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Adventure Time: Dream of Love (2012)
Boring and Unnecessary
I find Tree Trunks to be pretty grating in general, and this ep is probably one of her worst. Something about the combination of the old grandma voice; a character who's only motivations are to find love, produce apple pie, and be a damsel in distress; and a character design that looks kinda... wrinkly? Just doesn't work for me.
Really one-note plot, with a pretty baffling premise (why did they think an episode about everyone being bothered by a pig and an elephant making out in front of them was a good idea?). There is no B plots or distractions from this central premise, that's reslly all there is to the episode. Also fun fact, the actor who played Tree Trunks was 82 when this aired.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Visitor (1995)
Astounding...
A jake sisko episode that doesn't suck?! I get everyone's surprise, but 9's and 10's across the board is a bit much.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Blood Oath (1994)
Sure Dax, go on a killing spree with your klingon friends with no repercussions
Definitely one of the worse episodes of this season. Between dax's perplexing decision to go help a bunch of random klingons she knew 80 years ago (who don't even want her help) kill people, and sisko's abrupt indifference to dax's decision to go help kill people, it feels very inconsistent with the general tone of the series. Also, what is with the frequent decisions to make enemies who seem to know everything when you first hear about them, and then who are totally useless when actually encountered? I mean, i get the writers want to build tension and also make a resolveable situation, but it always feels lazy and unconvincing. It makes it feel less special when there's an enemy the audience actually SHOULD be intimidated by. The albino knows every single thing dax's geriatric klingon friends try to do until they actually arrive and he is in legitimate danger, at which point he suddenly becomes incompetent and idiotic. Sorry. Not well written.
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Darmok (1991)
THIS is Star Trek
I love this episode. This is what Star Trek is all about. Two races so alien to each other they can't even begin to understand how the other communicates, find connection. It's hard to describe why this episode is so cool. To me, it just creates such a feeling of hopefulness despite hardship, a testament to the ability and willingness of beings to overcome. Really excellent.
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Drumhead (1991)
Incredibly contrived witch hunt
The plot of this episode is tenuous at best. A Klingon comes on board who turns out to be a romulan spy and there is coincidentally an explosion in engineering around the same time. Those in close contact with the spy are questioned by a visiting admiral, including a medical technician who is determined to have lied on during his inquiry about his romulan ancestry based as discovered by a betazoid's intuition. Fine, so far so good. But surely, if betazoid instinct is going to be admissable evidence, or at least grounds for further investigation, they could make use of it to easily determine whether the technician, once exposed for his original lie, was lying about anything else or not. Instead the "highly skilled and logical" prosecuting admiral decides that the best course of action is not to do this, but to question the technician without giving him any chance to respond, to look into the technician's background and put... Captain Picard on trial? What?! This makes no sense within the plot. Under no circumstance would a highly regarded captain with countless commendations suddenly be treated as highly suspicious for objecting to further inquiries of his crew. The trial is dropped when the prosecuting admiral has an emotional outburst about Picard's quoting her father, which reveals her unjustified conviction about Picard's guilt. I suppose the conclusion is that sometimes prosecutors become unfairly convinced of people's guilt. Agreed. But the plot of this episode is very forced and any weight it's anti-inquisition message might have can't stand atop the crumbling foundation.
The acting, cinematography, and music are all very standard for star trek, which is to say, pretty good, but the plot and the emotional core of the episode are not.
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Wounded (1991)
Really good, until it isn't
This episode is excellent. Picard learns of a federation ship attacking a former federation enemy, the kardashians, who he has been sent to negotiate with, so he takes some on board to witness his good faith efforts to prevent the rogue ship from attacking further. The captain hates the kardashians (understandable) and decides he wants to kill them (not understandable). Classic star trek setup: good acting, strong, resonant messages, just all around great. But then it falls flat on its face.
Picard, an intelligent, reasonable, peaceful man, after catching the rogue ship, convinces the captain to turn around and go home and then LETS HIM TAKE BACK CONTROL OF HIS SHIP WITH NO SAFEGUARDS OR ANY WAY TO PREVENT HIM FROM TRYING TO DO THE SAME THING HE HAS BEEN DOING. He lets someone, who is essentially acting as a foreign terrorist, hold on to all his weapons with only an order to stop using them. Stupid doesn't begin to describe it. Lost all respect for the episode there. It is retroactively justified by the fact that Picard learns that the kardashians were preparing for war. Cool, whatever, doesn't come close to justifying maxwell's actions. What captain would ever be treated with so much nonchalance after killing hundreds of non combatants, directly defying orders? The classic star trek moral message is completely botched.
If you want my suggestion, watch it for the first thirty min then turn it off and make up a better ending in your head.
Also might i just add the kardashians may have taken their plastic surgery a bit too far...
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Data's Day (1991)
Hard not to like a Data episode
No intense moral conundrums or highly involved technobabble in this one, but it's a good star trek episode nonetheless. Maybe I just have a soft spot for fish-out-of-water type characters, but seeing Data's reactions to human situations is always fun. B plot makes sense and holds your attention well enough. Any character development Data experiences is somewhat minor, but that seems to be his mo for a lot of the series, and it's reasonable. There are a couple contrivances (Data is a close friend of some woman, and she needs specifically HIS help to tell her fiancée to cancel the wedding?) but if you can turn up your suspension of disbelief meter a bit, it's one of the more entertaining episodes.
The Twilight Zone: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet (1963)
Astoundingly Overrated
Forget it has William Shatner. Forget it's directed by Robert Donner. It's not a good episode. Sure, Shatner is convincing, but not captivating enough to make you overlook the tedious one-note plot, the goofy looking monster that wrecks any potential horror, or the lazy, predictable plot twist that crushes any hope of believability. The twilight zone is awesome because it thinks up so many inventive, compelling concepts. The concept of "man tries to convince others there's a monster no one else can see" is not one of them. Of all the incredible twilight zone episodes, it's a real shame this one gets so much attention.