tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4400152815785368447.post3483965944478211146..comments2024-03-15T07:28:47.064-05:00Comments on Treknobabble: The Next Generation, Season 5: New GroundUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4400152815785368447.post-64152357595809723142014-05-10T20:02:42.111-05:002014-05-10T20:02:42.111-05:00Who cares about fire safety dudes? Come on... :P
...Who cares about fire safety dudes? Come on... :P<br /><br />Well, maybe you do but for me this episode was fun and entertaining because it was interesting to see Worf now becoming a father, the continuity with Kheylarhow Worf, this Klingon man, was navigating parenthood and its various aspects after he was just thrown into the whole thing, overnight. <br /><br />That Worf was a Klingon who was not raised by Klingons and torn between two worlds, sometimes, further added to it. <br /><br />I like how the story wasnt spinned to be one of son and father meeting and loving each other and the kid being really happy that he had daddy around....yaayyy!! but that there was something a bit more problematic between the two and they had to build their relationship. Alexander's defiance, his lack of interest for honor and the way of the warrior and all those other Klingon things. how much that bothered Worf for whom these were very important aspects around which he centered his idenity etc. <br /><br />I just loved how all this was explored, and that we also got some sort of a slice-of-life feel, especially in that scene where Worf is in Picard's Ready Room and gets interrupted by everyone about Alexander. Or Deanna asking about the field trip, or Alexander stealing the display figure during the field trip and how he handled it and how his teacher confronted him about it - all this really brought the episode to life for me and made me interested in Alexander and Worf's relationship wondering how things will ultimately work out for Worf who now is the father of a child. And i mean really - Klingon parenting. Up until then it felt as though Klingons grunted their young into adulthood, but here you got a Klingon child who needs to be raised by a not so typical Klingon father. <br /><br />This is one of the strengths of TNG - it brings Star Trek to life and because it has that B story, it did not feel soapy to me at all. Had the episode been all about Worf and nothing about the ship's business, it would have been soapy. But this made a "another day on the Enterprise" story. It was real and it added yet another layer to the characters and their friendships. I was not bothered by the sci fi in this one, because I dont think it was the core of the show. It was a filler to set the stage. Ellenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4400152815785368447.post-22112314419965137172011-11-09T14:53:23.371-06:002011-11-09T14:53:23.371-06:00No kudos for me. :(No kudos for me. :(matthewweflenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07540521459703556959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4400152815785368447.post-20296980860838375112011-11-09T13:39:19.175-06:002011-11-09T13:39:19.175-06:00Kelly: excellent point! Kudos!
Kevin: Another g...Kelly: excellent point! Kudos!<br /><br />Kevin: Another great point about the fire safety issues, and awesome attention to detail. Yay!<br /><br />The Soliton was stupid all the way around. Hey, let's designate lots of resources to a new technology that gives no benefits we don't already have. What if you need to change course? What if you need to return. What if something gets in your way? What if something interferes with the wave and now you have no warp drive. <br /><br />About Brian Bonsall: Clearly he WAS petulant, sad, confused, and angry! Might not have been much acting needed there.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4400152815785368447.post-27806749188572954072011-11-05T08:16:00.410-05:002011-11-05T08:16:00.410-05:00Also, how exactly do communicators work? Is there ...Also, how exactly do communicators work? Is there no way to set it to go to voicemail if you're in the captain's office? It seems like it would be really distracting if every time someone called someone else, everyone heard it and knew who was calling them. Can you ignore a call? Why don't we regularly hear people's communicators going off on the bridge, in the corridors, etc, with people asking each other to dinner or whatever? I'm willing to accept that maybe a distracted Worf forgot to set his to silent or whatever, but it really demonstrates how much we don't know about communicators and how writers in a pre-cell phone age were unable to predict how it would change our lives.Kellyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08447483088054283298noreply@blogger.com