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A down-to-earth episode (no pun intended). Picard explores his feelings about his
assimilation while visiting his family in France. Good conflict of values between Picard
and his older brother Robert. We meet Worf's human parents, who dispite their bad accents are quite amusing.
The scene with Jack Crusher is a little too "Disney". But a very good character development episode.
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This time Data has a family reunion, which results in some amazing scenes with Brent Spiner playing all 3 parts.
The sequence where Data takes over the ship is great. The parallel sub-plot with the two brothers on the Enterprise is
less than exciting, but does bear some relevance to the main plot.
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I don't much care for Dr. Crusher but this is a good episode. The first viewing of this show is very confusing,
as it is for Dr. Crusher. I like it when reality becomes twisted and strange,
like in the later Future Imperfect and of course Frame of Mind. The climax is intense. Good stuff.
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This must hold a record for the most surprising plot-twists. The audience is left even more bewildered than
poor old Riker.We see some great "what-if"s in this alternate future. Admiral Picard with a beard on a Romulan
Warbird is a shocking sight. What a fantastic script.
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A farewell to Wesley Crusher. This show has a lot going for it. Location shooting, great acting, curiously
interesting guest star. But WHAT was that fountain thing?! A water spring engulfed in some sort of
forcefield on a desolate planet is a very interesting mystery. But no explaination is given, they don't even mention
that they will investigate it. That sure is wierd.
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It would be unfair to just call this dull. It does contain some good characterization of Deanna Troi
and an interesting scientific sub-plot. Seeing how Troi is affected by her loss is disturbing.
She gets quite nasty. But in the end it is not terribly exciting either.
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I don't think that any scene in all of Trek has made me laugh harder than Data's dancing lesson. That's a true classic.
A good comedy episode with an interesting sub-plot. Contains good character
building scenes with O'Brien and Keiko. It's right about this point that the Chief becomes a major character.
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Say hello to a new alien species: The Cardassians. Introduced by whom other than Marc Alaimo,
the man who would later play my favourite villain Gul Dukat. The first really good O'Brien story.
It's a little surprising that Picard lets
the Cardassians get away with their treachery, Kirk would have fired all phasers immediately.
An excellent episode.
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This script is another one left over form the lost series Star Trek: Phase II. But let�s face it,
the story sucked to begin with. And this Ardra character isn�t funny, really just annoying.
The trail with Data as the jugde is amusing but not enough to save the show.
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A top-notch mystery story where the viewer is kept in the dark until the very end.
Picard's interrogation of Data may seem a little harsh, but it has
to be in order to keep the viewers on Data's side. The ending is quite satisfying, it
could easily have been ruined.
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A story about the very core of Star Trek: seek out new cilizations, and make first contact. The same theme as in Who watches the Watchers? only with a slightly more advanced race. The situation with Riker adds excitement and danger. A true TNG story.
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This is horrible. A sequel to Booby Trap, the problem with the space baby is just a stupid idea
to fill out the scenes between Geordi's
pathetic atempts to impress Dr. Brahms. The scene where he prepares
to have her over for dinner is vaguely amusing.
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A psycological thriller kind of a story. There an eerie feeling throughout the show and some really creepy scenes.
Troi plays a major part and
does it pretty well. Although the dream sequences are involentarily amusing they don't totally ruin the atmosphere.
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Another unremarkable Geordi story. It does have some very nice make-up effects and the final stage of transformation,
the invisble lifeforms, look very cool... if that makes any sense. Good character devellopment for the sadly underdevelloped Chief Engineer.
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"I understand...Everything!" The finest of the (all very good) Barclay episodes. The tranformation he undergoes is remarkable,
from a quivering nervous neurotic to a smug super intellect. Those Cytherians are phenominally ugly, aren�t they?
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"Hahaha-aha-ha-heh-he". That was my first reaction to seeing this. Such sillyness is only possible
when Q is around. The story is absolutely ludicrous but Worf smashing Geordi's mandolin is enough to
reason to see this. Pure slapstick comedy. But this has nothing more than that.
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Why do people hate this episode? I like it. I think this is a good Lwaxana story, second only to Dark Page.
David Odgen Stiers is great
as Dr. Timicin, and his daughter is played by Michelle Forbes who would return as Ensign Ro seven episodes later.
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After getting to know the Trill through DS9 you can't help flinching at some of the things that's changed
since this show. It is a fairly interesting story and Frakes does a good job of playing Odan. The ending does
annoy me though, I would have hope that in the 24th century, bi-sexuallity would be treated with a little less intolerance.
Crusher's reaction to Odan's new host is like "Get away from me, you freak!". Oh, well.
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The only really good Geordi story of the entire series, strange because he is an
interesting character and Burton is a great actor. We see Sela for the first time in hatching a typical incidious Romulan plot.
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The second Data comedy show of the season. Not as good as Data's Day but still quite funny.
The dark matter nebula storyline is OK as well.
The strange goings on that are the result of the dark matter are nicely done.
Picard to Worf: "Perhaps we have a poltergeist." ... "Sir?" ... "A mischievous spirit." ... "Sir!"
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