Star Trek: TNG Rewatch...

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The Battle, Hide And Q, Haven, The Big Goodbye.



The Battle

- Oh, to live in a world where doctors don't usually see people with headaches. Can I live in that world? Cause I have one RIGHT NOW.
- The Ferengi are less squirmy, it seems.
- Wait - how does Deanna sense anything from the Ferengi? Their six-lobed brains make it impossible for her to read their minds.
- Riker, grinning about Picard fighting for his life is highly insensitive.
- It's hard to watch an ep where Picard is having a terrible headache when I'm having a terrible headache too.
- Picard suffers from a LOT of brain fuckery.
- My headache has now become a migraine. I had eye-twitches all week but I was ignoring them. Now Picard is reliving his past and is out of it, and I'm on opiates and in agony and out of it. At least I have Star Trek to distract me.
- Picard saves the day, manages stirring observation.

Hide and Q

- Wow. That is some *seriously* 80s wallpaper in the corridors of the Enterprise.
- Riker? A SKEE-matic? Not a skuh-MAT-ic? That's gorgeous!
- What the hell colour are Patrick Stewart's eyes?!
- Google says hazel-green.
- Why would Q appear as a sphere with three snake heads? That's so weird.
- Oh my God, Picard is such a doll. "It's all right, there's a new standing order on the bridge. When one is in the Penalty Box, tears are permitted." So sweet!
- I love it when Picard does the "What a piece of work is Man" bit. I could hear him do it a thousand times and not get bored with it.
- Riker turns Wesley into a rather dopey looking jock. And Geordi says "Hey, Wes - not bad!" Oh, he's so gay. LOL!
- Levar Burton has gorgeous eyes. It really is a shame they were covered for the entire series.
- I never noticed when I was younger that the controls on the Captain's chair are decked in wood.

Haven (Deanna fails to fall in love with Mullet-Man)

- So Riker's watching Miniature Women Discordant Harp Porn. Nice.
- Deanna's devastated about her forced marriage, and Captain Picard congratulates her? Coooold, bro.
- Oh man, I love Lwaxana. It's awesome seeing Majel make the most of the role. She's effin' brilliant!
- Wow. Patrick Stewart can put so much into one grimace. It's incredible!
- That dress the lady from Haven is wearing is GORGEOUS.
- The guy Deanna has to marry is totally adorable.
- "I am Lwaxana Troi, Daughter of the Fifth House, Holder of the Sacred Challice Of Reex and Heir to the Nine Holy Rings of Betazed! *stern face* Who are you?" I fucking love this woman like fire.
- I love Data's "YEAH! FIGHT!" face. LOL!
- Deanna's high ponytail is awesome. Tasha's High 80s Poof Hair is even awesomer.
- AHaha! Deanna just lost her shit, and then Tasha laughed. Tasha, seriously woman, you're supposed to be supportive of your friend.
- Data: "Can you please continue the petty bickering? I find it most intriguing." LOL FOREVER!!!
- Bill? Why does she keep calling him Bill?
- Riker shouldn't be mean to Wyatt. Wyatt's clearly disconnected from reality.
- The woman in Wyatt's drawings has crazy fucking hair.
- Wait, the woman who's into Wyatt, she's totally older than him, by some years. Not that I can talk, I'm six years older than my boyfriend, but still.
- Aww, Deanna. I'd be sad too. Wyatt was totally hot.
- Oh. Majel, you rock so hard.

The Big Goodbye

- So, essentially, Captain Picard is off to play "Mafia"
- UGH. I hate it when they get modern women to sing old songs. They always do the vocal lilt at the WRONG PLACE. There's barely ANY lilting at all, it was seen as bad singing then. GRRR. It was always very carefully deployed as an emotional device!
- Beverly getting rid of the lipstick. SO CUTE.
- AWW. Bev is totally disappointed that the Captain wants to bring someone in on the date. D'AWWW.
- Wait. This is a bridge crew meeting. Wesley is there. Wesley's a kid! LOL! Man, Captain Picard, you let Beverly do ANYTHING.
- Oh, Bev, you look gorgeous!
- "Why aren't we ALL being interrogated?!" AHAHA!
- Hehehe, I forgot she swallowed the gum. I love Beverly Crusher!
- Wesley's in there like a pro. Awesome.
- Awww, the way Picard's looking at Beverly. *Swoon*
- EYE GAZING. EYE SEX. HOMG.
- Yeah Beverly, I hate Data's mobster voice too.
- Telling the holodeck created people that they're created in a holodeck is the actions of a desperate Picard.
- What's with the teary goodbye with his cop friend? They barely poke three words!

Comments

[leviathan0999.livejournal.com]

(Yes, I know my icon's the wrong generation.)

You have read Peter David's "Q-in-Law," haven't you?

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

OMG, Q-In-Law. (Have you read Q Squared then, I take it? And Imzadi?)

[leviathan0999.livejournal.com]

Yes to both, and loved them.

[xedra.livejournal.com]

Q-in-Law!!!! OMG I love that novel! XD

[leviathan0999.livejournal.com]

One other thing to mention:

What's with the teary goodbye with his cop friend? They barely poke three words!

They barely spoke three words, but he's a character Picard has known and loved for years.

Think of it this way: Imagine you had a Next-Gen-style Holodeck, and you went into it for a Harry Potter fantasy. Things go wrong similarly to what happens in "The Big Goodbye," and you end up having to explain to Harry, Ron, Hermione, and Neville that they're imaginary characters, being simulated by a huge thinking machine. You end up working closely with Hermione so she can create a spell that will allow you to safely leave the deck, and it's the Trio you're with most of the time.

But, as Hermione's about to cast the spell, which will shut down the Holodeck, Neville asks you, "What will happen to me? Will I even still exist at all?"

You've hardly said a word to him in this holodeck fantasy, but he's Neville Longbottom! Wouldn't you be touched and moved and emotional over that?

[xedra.livejournal.com]

THIS. Oh, now this scenario breaks my heart.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I saw "Haven" and totally mixed up the title with that first-season abortion that had Tasha fighting the one leader's wife for the right to be his wife (though she was doing it just to live). I clicked because I was wanting to see what you had thought of THAT one.