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5:19 The First Duty – I think that Wesley Crusher has officially joined Lwaxana Troi and Q as a “once a season whether we need ’em or not” recurring character.  At least this one doesn’t follow the format of Wesley’s last episode where he showed up for a visit on the Enterprise just in time…

Six that are now in my Etsy shop, plus one from my sketchbook.

5:16 Ethics – Worf’s back gets broken in a stupid accident! How can a warrior cope with the ultimate “Worf gets knocked down” scenario? By committing ritual suicide, of course. (Spoiler: He doesn’t end up doing it.) The second focus of the story is Dr. Crusher’s conflicts with an innovative but sometimes unethical surgeon who…

5:13 The Masterpiece Society – The Enterprise discovers an otherwise unknown human colony in the path of a destructive stellar core fragment, and contacts them.  It turns out that this colony was engineered to be the “perfect society,” with a balanced gene pool set within a controlled environment (both physically and socially), and the Enterprise‘s…

5:10 New Ground – And then someone said, “Since Wesley left, I miss having an annoying child around. Let’s bring back Worf’s son Alexander!”  So they do, from here on out being played by Brian Bonsall, previously of Family Ties.  (I guess there was just something about lil Brian that suited him for characters who…

5:7-8 Unification Parts I-II – Not content to dive deep into Klingon politics, we’re now going to go into Romulan politics! Whee! The appearance of Leonard Nimoy as Spock in these two episodes constitutes the biggest guest-starring EVER in TNG to that point (and no, DeForest Kelley’s cameo in Encounter at Farpoint isn’t even close)….

Six sketches that ended up in my Etsy shop, plus one from the sketchbook.

5:4 Silicon Avatar – The “crystalline entity” that destroyed Data’s home colony, and which hasn’t been seen since the first season, comes back; it’s basically Galactus, if Galactus were an aluminum Christmas tree. The Federation’s foremost “crystalline entity hunter,” a female Captain Ahab whose family was killed in that colony destruction, works with Data to…

Since we’re doing a binge-watch of Star Trek: The Next Generation to get my daughter up to speed, continuity-wise, before we can watch Picard, it’s taking the place of the movies I’d normally watch.  So by popular demand (i.e., a single person’s suggestion), here are my reactions and comments to those episodes, starting at the…

Hope you’re not missing the “Movies Seen Recently” too much — we’re still binge-watching ST:TNG.  (In the middle of season six!) Six for sale in my Etsy shop, and one direct from the sketchbook: