Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1
Star Trek: The Next Generation
SPOILERS TOTAL. You've been warned.
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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.
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103: The Naked Now 1987 October 5
The Good: It's an OK idea to take a concept from the old series and bring it back, to see how it plays out differently.
The Bad: Given that this is only the second episode, the viewer isn't supposed to be very familiar with these characters yet. So seeing how they act when out of character doesn't mean much.
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.
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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.
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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.
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106: Where No One Has Gone Before 1987 October 26
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107: Lonely Among Us 1987 November 2
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108: Justice 1987 November 9
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109: The Battle 1987 November 16
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110: Hide and Q 1987 November 23
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111: Haven 1987 November 30
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112: The Big Goodbye 1988 January 11
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113: Datalore 1988 January 18
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114: Angel One 1988 January 25
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115: 11001001 1988 February 1
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116: Too Short a Season 1988 February 8
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117: When the Bough Breaks 1988 February 15
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118: Home Soil 1988 February 22
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119: Coming of Age 1988 March 14
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120: Heart of Glory 1988 March 21
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121: The Arsenal of Freedom 1988 April 11
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123: Skin of Evil 1988 April 25
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124: We'll Always Have Paris 1988 May 2
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126: The Neutral Zone 1988 May 16
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