The second part of “Time’s Arrow” marks the beginning of TNG’s finest season. At the risk of sounding cruel, I think much of its virtue has to do with the lack of Gene Roddenberry’s influence. Many of the season’s plotlines vary widely from Roddenberry’s utopian idealism into [...] 
I was an early Rudy Giuliani supporter in 2008. He is a disappointing RINO, buthe was competing against a lackluster field of candidates against which I felt his liberal social policies could be tolerated in light of his fiscal conservatism and get tough on terror attitude. [...] 
We have reached the season finale of what has been enormous highs and craterous lows, but more of the former than latter. After two season finales of epic battles, the powers that be wisely chose to make a more personal finale. They also decided at the last [...] 
next week, my beloved alma mater the University of South Carolina faces that accursed farmer college across state, Clemson University. We have stumbled in late season, but skinning a tiger would more than make up for it. Whatever happens, win or lose, one thing remains certain--we have [...] 
A judge has thrown out the $ 4 billion--yes, billion--clsss action lawsuit filled by a Los Angeles Asian woan on behalf of all Asians for the inherent offense of this photo:It should come as no surprise the case was tossed. The sum requested was exorbitant, the [...] 
“The Inner Light” does not need much introduction, does it? It is the most personal episode since TOS’ “The City on the Edge of Forever.” not surprisingly, those are two of only four trek episodes to win Hugo awards for Best Dramatic Presentation. It is such a [...] 
It looks like Roland Emmerich has completed his diaster trilogy of Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, and now 2012 with the same motif: overwhelming special effects that bring audience in droves the first few nights until word of mouth spreads there is no substance to any [...] 
She has been dubbed a one woman stimulus package. I think she is a stimulus in quite a few ways, but if she can boost the economy, too, so much the better.
“The Next phase’ is an ironic entry in the fifth season. It was intended to bea budget saving bottle show--a highly necessary one, considering other episode had gone over budget--but wound up being one of the most expensive of the series because of the phasing special effect [...] 
It has been a long string of mediocre episodes. Thank goodness we finally get to one. While I enjoy “I, Borg” for the most part, my fondness for it has diminished because of subsequent Trek, notably Star Trek: First: Contact. Many fans do not appear to pay [...] 
Yes, I was tempted to use “going Muslim” instead of “going postal” in the title because I really want that meme to catch on. Help spread it, will you? I am not surprised it has happened, though the veracity is amazing, the left has attacked Sarah Palin [...] 
I tried to sit through this one again for a full review, but I just could not. ‘Imaginary Friend” is further proof trek does not do children well. It is a double disappointment because the idea of a child’s imaginary friend coming to life in a nightmarish [...] 
The great British actor Edward Woodward passed on earlier today. He was 79. Like any child of the ‘80’s, Woodward was and forever shall be The Equalizer, but he had a long, celebrated career in British and American cinema which I have enjoyed for years.
Up until this point, the Doctor Who seasonal specials have been lackluster. Last Christmas’ love song to steam punk was full of so many plot holes about the only fun aspect of the episode was counting them. The less said about the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang check [...] 
This makes two episodes in a row featuring an ill advised wedding. It is definitely odd the installments were not spaced apart more wisely. “The Perfect Mate“ is not that great an episode, but I give it higher marks than I normally would because of its unintentional [...] 
David Tennant's swan song looks pretty cool.' [...] 
It is time for the weekly round up of favorite posts from my blogroll. As usual, these are not ranked, but in alphabetical order by blog title.
Oh, man. I had to suffer through Wesley yesterday, now I have to sit through Lwaxana and Alexander in the same episode. Who had the bright idea of putting two of the most useless, annoying in TNG together in one episode? We are talking Freddy Krueger level [...] 
Barack Obama violated state Department protocol which has been in place for two hundred years by bowing to Emperor Akihito of Japan. 
It is time once again to round up all the bloggers gracious enough to link to me this week. 
What? Another Wesley episode? But I just suffered through “The Game” a week ago! Have I not suffered enough?
Just in case your Friday the 13th went off without a hitch, here is a black cat crossing your path for good measure. The day is not over yet.
I am a sucker for unique twists on time travel stories. “Cause and Effect” is one of the best around because it overcomes what ought to be a deal breaker; the same sequence of events is repeated five times, virtually identical to one another, yet the plot [...] 
“The Outcast” is the first Trek episode to deal with, at least arguably, the issue of homosexuality. Truth be told, it does not do that very well. Homosexual advocacy groups have criticized the episode for washing its hands of the issue after Gene Roddenberry had allegedly promised [...] 
Here is a unique moment; a medical miracle saving the life of a main cast member is performed by a guest star rather than McCoy or Crusher. She gets berated for it, of course. The guest star cannot completely show up the big dogs. There has to [...] 
Five writers are credited on the script for “Power Play,” including the dreaded Maurice Hurley. His inclusion implies the story had been bouncing around the TNG office since at least the second season. It neither inspires confidence the concept was from that less than stellar era, nor [...] 
Mike Huckabee is upset he holds moat of Sarah Palin’s political positions, but is not getting her level of attention. He says it is because she is good lin’ and he is not.
