Re:Engage TNG
134 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 13 ratingsFour friends return to a sci-fi series we all have a strong connection to - Star Trek: The Next Generation. It debuted in 1987 when we were all young, and now in 2020, we re-engage with the series, one episode at a time, and re-consider Star Trek from a new perspective as grown-up fans.
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Episodes
Schisms - s6e5
June 17, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 112 MBData reads poetry, and Riker is sleepy as fuck! Clicking aliens, this episode is heavy on the horror side of genre. The fishmonks are assholes and have been stealing crewmembers of the Enterprise away from this dimension. We follow Riker's perspective, but it's happening to Geordi, Worf, and that other lady, too. To figure it all out, Troi takes them into the holodeck where they recreate from memory together where they've been abducted to. The climax is a bit of a disappointment, but the pre...
Relics - s6e4
June 10, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 100 MBWe need more development, Scotty! It's the return of Captain Montgomery Scott by way of James Doohan by way of a jury-rigged transporter buffer. The Enterprise encounters a Dyson sphere in the middle of space, and a Federation transport ship crashed on its massive surface. Geordi rescues Scotty from the transporter, but can't rescue him from feeling old. Like a relic from the past, if I may be so bold. The bridge of the Enterprise from the original series - NOT the movies - is visited in the...
Man of the People - s6e3
June 03, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 169 MBI gotta say, Troi sure knows how to pick 'em! But I blame the writers here. A diplomat comes in hot from an exploding transport ship but it's his mom that steals the show being angry at Troi's existence. Ambassador Alkar forms a bond with her, noting her empathic abilities, before his mom is found dead. Troi and Alkar touch crystals. Then she goes whackadoo: wearing revealing dresses, sleeping with ensigns, scratching Riker, stabbing Picard, etc. We find out Alkar has got a shit-ton of thes...
Realm of Fear - s6e2
May 27, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 122 MBLt. Barclay gets waylaid by a phobia of the transporter variety. He tries to shake it, the psychosis, but then he sees floating puppets eating his arm while he's in the matter stream. What if the phobias are true? His arm sure is blue! Geordi and Troi and O'Brien all bond with Barclay the clown before he goes from zero-to-hero miraculously fast. Get in touch with us on BlueSky @ReEngageTNG.bsky.social! Host: Erik Gratton (@erikfallsdown on Twitter & IG) Panel: Kate Jaeger (@jaegerli...
Time's Arrow, Part II - s6e1 (SEASON PREMIERE)
May 20, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 137 MBGoing to California. The whole gang is here in San Francisco, Guinan, Jack London, and Mark Twain included. There are aliens stealing human mind energies and Beverly Crusher has been crushing it as a nurse in a cholera ward. If there was a way to hide murderous aliens by going back in time, our dear doctor tells us THIS would be the perfect crime. Except Riker the cop who totally respects the law. Twain is a pain in Guinan's actual bonnet, while Picard rents a room from the most Irish landla...
Time's Arrow - s5e26 (FINALE)
April 08, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBAs both Huey Lewis and his famous News have taught us, we gotta go back in time! It's 1889 S.F. this time around the sun but it takes the Enterprise crew a little while to get there. They find Data's head in a cave, contemplate death in Ten Forward, Guinan drops some plot bomb, and then bang, Data's in San Francisco at the stop of act three. There's some freaky aliens stealing human energies with a black light. There's also a poker game, an anvil gag, and Mark Twain as Hal Holbrook played by...
The Inner Light - s5e25
April 02, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 150 MBPicard playing the flute will get me every damn time. So damn good. While investigating deep space, the Enterprise finds a random odd-shaped probe out there. Before they know it, Picard is knocked unconscious by a beam of energy and lays down on the Bridge thanks to Riker gentle hands. He wakes up in a rustic house, being cared for by a woman who says he's his wife. Picard has all the memories of being Picard, but his wife Eline calls him Kamin and says he's a respected iron weaver who's bee...
The Next Phase - s5e24
March 25, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 92.6 MBThere's to say about this phase of life. I mean, you get to watch people exercise, you get to push a nasty Romulan out of a ship, and ruin your own Dixieland funeral party. What's not to love? Ro Laren and Geordi Laforge get lost in the transporter beam while helping a Romulan science ship that's had a horrible accident in space. The Enterprise thinks the pair are dead, but they wake up, talk to each other and eventually figure it's all about mixing clocking devices with a phase invertor. Th...
