're an unknown with supposedly equal tech to the Federation, they're still presented as cutthroat businessmen. Even when they're trying to diss the Federation to the old empire's guardian, they say great things like how refusing to provide advanced technology to backwards planets is squandering a business opportunity.

106: '''Where No One Has Gone Before''' ''[[1987]] [[October 26]]''

This is decent stuff. The weirdness of TOS or early TNG, but without TOO much of the stupid. The Traveler is an interesting character, and his talk to Picard gives a sensible in-universe reason for Picard to start treating Wesley like a member of the crew.

107: '''Lonely Among Us''' ''[[1987]] [[November 2]]''

How were the two guest races even in the farthest consideration for Federation membership? They were both batshit crazy, and if they were at an advanced enough stage to join the Federation wouldn't they have their own ships that could transport them to Parliament?

108: '''Justice''' ''[[1987]] [[November 9]]''

The planet that cloth forgot. Considering so much of this episode is about the Prime Directive, how did they get in contact with these people? They don't seem too technically advanced, and wonder if the Enterprise crew are gods for being in orbit.

109: '''The Battle''' ''[[1987]] [[November 16]]''

I like that the Ferengi daimon got ousted from command due to unprofitable behavior.

110: '''Hide and Q''' ''[[1987]] [[November 23]]''

Adult Wesley is interesting for a few reasons. I like that the older actor matches young Wesley's dopey expressions pretty well. Funny that they use a somewhat deepened Wheaton voice rather than using the older actor's voice. And also funny how in retrospect he looks nothing like an older Wil Wheaton. Though since Riker was trying to give gifts, maybe he wasn't going for that sort of accuracy.

111: '''Haven''' ''[[1987]] [[November 30]]''

112: '''The Big Goodbye''' ''[[1988]] [[January 11]]''

Future baseball reference made to the London Kings, who would get more attention by Ben Sisko years later.

113: '''Datalore''' ''[[1988]] [[January 18]]''

So they discover Data is the creation of a Dr. Noonien Soong... did nobody previously hypothesize that the guy who was Earth's leading cyberneticist and looked exactly like Data in his youth might've been involved? Though I guess at this point it hadn't been settled what exactly he looked like.

114: '''Angel One''' ''[[1988]] [[January 25]]''

Not a two parter? Just felt as long as one to sit through? Okay.

115: '''11001001''' ''[[1988]] [[February 1]]''

116: '''Too Short a Season''' ''[[1988]] [[February 8]]''

117: '''When the Bough Breaks''' ''[[1988]] [[February 15]]''

118: '''Home Soil''' ''[[1988]] [[February 22]]''

119: '''Coming of Age''' ''[[1988]] [[March 14]]''

120: '''Heart of Glory''' ''[[1988]] [[March 21]]''

121: '''The Arsenal of Freedom''' ''[[1988]] [[April 11]]''

122: '''Symbiosis''' ''[[1988]] [[April 18]]''

123: '''Skin of Evil''' ''[[1988]] [[April 25]]''

124: '''We'll Always Have Paris''' ''[[1988]] [[May 2]]''

125: '''Conspiracy''' ''[[1988]] [[May 9]]''

126: '''The Neutral Zone''' ''[[1988]] [[May 16]]''

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