715 Lower Decks - was the actual Lower Decks show based on this? This one got grim tho, with the poor, semi disgraced cadet from the Wesley trial ep getting killed. The surviving Lower Deckers should be recognized, over coffee spill lady and Shelby.
Its definitely a sad episode, and bittersweet that the one guy gets the promotion when losing his friend.
716 Thine Own Self - Commander Troi was wiling to kill Geordi, haha. Cool concept on that exam. The little girl could have been told that Data was alive, aw
I really like that episode. It teaches Troi a valuable lesson about commanding a ship and Data side adventure is a great story too.
717 Masks - wow, that was a bad ep. To quick to resolve.
Now you might get that reference in Lower Decks now though.
719 Genesis - Spot and her kittens save the day! Yay! Sorta. Yaya anyway, haha. Also medical officer Osaka cuz she was pregnant. I somehow imagine that Barclay eps would have him be the star. Love that he's the only other human who Spot will be friends with, since Spot terrorized Geordi and Riker, hahaha
Yeah, he isn't the star here, but the catalyst. I loved this episode. Worf was a nightmare as a kid.
720 Journey's End - what the hex, Wesley?!?! He leaves everything he worked for? Well, it fulfills the Ttaveller prophecy but, c'mon, he could have graduated first. Aaaaw. Also, geez, they used a Native American social political theme for his final ep.
Wesley is meant for greater things. Keep watching, and eventually you might see him again to see what he is up to.
721 Firstborn - weird on the time travel. We didn't see what happened to the older Alexander. He didn't fade away or say he'd travel back so what in the world happened to him? Anyway, the future says Worf dies as a diplomat thing (?) and Romulans are defeated and taken over by Klingons?
Yeah, There are a lot of alternate futures out there for the TNG cast. However, like Worf said, Alexander's time travel had already affected the present and already changed the future. I did love the plot twist here with him though, and how Worf tests to see if he truly is who he says he is. But yeah, something different happens at a galactic scale so that future doesn't happen.
723 Emergence - interesting use of the holo. Do we get a follow up on the Enterprise baby?
Nope. We never find out what happened to it.
724 Premptive Strike - kinda loved this one. Not a new story but it was cool seeing Ro switch for a kindly parental figure. Would have been nicer to see her around more, so her switch had a bigger impact.
Ro's Impact is especially felt by Picard.
725-726 All Good Things - Data is a crazy cat person! Hahaha! They really pushed Worf and Troi together to the point that they had a Riker rift. Cool that Tasha was around. The first part was kinda used to show off the future timeline so the threat didn't see so big when it was shown in the second part. Q showing up is a nice bookend but, well, he was too magical ish for a intro to a sci-fi show sooooo I'm not super wild about him closing too. (I still like him tho. Just could have been more scifi).
The entire point of this two parter was that Picard would cause the rift to form and it would erase all life in the galaxy. That was going to happen, so Q let Picard jump around time at those three points to figure out what was going on and what they needed to do in order to solve the issue. It was Humanity passing their test to think non-chronologically. But remember the truth, THE TRIAL NEVER ENDS!
And it's over! Whew! Have some confessions.
I've seen Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds and Deep Space 9 and... I still don't get the crew hierarchy and colors. Why change it around? Blue is science. Yellow is security. Also engineering? Red is command. That's modern, right? The old joke is Red shirts means death but they changed it to command?
In TOS, Command is Yellow, Security and engineering are red, and sciene and medical is blue. They do swap the red and Yellow around at the start of TNG but they never give a reason why. Although DS9 does address it though in their time travel episode. I should note that in between TOS and TNG they switch up the uniforms alltogether to the MOvie era uniforms that they use in the gap between TOS and TNG.
The two in front of the bridge are navigators and pilots? Data was there but also Boimler? I think Mariner too. Sulu is the same? Uhura is... what again? For SNW and TOS. What in heavens is Troi? Is a psychic standard for exploration? Sorta cool if yes.
Well, you have to remember that these ship are vastly different and are crewed differently. Like Pike/Kirk's Enterprise had a lot more stations on the bridge than Picard's Enterprise D did.
Data was essentially a Science officer, but his station could do a lot more. He could fly the ship, fire weapons, and more. The Enterprise D was very versatile like that. Wesley, or whomever sat next to Data, was primary a helmsman. Charting courses, flying the ship, etc. That is essentially what the modern day trek setups are like now.
Troi, is the ship's counselor as they finally decided to have a shrink on board was a good idea. As for her race, she is half human half Betazed, which gives her a different version of telepathy than her full Betazed mother has. She wasn't standard, but she came in useful at times.
Uhura, was the communications officer. She would be in charge of internal communication on the ship as well as and ship to ship or even long range communications. A vital role in an actual military vessel. By TNG, they kind of don't bother with that. Sulu was a helmsman, and the person next to him was at the Ops station then. Basically firing weapons doing some scanning.
I know about the Riker maneuver but... I totally did not notice it at all! What I noticed is the ... Picard maneuver, when he pulls down the front of his shirt. But I really didn't notice Riker sitting down from the back.
Did you notice that Wesley does the Riker sit down as well? Wesley directly imitated Riker as his male role model.
Did Michael Dorn Worf move to DS9 right after Next Gen ended? Like Spike jumping to Angel immediately after Buffy ended? I don't remember if DS9 explained how Worf and Troi broke up.
He goes to DS9 after the first TNG film, so there is a little time delay. I would highly recommend that you watch the four TNG films now, especially since you have seen DS9. They don't mention when or how he and Troi break up but she isn't into long distance relationships and he leaves to spend 5 years at DS9, so that probably did it.
I saw Star Trek movie 1 and 2 but I don't think I'll watch the rest until I finish TOS (I'm past the Menagerie). Buuuut just in case, could I watch the Next Generation movies? I haven't seen the Borg Queen yet.
Yes. Please watch all four TNG films, the TOS films can wait until after you watch TOS, but the TNG films you are free to watch now especially since you have seen DS9 and now about the Dominion and the Defiant.
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