TNG S05E20

In this installment:
(viewed August 27th, 2013)

Star Trek:  The Next Generation, S05E20 - "The Cost Of Living"

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"The Cost Of Living"

• I wonder if Lt. Worf considers asteroids to be worthy opponents?
• "You suggest bribery."
  
  Welcome to parenthood, Worf.
• "What would you like your father to promise, Alexander?"
  
  "No yelling."
  
  Yeah.  Good luck with that.
• "I will not have that woman continue to use this ship for her convenience simply because her daughter happens to be one of my officers."
  
  Yeah, we've all had that thought for a couple of seasons now, Captain.
• "Nothing would please me more than to 'give away' Mrs. Troi."
• If the holodeck program Mrs. Troi runs for Alexander (the "Parallax colony") is a real place?  Then I'm sorry the Dominion didn't win the war.
• "You're telling me you're not going to be naked at your own wedding?"
• Malfunctioning replicators:  That's how it always starts.
• There's a moment in this episode, when Lwaxana is talking to Alexander, that is really genuine and nice and makes me not hate the character for a minute.  I think it's proof that my dislike of the Lwaxana Troi character was rooted in how she was usually written, not in the performance of Majel Barret--of whom I was actually quite fond.
• ...but those black Betazoid eyes still creep me the f**k out.
• "When we opened the panel, we discovered that the interface had been transformed into a gelatinous material that we haven't been able to identify."
  
  {insert joke here about Riker pooping all over the ship, a la the Phantom Sh*tter in Flight Of The Intruder}
• "If a living organism ingested the nitrium..."
  
  "...this residue would be the waste left behind."
  
  I TOLD YOU IT WAS POOP.
• "Now just sit down and eat."
  
  See?  Even Klingon fathers can appreciate the frustration of trying to get a child to just eat something so they won't die.  Louis CK would be proud.
  
  
  (warning:  Contains profanity)
  
  
  
  "You'll die you idiot!  Eat the food!"
• Picard gets stuck in kind of a lot of elevators.
• The mud bath at the end of this episode (wherein Alexander, mother and daughter Troi and Worf are all nude) is sort of unpleasantly pornographic D: