Star Trek: The Next Generation - 4.05 Remember Me

Beverly Crusher is the only one to notice when people begin to go missing from the Enterprise.

Seven Star ships out of ten.

Notes

• The last to vanish were Wesley and finally Picard.
• The Traveller returns

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 4.04 Suddenly Human

The Enterprise brings a human male teenager who had been raised by Talarians.

Picard's difficulty with children is revisited. I'm wondering if they were trying to attract a younger audience this season as this is the third episode in a row to feature younger guest stars. You'd think the soundproofing in a 24th century star ship my be better. The resolution of the episode felt rather rushed.

Six starships out of ten.

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 2.15 Pen Pals

The Enterprise investigates a planet that is rapidly becoming uninhabitable and Wesley is assigned the planetary survey. Data communicates with a young alien on the surface of the planet.

Seven out of ten.

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 4.03 Brothers

Data takes control of the Enterprise, to met Doctor Soong, his creator, while it is on an emergency trip to a starbase to save the life of one of it's crew member's children.

Soong had designed a basic emotion chip for Data which Lore tricks Soong into installing the chip into himself.

This episode was an interesting backfill of character history and it was rather frightening to see what Data is capable of.

Eight space ships out of ten.

Notes
Data can perfectly mimic Captain Picard's voice.

Data mets his creator, Doctor Noonian Soong and Lore joins the pair. Soong survived the attack of the crystalline entity. Soong is dying. Soong has humanoid skeletons and apparent dinosaurs.

Data was created after Lore and has complete free will. Soong hoped Data had become a cybernetist. Soong had intended to fix Lore and says the only difference between the two is a bit of programming

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 4.02 Family

While the Enterprise is undergoing repairs at Earth, Worf is visited by his parents and Picard visits his brother and considers a job offer on Earth. Beverly decides to finally give Wesley a recording from his father.

A couple of things bothered me in this episode. Weird, tiny rolls being used as suitcases bother me, unless like the Doctor's TARDIS, they are bigger on the inside. Why does Picard's family have no French accent?

An interesting character piece that allowed some the character to deal with their issues but rather dull and inconsequential.

Seven starships out of ten.

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 4.01 Best of Both Worlds, Part 2

Riker and the crew of the Enterprise endeavour stop a Borg cube enroute to sector 001 and rescue Captain Picard after his transformation into Locutus of Borg, after Starfleet's devastating the defeat at Wolf 359.

I always felt ripped off by only hearing about the Battle of Wolf 359 second hand and seeing the aftermath instead of getting to the battle on screen.

The rescue of Picard was well executed and the utter destruction a single cube was able to unleash on 40 ships was frighteningly impressible though.

Interesting that the Borg are not interested in assimilating Data, instead considering him obsolete. Ironic that Data was crucial to the defeat of the Borg.

Eight space ships out of ten.

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 3.26 The Best of Both Worlds, Part 1

Great, now, Riker will be turning down commands for the rest of the run of the series. I've always loved this episode for that last shot of Locutus of Borg, one of the more frightening image to come out of this series.

Nine spaceships out of ten.

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 3.25 Transfigurations

I probably saw this episode a long time ago but I honestly don't remember it. Wasn't Sarek causing the crew to behave strangely just a few episodes ago? When did the Federation get the right to keep people they rescued against their will? I really don't remember Worf dying of a broken neck. I wonder how I managed to miss this episode over the years. It seems the Federation doesn't have much of a refugee policy in this episode (or their policy is to accept no refugees). A charge of "disruptive influence" sounds like a possible political dissident, not just a criminal.

Nice touches: Miles' kayaking injury. Quote of the Episode: Worf to Geordi: "I have much to teach you about women."

Six spaceships out ten.