List Only! Last Star Trek Episode You Watched
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Back to watching Star Trek after a week. I decided not to dive back into ENT. Going make to my home turf. I only watched the second half of Picard's first season once, so I've put on...
"The Impossible Box" (PIC)
"The Impossible Box" (PIC)
TNG “Power Play”. S5 feels somewhat anaemic but this episode is tense and exciting. Marina Sirtis in particular does a great job as evil Troi. Although having seen a fair bit of convention footage I think that may be because Marina is basically playing...herself 
My only problem was I didn’t for a second believe the final scene where Keiko is all bright and breezy and just happy to have her Miles back. How could she not be seriously traumatised by being held prisoner and tormented by an alien entity possessing her husband’s body?
My only problem was I didn’t for a second believe the final scene where Keiko is all bright and breezy and just happy to have her Miles back. How could she not be seriously traumatised by being held prisoner and tormented by an alien entity possessing her husband’s body?
ENT - These are the Voyages. The basic idea behind the episode (Riker and Troi watching Archers crew on a mission) is fine. It’s the stuff like Trip’s fate and the fact it was the series finale that make it crappy.
TOS - The Enterprise Incident. One of my all time favorite TOS episodes. Love it from top to bottom.
TOS - The Enterprise Incident. One of my all time favorite TOS episodes. Love it from top to bottom.
Plato's Stepchildren (TOS Blu-ray). I feel embarrassed for the actors every time I watch this episode. "I'm Tweedledee, he's Tweedledum," indeed.
TOS: "The Cloud Minders" - I'm not really a fan of TOS, but the idea of a floating city was too good to pass up (I don't think I've seen this ep before). I found this ep mildly intriguing, but couldn't help notice how Kirk looked a little sweaty and sleazy (I don't think the longer, slicked-back hair helped). He was pretty authoritative, though - and believable in his urgency to get the zenite to stop the botanical plague. Spock and Droxine (so thin, but fabulous crimped silver cloak thingy!) were amusing. I liked the art gallery, but wish we'd seen more of Stratos.
Oh, and I can't believe Ardana ever got into the Federation with the hideous caste system it employs.
Oh, and I can't believe Ardana ever got into the Federation with the hideous caste system it employs.
TNG "The Outcast".
One of those episodes which ages the series about as much as TOS. I guess it was bold and daring in 1992, but as a gay person I cringe at the well-meaning but tremendously weak attempt to tackle the "gay issue". DS9's "Rejoined" did it so much better in an altogether stronger and better written and acted episode; and importantly, one in which the central romance felt legitimate and emotionally affecting. Maybe part of the problem was the way Soren was performed; the actress seemed to equate androgyny with being an emotionless android. The casting definitely left something to be desired. And TNG was generally terrible at romance of the weeks and frequently ham-fisted when it came to allegories. Next.
One of those episodes which ages the series about as much as TOS. I guess it was bold and daring in 1992, but as a gay person I cringe at the well-meaning but tremendously weak attempt to tackle the "gay issue". DS9's "Rejoined" did it so much better in an altogether stronger and better written and acted episode; and importantly, one in which the central romance felt legitimate and emotionally affecting. Maybe part of the problem was the way Soren was performed; the actress seemed to equate androgyny with being an emotionless android. The casting definitely left something to be desired. And TNG was generally terrible at romance of the weeks and frequently ham-fisted when it came to allegories. Next.
DS9 The Maquis I and II
"Broken Pieces" (PIC)
TOS “Balance of Terror”. A classic episode that set the bar for future Trek in many ways. I consider The Wrath of Khan to be more inspired by this episode than “Space Seed”. Stiles was a one-note character whose bigotry got tedious very quickly, but apart from that it’s a near perfect episode.
DS9: "Waltz", in preparation of the Greatest Generation pod on that ep releasing today.
It's a great ep, but honestly the single toughest element for me in revisiting 90's Trek is THOSE GODDAMN CAVE SETS. Oh my god they are so boring. I do not understand how I was not driven insane by the constant use of these cave sets at the time, but I don't think I ever even thought of it!
It's a great ep, but honestly the single toughest element for me in revisiting 90's Trek is THOSE GODDAMN CAVE SETS. Oh my god they are so boring. I do not understand how I was not driven insane by the constant use of these cave sets at the time, but I don't think I ever even thought of it!
And when they needed greenery there was a good chance they'd film it in some park in La, especially that waterreclamation plant, giving every other planet the same, damn subtropical/mexiterranean look. Which, yes, is pretty, but gets boring quickly if you binge it.
Oh, I totally agree. "Waltz" seemed the nadir somehow. It was a great episode, but visually it was damned ugly. I don't know if it was poor cinematography, but the picture in the cave scenes (which comprise almost the entire episode) is far too dark and grainy, and all muddy browns and greys. At least in TOS, in episodes such as "What are little girls made of?", the polystyrene caves were lit in bright blues and purples (not very realistic admittedly, but far prettier to look at
)A private little war, TOS.
Made me genuinely curious how the planet would have developed by the time of TNG since Kirk's visit. They could have done a follow-up episode perhaps ....
Made me genuinely curious how the planet would have developed by the time of TNG since Kirk's visit. They could have done a follow-up episode perhaps ....
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