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Tagged: LeVar Burton

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · May 27, 2020

Star Trek: The Next Generation “Tapestry”

Just a few weeks after “Q-Less” aired, Q returned to The Next Generation for the next installment of… The episode begins with Crusher receiving emergency patients, including Picard, Riker, and Worf, who are being beamed up after a surprise attack…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · May 13, 2020

Star Trek: The Next Generation “True Q”

Fans ended up waiting over a year after “Qpid” for the next installment of… …as the character was conspicuously absent from TNG’s fifth season. There were reportedly plans for an appearance but storylines couldn’t be worked out. However, Q would…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · May 7, 2020

Star Trek: The Next Generation “Qpid”

“Qpid”, the latest installment of… …has the same lighthearted tone as the previous entry, “Deja Q”. The episode begins with the Enterprise arriving at Tagus III, where Picard is set to give a lecture to a group of renowned Starfleet…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Apr 30, 2020

Star Trek: The Next Generation “Deja Q”

By the time of “Deja Q”, the fifth installment of… …the character of Q had become beloved by fans. Some likened him to Harry Mudd in terms of his annoying playfulness (I’m only referring to the Mudd played by Roger…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Apr 23, 2020

Star Trek: The Next Generation “Q Who”

Q returns for “Q Who”, which is in the middle of The Next Generation‘s second season. This season, overall, proved superior to the show’s first season, despite clunkers such as “Unnatural Selection”, “Up the Long Ladder”, and the second…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Apr 16, 2020

Star Trek: The Next Generation “Hide and Q”

Q’s promise to return at the end of “Encounter at Farpoint” excited fans. Hence, it was a pleasant surprise when we didn’t have to wait long for that return, which came just eight episodes later with “Hide and Q.” The…

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· by Rob Kirchgassner · Apr 9, 2020

Star Trek: The Next Generation “Encounter at Farpoint”

We finally meet Q himself in the second installment of… We also meet the entire crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation, because this is the premiere episode of that series, “Encounter at Farpoint”. The series begins with a…

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Jan 15, 2020

Star Trek: The Next Generation “Shades of Gray”

A long, long time ago, when the Agony Booth’s list of Star Trek recaps was called the Worst of Trek and only consisted of recaps of bottom-of-the-barrel episodes like “Spock’s Brain” and “The Outrageous Okona”, there was one episode that seemed like a no-brainer to be included on the list. Anyone even vaguely familiar with the franchise knows exactly which episode is the most hated...

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Mar 24, 2015

When Reading Rainbow went behind the scenes of Star Trek: The Next Generation

“Unfortunately, we’re not going to find out how they did the saucer separation trick, or how they made that guy’s head explode in ‘Conspiracy’, or anything else cool that happened in the first season of TNG.”

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Nov 11, 2014

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “The Emperor’s New Cloak”

“And this is how a storyline begun in one of the most legendary episodes of the original series goes out in a hail of bad comedy.”

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· by Lisa Needham · May 28, 2014

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · Feb 13, 2014

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine “Resurrection”

“The big letdown here is that, at this point, they’ve taken an iconic, legendary concept like the Mirror Universe and are primarily using it to hook their characters up with dead lovers.”

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· by Dr. Winston O'Boogie · May 15, 2013

VIDEO: Star Trek Nemesis (2002)

On the eve of the Star Trek franchise heading into darkness, Dr. O'Boogie looks back at the TNG cast's final outing Star Trek Nemesis, which somehow became the most reviled entry in the series despite there being a few other Star Trek movies that are at least as dumb. But it's a shameless ripoff of Wrath of Khan starring an up and coming British actor, and who would possibly want to see that?

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· by Ed Harris · Mar 22, 2013

Star Trek: The Next Generation “Conspiracy” (part 4 of 4)

“Picard and Riker are not convinced, an attitude they express in a refreshingly non-Trekkian manner by pulling their phasers and shooting Remmick in the face until his head explodes messily.”

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· by Ed Harris · Mar 22, 2013

Star Trek: The Next Generation “Conspiracy” (part 3 of 4)

“Picard and Riker are not convinced, an attitude they express in a refreshingly non-Trekkian manner by pulling their phasers and shooting Remmick in the face until his head explodes messily.”

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· by Ed Harris · Mar 22, 2013

Star Trek: The Next Generation “Conspiracy” (part 2 of 4)

“Picard and Riker are not convinced, an attitude they express in a refreshingly non-Trekkian manner by pulling their phasers and shooting Remmick in the face until his head explodes messily.”

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· by Ed Harris · Mar 22, 2013

Star Trek: The Next Generation “Conspiracy” (part 1 of 4)

“Picard and Riker are not convinced, an attitude they express in a refreshingly non-Trekkian manner by pulling their phasers and shooting Remmick in the face until his head explodes messily.”

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· by Kevin Podsiadlik · Aug 2, 2010

Star Trek: The Next Generation “The Battle” (part 4 of 4)

“But you can see why this incident would be so unmemorable to the captain. Nearly getting blasted to bits, abandoning ship, adrift in space for weeks, and ultimately immortalized in the textbooks for a feat of heroism would almost totally pass from anyone’s memory after nine years.”

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· by Kevin Podsiadlik · Aug 2, 2010

Star Trek: The Next Generation “The Battle” (part 3 of 4)

“But you can see why this incident would be so unmemorable to the captain. Nearly getting blasted to bits, abandoning ship, adrift in space for weeks, and ultimately immortalized in the textbooks for a feat of heroism would almost totally pass from anyone’s memory after nine years.”

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· by Kevin Podsiadlik · Aug 2, 2010

Star Trek: The Next Generation “The Battle” (part 2 of 4)

“But you can see why this incident would be so unmemorable to the captain. Nearly getting blasted to bits, abandoning ship, adrift in space for weeks, and ultimately immortalized in the textbooks for a feat of heroism would almost totally pass from anyone’s memory after nine years.”