I Borg - s5e23
March 18, 2024 20:54 - 1 hour - 120 MBHugh've got to be kidding me! We get back to the Borg and realize they aren't just the big implacable baddies the Enterprise made them out to be. Following up on a distress signal, Riker, Worf, and Crusher find an injured Borg on a random planet. Beverly wants to bring him on board, and Geordi devises a Borg jail after the Captain reluctantly agrees. Then they get the bright idea to poison this Third of Five borg kid with a shape, before Crusher and Geordi give him the name Hugh. Guinan want...
Imaginary Friend - s5e22
March 11, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 83.6 MBIFs can be creepy AF. The Enterprise welcomes Ensign Sutter and his daughter Clara on board while we welcome back Shareef Jackson to talk about this kid-centric episode. Checking out a nebula, Clara's imaginary friend she's created to deal with moving around from ship to ship comes to real life. Isabella is played by a fantastic young actor who brings breadth to the role of an alien learning about the rules of being a child on a starship. Guinan's presence is super welcome, as is Shareef's i...
The Perfect Mate - s5e21
March 04, 2024 19:08 - 1 hour - 134 MBJean Grey is an animorph, I think. Nope, wait she's an empathic megamind. In the triumphant return of the Ferengi, they bumble into birthing Famke Jenson's Kamala. She's the key to uniting two warring peoples, but she can't help but be attractive to every male on the Enterprise. Riker says no as graciously as he can. But Picard has to work with her one-on-one and he hasn't been this tempted since he and Beverly were drunk on water in the first season. Speaking of Bev, she's lets the Captain ...
Cost of Living - s5e20
February 26, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 93.1 MBLwaxana Troi invented Tinder. You heard it here first, kids! Alexander teaches us all a life lesson on whether to be nude at your weddings. Before that, Lwaxana teaches young Alexander about mud baths and creepy circus performers and the importance of laughing hour. Before that, Troi teaches Worf about the power of signing contracts with your children so that they perform chores like every good Klingon does. It's all bit exhausting, but at least the protocol droid gets a little come-uppance....
The First Duty - s5e19
February 19, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 140 MBWesley Crusher returns! He's even more of a man, and is involved in a terrible scandal with Tom Paris, er, Nick Locarno and the rest of Nova Squadron while at Starfleet Academy. Picard reconnects with the gardener Boothby, who is a crotchety old man with a heart of gold or something like that. Nova Squardron was trying to make a galactic goatse when one of their number blows up his shuttle. Too bad goatses have been banned. Wesley comes clean, which makes us all very happy. Get in touch ...
Cause and Effect - s5e18
February 12, 2024 20:43 - 1 hour - 96.3 MBIs this thing on? Are we recording? Let's go back to the beginning. And when we'll get to the end. Stop. Stunt casting Frasier Crane aside, this one is a fun temporal romp. Crusher plays poker with the gang, then start to see some patterns emerge. Are they caught in a loop? How does that work? Data figures it out at the last moment, thanks to Jonathan Frakes weird ass camera shots. Kate saves the best for last. Get in touch with us on BlueSky @ReEngageTNG.bsky.social! Host: Jimmie G...
The Outcast - s5e17
February 06, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 126 MBAfter a clunker of Ethics, the TNG writers, producers and performers step it up a huge ass notch. Melissa Nathan, AEA stage manager from NYC, joins to talk about a very special episode. Riker forms a relationship with Soren, a member of the J'Naii who eschews all that silly androgenous stuff. Soren wants to get it on with Riker, as they mount a rescue mission into null space. But their love is not to be, for despite Soren's entreaties in court, she's taken away for treatment a.k.a. conversio...
Ethics - s5e16
January 29, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 83.9 MBIt's impossible to tackle a tough issue like assisted suicide for handicapped people in just one episode, but add in evil research doctors with a cavalier approach to experimental procedures, and it's no sweat! Alexander returns, and guilt his father into not killing himself, assisted by Riker. Also Troi and Worf build a connection, somehow. Dr. Crusher absolutely crushes her medical colleague, while Picard is a monster. But what scenes is the most memorable is the ridiculous looking spinal ...
