My Star Trek Year

Enterprise - Babel One

Babel One
Star Trek: Enterprise
Season 4, Episode 12

Enterprise gets mixed up in a pissing match between the cranky Andorians (Blue Man Group) and the cranky Tellarites (the Pig-Faced Race). There's a whole lotta fussing going on but not much comes of it even though before it's all over the Romulans have dropped by to put in an appearance. 

(viewed 09/21/2009)

TNG - Time's Arrow

Time's Arrow
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 5/6, Episode 26/1

One of my great Star Trek-related pet peeves is the episodes - and there's a lot of 'em - where the characters prance around in period costumes for whatever flimsy reason the writing and production staff has cooked up. This time the crew are chasing malevolent aliens around in ninenteenth century San Francisco. Prominently featured, a Mark Twain impersonator so annoying that one would like to bludgeon him into oblivion with a stack of Huck Finn hardcovers. 

(viewed 09/17/2009)

TNG - The Next Phase

The Next Phase
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 5, Episode 24

Geordi and Ro are missing and presumed dead after a transport back to the ship goes awry. Oopsie. But the pair find themselves on the ship, where no one can see them. What gives? Not so bad, this one, with some interesting chemistry between two rather disparate characters.

(viewed 09/11/2009)

TNG - New Ground

New Ground
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 5, Episode 10

Father Knows Best - TNG style - with Worf as the dad. An interesting enough look at Worf's troubles handling his son after the kid comes to Enterprise to stay. All of which would have been a lot better if they'd nixed the superfluous "energy wave about to destroy a planet" plot and the finale, which finds Worf and Riker saving the kid from a fire. Good grief.

(viewed 09/10/2009)

TNG - The Game

The Game
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 5, Episode 6

Young Crusher and Ensign Lefler (Ashley Judd) get friendly and pull a Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew routine as they investigate the insidious effects of an unusually intriguing videogame. Which looks to be about as sophisticated as Pong, but let's keep in mind that this aired about two decades ago and cut them a break.

(viewed 09/08/2009)

TNG - The Host

The Host
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season 4, Episode 23

A snoozeroo of an episode in which it turns out that Dr. Crusher's new love interest in actually a humanoid playing host to some kind of creepy-crawly parasite lifted from Alien. No chest-bursting scenes or anything like that thought it might have livened things up a bit.

(viewed 09/06/2009)