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Feb. 13th, 2025 06:12 amOne of the things I love about living in Japan is the wind. It gets really strong and eerie. It kind of kept me up at 2am, though. Something was banging around, hopefully nothing important.
It a nice follow up to a nicely creepy episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation I watched, a second season episode called "Time Squared". The crew of the Enterprise comes across a Starfleet shuttle and when they bring it aboard they find it's in fact an Enterprise shuttle complete with its own Captain Picard unconscious inside. But there's something wrong with both vessel and man. The latter can't regain consciousness though he appears oddly panicked. I like how Troi is brought into the episode by significantly walking into frame after the copy Picard is wheeled off in a gurney. She confirms it's really Picard.
Polanski says the second Picard is "out of phase" somehow. I wish this episode had better technobabble. I know "out of phase somehow" isn't what her tricorder readout says. What exactly are we talking about?
Anyway, it's a good episode. There were a few moments that seem tonally off from what the show became in later seasons and I got a kick out of them. There's a scene were Troi and Polanski debate about Picard's mental fitness that was really awkward and premature but somehow enjoyable for that.
Star Trek: The Next Generation is available on Netflix.
It a nice follow up to a nicely creepy episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation I watched, a second season episode called "Time Squared". The crew of the Enterprise comes across a Starfleet shuttle and when they bring it aboard they find it's in fact an Enterprise shuttle complete with its own Captain Picard unconscious inside. But there's something wrong with both vessel and man. The latter can't regain consciousness though he appears oddly panicked. I like how Troi is brought into the episode by significantly walking into frame after the copy Picard is wheeled off in a gurney. She confirms it's really Picard.
Polanski says the second Picard is "out of phase" somehow. I wish this episode had better technobabble. I know "out of phase somehow" isn't what her tricorder readout says. What exactly are we talking about?
Anyway, it's a good episode. There were a few moments that seem tonally off from what the show became in later seasons and I got a kick out of them. There's a scene were Troi and Polanski debate about Picard's mental fitness that was really awkward and premature but somehow enjoyable for that.
Star Trek: The Next Generation is available on Netflix.
