Back to TNG with a decent 3-episode stretch!
Hollow Pursuits: Didn't like the actor playing Barclay, the holodeck scenes were obviously designed to be funny but were flat as fuck. However, I think this episode heavily inspired an episode I saw of The Orville so it was fun seeing where all that came from.
Also.. I've paid a lot of suspension-of-disbelief to the holodeck account so far, but give me a freakin break; people can walk in on each other's personalized programs?! Let's say LaForge and Riker can.. because of their rank, fine, but is there just one holodeck? To be used by one person at a time and if you enter it; you walk right into that person's fantasy? They never referred to different holodeck chambers or anything like that, when you say someone's in the holodeck, it's that one room everybody heads to.
The Most Toys: An excellent episode with a strong ToS vibe to it. No Data episode has failed me thus far! The actor and the writing for the character is still exceptional, it seems to me like Data and Pickard were the only two characters that the writers had a clear understanding of from the get-go.
Fajo.. a standard ToS-type villain, made
special by an amazing actor. All his one-on-one scenes with Data were simply outstanding, especially the last one. His portrayal of confidence that Data won't kill him, mixed with mock pity of Data's predicament, quickly turning into the realization that Data is indeed contemplating murder which turns into unspoken despair, I just loved that scene! And I only spoke of Fajo's half of it, Spiner's subtle acting was just as phenomenal here.
I looked up the guy, his name is Saul Rubinek, criminally underused actor IMO. We almost didn't even get him for this, I found a
different actor was originally set to play Fajo.
Do you guys think Data intentionally shot the gun? We know for sure the gun was shot, it didn't feel like Data's intent was meant to be ambiguous, even though it would have been cool if it were. But Data seemingly lying to Riker about it, cast some doubt for me. Data can't lie, right?
I find it a little silly whenever we're reminded that everything needs to happen within the main cast of characters and the guest stars. Data's gone! We need someone to replace him at ops; that heavily technical navigational job, Oh I know, let's get the chief of security to do it! I mean, we already know his name and he's like a few feet away from where we need him to be heh
Sarek: At first I thought "Pretty sure that's Spock's dad" then I was "Pretty sure that's the same actor who played Spock's dad in ToS", so I paused to check and was happy to confirm it!
This has got to be the first direct connection to ToS since I briefly saw Bones in the pilot!
I enjoyed seeing the crew acting more human, that heated argument between LaForge and Wesley, yeah it was a bit forced, but it felt more natural and human than most conversations on the show.
Then Picard said SPOCK!
It was pretty cool, I've come to consider TnG a very separate and detached universe than ToS over the 3 season seasons and it was cool to see it acknowledge it again.
I need to watch the movies after Wrath of Khan, I
should know where the ToS characters are supposed to be, or else TNG may spoil it sooner or later, I feel.
I did a little geek digging, to see if Sarek being 200 years old adds up. So Kirk's mission was from 2207 to 2212 according to Wikipedia and Data said in the first season that TnG is happening in 2364, which should make Sarek somewhere in his mid-50's when we saw him on ToS.. Spock possibly being 30, I dunno.
The episode itself was cool.
I think I'm finally at peace with the actor playing Riker, I think he found a happy medium by late season 3.
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