List Only! Last Star Trek Episode You Watched

[Qonundrum]

Hide and Q - TNG. DeLancie's performance being the predominant reason to even sit through this., but it still has fewer plot holes than...

Datalore - TNG. Spiner's performance being by far the predominant reason to even sit through this, and the glaring plot hole at the end depends whether or not the ship's shields are up at the time Lore is transported into space next to the crystalline entity it befriended (spoiler alert?)

 

[at Quark's]

Just now- Time and Again (just marveled how this alien pre-warp civlization chose to go down the path of polaric energy,yet seems to have developed the same number system as we do, evicended by those "time pieces", or else the UT is doing one hell of a job in the visual department ), and Parallax - nice to see how Chakotay actually sticks his neck out for his fellow officers towards Janeway.

 

[Lord Garth]

Continuing on with key Borg/Seven episodes of Voyager, I went through the entire opening set of episodes from the fourth season, minus "Nemesis" (the episode, not the movie). Then saw what was left of the fourth season where Seven was in particularly prominent focus, except that I left out anything during the Hirogen Arc. For the fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons, I'm only looking at episodes with key turning points or key insights.

So here's what I got through in this new batch:

"Day of Honor" (VOY)
"Revulsion" (VOY)
"The Raven" (VOY) -- The last Star Trek episode my mother ever saw, before she died from cancer... so it's hard to watch this episode and not think back to that time.
"Scientific Method" (VOY)
"The Omega Directive" (VOY)
"One" (VOY)
"Hope and Fear" (VOY)
"Dark Frontier" Parts I and II (VOY)

So I got through good number of them since Monday.

EDIT: Add "Someone to Watch Over Me" to the list. I'm with Seven on this. Dating is ridiculous.

 

[Vger23]

"Whispers" DS9 S2.

This season is a bit of a slog, but this episode is an exception.

 

[Discofan]

The Way Of The Warrior -- DS9 ( a clear improvement vis a vis the preceding episodes).

 

[Vger23]

"Paradise" DS9

Another above-average episode in S2

 

[Discofan]

"Hippocratic Oath" DS9: An interesting ethical debate: Which of Miles or Julian had the right attitude?

 

[BillJ]

"Hippocratic Oath" DS9: An interesting ethical debate: Which of Miles or Julian had the right attitude?

They both did from the perspective of their experiences.

 

[Qonundrum]

"Heart of Glory" - A few minor changes would turn an already solid story into a truly great one. As for Datalore's, Rob Bowman's direction and camera angles are often exceptional and add much to the proceedings. (Correction on Datalore as a story: It starts great but drops the ball halfway through. That aside, there are many robust moments in amongst the proverbial chaff... and both these stories (typical of season one) suffer from cringey contemporary 20th century slang that would be absconded entirely by season three... )

 

[Discofan]

Little Green Men - Ds9: Arguably the second-best DS9 Ferengi episode behind The Magnificent Ferengi.

 

[Joanna McCoy-Kirk]

Errand of Mercy (TOS Blu-ray)

 

[Lord Garth]

"Someone to Watch Over Me" (VOY)
"Unimatrix Zero" Parts I and II (VOY)
"Human Error" (VOY)
"Endgame" (VOY)

And thus ends the Voyager section of my re-watch. Next up it's back to the '80s. I'm re-watching the first season of TNG, which I skipped at the beginning of my re-watch. As they say: what goes around, comes around.

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[Kerock]

Christmas on the Enterprise

 

[Orac]

Macrocosm (STV)

 

[Discofan]

Christmas on the Enterprise

The ugliest sweaters I've ever seen!!!

 

[Lord Garth]

"The Last Outpost" (TNG)

It seems to be a defining episode for early Picard. His admiration for his French ancestry, swearing in French, calling a meeting to discuss tactical solutions, instantly shoots down Worf and Yar's suggestions, takes Troi's advice, and tries to reason with the Ferengi. Then he stays on the Enterprise while Riker beams down. This is archetypal first season Picard.

Riker says there might be trouble down there and wants to take Worf along. I think the writers wanted Worf to be like their version of Mister T.

Thankfully, Yar doesn't take any shit from the Ferengi and calls them on their sexist nonsense. "Just try it, shorty."

EDIT: Interesting exchange between Picard and Beverly. Life support is down on the Enterprise and it looks like they might not survive. Beverly, trying to be protective, says she was thinking of giving Wesley a sedative. Picard said that Wesley has the right to face death awake.

At the end of the episode, Beverly puts her hand against Picard's cheek and starts to call Picard "Jean-Luc" (which she normally does anyway) before taking her hand away, stopping mid-sentence, and calls him "Captain". So the feelings are shown here as was the mother/surrogate-father relationship earlier.

I didn't expect this episode to be so insightful on the Picard end. That's what makes this episode salvageable.

The Ferengi, I'm sorry to say, are probably an insight into Gene Roddenberry's inner vices. I'll leave the matter at that.

DOUBLE-EDIT: I think I know what this is. But I don't even know if he was even aware of it because that would require a type of self-actualization that I doubt he ever reached in his lifetime. I think the Federation is what Gene Roddenberry wanted to be like; while the Ferengi are what Gene Roddenberry was really like.

And because the Federation so represented what Gene Roddenberry wished he was, that's why he eventually became so protective of it. At some point in the '70s, probably by 1975, he realized Star Trek was going to be the thing he was going to be known for. Nothing else he'd done had taken off. So that's when he decided to put his all into it. Meaning all of himself as he wanted to be but couldn't.

 

[at Quark's]

Eye of the Needle.
An episode I've always liked, and upon rewatch, still do. Still pondering whether it really would have been so terrible to beam home with the Romulan, and then go into hiding for 20 years. Heck, after getting home they even could have hitched an (to the external observer) 21 year near-lightspeed ride that would have barely aged them using Einsteinian (i.e. real-world) physics. But I suppose in order for that to work, Tuvok shouldn't have divulged they were 20 years from the future in the presence of Telek R'mor, since that would make them very interesting sources of information for the Romulans.

Unintended creepy moment: Kes (after studying some anatomy texts ) saying to the EMH: "it would be interesting to see an autopsy sometimes" , with those intense eyes of her locked straight into the camera ...

 

[Discofan]

Sons Of Mogh : Not a bad episode but the end is just incredible. I mean unless "Rodek" was completely incurious and had no social life whatsoever, which seems not Klingon to the extreme, how will they explain the fact that no one in the vicinity remembers him nor has any anecdotes to share with him? "Sorry "Rodek", but all your childhood friends and their parents are dead!"...

 

[Captain pl1ngpl0ng]

"I called you a dung beetle"
"I heard you"
"And what is your response?"
"You should have your eyes examined"

 

[1001001]

We finally watched all the new Short Treks last night.