TNG, Season 3 - Part 2

As we continue talking about Season 3 of TNG, topics include Klingon aesthetics, Picard’s cowarice (in one, crucial part of his life), Riker and Troi, and the granddaddy of all cliffhangers!

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TNG, Season 3 - Part 1

Using the better parts of the Barzan Wormhole—don’t tell them about the Bajoran one—your Away Team is travelling faster than ever before. Join them for the first part of their conversation on the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. Topics include Bev’s wigs, a firm desire to renounce our American citizenship, and the dangers of no sadness warnings on large scale re-watches!

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Peak Performance/Shades of Gray (S2, E21/E22)

We have come here not to praise Pulaski, but to bury her. It’s somehow inevitable/fitting that the last straw before she is jettisoned into secondary canon forever is that she said an unkind word to O’Brien. Also we have a clip show, which… Honestly?

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Manhunt/Emissary (S2, E19/E20)

Skant… Skant… Skant… Secret pants: The Pants you wear secretly! Let’s marvel at Jean-Luc Picard’s legs, despite how much we actually came here to swoon over the majesty that is K’Ehleyr (We're all here for that). The end of Season 2 is on the horizon, and with it a format change awaits!

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Samaritan Snare/Up The Long Ladder (S2, E17/E18)

Clones… Clones? CLONES! We contemplate the hell Picard must have been feeling when he woke up with Pulaski hovering over him, and dwell on who *should* have been brought in to wrap up Picard’s heart surgery. Also, Pakleds. Also, the Irish.

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Pen Pals/Q Who? (S2, E15/E16)

Data starts exchanging messages with a little girl living on an endangered planet, and we have opinions about that. That, and the prime directive, and if you stick around for the commercial break, David Zaslav and Warner Bros. Discovery.

Then we come to Q, the Borg, and just what is stored under the bar in Ten Forward, and precisely why someone would hide there. Answer: Guinan may have seen someone cute.

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Time Squared/The Icarus Factor (S2, E13/E14)

Katherine Pulaski and Riker have a quick discussion about his dad over some rotten eggs (question: do eggs suddenly become rotten whenever Pulaski is around? There's some anecdotal evidence to support that theory…) and then not more than one week later, she claims that she never mentioned she and her father once did the pantsless Right of Ascension on the regular because “it never came up.”

She’s a liar, is what we’re trying to say. Also: People who play Anbo-jyutsu have no idea what they’re saying. Also also: John Tesh was someone who once hosted Entertainment Tonight. Also also: Entertainment Tonight is a show that still exists, apparently.

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Contagion/The Royale (S2, E11/E12)

Honest to St. Data of Omicron Theta, we don’t spend a * whole lot * of time this episode talking about the TNG episodes in question. Topics that are discussed include:

  • The Scene in “The AutobIography of Jean-Luc Picard” where Picard straight-up fires Pulaski, gets over himself for just a minute, and calls Beverly just to say “hey.”

  • Mac can’t do a female British accent without sounding like he’s one of the Monty Python guys.

  • The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

  • Z’s pitch for a new horror icon: The Milk Man (similar to, but legally distinct from the Kool-Aid Man).

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The Measure Of A Man/The Dauphin (S2, E9/E10)

A genuinely great episode is upon us, where the crew finally comes into their own, and Pulaski is politely tolerated. The Measure Of A Man is truly an episode to love. It’s absolutely staggering that this nearly-perfect hour of television sprung up from the season that surrounds it. Hope truly does spring eternal.

Then there’s The Dauphin, and the precisely 1 and 1/2 good scenes it contains (you know the ones I’m talking about…)

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Medical (ish) Emergency, Part 12 - Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

While Z finishes up their detail with the Klingon Podcasting Force, Captain Lora and First Office Mac take a moment to breathe in the latest edition of Star Trek - Strange New Worlds. You (and we) asked for it, and Paramount Plus is more than happy to oblige! Finally fulfilling the promise of Gene Roddenberry’s original pilot, we join Captain Pike (Anson Mount) and crew in adventures just ever-so-slightly-before the days of Captain Kirk. Did we love the show? Does the reaction to the show kind of bother us? Did we fall asleep? Had we completely forgotten that TOS ever existed in the first place? Can we live in a liminal space where all of these things are somehow true? We’ll find out!

