Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 3
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2
SPOILERS TOTAL. You've been warned.
301: Evolution 1989 September 25
It doesn't seem like Wesley did a lot to get the nanites started on evolving--it seems surprising something like this didn't happen before. Past getting upset that he's the cause of malfunctions, he seems to take it pretty in stride that he's played Creator to a new lifeform.
302: The Ensigns of Command 1989 October 2
303: The Survivors 1989 October 9
304: Who Watches the Watchers? 1989 October 16
A very good Prime Directive-based episode. I like seeing Picard try to minimize the damage done, to the extent of risking getting shot by an arrow to prove he's no god.
Maaaaybe the anthropologists should keep their hideaways a bit further away? Less to risk by hiding a series of small camera/sensors around the area being studied.
305: The Bonding 1989 October 23
For this kid being part of Worf's family now and forever, I'm pretty sure we never hear of him again.
I like that Wesley belatedly gets to share his anger at Picard over his father's death.
306: Booby Trap 1989 October 30
I pruriently note that the episode with the B-story about Geordi's trouble with women has Booby in the title.
307: The Enemy 1989 November 6
I like the planet name Galorndon Core. It's not even an important place, but when it came up in the episode I remembered the name so well from long ago that I thought it would be.
I like Geordi's technique of making tools by shaping mud into crude molds, filling it with the right kind of metallic rocks, and melting them with his phaser.
And Andreas Katsulas as Tomalak. Though this is the first role I knew him in, I'm now much more familiar with his Babylon 5 role of G'Kar.
308: The Price 1989 November 13
On the whole, I think the things Mr. Negotiator says to Troi are true. She accuses him of using his powers for gain, but she does the same. She does so for the sake of her ship, he does so for the sake of his customers.
309: The Vengeance Factor 1989 November 20
I've always found it a bit of a stretch that in the end Riker can't manage to find a phaser setting more powerful than "pause her for 2 seconds" yet less powerful than "vaporize her".
Seems a bit of a stretch that the few surviving members of a clan happen to have (or know how to get) the secrets of immortality and extremely targeted viruses.
310: The Defector 1990 January 1
Where was Troi in this episode? When the bulk of the episode is about how much to trust this guy and what peoples' guts tell them, she's not even piping in? Even with something useless like "I sense he's hiding something, but I don't know what."?
So Riker knows some Romulan too? Is he skilled in languages, or did he just learn the greetings and dirty words for major tongues?
So their computer knows enough about Romulus to accurately recreate the planet on the holodeck, but not enough to create one of their most well-known food products.
Tomalak has such a shit-eating grin.
Picard criticizes Data for trying to mimic other actors for his own acting, but a few episodes back he was praising Data for mimicking multiple violinists while synthesizing their styles into something his own.
311: The Hunted 1990 January 8
312: The High Ground 1990 January 29
313: Déjà Q 1990 February 5
314: A Matter of Perspective 1990 February 12
315: Yesterday's Enterprise 1990 February 19
316: The Offspring 1990 March 12
317: Sins of the Father 1990 March 19
319: Captain's Holiday 1990 April 2
321: Hollow Pursuits 1990 April 30
324: Ménage à Troi 1990 May 28
325: Transfigurations 1990 June 4
326: The Best of Both Worlds 1990 June 18