Power Play - s5e15
January 22, 2024 15:00 - 1 hour - 96 MBA thousand points of light, and we get Buzz, Bruiser and Slash. The Enterprise thinks it's found an old Federation starship from 2 centuries ago and have to send a shuttle down to the surface. There the storm picks up and bodysnatches O'Brien, Troi and Data. Riker is saved by a broken arm. Then those three go berserk screaming something about the Southern Polar Region. (Sorry Erik!) O'Brien threatens his baby, the baby screams, and Data wants to fight Klingons in Ten Forward. Don't miss the ...
Conundrum - s5e14
January 16, 2024 15:00 - 49 minutes - 91.2 MBWhat do we do with a drunken sailor? The Enterprise gets energy beamed - and the crew's memory is wiped. They have amnesia, and a special new crewmember, one Commander Kieran MacDuff. Geordi finds out they have a mission to destroy all Lysians. Riker hooks up with Ro. Worf assumes command because he has a fancy sash. Troi thinks it's all wrong, the mission, all of it. Luckily Picard has a conscience and doesn't want to stab people he doesn't know. MacDuff was in on it from the start! What a ...
The Masterpiece Society - s5e13
December 11, 2023 15:00 - 53 minutes - 73.2 MBThe worst thing since sliced bread. The Enterprise shows up at a secret human colony that's super into their eugenics. Troi beams down and tries to save everyone by boning the creepy leader guy while the arbiter Martin SCOWLS. Like, heavily. A lot. Troi smashes but it's Geordi and the hot blonde physicist Hannah who save the day from a star fragment or something. Hannah defects, and that's the A plot eventually. Our favorite crewmembers do and say some fucked-up shit. The end. Forget this on...
s5e13 - The Masterpiece Society
December 11, 2023 15:00 - 53 minutes - 73.2 MBThe worst thing since sliced bread. The Enterprise shows up at a secret human colony that's super into their eugenics. Troi beams down and tries to save everyone by boning the creepy leader guy while the arbiter Martin SCOWLS. Like, heavily. A lot. Troi smashes but it's Geordi and the hot blonde physicist Hannah who save the day from a star fragment or something. Hannah defects, and that's the A plot eventually. Our favorite crewmembers do and say some fucked-up shit. The end. Forget this on...
Violations - s5e12
November 28, 2023 19:29 - 1 hour - 85.6 MBIt's remarkable that a early 90s sci-fi show examined the idea of rape. The Enterprise plays host to a race of psychic spelunkers on a quest to catalog the galaxy's memories for history's sake. The father is a flirty fool, saying some inappropriate things to the Dr. Beverly Crusher after he skillfully illuminates a memory for Keiko. But it's the son who is the real monster. He attaches himself to a memory of Troi and Riker lingering after a poker game and turns it ugly. He then terrorizes mo...
Hero Worship - s5e11
November 20, 2023 15:00 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MBData gets a not-so-secret admirer in the form a little kid saved from a Federation research ship in the middle of a dark cluster. Timothy loves that android life so much that he pretends to be a poseur positronic lifeform to cope with his parents' death and everybody else on the ship. He says it was attacked but then things get weird. Thankfully Troi gets to do more counseling and the kid actor, Joshua Harris, is pretty badass playing off Brent Spiner in this episode directed by Patrick Stew...
New Ground- s5e10
November 13, 2023 15:00 - 44 minutes - 82.2 MBFatherhood - that's what brings here together today. Brian Bonsall accepts the challenge of playing Alexander Rozhenko, once again being introduced late into an ongoing series. (He played the kid in Family Ties, y'all.) This B-plot of riding the wave all the way to warp speed doesn't hold a lot of dramatic weight, but Worf transforming into a solid single dad in 47 minutes is quite the feat. They even saved some puppets along the way! Alexander is a welcome addition to the family, despite be...
A Matter of Time - s5e9
November 06, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 83.5 MBM-, m-, m-, mmmmMatt Frewer is the featured guest star, playing Professor Berlinghoff Rasmussen. He shows up in a fancy-looking timepod made of a material even Geordi is impressed by. Rasmussen claims to be there to witness historical events bearing flash drives full of *gasp* questionnaires! I hate questionnaires. At the same time, the people on Penthara IV may be dying and/or saved by the Enterprise, which gets us into some time quandaries. Each castmember has time with Frewer, but he lov...