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Unnatural Selection/A Matter of Honor (S2, E7/E8)

It certainly wouldn’t be Starfleet’s way to just leave Pulaski at the Darwin Research Center. On the other hand…

We also see some really great Klingon stuff as riker takes a brief assignment with the IKS Pagh. Were a podcast-exchange program to becoem available, Eris is on the first shuttle to Qo’NoS.

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Loud as a Whisper/The Schizoid Man (S2, E5/E6)

Our ongoing frustrations with Pulaski eventually give way to the Away Team discussing the most thoughtless, dismissive, and cruel people in their lives. I’m sure the two topics are unrelated.

And then The Schizoid Man happens in the process making Loud as a Whisper a masterpiece by comparison.

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Elementary, Dear Data/The Outrageous Okona (S2, E3/E4)

Can an episode be FUN and feature Katherine Pulaski? We’ll find out today with “Elementary, Dear Data.” Other questions pondered include: Is Rocketeer great? (It is.) Is Geordi running a speakeasy out of Engineering? (There is some circumstantial evidence). Is it someone’s job to be on lookout in Engineering in case Picard shows up? (That, or they have an emergency transport to get rid of Lego at a moment’s notice). Just how many Spots (Data’s cat) were there? (Too many to answer, even though we haven’t seen any of them yet). Would Worf have fun at a carnival? (If there was honor in combat to be won.)

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The Child/Where Silence Has Lease (S2, E1/E2)

We knew it was coming. There was no way around it. Without, you know, just skipping Season 2. Dr. Pulaski is here. Sigh.

We miss you, Bev. Come back soon. We’ll never listen to Freebird the same way again.

So help me, Guinan, we’ll get through this. For now, though, courage.

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Conspiracy/The Neutral Zone (S1, E24/E25)

And so, our journey through TNG season 1 has come to an end. We didn’t hate it as much as we might have! Although Conspiracy could have been at least 15% less gross (or have better special effects), and they shouldn’t really let self-proclaimed 20th Century tycoons on the bridge, especially when they’re staring down a Romulan warbird.

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Skin of Evil/We'll Always Have Paris (S1, E22/E23)

And so it comes time to say goodbye, for now, to a character we’ve grown to love and appreciate. Of course, we’re talking about the super-annoying, fourth-of-four chief engineers we’ve been subjected to this season, Leland T. Gasbag. Also, (spoilers) Tasha Yar joins that Great Big Anbo-Jyutsu tournament in the sky and says good-bye via a ghost hologram in the middle of a Window’s 95 desktop background. It sounds like we didn’t like the episode, but we did.

Also, We’ll Always Have Paris happened. Mac tries to remember if Oklahoma’s only Casablanca-themed restaurant was a thing he imagined, and the entire away team would prefer if Warner Bros. doesn’t sue.

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The Arsenal of Freedom/Symbiosis (S1, E20/E21)

Discussions about The Arsenal of Freedom descends into a discussion of Practical Magic (1998) and Sub Rosa (it all makes sense, kind of). Before the entire episode (and Star Trek itself, kinda) descends into a discussion of NFTs. They’re bad! Also, they’re kind of lame. Drugs are also discussed, because, Symbiosis.

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Coming of Age/Heart of Glory (S1, E18/E19)

Wesley meets a girl! And his greatest fears! Much to our surprise, they aren’t one and the same thing. Then we witness live as Eris becomes a full-on Klingon stan, before reviewing a bit of Klingon language, culture, and recipes! (Mmm, Raktajino!)

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When The Bough Breaks/Home Soil (S1, E16/E17)

The Space Atlanteans are here, and they want 8 of the smartest, cutest (cough) whitest (cough) children the Enterprise has! Also, we almost enjoy a story about terraforming, before realizing we’re ugly bags of mostly water. During our commercial Z “Stay cool” Lee catches up with the Aldeans, but with a twist. They’re wearing a wire. That’s it. That’s the twist.

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11001001/Too Short a Season (S1, E14/E15)

We like Riker. Really, we do. He may need a leash. At the very least, we have some questions about why his wildest fantasies involve not being a very good trombone player, and then have his boss play third wheel on a pretend date…

Meanwhile, Z has an exclusive interview with One Zero and Zero One, the Bynars who masterminded the hijacking of the Enterprise.

Also, Too Short a Season happens. But it does lead to a conversation about accessibility in the future!

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