TNG S05E04, S05E05

In this installment:
(viewed Wednesday, August 7th)

Star Trek:  The Next Generation, S05E04 - "Silicon Avatar"
Star Trek:  The Next Generation, S05E05 - "Disaster"

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"Silicon Avatar"

• "I've got to tell you, this is a beautiful place to put down roots."
  
  You know, except for the giant crystalline killing machine in the sky.
• Oh, hell no.  Don't kill Riker's new girlfriend.  That's a great way to make enemies.  Big, bearded, barely-literate enemies.
• "Ensign, increase to Warp 8."
  
  Uh, you know this tug will do like..Warp 9+ in an emergency, right?  A violent atmospheric disturbance on a planet hosting senior members of your crew and a buttload of colonists counts, I would think.
• "Increase to Warp 9."
  
  There you go.  That's better.
• Bitrius Filament:  The name of the album my Afro-Celtic-Lounge-Funk-Metal band, The Fissles of Häng, will record with orchestral accompaniment (S&M-style).
• "You can't feel anything, can you?"
  
  Someone didn't read the white paper on Soong-type androids, did they?
• This is one of many occasions on which Star Trek borrows from Moby-Dick.  In this case, Kila Marr is our Captain Ahab.
• Eugh, I hate it when Data talks in someone else's voice.  So creepy.
• "I believe your son would be very sad now."
  
  Ouch.

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"Disaster"

• Every time the crew is getting ready to "relax" for a while?  FRIGGIN' CHAOS.
• And Dr. Crusher needs to stop trying to get people to sing and dance.
• Picard + Children = Hilarity
• "I planted radishes in this special dirt, and they came up all weird."
• Quantum filaments are nothing but trouble, I tell you.
• Trapped on the bridge with Chief O'Brien and Counselor Troi?  Congratulations!  You're goign to get the pleasure of observing the two extreme ends of Starfleet's competency spectrum.
• The kid who keep saying they're going to die?  He's my favorite.  He should start the Enterprise-D's first goth band.
• "I'm not really familiar with that protocol."
  
  Yeah, we know Deanna.
• "I believe Counselor Troi is the senior officer on the deck."
  
  "Counselor Troi?"
  
  "She carries the rank of lieutenant commander."
  
  Well, crap.
• "Executive Officer in Charge of Radishes"
  
  Picard didn't make that title up to humor that little kid.  That's Counselor Troi's real title.
• Lt. Commander Data:  Always ready to take one for the team.  Even if it means stepping into a plasma stream and then removing his head.
• The bad news is that you're trapped in an elevator with Captain Picard.  The good news is that your trapped in an elevator with Captain Picard.
• "There will be a sharp pain as I set the bone.  Prepare yourself."
  
  Dr. Worf, Medicine Klingon
• Damn you, Keiko!  Why must you needlessly complicate everything?!?
• As much as I usually loathe Counselor Troi and generally enjoy Ensign Ro, the former does a great job of putting the latter in her place in this episode.
• So, Worf has seen Keiko's vagina.  I wonder if that ever comes up when he and O'Brien are in the trenches together during the Dominion War.
• "You were wonderful, Worf.  I couldn't have done it without you."
  
  Something no one else ever says to Worf again, ever.
• "You just can't stay away from the big chair, can you?"
  
  "I don't think I'm cut out to be captain.  First officer, maybe.  I understand there aren't many qualifications."
  
  I don't often like Counselor Troi, but when I am it's usually because she's making fun of Commander Riker.