I have never particularly liked this episode even though it is similar to alternate reality stories which I generally dig. Many fans go for it because the episode reveals a lot of background information about the characters. Okay, but it is laid out there as exposition. It [...] It is time for the weekly round up of favorite posts from my blogroll. As usual, these are not ranked, but in alphabetical order by blog title.
I hate this episode. If I have watched it beyond its initial airing, I would be surprised to learn it. Anytime eugenics is dealt with in any sort of positive light, I get a squeamish feeling. Here it all hinges on one exchange between la Forge and [...] 
It has been a long time since she has graced the Eye. I like this photo a lot, too. Forget the haters. She is beautiful. [...] It is time once again to round up all the bloggers gracious enough to link to me this week. 
“Violations’ was borne out of the story outline for “Night Terrors,’ one of the worst Tng episodes ever. Like ’Night Terrors,” the story center around my least favorite character, Troi, so the episode does not have much going for it.
I do not have much profound to say about the Fort Hood massacre other than recognize Kimberly Munley, here with country singer Dierks Bentley, who ended the shooting rampage of Nidal Malik Hasan:Instead, I am going to agree wholeheartedly with the sentiments expressed by Jaded Haven, [...] 
Remember our mantra that trek never does children well? Yesterday’s episode was a step in the right direction. Alexander was and will continue to bea brat, but the emphasis was more on Worf’s growth as a parent. His failures as a father offer explanation for Alexander’s [...] 
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I have always liked Worf. He was never really done justice until his run on DS9. As far as Tng is concerned, Worf has two purposes. One, to destroy things he does not understand and two, learn from humans how to purge his inferior Klingon culture. The [...] 
Consider “A Matter of Time” a chance to catch your breath after the most recent sequence of darker episodes. It is a fun, lighthearted episode best viewed without implications future Trek forced upon it. Yes, ENT ruined everything. 
If ‘Unification I” went at a glacial pace, then “Unification II” travels at warp speed. It is jammed packed with exposition, action, and character moments. While it sounds like too much for a single episode, it all flows pretty well. 
There have been surprisingly few homage to TOS thus far. Aside from some minor comments and place names dropped, the only two major ones I can think of are the inhibition disease from ’The Naked Time” affecting the Tng crew in “The Naked Now’ and Sarek’s [...] It is time for the weekly round up of favorite posts from my blogroll. As usual, these are not ranked, but in alphabetical order by blog title.
May I now present ’The Game,” which shall forever be known as the worst episode of Tng and a portent of some of the dreck Brannon Braga would write through the rest of televised trek’s run. This episode was so bad, Gene Roddenberry died what the before [...] It is time once again to round up all the bloggers gracious enough to link to me this week. 
Call this one TNG’s homage to ’70’s disaster films, particularly The Poseidon Adventure. The Enterprise is hit by a quantum wave--just go with it--putting the crew in various predicaments within the now disabled ship. 
Since it is Halloween, I thought we would go for an expanded addition of The Other McCain's Rule 5 Saturday and post some babes from horror films and television shows.I have to star with the queen herself, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark. While' [...] 
I seriously considered calling “Silicon Avatar” the worst episode of TNG, but I am still going to bestow that dubious honor on another installment. But at least you know where I am coming from here. This is a terrible, terrible episode.
As you can guess, this is the episode which introduces Ro Laren to the cast. I have mixed emotions about her. While adding an additional, edgy character with some sex appeal was a good idea, I do not believe it was executed well. Ro’s is angry and [...] 
Jon Gosselin and Nadya "Octomom" Suleman are going out on a date for a reality television show. [...] 
Game 1 of the World Series is tonight. Alex Rodriguez grabs Derek jeter’s butt for good luck. Thank goodness. I can now add “gay” to the list of insults I can apply to the New York Yankees. Woo hoo!
“Darmok” is legendary in Trek lore because of its success in spite of taking two years to make it from concept to screen. Usually when a project languishes in development hell that long, the result is less than spectacular. “Darmok’ is based on the high concept of [...] 
I was wary when I heard the intention of The Plan was to show the story behind the story so that the series would be viewed in a different light. Comic books do that a lot with retroactive continuity and the fad in the early ’90’s [...] 
The fifth season premiere, while still enjoyable, is a bit of a let down from the palace intrigue of the fourth season finale. It is widely known the episode had not been written along with part one the same way “Best of Both Worlds, Part II’ was [...] 
I am not a rock and roller, but the pen has pretty much the same effect of sticking it to the man. Consider this a battle cry against the dark, sinister forces eating away at our souls.
I started writing a review for “Redemption, Part I” earlier today. As I was wrapping it up, word crashed. For whatever reason, it ate the whole document. I could not even bring it up as a Tmp file in order to salvage something that is the way [...] 
Here are the best posts fro my blogroll this week. As usual, they are not ranked, but are listed alphabetically by blog name.
I think this is a first--a Data centric episode I do not particularly like. The show goes to great pains to make Data/Pinocchio “I want to be a real boy” parallels as possible, then every now and the gouges our eyes out with emphasis on his [...] 
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