TNG S04E19, S04E20

In this installment:
(viewed July 9th, 2013)

Star Trek:  The Next Generation, S04E19 - "The Nth Degree"
Star Trek:  The Next Generation, S04E20 - "Qpid"

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"The Nth Degree"

• Why are all of the creative pursuits of 24th Century humans boring classical tripe*?  Theater, string quartets, paintings...why isn't their a single Led Zeppelin cover band on board a ship with a crew of over a thousand?  :P
  
  (* - I clearly don't think the classics are actually "tripe", but I do find the absence of popular, contemporary art in the lives of future humans interesting.  I know why they did it--to avoid dating the show.  But it still seems awkward at times.  I actually thought the inclusion of a contemporary musical group like the Beastie Boys on the soundtracks for the two new alternate reality movies to be a fun acknowledgement that some of this crazy popular music we listen to today might survive into the 23rd/24th Centuries.)
• Lt. Barclay?  Yeah, Lt. Commander Data thinks YOU SUCK.
• This is why we don't just run around whacking things with positrons, Geordi.
• Just because you're a super-genius now doesn't mean Troi wants to talk a walk with you, dude.  You're still a creeper.
• "Tie both consoles into the Enterprise main computer core utilizing neural scan interface."
  
  "There is no such device on file."
  
  "No problem.  Here's how you build it."
• "Mr. Barclay, are you responsible for this graviton field disturbance?"
  
  "Yes, sir.  I'm altering subspace in a way that's never been conceived of before."
  
  Oh, well.  That should be fine.
• "In fact, I could really use help with that level 3 diagnostic."
  
  "Sure."
  
  "Excuse me, Commander.  But I believe Mr. Barclay and I had a date scheduled."
  
  Uh, Geordi is his boss.  If he says he's gotta work, he's gotta work.

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"Qpid"

• Captain Picard loves his archeology.  We get it.
• Hey kids, it's Vash!
• I kind of like Dr. Crusher's blue sweater.  Does that make me weird?
  
  
  
  
  Also, I think she's a little jealous.
• Ha!  And of course Commander Riker comes creeping.  Him getting shot down by Vash in this episode is one of the highlights of the season :)
• And I need to hear this Riker impersonation that Picard does.  For reals.
• "Is this wear Jean-Luc sits?"
  
  "That's the big chair."
  
  ...and we don't really let people just curl up in it, lady.
• Hey kids, it's Q!
• "Don't just stand there, say something!"
  
  "GET OUT OF MY CHAIR."
• "I've just been paid a visit by Q."
  
  "Q?  Any idea what he's up to?
  
  "He wants to do something nice for me."
  
  "I'll alert the crew."
• I don't think Worf likes lute music.
  
  
  
• And I don't think Troi is going to win any archery contests.
• I object to the fact that they wouldn't let Troi and Crusher have swords.
• "There's something you should know."
  
  You're not left-handed?
  
  
  
  
• A love story between Picard and Vash?  Boooooring.
  
  Dress it up like Robin Hood?  Whee!