Unification II - s5e8
October 23, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 145 MBAnother writer from the more contemporary Star Trek: Discovery, Eric J. Robbins, joins in a very in-depth discussion of the conclusion to this seminal two-parter while the WGA strike was going strong. Thankfully that work-stoppage is over with most of the demands met, and our very demanding podcast must have been a big part of that. Spock is back and we actually get the highly anticipated scenes between Leonard Nimoy, Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner. Fascinating, indeed! Denise Crosby retur...
Unification I - s5e7
October 16, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 103 MBOne of the writers of Star Trek Discovery joins to discuss their take on Unification in season 3 alongside our discussion of this Next Generation episode. Please welcome Carlos Cisco to our cultural bridge crew! A delicious slow burn leading up to the introduction of one Mr. Spock to this cast. The Romulans are up to something, and have brought Spock there to Romulus for some reason, but his father Sarek passed away off screen after a touching last scene with Picard. The Klingons make an app...
The Game - s5e6
October 09, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBIt's those dang vidya games ya Boomers play all the dang time! The incomparable Wesley Crusher AND Cicero Holmes return for this cautionary tale on the dangers of screwing an alien on Risa. Riker gets introduced to an augmented reality game that quickly controls the mind of the Enterprise crew. But Wesley and engineering darling Lefler played by Ashely Judd make out in the arboretum after saving the day from the dastardly plot hatched by Riker's fuck buddy. Cicero still likes this game after...
Disaster - s5e5
October 02, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 96.9 MBDisaster Strikes! We remember Picard hates kids, but then loves them. We remember Dr. Crusher knows how to hold on to stuff when being sucked into vortexes. We remember Worf is excellent at midwifery. We remember Data is an android who knows how to keep his head screwed on straight. We also remember Chief O'Brien kicks ass and Ensign Ro is a badass/killer. But who knew Counselor Troi was a Commander? We sure didn't! This is a fun one that gives us more of that slice of life on the Enterprise...
Silicon Avatar - s5e4
September 25, 2023 15:00 - 52 minutes - 72.4 MBFractal fuckery abounds! Data has a whole bunch of memories in his positronic brain, and he's going to share it all with our guest star, but before we get to that, Riker's got a hot honey colonist to woo. But dang, she dead. Thanks, Crystalline Entity, for the ultimate cock-block! In comes the expert on crystals and white whales, played by Ellen Geer. She's not here to talk to Data, but ends up hanging out with him the most anyway. She realizes he's got her son's memories and then almost mak...
Ensign Ro - s5e3
September 18, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 136 MBWe meet a new friend and crewmember! Ensign Ro originates the Bajoran people who will come to be a huge ass part of the Star Trek canon. Michelle Forbes returns, having been the daughter in "Half a Life" and knocks Ro's dangerousness and fierceness right out of the park. We learn the Bajorans are a proud people who are down on their luck and that Ro has got some crosses to bear. Luckily, Guinan comes in to guide Picard to trust Ro against the Cardassians, and then she gets a job on the Enter...
Darmok - s5e2
September 11, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 104 MBJimmie; His pants wet. A classic sci-fi premise with a fantastic performance from one of Star Trek's most storied captains (if by storied, you mean twice died to save the white Captain.) Picard is beamed to surface of a planet with the Tamarian captain who only speaks in idiomatic references to myth. The universal translator doesn't jibe with space metaphors. But by uniting their confusion as one, Picard and the Tamarian overcome a phase beast and their frustration to learn one another's ton...
Redemption II - s5e1 (PREMIERE)
September 04, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 94.2 MBThe Klingon Way is to fight for podcast supremacy! Our cultural bridge crew returns after a hiatus to pick up the pieces of the Klingon civil war between Gowron of the Large Eyes and the Duras sisters of the Large ... Attitudes. There may be too many storylines to keep track of though, as Picard pitches a tachyon pulse field using what's left of the fleet depleted by the Borg attack. (Canon!) Data experiences android racism from the guy sniffing nasal spray in Ghostbusters, and Worf repulses...
Redemption - s4e26 (FINALE)
June 27, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 84.7 MBMr. Picard, the Klingons turn their lonely hearts to you. Gowron, Worf and Kurn team up for the ultimate showdown vs. the sisters of Duras and his lowly son for the crown of the Klingon High Council. Focusing on Worf, Picard gives really inconsistent advice - "Save your family name like the Klingon you are! No, but you can't use Federation resources." Oh, also, we're not going to protect the legal leader of our allies. We get some badass scenes from Guinan, and Worf does the ultimate sacrifi...
