Diving into long lost STNG episodes

[JamesRye]

I am such a weirdo sometimes. I remember missing the one where Rikers duplicated. I was so gutted, I cried. At an age where it wasn't really appropriate.

Anyhow, I've only ever watched it once. I'm still kind of saving it for some weird reason. Like I've seen all the others ad nauseum.

 

[Oddish]

Up the Long Ladder. I think Riker REALLY had it in for the clone colony.

First of all, when they ask for DNA, he not only refuses (which is fine), but he is somehow able to stop them from asking any of the other 900 or so adult crew onboard. Then, when they respond with nasty tricks of their own, he presumably seeks to ensure their extinction by killing two clones (hey, Will... killing your own clone is still murder!)

Maybe because he's Space Horndog 2.0, he just finds it offensive that any humans are daring to reproduce asexually.

 

[Eckauskas]

I don't pick and choose episodes anymore, if I'm gonna watch some TNG then I'll binge it start to finish.

But I usually like to have some background noise on when I fall asleep so I fire on TNG to fall asleep to every night. From S1 to S7, I'll have them all on at one point or another.

 

[at Quark's]

• When the Bough Breaks: Somewhat limited in scope, but a solid idea. It also has one of the better "after school special" messages, or one of the least cringey ones anyway. Indeed, the season is definitely trying different genres. This one is about as distant to "Justice" when it comes to the category of "being family-friendly". Note that "Justice" is not on my list...

The 'after school special message' being that every 10-year-old needs a working knowledge of calculus? (Nah, just kidding).

• Contagion: I'm a computer nerd and screaming "antivirus software"' doesn't stop me from enjoying this one for lots of reasons. It gives a sense of perspective and even uses effectively some hints of fairy tale storytelling, but in perfect proportion. Try saying that while munching on pretzels, but I digress...

I really like the tale, except for the climax resolution which is problematic to me. ('So we have this alien virus that is centuries or even millennia advanced beyond our own technology, can therefore evade or outsmart anything our security / 'antivirus software' could come up with. But luckily we only need to reboot to get rid of it!') Then again, this was made in an era when such a solution might still have been more plausible.

Near as I can figure, Alexander is conceived around Stardate 42900. K'Ehleyr shows up with him on Stardate 44246. So that's about 1350 Stardate units, or 16 months. Even assuming Klingons gestate faster than humans, he's way less than a year old. But he says in "Firstborn" that he was three in "Reunion". That would put him at six, seven tops as of "All Good Things". He seemed a bit older, though.

By "Sons and Daughters", he should be nine or ten, but he appears to be at least in his mid-teens.

Perhaps there's an in-universe link between warrior races and relatively quick gestation? (compare with Jem' Hadar, although of course were designed that way).

Definitely give 'Emissary" a retry. On my first viewing, it was "meh". But after a couple season 2 reruns, something started to kick in. Not puberty, believe it or not. Something about the story just works <...>

I always liked the episode, even if only because it showed a Klingon-human hybrid that seemed to have both her parent cultures /potential clashes between them integrated (and accepted) into her personality to a higher degree, for once.

That would be nice. I always thought about how would nice it would be when one day, come across an episode from the TNG era that I somehow hadn't seen.

Happened to me a few years ago. So I was very excited to discover I had never seen the episode that was on at that moment. Unfortunately, that excitement turned to disappointment very quickly and I have considered 'Dark Page' a 'headache episode' since then. (Not that I necessarily consider it bad by any objective criterion -can't really judge as I haven't ever rewatched it-, but it's just really, really, really not my taste.)

(EDIT: in an earlier version, I mistakenly called the episode in question violations, but I like that one to a certain degree).

In general, I find it surprising how differently some of the individual S1/S2 episodes can 'feel', when compared to the relative conformity 'feel' of many episode in the S3-S6/7 era.

 

[Commander K]

I re-watched Night Terrors recently, wish TNG did more horror, not everyones fave ep but i thought it was excellent, quite dark and mildly claustrophobic

 

[Quantum21]

Have you had some episodes you haven't watched in many years?

It has been at least 10 or perhaps even more years since I last went though the first two seasons of TNG apart from few episodes, those few are 'The Measure of a Man' and 'Q Who'. TMOAM is great and 'Q Who' is a must watch because of, you guessed it, the Borg. After a while I watched 'Encounter at Farpoint' quite recently to begin the trial of humanity properly. But eveything else, I don't remember much if anything about them.
It's almost like going through these episodes for the first time.
On some level I feel fortunate to have this kind of opportunity. =)

I guess I have skipped these two first seasons because I've always thought they're not as strong as seasons 3 to 7. Also, the uniforms, stupid reason, right?

Now I'm interested to know if there might be some hidden gems that I have skipped for no good reason for years. This is a silly post with not much purpose, I just wanted to share that in my case there are ”new” TNG episodes coming this fall. =) I'm guessing episodes like the one with Bynars and Minuet might be interesting and 'The Neutral Zone' too. After all, the latter has the Romulan Gul Dukat.

Confession, I might skip 'Shades of Grey', I'm not sure yet.... But I guess I might have to watch it to make sure if it really is that bad.

Some I ignore on purpose.
Although I don't rewatch much these days, I went through most of the episodes when the blurays came out, so at the very least the majority had at least one view since 2010.

 

[drt]

A few weeks ago I put on The High Ground and quickly realised that I'd never seen it. A great surprise to get what was, for me, a brand new TNG episode!

Heh, I has that happen a couple of months ago with DS9, unfortunately the episode I missed the first time around was "Let He Who Is Without Sin..."

 

[JesterFace]

Some I ignore on purpose.

I skip very many episodes everytime when going through TNG, I pick the very best and some episodes are best left forgotten.

 

[Oddish]

There are some I see no reason to watch again.

 

[Qonundrum]

Up the Long Ladder. I think Riker REALLY had it in for the clone colony.

First of all, when they ask for DNA, he not only refuses (which is fine), but he is somehow able to stop them from asking any of the other 900 or so adult crew onboard. Then, when they respond with nasty tricks of their own, he presumably seeks to ensure their extinction by killing two clones (hey, Will... killing your own clone is still murder!)

Maybe because he's Space Horndog 2.0, he just finds it offensive that any humans are daring to reproduce asexually.

You'd think he be jubilant instead, since the asexual groups instantly equates to less competition against his prowess, even though he knows how to bluff (and, of course, so many fewer chances to pick up any space cooties from as well)...