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From: ANIM8Rfsk@cox.net
In article
<08b730e1-bb74-47e9-a0bc-36fcd3df4959@j12g2000prm.googlegroups.com>,
"David E. Powell" wrote:
> Hmm, three I can riff on from TNG?
>
> "Up The Long Ladder?" - Was that the one with the common genetics to
> all the sentient species, manipulation that wasn't really ever covered
> again?
>
> "Shades of Gray" gets a lot of bad rap but I don't remember it being
> too bad, it was OK, despite the clip re-use. Still not as bad as a
> Glen Larsen series on that score.
>
> "The Game" was (I believe) the first try for Star Trek to look at
> drugs, 20 + years after Harlan Ellison's original script for "City on
> the Edge of Forever" set off alarm bells with Roddenberry and was
> subsequently edited. The one with the "dealer and addict" planets did
> a better job on TNG though. DS9's "The Wire" was much better than "The
> Game" in showing it takes more than a flashy light to solve real
> addicts' problems. It seems cheesy now, but "The Game," was not a bad
> stab at it for the time, and having the teenagers being the ones to
> resist was a neat touch. Not only for message but in a way harking
> back to 50s films like "The Blob" where the teenagers knew bad stuff
> was going on but the authorities just weren't listening to them.
>
> So one that I took as a misfire, one that gets riffed on for the re-
> use of stuff but which I felt was _ok_ , and one that is cheesy but
> fun much like some of my fave TOS episodes. Not a bad batting
> average.
Pretty much everything with Crusher. That horrible Sub Rosa thing with
her and the Irish ghosts or whatever the Hell they were? Or that Mayan
Temple in space? The list of truly terrible TNG episodes is very very
long.
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