TNG S01E07, S01E08

The original uniforms for the employees of Disney's
EPCOT had to be...adjusted slightly.

In this installment:
(viewed Saturday, May 11th)

Star Trek: The Next Generation, S01E07 - "Justice"
Star Trek: The Next Generation, S01E08 - "The Battle"

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"Justice"

• I think this is the one with the half-naked people who want to kill Wesley, right?  Right.
• The scene where Riker, Troi, Yar, Worf and Wesley beam down, and the Edo greet them with creepy/sexy hugs?  Unbearably awesome and terrible at the same time.  And then Rivan goes over to Wes and is all "Oh, you're young.  No sexy hugs for you!"  Womp womp.
• Flowers?  Sunshine?  Running everywhere?  Look, I don't care how sexy the people are...Rubicun III sucks.
• Picard's "Why does everything become a 'something' or a 'whatever'?" is very reminiscent of McCoy's "Why is any object we don't understand always called a 'thing'?" from Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
• Damn it, Wesley.  THOSE WERE BRAND NEW FLOWERS.
• "Why are they so certain it's a god?"
  "Any sufficiently advanced lifeform would appear to others to be that, sir."
  
  An excellent restating of the third of the so-called "Clarke's Laws".

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"The Battle"

• This episode is the first time we see DaiMon Bok, who will show up again in "Bloodlines".
• Apparently there are no headaches in the 24th Century.  I could definitely go for that.
• It's also our first glimpse at the Constellation class, in the form of USS Stargazer, Picard's first command.  The ship was originally supposed to be a Constitution-class starship (in fact, a line of dialog was overdubbed after the model was built).  This chunky little class of starship, characterized as a sort of exploratory workhorse, is oddly one of my favorite Federation starship designs--probably owing to its shared lineage with designs like the Constitution refit and the Miranda.
• Yay, Picard Maneuver!
• "I don't want a computer science lesson, Data!" <-- Apparently the concept of a checksum doesn't make it into the computer classes taught in command track at Starfleet Academy :P
• "You're welcome ladies...adults."  You so smooth, Wesley.