Thank him for an intriguing list!
Data is a great character, but I don’t think that Picard is so much a great character as much as Stewart being a great actor.
I always wanted to like this episode but the Galaxy-class plot-hole of a solution just ruins it for me. Shaka, when the walls fell.
They got #1 right. 
You must concede the upside to this episode: they removed Denise Crosby from the series (except for that later time-twist bit where she was a Romulan), an enormous dud of an actor.
“Best of Season Three”? Has to be “Tholian Web”. Although “Whom Gods Destroy” did have Yvonne Craig as crazy Orion chick.
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Except, again, asking Q to do that for you would never result in it happening. Especially since he had promised to help them get home in order to resolve the situation.
And that’s my problem. I don’t think he is all that knowledgeable if he has these particular complaints. I think he’s just going by his gut.
A Fistful of Datas and Elementary, My Dear Data worst than A Night in Sickbay and Dear Doctor? Yeah, stopped reading there.
She was pretty good in Yesterday’s Enterprise. Much of her first-season suckage is due to her being written like Johnny Quest in space.
The ep that intrigues me is the one where they visit a farm planet and some magic spores cure all illness and make everybody (including Spock!) happy. After a while Kirk is the only one left on the ship and, in a fit of pique, causes the destruction of the spores. Instead of hunting him like a criminal across the universe, they apparently forgive him, because a week later everything is back to normal.
Not exactly. Kirk discovers that violent emotions overwhelm the tranquillizing effect of the spores. He then incites Spock, who recovers and goes back to normal, and together they create conflict among the people on the planet, freeing them from the spores as well. They then evacuate the planet; at no point are the spores destroyed (the planet is their natural habitat, and they thrive in the harmful radiation in which it’s bathed).
The whole story is a commentary on drug use, which is shown to be a bad thing as it makes material and technological progress irrelevant.
Astronomy buffs can have a field day with Trek. “Omicron Ceti” is also known as Mira the Wonderful, a pulsating red giant variable star. I’d say that the “radiation” involved would pale next to the wild swings in temperatures…
Yeah, much as they like to claim that the Federation of the future is a peaceful utopia where hatred and want have been conquered–the minute they come across an ACTUAL peaceful utopia without hatred or want, Kirk’s first impulse is to destroy it.
Not only that, the place is a natural treatment center. Got a deadly disease, cancer, an appendix scar you don’t like? Go there, get spored, then get in a fight. People would be lining up to get there. Heck, send Geordi. See if he gets new eyes.
Now perhaps there is a catch (and there always is). Maybe no natural spore can do all that - let’s say it is an alien-generated ‘trojan horse’. Everybody that gets spored is infested with nanites that are just waiting for the signal to EXPLODE!!
That might make a good episode, actually.
Of SNG, the one that stands out for me, in what is largely a nebulosity of meh, is Captain’s Holiday. It had a certain palpable grittiness that was missing from the sanitary bulk of the series.
There was one SNG episode that I cannot seem to identify. It focused on Worf and some other Klingons involved in a conflict or rite of some sort. At least two of the prominent Klingons died, and when the question of burial came up, one would declare, “The body is an empty shell!” Anyone remember that one?
I believe you mean TNG:
I can see Spock doing a slow burn years later, when he and Kirk are reminiscing about the old days. Kirk:" Ha ha- remember that time you were happy?"
Thanks, that was it. "SNG is shorthand for ST:TNG. Personally, I almost always rate Enterprise higher than the other ones because it has that slightly unwashed feel to it, more touchable than the others. Of course, that could be because I was born in a town called Enterprise.
I personally have problems with any list that has any episode of Voyager rated higher than #400. But that’s just me.