In Theory - s4e25
June 19, 2023 15:00 - 54 minutes - 100 MBThere's a lot to unpack with this episode! Data is working alongside Jenna D'Sora and their friendship blossoms after watching the nebula fireworks. The android incapable of emotion goes on an advice tour with his colleagues before deciding to do something extremely cringey with his fellow crewperson. His carefully crafted program goes awry, as does the fate of certain objects, walls and/or persons in the B plot of this episode directed by Mr. Stewart himself. And what a typist, he is! Kate ...
The Mind’s Eye - s4e24
June 13, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 97.1 MBThe Romulans did it! Evidence of the glassies, my droogs! Geordi LaForge is ready for some trivia and spanish guitar on Risa, but the Romulans take him hostage and force him to watch bad things using his visor interface. There's a tall shadow calling the shots with a familar voice, but it's not Majel Barrett, who finally gets credited on screen this episode as the ship's computer. The Klingons have an unruly colony and they accuse the Federation of aided the rebels. Turns out it was Ambassad...
The Host - s4e23
June 05, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 151 MBThis is a spicy one for Dr. Beverly Crusher. Her toes are curling for a hot Star Fleet ambassador, but he's got a secret inside him. No, really inside him. Odan is a Trill - we'll learn much more about them in future Star Trek iterations - and that means he's a bug inside a host body. The bug is important, because he's the only person two warring moons trust to broker a deal. So Dr. Crusher puts the bug in someone else, her friend Riker, and all of the feelings of love and infatuation are th...
Half a Life - s4e22
May 30, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 87.8 MBGuest stars galore. It must have been sweeps week. David Ogden Stiers from M*A*S*H and Better Off Dead fame is a scientist who's really good at blowing up stars. Err, I mean, shooting torpedoes to make stars not blow up. I think. Lwaxana Troi is hot to trot with Scientist Stimson until he says he's a few days away from turning 60 and on Kaelon 2 that means death. Then she gets super heated. Supernova mad, in fact. Erik hosts this one that goes from comic relief to dramatic tragedy with two f...
The Drumhead - s4e21
May 22, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 117 MBPolitical and precise, this episode is more poignant than ever. Picard participates in a witch hunt, until he realizes he's been the witch all along. Admiral Satie played by guest star Jean Simmons (not the one with the tongue) initially praises and then chews out nearly everyone on the Enterprise while simultaneously chewing on the scenery. References to past episodes abound, and make the Star Trek world richer, while firmly placing the "utopia" of the 24th century on blast. Along with our ...
Qpid - s4e20
May 17, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBGotta love it when not one, but TWO guest stars return. Re:Engage, not to be outdone, also has a special guest - game designer and art director Daniel Solis who is working on Star Trek games at WizKids Games. First Vash breaks into Picard's chambers just as he's about to give a speech in front of the Star Fleet architectural, erm, archaeological council. She initiates contact of his Horgon, but she ends up getting pissed Picard never told anyone about her. Then Q shows up to do something nic...
The Nth Degree - s4e19
May 09, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 112 MBBarclay is back, and he's bitchier than ever! The return of Lt. Reginald Barclay is a deep and often dark commentary on each actors' trials and tribulations concerning wigs and prosthetics. Well, not really. Instead, we get a super-smaht brainiac who takes over the Enterprise's computer all in the name of efficiency due to Reg being infected with a mind virus. I won't ruin the ending of this floating head of an episode, since it is a fun laser- and Einstein-filled romp hosted by Jimmie G. Sh...
Identity Crisis - s4e18
May 02, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 107 MBThere's a metaphor in the Mummenschanz! Erik Curry returns to host this very special episode of Re:Engage where we witness Geordi LaForge transform from a creeper into a little brother to a purple vein monster and back again. Lieutenant Commander Leijten (pronounced as in "Lighten up, Francis") has found some footage of an away team she and Geordi were on five years ago. The rest of the team have abandoned their posts to return to that planet, and Leijten starts feeling funky once they get t...
Night Terrors - s4e17
April 03, 2023 15:00 - 56 minutes - 103 MBLet's get horror up in our Star Treks! We really need to take more naps, you know, as a society, and that is proven true here in this episode as the Enterprise is stuck in a Tyken's Rift along with a ship of death. The starfleet officers went all murderous on each other on the USS Brittain, gruesomely so, except for a catatonic Betazed. Troi's dreams start to get as funky as her nightclothing, while the rest of the crew starts acting wonky, except for Data. He's the hero of this one, as ever...
