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Tagged: LeVar Burton

· 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

Go Donate To Levar Burton’s Reading Rainbow Kickstarter Right Now

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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.”