6:13 Aquiel – What is it about Geordi that the writers always set him up to fall in love with an image rather than a real person?  I mean, first that warp engineer babe on the holodeck, and now, he’s reviewing the logs of one of the two crewmembers who mysteriously vanished from a subspace…

Chain of Command, Part I & II – This is an unforgettable two-part episode, so much so that most people forget about the dumb Picard/Crusher/Worf covert mission that gets them into all of this trouble.  (It isn’t until years later on DS9 that Starfleet’s covert ops arm becomes canon, but even so, you gotta assume…

6:7 Rascals – A transporter oopsie accidentally deletes a jot and tittle in the DNA of Picard, Guinan, Ensign Ro and Keiko O’Brien, materializing them all as 10-to-12-year-old child actors.  Aside from the awkwardness while Dr. Crusher figures out what happened and how to reverse it, it wouldn’t really be a problem… except then the…

6:4 Relics – I’ll go out on a limb and say that this episode, with Jimmy Doohan guest-starring as Scotty, works better for me as a vehicle for an original-series guest star than the earlier two-parter with Ambassador Spock.  After all, we never saw Spock as an ambassador to the Romulans with dreams of reuniting…

Four that ended up in my Etsy shop… …and three directly from my sketchbook:

Oh, look, we’ve gone back to the non-streamers version of the series title card. I wonder how many focus groups were occupied with this detail? 6:1 Time’s Arrow Part II – I kind of appreciate them skipping over how the party that went back in time to find Data got their costumes/disguises, but man, it…

5:25 The Inner Light – Captain Picard gets zapped by an alien space probe and lives an entire lifetime among the people who sent it, a civilization that went extinct a thousand years ago.  It’s a glorious episode, made even more so by the fact that it very nearly didn’t get made several times. Although…

5:22 Imaginary Friend – Having children on the Enterprise is a frickin’ bad idea. Next! 5:23 I Borg – A memorable classic, marred only by Dr. Crusher’s initial knee-jerk defense of the Borg — or rather, her knee-jerk opposition to obliterating the “species,” which amounts to the same thing. Listen: The Borg are categorically NOT…

I’ll be honest: When my wife suggested we watch The Chosen, an independently produced television show about the life of Christ, I was reluctant.  But I also like making my wife happy, so we found in on YouTube, watched their little Christmas story “prequel,” and then got into the series proper. I recommend this highly. I…

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…