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Opinion: Star Trek 1018: I Have Heard the Mermaids Singing 
Siskoid's Blog of Geekery | by Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) | Mon, Sep 21
Mon, Sep 21
REVIEW: We've seen the "crew members go mad" plots before (as far back as Where No Man Has Gone Before, in fact), but Friedman spices things up with a number of fun elements. The mystery of the white hole is intriguing, the Romulan threat makes for a nice cliffhanger, and Worf beating people u...
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Last Month,
Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) from Siskoid's Blog of Geekery says
(in Star Trek 1039: The Way of the Warrior)
PUBLICATION: Star Trek: The Next Generation #33, DC Comics, July 1992
DIVERGENCES: The title was also used for a DS9 episode. Picard has a different fish than Livingstone in his aquarium. If O'Brien had been a Klingon before, he sure doesn't mention it in Apocalypse Rising.
2 Months Ago,
Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) from Siskoid's Blog of Geekery says
(in Opinion: Star Trek 1036: Kingdom of the Damned)
PLOT: Riker is trapped in a phantom zone, on a station that has been sucked into a rift in space. Though ghostly phantoms tell him there's no escape, he doesn't give up hope. The Enterprise sends a probe into the rift, but though they lose contact with it, Riker turns on the station's shields to...
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Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) from Siskoid's Blog of Geekery says
(in Opinion: Star Trek 1035: The Rift!)
PLOT: The Enterprise rushes to save a space station about to be eaten by a rift in space. Riker beams aboard to help with the evacuation and ends up being the only one left behind when the station disappears. Within, he meets the intangible phantoms of people who fell into the rift before him an...
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Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) from Siskoid's Blog of Geekery says
(in Star Trek 1033: The Remembered One)
REVIEW: Though these kinds of alien stories have been overdone, Worf dealing with K'Ehleyr's death gives this one just enough resonance. And when he lunges at the alien at the end and steals a bite (or Klingon kiss), it's a strong moment. There's too much verbiage at times, and the alien neve...
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Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) from Siskoid's Blog of Geekery says
(in Star Trek 1032: City Life)
REVIEW: Ugh. This story didn't work for me. At all. Though it gives the artists the chance to indulge in barbarian comics imagery, the premise is expounded us via an ensign relaying a message sent by the memorial. Even if I was happy with the babble-a-thon, why the middle man? And since the Enter...
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Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) from Siskoid's Blog of Geekery says
(in Opinion: Star Trek 1030: Strangers in Strange Lands!)
REVIEW: You know when I said Okona might not be annoying in comic book form? I was wrong. His insufferable flirting with Crusher, long expository (but not that useful) speeches, and the fact the likeness is way off really don't help. It could be ANY character in this role and it wouldn't chang...
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Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) from Siskoid's Blog of Geekery says
(in Star Trek 1029: Wayward Son)
PLOT: Back on Earth, Worf's adopted son, Jeremy Aster, is meeting Alexander for the first time. He finds out that the ¾-Klingon boy would rather live his life as a human. On the Enterprise, Worf wishes he could be there, but that's just not possible. The starship has just found the outrageous O...
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Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) from Siskoid's Blog of Geekery says
(in Star Trek 1026: Homecoming)
PLOT: The Einstein crew and its allies push back the hostiles and manage to get the shuttle into range of the warp ship at the edge of the makeshift space station's range. They then show the hostiles mercy and beam them into the ship's cargo bay. Wesley figures out how to fly the ship, but while i...
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Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) from Siskoid's Blog of Geekery says
(in Star Trek 1023: Mourning Star)
PLOT: The Enterprise-D abandons its fruitless search for its lost shuttle and Picard is forced to declare the away team dead. Though he holds a funeral in their honor, he doesn't really believe they're dead. Somewhere else in space, Wesley pilots the Einstein to an agglomeration of ships a...
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Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) from Siskoid's Blog of Geekery says
(in Opinion: Star Trek 1022: The Flight of the Albert Einstein)
PLOT: The Enterprise-D races to help twin colonies infected by a plague and is forced to send a shuttle to the smaller of the two. Riker, Worf, Wesley, Selar and medical staff board the Einstein on that mission. Unfortunately, they hit a wormhole, are whisked off to God knows where, with most...
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Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) from Siskoid's Blog of Geekery says
(in Star Trek 1021: The Lesson)
PLOT: It's Beverly's birthday and she's feeling blue, so Deanna takes her on a hiking trip on the holodeck where she learns to feel alive. Riker gives a talk in class and gets pwned by Wesley. And Worf answers some email and tells his ward to pursue the girl of his dreams.
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Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) from Siskoid's Blog of Geekery says
(in Opinion: Star Trek 1016: Prisoners of the Ferengi)
PLOT: After Riker and Geordi fail to check in, Worf gets suspicious and organizes a search party. The two make their escape from the Ferengi and sneak into their illegal mining facility where they are attacked once again, but the Enterprise has spotted the facility and informed Worf and Da...
3 Months Ago,
Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) from Siskoid's Blog of Geekery says
(in Star Trek 1013: The Hand of the Assassin!)
PLOT: Planet Domakleion now has two queens who have inherited it and can't agree on who should run it. Picard has been given diplomatic status to help them iron out an agreement. The problem: Domaks are telepaths who regularly use others to do their assassinations for them. Neither queen wan...
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Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) from Siskoid's Blog of Geekery says
(in Opinion: Star Trek 1012: Whoever Fights Monsters)
PLOT: Only by playing musical chairs can the bridge crew of the Enterprise-D keep ahead of the ship's twin. When the bogus Enterprise is damaged, it starts repairing itself, at which point sensors detect it is a single life-form animated by sentient energy. Incapable of believing that mat...
4 Months Ago,
Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) from Siskoid's Blog of Geekery says
(in Opinion: Star Trek 1011: The Impostor)
PLOT: The Enterprise-D flies to intercept its mirror image, but arrives too late to prevent the destruction of the USS Merrimac. Data notices that the bogus ship's movements mirror those of the Enterprise more than two years prior, so Picard takes a gamble and flies off to what was the ship...
5 Months Ago,
Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) from Siskoid's Blog of Geekery says
(in Star Trek 1009: The Noise of Justice)
REVIEW: A good showcase for the characters. The plot doesn't move much, as we already know what their depositions will say, but Friedman gets the chance to work out each of their "voices". Picard gets the most panel space, of course, with some dynamic (thanks to Marcos) flashbacks that make...
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Siskoid(noreply@blogger.com) from Siskoid's Blog of Geekery says
(in Star Trek 1008: The Pay Off!)
PLOT: The Enterprise-D is accused of having violated Ferengi space when it was nowhere near it, and Picard is ordered to starbase for the investigation. However, Dr. Crusher falls ill from a slow-incubating virus she caught on the planet Onorrh on her first tour of duty, so Picard immediat...
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