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I’ve been watching TNG for the first time and so far season 1 has been hit or miss. Ether a episode will be really good or really bad. So far I think episode 23 is a really good episode! I hope that Tasha isn’t actually dead. I liked her and thought she was a gorgeous woman! This is the one and only time I will ever want spoilers but is she fully dead or does she return?

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[–] bstix 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The following seasons are better with a few exceptions.

[–] theinspectorst@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Which exceptions? I honestly can't think of a weaker season of TNG than the first one.

[–] TrainsAreCool@lemmy.one 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

"Shades of Gray" is terrible as they ran out of money and strung together other episodes.

There's also the season 7 episode where Crusher has a....'relationship'....with a alien ghost thing which also did it with her grandma.

[–] theinspectorst@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago

Fair. Although I suppose my point was more that season 1 was weak, rather than that there weren't individual episodes that were worse than season 1. Sub Rosa is a terrible episode but season 7 as a whole is dramatically better than season 1 as a whole.

[–] ragnell@witches.live 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@theinspectorst @DarthonTV @bstix The only clip show in all of Star Trek history was at the end of TNG season 2.

[–] theinspectorst@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Fair point!

[–] bstix 1 points 2 years ago

I'm thinking in episodes. I dislike the ones where they just mess around on the holodeck.

[–] BasicTraveler@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago
[–] surak@friendica.gnomos.org 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

@DarthonTV Oh man... Let's just say this is not the last time you'll see that face.

[–] Hupf@feddit.de 5 points 2 years ago

So you see, that's where the trouble began.

That smile.

That damned smile.

[–] Chetzemoka@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

The actress returns. I'm not gonna tell you any more than that haha. It's a story arc I really liked actually.

And Season 1 is notoriously bad. The show was really struggling to figure out what it wanted to be. Season 2, like around episode 8 is where you start to get into the "holy crap this has no right to be this good" stuff.

[–] Shortcake@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 years ago

To keep it vague, many actors who liked working on Trek and who the show staff liked working with would often come back as either other characters or their popular characters via various means (time travel eps, dreams, etc). Tasha's actress does make several reappearances and Tasha's story does get some continuation/wrap-up story wise (to effect the character is not forgotten by the other characters or the writers after she dies), but the actress never rejoins the cast as a full-time regular.

[–] 14th_cylon@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I liked her and thought she was a gorgeous woman!

out of all generally accepted sentiments i don't get, this is the one i don't get most.

she basically never was there (which is why the actress left) and when she was, her acting was terrible. not really missing her.

[–] Maho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 years ago

her acting was terrible.

It's not like the rest of the cast were stellar (yet). The first season was pretty bad in general, I don't see her being that much worse.

[–] Prouvaire@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

@DarthonTV "Skin of Evil" gets a lot of flak for its dodgy special effects, but it's one of my favourite episodes in season 1 (along with "Coming of Age" and "The Big Goodbye"). I love the suddenness and senselessness of Tasha's death, the concept of a race that has cleaved its evil nature into a separate being which it then abandoned, and the holodeck farewell scene, especially the final shot. It's also a really good Troi episode. Lord knows she didn't get a lot of them, especially in the first season.

[–] kilgore@feddit.de 2 points 2 years ago

I've seen the series so many times and I still mourn Tasha! I was so happy to see her briefly for a moment in the last season of Picard.

[–] dustojnikhummer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I tried getting into TNG a few times but always end up skipping first season and a half

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