Star Trek: The Next Generation rewatch.

[logansrogue]

I'm just rewatching Star Trek from the beginning, cause I wanna. LOL. Also taking notes for fanfic. Anyway, so Will Riker's just met up with Beverly and Wesley, and Wil just delivered the awesome line, "When I was little, he brought my father's body home to us." Which is like, the most AWKWARD fucking line ever. If they wanted to establish that Wesley Crusher was the creepiest little fucker in the galaxy, they did a brilliant job with that line. Poor Wil Wheaton. *head-desk* "Here, deliver this entirely bizarre line in the most natural and likeable way possible. You're Gene Roddenberry's stand-in!" *LOL FOREVER*. To his credit, I think he did an all right job with it, but I adore the socks off of him so I'm biased.



- Everyone is so TRIM. Good God! And Deanna's hair is incredible.
- HAH. When Riker meets Deanna again, I thought they were gonna jump each other in the fucking turbolift, regardless of Picard being right there. Picard's like, "Don't mind me, just go on and eyesex." ROFLMAO.
- Wesley convincing Beverly to let him ride the turbolift with her. And then he deploys, "Large puppy dog eyes of adorbsness" and you can just see Beverly crumpling, even though she has "Stern Doctor Mother" face on. So freakin' cute!
- Dude, Riker just totally shot down Deanna's play at getting them to explore underneath the station. DENIED.
- Patrick Stewart makes the little moments with Picard relating to Wesley SO FUCKING INCREDIBLE. But you know, Patrick Stewart is a genius, we all knew that. He just makes me want to cry is all. The whole Jack/Beverly/Picard thing makes me want to bawl.
- I really, really love Beverly Crusher. It's not often you get a professional woman that is allowed to have feelings and not be a complete numpty with their relationships, eg. Temperance Brennan. (Who I like, but sometimes it gets a little ridiculous. She's not an alien FFS, she'd know half the shit she doesn't apparently know!) Anyway, I remember there being a lot of "Beverly Crusher is a terrible mother!" stuff going on when the show was airing, which totally pissed me off.
- AHAHahaha. Beverly just served Picard his own arsehole. Well done, Bev. Transfer indeed!
- Hahaha, Q is awesome.
- Of the new captains, Picard really is the best. I mean, I love Kate Mulgrew, I love Janeway, and she's a fuckin' hero, but unfortunately I don't think Voyager had the same charm that TNG did for me. Don't ask me why. I'm a bad feminist.

- Skipping "The Naked Now", as I could probably recite the lines from memory as I watch it. "Lieutenant Yarr, please respon-" "KEEP YOUR BRITCHES ON!" "Captain Picaaaaaard!" "SO YOU MEAN I'M DRUNK!? I feel strange, but also GOOD!" "Hard against TSIOWHATEVER!"

- Every time I play a new episode, my computer locks the DVD into Deutsch/German. So every time it starts, Picard starts speaking in a goofy German voice and it cracks me up SO HARD. Now watching "Code of Honour".

- Oh shit, I forgot how racially insensitive this episode is. Holy shit!
- Wait, there's an alien race full of black people wearing faux-Arabic shit, and he's saying they're similar to the Chinese culture of the 13th Century? WTF?!
- I love Deanna Troi's "Yeah right, I can totally read your mind, asshole" face. A lot of people pick on her for the crying and sensitivity, but man, she can bring her game face when she needs to.
- Oh, the fetishising of poor Tasha Yar. *sigh* This episode is a MESS.
- What is really creepy about this episode is that she gets grabbed, and she's a bloody rape survivor.
- It's funny. Data is explaining the workings of the alien transporter in great detail, and he says that it's not important at that time. When in actual fact, it probably is because the best way to trace something is to know how the fuck it works. Which Data seems to.
- Wait. They care about how the aliens respect them? They just fucking stole a woman! They're all, "Let's be patient, they respect that." Uhm, THEY STOLE YAR.
- Beverly's hair is incredible. Wesley, stop creeping in the lifts, man.
- Hahahaha. Picard is so in love with Beverly, he lets her kid on the bridge. Dude. She owns you.
- You know, Denise Crosby has such a bangin' figure. She is *tiny* in the middle, and she has a really sleek, strong figure. God damn, I wish I had a line like that.
- Troi, you horrible woman. Shut the fuck up. There's nothing fun about being abducted! CHRIST.
- Holy shit, Troi, that's COLD. I mean, I know Yar wants to fight, but she's all, "It's the best odds, we have to do this".
- The early jumpsuits are so nipply.
- I can't imagine why Tasha Yar would be attracted to Lutan. He kidnapped her, FFS!
- Hang on, if I remember right, they're totally going to pull what Kirk did with Spock during Kalifi.
- Yup, in essence, they did.

Comments

[hotclaws.livejournal.com]

I follow him on Twitter,he's so funny.He was great in this though.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0667976/

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

Wil Wheaton is a total dude these days. I've been watching TNG eps once a week on TV and the poor boy (and everyone else in the cast too) had to deliver some really awkward dialogue. I'm glad he survived the experience and is now enjoying his return to acting and revelling in being a father. And you can't beat his motto "Don't be a dick". I must get hold of Eureka to watch.

That said I'd still quite happily slap Wesley the character. And the wardrobe master/mistress who made him wear the chunky jumpers.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

You know, I get a little indignant (not at you, just in general) cause Wil Wheaton has always been a total dude. I've been a fan of his since '94, and I read every article about him I could get my hands on at that tender age, and he's always been a really sweet guy. And very, very funny. But a lot of people act like this is a recent change in him, and it isn't. Sorry, you hit a sore point. I made the joke elsewhere that I'm a Hipster Wil Wheaton fan. I liked him before he was cool. LOL!

Yeah, there is some truly clunky dialogue, but I think that's the charm of it. But I'm one of these weirdos that's seen every single TOS episode at least twice, and thinks William Shatner is a brilliant actor. LOL!

Aahhh, Wesley was just a bit of a dork to start off with. He got better. But I'm biased, as I said. I like Wesley, and always have. But I grew up with a crush on the dude, so. LOL!

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Man, that first sentence makes no sense. I start an idea and then finish it like three sentences later. I have post-pasta stupor. I just ate a huge plate of my Mum's brilliant bolognese. Never mind me.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

That a worry, because your first sentence make complete sense to me! I only said he's a total dude *now* because until a few years ago he was just an actor to me. And I make a point of having null opinions about actors unless I learn a bit more about them as people. I may well have opinions about the quality of their work, but not their own character as individuals.

Sorry, I get a little indignant (not at you, just in general) because people regularly fail to recognise the differences between actors (or other professional performers) and people. I've met too many of them!

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Wait, I'm having trouble parsing the second paragraph. Did I piss you off? If I did I'm really sorry.

[stephbg.livejournal.com]

No, you didn't piss me off at all. Other people, however...

;-)

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Oh okay. It's past ten, my ability to make sense of things decreases rapidly at this point, unless I'm in my nocturnal phase. I just watched the episode where they introduced the Ferengi. I maintain that they were a shipful of Ferengi on meth or something. They kept wriggling and scratching themselves and gesticulating and hissing and shit. LOL!

[xedra.livejournal.com]

*bouncing*
Oooh, I am SO wishing I could be watching a Star Trek marathon with you.
I have no one to roll in all the Trekness with anymore! *pouts*