I don't know. The whole dominion war thing was great but

not sure why, but even sans ending, i'm a defender of that episode. there was a real kitchy aspect to some of the dialogue that i liked, mud people aside…..

i sometimes find it's really intriguing to jump into something like that … I got into Venture Bros after watching some episode where i had NO IDEA what was going on, but you could tell it was very a very compelling and very fully fleshed out world.

not only did janeway look like a frump from turn of the century England, she fantasized about being a frump from slightly previous era England in the holodeck quite frequently.

what a weird thing to say.

explain, anon maybe-troll…..

yeah, maybe, i didn't catch this batch of eps either, so it could be.

ha ha ha yeah, see previous thread….

yeah, i admit it's a bit stuffy to think that people shouldn't ever mess with things like playing an inversion (which does make it less of a crime if true) but really you don't mess around with the classics of concert music.

I don't find Vash particularly grating. I thought she was an interesting match with Picard for a holiday romance. But could have done without the Vash/Q/DS9 one….

My fake chinese set of TNG disks has four episodes per disk and the last ten minutes of the last episode is always cut off. So i never knew that, e.g., at the end of that Lwaxana-alexander one that she gets naked in protest at the not-to-be wedding.

… she puts his flute to her lips while he fingers her keyboard?

Also, i like how the exchange perpetrates the notion that even amateur musicians have memorised the scores of major works and and can reference them at will.

maybe it was just a clumsy pick-up line? or a really excellently passive agressive way of being a total dick?

yeah, i don't know…. TNG doesn't do relationships that well in general. To me the 'friendships' are just nice people being nice to each other and in episodes like the series finale

i'm trying to think of an appropriate joke here about picard's 'flute'.

Does Picard ever really 'go full Kirk'
at any point in TNG?

ha, that would be awesome

I'd say that some of the best eps are stand-alones, and some of the best eps are part of a long story arch. It has less to do with either and more to do with the story being a good story.

it's not just his playfulness that seems teenagery - i mean, totally blanking her in the turbolift? what is he, like 14? It doesn't really jive with how picard's usually played.