Oh boy. It’s this one.

Summary

Human-like aliens have a vaccine to some horrible disease that the Federation needs. Picard and crew must entertain them, earn their trust, and get the vaccine. The alien leader is interested in Tasha and kidnap her. Picard jumps through hoops to honor their kidnapping customs, but the evil alien refuses to give Tasha back and wants to make her his #1 wife. His existing #1 wife is not happy about this and challenges Tasha to a duel. Tasha defeats her and immediately beams her up where Crusher revives her. Since she technically died the duel is complete. She chooses a new husband and that husband agrees to give over the vaccine.

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I had the least to say about this episode. Notes from E03 forward get more detailed.

Summary

The Enterprise receives a strange message from a science ship studying a dying star. The message ends with the sound of a hatch being blown. Away team heads over to find everyone dead, most blown out into space, others frozen solid. Geordi makes physical contact with a frozen corpse and starts acting funny aboard ship. He is infected with some space sickness that makes you act drunk and spreads it to the whole ship… just like in the TOS Episode “The Naked Time”. Wesley takes over engineering and locks them out of control. The star explodes and is about to destroy the Enterprise when Wesley buys them enough time with his reverse tractor beam tech to let Data fix the engineering computer so they can fly away. Crusher develops a cure and all is well. Also Tasha has sex with Data. And Crusher comes on to Picard, but he doesn’t come onto her… that we see.

Continue reading “TNG Re-Watch: S01E02 The Naked Now” →

I’ve been watching a web series from the YouTuber TriAngulum Audio Studios about the production of Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s first series. He mentions how it’s not very well received and goes into the problems with the production. Having not seen any of these episodes in at least two decades I decided to start the series over and start watching. I’m keeping notes as I go. No idea if I’ll keep this up, but I’d rather share my idiocy than keep it all in my head.

These notes aren’t overly coherent, it’s just a lot of comments I’m making as I watch. For this and the next episode the notes aren’t as frequent or as detailed because I wrote things down after the episode ended.

Summary

The new Enterprise D is on the way to Farpoint station on the edge of “the great unknown”. They are accosted by a mysterious god-like entity, known as Q. Q taunts Picard and tells him that humanity is barbaric and not worthy. Picard demands that he test if humans are still barbaric and Q agrees and tells him the puzzle of Farpoint station will be a good test. They pick up the rest of the crew at Farpoint, which is a weird place that manifests whatever someone desires out of thin air. Turns out it’s an alien entity that the native inhabitants trapped there with their abundance of geothermal energy. The entity created the base and created things for the native people. Another of the alien entities shows up and attacks. The Enterprise realize what’s going on and free the one that was trapped on the planet. Happily ever after.

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