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Ric Crossman
Apr 5, 202215 min read
3.1.18 "It's A Damned Show Trial!"
Coming Of Age It’s time for an accounting. The Next TNG I already pointed out in my post on “Home Soil” that we were about to find...
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Ric Crossman
Apr 3, 202211 min read
1.1.18 "We Can All Get Together On The GRENADE LAUNCHERS, Right?"
Arena The Coon era kicks off with a bang. More than one, actually. And this is supposed to be anti-war? Hipster Criticism I say “the Coon...
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Ric Crossman
Mar 31, 20228 min read
6.1.17 "...In The Forests Of The Night"
Rogue Planet I guess technically this is our second rogue planet of the cycle. And like Kirk before/after him, Archer is going to find...
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Ric Crossman
Mar 29, 20229 min read
4.1.17 Proof By Counter-Example
Dramatis Personae Not to go all undergraduate essay here, but let’s start with a definition. “Dramatis Personae” translates as “the masks...
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Ric Crossman
Mar 27, 20229 min read
3.1.17 "There Can't Be So Much As A Microbe..."
Home Soil Doesn’t this all seem a little familiar? The Devil In The Details While the patented IDFC approach means we’ve not actually yet...
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Ric Crossman
Mar 24, 202212 min read
1.1.17 Bang Bang, You're Dead
The Squire Of Gothos Oh, I get it! Bang Bang, You’re Dead – The Playground Battlefield “The Squire Of Gothos” didn’t work for me at...
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Ric Crossman
Mar 22, 20227 min read
2.1 "You Know, For Kids"
The Animated Series Season 1 Retrospective Let’s look at this one through a new lens. If You Don’t Love Something, Set It Free Biased...
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Ric Crossman
Mar 20, 202210 min read
6.1.16 Anger Mismanagement
Fusion (Content warning: references to sexual assault.) OK, so. This one wasn’t much fun to write about at all. The Rage Mirage I think...
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Ric Crossman
Mar 17, 20229 min read
4.1.16 I Have No Mouth, And I Must Sigh
The Forsaken An introvert and an extrovert walk into an unreliable turbolift... Old Skin For The Slightly Older Ceremony I see no point...
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Ric Crossman
Mar 15, 202211 min read
3.1.16 The Prepubescent Seven
When The Bough Breaks This is frustrating – a story that’s based around children, but which has no interest in them at all. “What A...
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Ric Crossman
Mar 13, 20228 min read
2.1.16 The Dirty Half-Dozen
The Jihad “The Jihad” is an absolute mess. I could probably take up 1500 words just listing all the ways in which it makes no sense, or...
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Ric Crossman
Mar 10, 20228 min read
1.1.16 "Eppur Si Muove"
The Galileo Seven Spock gets his turn in the spotlight. But will it fall and crush him? Ungroomed For Command The motivations for this...
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Ric Crossman
Mar 8, 202212 min read
5.1 What We'd Left Behind
Voyager Season 1 Retrospective For a show about the future, Voyager is surprisingly tied up in the past. Take Five Let’s take an unusual...
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Ric Crossman
Mar 6, 20228 min read
6.1.15 Trapped In A Leaky Boat
Shuttlepod One “Shuttlepod One” is an episode that gets a reasonable amount of love – comparatively speaking, at least, given season and...
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Ric Crossman
Mar 3, 202213 min read
5.1.15 The Punching Will Continue Until Morale Improves
Learning Curve As it turns out, we haven’t learned a damn thing. Cheesy Fun “Learning Curve” is one of those episodes that makes me...
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Ric Crossman
Mar 1, 202210 min read
4.1.15 "...These Nags Would Be Lame"
If Wishes Were Horses The episode that claims to celebrate human imagination, but doesn’t bother displaying any itself. “It’s Easy If You...
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Ric Crossman
Feb 27, 20229 min read
3.1.15 "Galloping Around The Cosmos Is A Game For The Young"
Too Short A Season “Too Short A Season” presents itself initially as rather cliché. Your standard tale about how reclaiming one’s lost...
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Ric Crossman
Feb 24, 20228 min read
2.1.15 Kidnapped By Jerks 2: Sluggo's Revenge
The Eye Of The Beholder "I don't know about you, but my compassion for someone isn't limited to my estimate of their intelligence" - Dr...
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Ric Crossman
Feb 22, 202215 min read
1.1.15 "We've Come On Holiday By Mistake!"
Shore Leave Content warning: references to fictional representations of sexual assault. What’s more enjoyable than irony? Enjoying irony...
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Ric Crossman
Feb 20, 202210 min read
6.1.14 Too Much Of A Bad Thing
Shadows Of P'Jem Given it was the stated intent of this series when I began it, it’s been rather a long time since I last really compared...
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