tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4400152815785368447.post4356718083565221216..comments2024-03-15T07:28:47.064-05:00Comments on Treknobabble: The Next Generation, Season 5: The Inner LightUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4400152815785368447.post-10720979449910722642016-10-29T21:42:24.288-05:002016-10-29T21:42:24.288-05:00Woman: "the happiest day of my life was the d...Woman: "the happiest day of my life was the day when we got married." OMFG. Can we pile on the clichees some more? lol. poppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09064123327462038174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4400152815785368447.post-31344037789744684212015-07-18T17:25:44.159-05:002015-07-18T17:25:44.159-05:00Well i guess I am in the minority here when I say ...Well i guess I am in the minority here when I say that I do not particularly like this episode. I dont understand why it is so popular with so many people and how it could possibly deserve a 10. I have always found it to be a very sentimental, sappy and generally tedious episode. I didnt find the Tatooine type of village life very interesting or enticing. In fact, this looked like most "alien" villages we have seen in various Trek episodes, nor did I find these desert dwellers and their lives very interesting or enticing. <br /><br />Picard as a husband and dad, holding a baby and caring for toddlers just seemed incredibly out of place and awkward, bordering at ridiculous. His Geppetto outfit and the flute and the sentimentality of it all really bothered me. I realized I like Picard as we get to see him most of the time: composed, aloof, with a professional demeanor. I didnt like this sappy, emotional grandpa type he played. It is just not the kind of life I could see organically developing for someone like Picard. The entire episode is just off for me and I dont get why he had to live an entire tedious life with these people in order for them to be remembered. All in all, this is one episode I generally skip on re-watch and when i do watch it I try to figure out what exactly it is that people find so earthshakingly amazing. poppyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09064123327462038174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4400152815785368447.post-75905086588091860572012-08-10T01:39:56.311-05:002012-08-10T01:39:56.311-05:00I think that sometimes the Universal Translator fo...I think that sometimes the Universal Translator forgets that it doesn't have TARDIS translation circuits. (And sometimes it forgets that it has translation circuits at all, e.g., its inexplicable inability to translate Klingon.)Saranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4400152815785368447.post-47822056062383382192012-08-10T01:35:52.700-05:002012-08-10T01:35:52.700-05:00That kind of thing (the existing records issue) al...That kind of thing (the existing records issue) always nagged me on episodes like "The Last Outpost." If the Tkon empire has been dead for 100,000 years, and no one has ever heard of it, why does the computer have a record, with a text translation no less?matthewweflenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07540521459703556959noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4400152815785368447.post-9337111084075632312012-08-10T01:07:27.654-05:002012-08-10T01:07:27.654-05:00This is easily one of the best episodes they ever ...This is easily one of the best episodes they ever made. I get all teary every time. (Perils of being a girl.) Patrick Stewart just blows me away with his abilities to make this whole thing real.<br /><br />I've only ever had one thing that nagged at me. This planet has been dead since the fourteenth century, without ever having made contact with the outside universe. How the heck does Geordi manage to pull up--on a star chart of an uncharted sector--the name that the locals gave to the planet back when there was a planet to name?<br /><br />Even so, I'm awfully glad that it's not Silaria III or some name like they usually saddle planets with, with the implication that the natives came up with this naming scheme all independently. The Silarian sector is a system with a name, and the planet also has a name that the locals might actually give it. I like that.Saranoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4400152815785368447.post-75968673355906259402011-12-27T16:43:21.047-06:002011-12-27T16:43:21.047-06:00Well I was enjoying the podcast until the uncalled...Well I was enjoying the podcast until the uncalled for attack on Star Wars. But in all seriousness this is just a great episode. I think an interesting question that it brings up as well is what does one do when you know your world is doomed. Do you as the government hide it and perhaps prevent chaos, do you as the individual try and solve the problem and then quietly accept it when there is no hope.sirkatzalothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01196996609340706645noreply@blogger.com