Saturday, 6 October 2018

#TNGWatch #S01E26 #TheNeutralZone

The last episode of the first season! Finally! Also, will we finally see some Romulans? Maybe!

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Haha! Worf just walked into a door that he assumed would open for him automatically.

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Gul Dukat is in this episode! I mean, not Gul Dukat, but Marc Alaimo, the actor that plays Gul Dukat in DS9. He’s a cryogenic survivor from the 20th century and wants to read a copy of The Wall Street Journal. Adorable.

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I was wrong! Gul Dukat is a Romulan commander, not a 20th century obnoxious human!

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This was a pretty meh episode to end a season on. Don’t get me wrong, the Romulans saying, “We are back,” is a pretty good end-of-season stinger (delivered by Gul Dukat cosplaying a Romulan, no less), but they only showed up at the very end (though at least this Neutral Zone episode wasn’t a tease like the the last one was). This episode was mostly about the cryogenically frozen 20th century American humans and their hilarious misunderstanding of how things work now. It felt like an undercover Very Special Episode about how we’re too materialistic. Still, better than most season 1 episodes.

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