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121: '''The Arsenal of Freedom''' ''[[1988]] [[April 11]]'' | 121: '''The Arsenal of Freedom''' ''[[1988]] [[April 11]]'' | ||
Before they made him chief engineer, they really seemed to have some command aspirations for Geordi. | |||
I like Riker's Lollipop. | |||
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122: '''Symbiosis''' ''[[1988]] [[April 18]]'' | 122: '''Symbiosis''' ''[[1988]] [[April 18]]'' | ||
This is episodic sci-fi done decently. An unusual sociological situation to show, our heroes unable to just patch things up perfectly, and their hands are wiped of it for next week. | |||
Some practical questions about how they got in this situation, though. There was no Federation information about this system except that 200 years ago a society was near getting space flight, and they just mosey on in to study a star without either taking precautions about detection by the locals or investigating whether they're ready for contact? | |||
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123: '''Skin of Evil''' ''[[1988]] [[April 25]]'' | 123: '''Skin of Evil''' ''[[1988]] [[April 25]]'' | ||
And Macho Man Randy Savage as Armus. | |||
Tasha's death is interesting for how uninteresting it is. I mean, death among main characters that doesn't get reset by the end of the episode is very rare in Star Trek, and usually when it happens it's under a pretty auspicious circumstance. Here, it's just the bad luck of being on an away mission that turns out as deadly as most of them have the potential to be. | |||
This is definitely a very fanon type idea, but considering how imprecise the backstory of Armus is, I could imagine him being one of the lost Odo-type shapeshifters we'd later hear about on DS9. | |||
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124: '''We'll Always Have Paris''' ''[[1988]] [[May 2]]'' | 124: '''We'll Always Have Paris''' ''[[1988]] [[May 2]]'' | ||
I guess this is pretty much our first indication of Picard being a less perfect guy in his youth, though we see more of that later. | |||
The time repeat/overlap scenes are cool, though there aren't many of them. | |||
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125: '''Conspiracy''' ''[[1988]] [[May 9]]'' | 125: '''Conspiracy''' ''[[1988]] [[May 9]]'' | ||
Maaaan it is not every day you see Picard and Riker graphically explode a guy's head with a phaser. | |||
It is also not every day you get stop-motion animation on ST:TNG. | |||
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126: '''The Neutral Zone''' ''[[1988]] [[May 16]]'' | 126: '''The Neutral Zone''' ''[[1988]] [[May 16]]'' | ||
They kind of lampshade that there's no good reason for the cryo-facility to be that far out from Earth. Given that it's so weird, I'm surprised Data is the only one who had any curiosity about it. | |||
Picard's reaction to their revival is a bit weird. He's like "They were already dead, how much worse could things be for them!?" Surely if their capability of revival is so much greater in the 24th century, so would they redefine what they really consider dead. Though they did consider the loser of the fight in Code of Honor dead, too, when obviously they patched her right back up. | |||
I like the 20th century people's differing ways of reacting to their new surroundings. Sonny in particular was pretty quick to adjust, and was more accepting of Data as a person than a lot of 24th century people. | |||
And there's Gul Dukat, Marc Alaimo, as one of the first TNG Romulans. | |||
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