Galaxy’s Child - s4e16
March 27, 2023 15:00 - 58 minutes - 107 MBHoo boy, this one's a doozy. Kate keeps us laughing and loathing nearly everything Geordi LaForge does and says in this episode. Dr. Leah Brahms returns as her not-holodeck self and Geordi tries to date her at every turn. The problem is not that Dr. Brahms is married, which takes a Jeffries tube conversation to get that factoid out there, but that Geordi violates nearly every privacy law we have. This may be the first acknowledgement the franchise makes that the holodeck can be used for sexy...
First Contact - s4e15
March 20, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 106 MBThere's something funny about this one. Star Trek always focuses on the bridge crew of the Enterprise, according to Mean Gene Roddenberry, but the producers successfully switched up the POV to the Malkorians. The cultural bridge crew of Re:Engage also gets some new POVs as Geoffrey Zatkin (@GeoffreyZatkin on Twitter) and Matthew Krol (@EmperorMSK on Twitter) from the YouTube channels Extra Credits and Extra History join to dish on Riker's lies. There was a lot to unpack - including amazing g...
Clues - s4e14
March 13, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 85.9 MBIf it wasn't for that dang moss, those Paxans would have gotten away with it! So Picard asks for the chance to do it once more, with feeling. Special Guest Shareef Jackson returns to talk about this unique Star Trek episode, and as a new father, he's also never sure if he was unconscious for 30 seconds or much longer. Whoopi Goldberg is woefully misused in the Dixon Hill re-visit, but we're glad the secretary stays consistent. Data is sus, but he gets a sweet voiceover. Greg hosts this episo...
Devil’s Due - s4e13
March 06, 2023 15:00 - 54 minutes - 74.9 MBIs this real life? Or is this just fantasy? We go down to Georgia, er, Ventax II to visit with Ardra, who's apparently a devil-like figure that's come to collect on a thousand-year-old debt. She's got earthquakes, she's got riots, and she's got camp bleeding out of her eyeballs! Picard wants nothing to do with her flim-flam show, and he assembles a crack team of investigators to try Ardra in the court of Data. They salvaged this script from the failed Star Trek series Phase Two to become som...
The Wounded - s4e12
February 13, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 109 MBMeet the Cardassians! We welcome a very special guest to Re:Engage with his own performance introducing this culture to the Star Trek canon. It's incredible how much impact one drink of danar in 10 Forward with O'Brien has on the franchise. The accomplished actor Time Winters joins and delights with stories from the set filming "The Wounded," an extremely on-the-nose episode investigating Captain Ben Maxwell's lingering animosity for one's former enemies. The fact that this episode aired whe...
Data’s Day - s4e11
February 06, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 94.4 MBThis episode inspired both the Beatles' song "A Day in the Life" and the entire run of the sitcom of the 90s "Seinfeld." And that's canon! Data's voiceover diary entries written to Dr. Bruce Maddox are the wrapper of the slice of life episode, the first of its kind for the franchise. But this nothingburger day is nothing but - so many things happen! Including the wedding of O'Brien to Keiko Ishikawa, a birth, a Sherlock Holmes reference, a hair coloring, and a fake death ... of a Salesman in...
The Loss - s4e10
January 31, 2023 15:00 - 1 hour - 132 MBMarina Sirtis pulled the short straw on this script. What should have been a great vehicle for her to show her chops ends up falling a little flat. GET IT!? The Enterprise is pulled along in the wake of what the bridge crew discover to be two-dimensional beings. At the same time, Counselor Troi loses the ability to feel others' feelings and to have any rational response to those things happening at the same time. She resigns as counselor - until she gets a great talking to from Guinan and sa...
Final Mission - s4e9
January 23, 2023 15:00 - 58 minutes - 81 MBLet's all sing "Say Goodbye to Wes Crusher" to the tune "Say Goodbye to Hollywood" by Billy Joel. Or not. The meter doesn't really match up, kinda like how this episode's plot doesn't match the gravitas of Wesley's final episode. Picard wants Wesley to come with him on some cockamamie miner's quarrel mission right before the boy is to ship out to Starfleet Academy. They've been dangling this for years, but now he's finally out of the picture. Jimmie couldn't be happier. But then the shuttlec...