Weekend Roundup #11

Week eleven wasn't bad! Thirteen episodes! 

35- THE MEASURE OF A MAN

-This is the first time the Enterprise crew gets together to  play poker--something that would last the rest of the series. 

-Hey they're in the JAG office! Fun. This makes me picture JAG as a SciFi show. Someone get me CBS on the phone, STAT!

36- THE DAUPHIN

-Wesley falls for a girl who's actually less worldly than he is. A-freaking-dorable.

She literally says, "You've been SO many places!" 

37- CONTAGION

-This is the first time Picard orders Tea--Earl grey, hot. Sadly, it comes out all crazy because of, you know, the contagion. 

38- THE ROYALE

-This is the one where they beam into a 20th century hotel and everyone's got lots of moxy. Data learns to play black jack and, in order to escape, Riker, Worf, and Data pretend to be "foreign investors." 

39- TIME SQUARED

-Duplicate Picard arrives on a shuttle but his brain is all jacked up.

-He’s from the FUTURE… future... future…future…(I'm making an echoing sound that you'll have to imagine for yourself.)

40- THE ICARUS FACTOR

-Riker is offered his own command but his dad comes to give him the what-for. Talk about awkward.

-Kyle Riker and Pulaksi had a THING. 

-Kyle refers to Anbo-jyutsu as the ultimate evolution in the martial arts… we’ll see about that.

41- PEN PALS

-Picard takes Deanna to meet his pony.

-I have a lot of problems with this episode. Namely, robbing a little girl of her memories. I'm not buying your Prime Directive shtick this time, Picard. 

42- Q WHO?

-This is the episode wherein we meet the Borg and, more importantly, we learn that Q is afraid of Guinan.

43- SAMARITAN SNARE

-You are smart. You make our ship go.

44- UP THE LONG LADDER

-Worf and Pulaski share a little secret about Worf having a fainting spell. To repay Pulaski for keeping his secret, Worf brings the doctor a Klingon tea ceremony. This is a great scene. 

-Oh and also, the Enterprise cargo hold is totally full of basically Irish lads and lasses. 

45- MANHUNT

-Lwaxana is way into Picard. She beams onboard and makes the captain eat dinner with her.

-Most of the virile male staff end up hiding out in the holodeck until Lwaxana's crazy time is over. 

-She's so likable in this one. It really takes me back to when she was Christine Chapel. 

46- The Emissary

-Yay! It's K'Ehleyr.  (I had to look up how to spell her name. I'll go hang my head in shame.) 

-The Enterprise heads out to wake up a bunch of Klingons who've been asleep since wartime. It's too bad they don't have regular, non-turtle foreheads. That seems like a missed opportunity. 

-I love their solution to this one. So smart! I'll probably write about this "The Emissary" again. 

47- PEAK PERFORMANCE

-A wormy guy shows up and makes the Enterprise take part in war games to determine their efficiency in a battle scenario. 

-Pulaski gets Data to challenge the wormy guy to a game of strategema. This is a nice scene. She also tries to give him a pep-talk later. Nice, job doctor. 

Ok, that's it! I pretty much hit my weekly goal and, since things haven't been quite as crazy in my life lately, it wasn't too hard. Hopefully this week, I'll keep up this pace.  I still have a few episodes I'd like to write about from Season 2 before I move on. We'll see how it goes!