TNG S01E03, S01E04, S01E05

In this installment:
(viewed Tuesday, May 7th & Wednesday, May 8th)

Star Trek: The Next Generation, S01E03 - "Code of Honor"
Star Trek: The Next Generation, S01E04 - "The Last Outpost"
Star Trek: The Next Generation, S01E05 - "Where No One Has Gone Before"

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"Code of Honor"

• On tonight's episode of Socially-Backward Brown People Kidnap the Pretty White Lady...
• You let Wesley Crusher on your bridge one time, and he'll never leave.
• In which Data and La Forge talk about shaving and humanity.
  

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"The Last Outpost"

• Our first look at the Ferengi, and their "D'Kora"-class starship.
• Data's description of the Ferengi as "the worst kind of capitalists" sets the tone for how they shape up over the course of TNG and DS9, although it takes some time for a full picture of their culture to emerge (as with all alien species introduced throughout the history of Star Trek).  Other Ferengi cultural traits that gets introduced early is their revulsion at the physical appearance of human beings and their disgust at clothed females.
• "Yankee Trader."
  "He heard that!"
• I think I had a Playmates action figure of one of these Ferengi d-bags with the energy whips.
• One of the Ferengi who beam down to the planet's surface is played by Armin Shimmerman, who we better know and love as that most famous Ferengi, Quark.
• I completely forgot the end of this episode, with the guardian dude from the TKon Empire showing up.

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"Where No One Has Gone Before"

• The footage of USS Fearless at the beginning of this episode is a re-use of the footage of the Excelsior-class USS Hood from "Encounter at Fairpoint".
• This is, famously, our first encounter with the Traveler.
• The only thing more annoying than Wesley is when Commander Caveman dismisses Wesley's concerns out-of-hand :P
• Tasha really ought to be in therapy.
• And this, of course, is the episode where Wesley becomes a provisional officer aboard the Enterprise (in his case, an "acting ensign").