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…

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)….