Commander's logs supplemental - Earth Date May 19...Year 2009.
As always I like to include the super campy trailers from STNG for you so that you can refresh your memory about the episode I'm blogging about!
I like this episode well enough. It's the first time we meet Deanna's crazy and outrageous mother Lwaxana Troi, and this episode challenges the practice arranged marriage.
I do like that there's a split between the crew's view of this marriage union. Some of the crew think it's barbaric and strange - others accept it because they want to be understanding and tolerant of other cultures and races. Strange dichotomy, because to me both seem correct or acceptable. On the one hand, who are we to say what's acceptable for another culture - on the other hand it does seem like a practice that doesn't allow people to come together naturally. All that being said...living in America (home of 'free love' and 'love-based-unions') we have the highest divorce rate in the world! - Food for thought?
Furthermore I think it's interesting that it's a Human/Betazoid arranged marriage. Because that makes me wonder if in the Star Trek universe there are still groups of Humans that do practice this. Maybe the human's agreed because they were joyful about the union with the Betazoid family! Who knows.
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Justice (Season 1 - Episode 8) Star Trek TNG
Okay due to popular demand from this blog on I will always include a trailer of the episdoe for those who aren't actually watching in order - but still want to participate. That way y'all can just get a little refresher so that you can comment on my review/commentary! So here it is...trailer love!!!
Okay, so I watched this episode while I was proposal writing last night...but it's a first season episode...I'm sure I kept up just fine. Here I'll summarize the episode: ship in orbit 'round planet, investigative team beams back to ship to tell cap'n 'all is well', away team beams down (it seems Tasha's clearly looking forward to getting some!), they send Wesley to play with other (hairy) children, Wes breaks a law (oh wes!), the 'sensual people' want to kill him - but Picard decides to break prime directive to save him - all the while there's some energy being playing god over the planet! YAY...told you I could multi-task! - that was ALL without looking at the wiki page!
Before I get into it, I just want to say, my favorite quote of the whole episode is when the girl Wesley's playing with asks him to teach her a game she knows HE can teach her and he responds, "There are some games that I don't know how to play yet..." (someday, Wesley...someday!)
While this episode is a little bit...how shall I say..."on the nose" (straight forward) about it...I think the underlying message that laws cannot be absolute is absolutely correct. And I find it interesting that this is tied into an episode where they challenge this energy entity's status as "God". Because that makes me think about religion (clearly) - as much as people start wars and shed blood over the "laws of faith" I feel as if it's too obvious that most rules are meant to be applied as they fit situations. And I don't meant to say that rules should be changed for situations - however sometimes there is gray area...nothing is black and white!
I mean think about it this way If a woman is being raped...should she not fight back? And if the only way to save herself is harm or even kill the person trying to rape her - should she be condemned to hell or shunned from god in the after life!? I think not!
Links
Wikipedia summary of the episode!
Lt. Commander Crombs Blog
My TrekSpace Page
My Band
My Business
For those not reading off of blogger - check out the original blog entry at http://mospacecamp.blogspot.com
Okay, so I watched this episode while I was proposal writing last night...but it's a first season episode...I'm sure I kept up just fine. Here I'll summarize the episode: ship in orbit 'round planet, investigative team beams back to ship to tell cap'n 'all is well', away team beams down (it seems Tasha's clearly looking forward to getting some!), they send Wesley to play with other (hairy) children, Wes breaks a law (oh wes!), the 'sensual people' want to kill him - but Picard decides to break prime directive to save him - all the while there's some energy being playing god over the planet! YAY...told you I could multi-task! - that was ALL without looking at the wiki page!
Before I get into it, I just want to say, my favorite quote of the whole episode is when the girl Wesley's playing with asks him to teach her a game she knows HE can teach her and he responds, "There are some games that I don't know how to play yet..." (someday, Wesley...someday!)
While this episode is a little bit...how shall I say..."on the nose" (straight forward) about it...I think the underlying message that laws cannot be absolute is absolutely correct. And I find it interesting that this is tied into an episode where they challenge this energy entity's status as "God". Because that makes me think about religion (clearly) - as much as people start wars and shed blood over the "laws of faith" I feel as if it's too obvious that most rules are meant to be applied as they fit situations. And I don't meant to say that rules should be changed for situations - however sometimes there is gray area...nothing is black and white!
I mean think about it this way If a woman is being raped...should she not fight back? And if the only way to save herself is harm or even kill the person trying to rape her - should she be condemned to hell or shunned from god in the after life!? I think not!
Links
Wikipedia summary of the episode!
Lt. Commander Crombs Blog
My TrekSpace Page
My Band
My Business
For those not reading off of blogger - check out the original blog entry at http://mospacecamp.blogspot.com
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
WhereNoOneHasGoneBefore (Season 1-Episode 5) Star Trek TNG
Oh my sweet baby Jesus...man...I took a little break from this blog and watching the episodes and I just started cracking up when I watched the trailer for this episode. My question is who hired these trailer editors & the voice over guy...?....sigh!!! But here it is if you'd like to giggle too!!!
I think that this is the first episode that Deana's mentioned that she can't read the emotions of a being at all! She is suspicious of this guy that comes onto the ship because of his arrogance but most of all of his assistant because she has no idea what he's feeling he's "empty" as she describes!
On the bright side though...this episode is no stranger to showcasing Wesley in some SUPER UGLY SWEATER again!!!
So despite the fact that I am quite interested in the story of the "Traveler" and how that effects Wesley's character for the rest of the series. I really think this episode is unfortunately one of the most forced. We already saw the crew become "drunk" in Naked Now so I'm just not that excited to see the crew have all these hallucinations.
I'm also begining to notice some inconsistencies with the quality of film capture in this episode this episode is SUPER dark. In some scenes it's almost as if you can't make out the details of Geordie's face (tisk tisk camera man...he might be black but he's not THAT black!).
Honestly, I don't know how I feel about this episode except for the fact that this episode is meaningful in the progression of the extended story line for a few characters.
On the LOVE IT ---- RE-WATCH IT ---- SHMEH....scale...
this was a "SHMEH!"
Links
Wikipedia summary of the episode!
Lt. Commander Crombs Blog
My TrekSpace Page
My Band
My Business
I think that this is the first episode that Deana's mentioned that she can't read the emotions of a being at all! She is suspicious of this guy that comes onto the ship because of his arrogance but most of all of his assistant because she has no idea what he's feeling he's "empty" as she describes!
On the bright side though...this episode is no stranger to showcasing Wesley in some SUPER UGLY SWEATER again!!!
So despite the fact that I am quite interested in the story of the "Traveler" and how that effects Wesley's character for the rest of the series. I really think this episode is unfortunately one of the most forced. We already saw the crew become "drunk" in Naked Now so I'm just not that excited to see the crew have all these hallucinations.
I'm also begining to notice some inconsistencies with the quality of film capture in this episode this episode is SUPER dark. In some scenes it's almost as if you can't make out the details of Geordie's face (tisk tisk camera man...he might be black but he's not THAT black!).
Honestly, I don't know how I feel about this episode except for the fact that this episode is meaningful in the progression of the extended story line for a few characters.
On the LOVE IT ---- RE-WATCH IT ---- SHMEH....scale...
this was a "SHMEH!"
Links
Wikipedia summary of the episode!
Lt. Commander Crombs Blog
My TrekSpace Page
My Band
My Business
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