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Star Trek: The Next Generation - S03E04 - Who Watches the Watchers

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After not working on this very important study for nearly two months I feel like I should try to keep my momentum going and examine another data point in my ongoing work in the field of Star Trek fuckology. Today we're taking an in depth look at the fourth episode of season three, Who Watches the Watchers. Pre-Existing Prejudices I think this is the one where the crew of the Enterprise ends up accidentally revealing themselves to cave Romulans with hilarious consequences (ie Picard getting revered as a deity and someone else almost getting sacrificed to curry favor with him). Don't remember if Riker With Beard engages is dickplomacy in this episode but I think it's not a terrible episode of a non-serialized sci-fi show from the late 80s either way. Plot Synopsis The episode begins with the Enterprise haulin' ass to a planet called Mintaka III in order to resupply a three person anthropological team studying the local inhabitants and repair the outpost's broken react

Star Trek: The Next Generation - S03E03 - The Survivors

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It's been a hot minute since I've ventured down to the laboratory to work on my scientific experiments into which Star Trek character fucked the most. I don't have a particularly good reason except for the fact that I've been biking home from work which eliminated a 40 minute chunk of commuting on a train that was the primary time I'd watch episodes of a 30 year old science fiction show on my telephone. I suppose I could have been watching them after I got home but for whatever reason I didn't until now. Will I continue to do so beyond this very review? Maybe. Who knows what the future holds? Maybe I'll go back to only watching old wrestling shows on YouTube and baseball documentaries on Netflix or maybe I'll buy a new video game and play that at night instead. 🤷 For today though we've got a review. This episode is the third episode of the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation and it's called "The Survivors." Pre-Existing Prej