Season 2 (1988-1989) of Star Trek: The Next Generation is the only of the seven seasons of the series to contain only 22 hours/episodes of program, instead of the usual 26. It opens with episode The Child and concludes with episode Shades of Gray.
The rat analogies offered earlier by various members of the crew would seem t...
The Captain sees through Nagilum's masquerade. He asks the computer to locate...
Picard meets with his senior officers. They discus the predicament they are i...
On the bridge, fearing it might be a trick by Nagilum, the Captain waits to t...
Picard suggest that they destroy the enterprise as a means of stopping Nagilum.
The Captain exits the bridge. Riker steps forward, placing a hand on Wesley's...
Doctor Pulaski appreciates her position as she sits in conference with the sh...
Captain Picard looks out into space speaking to Nagilum at a distance, he's s...
Nagilum shares his analyses of our spices with the Captain.
The Captain and his Senior officer prepare to destroy the Enterprise in order...
Captain Picard and Nagilum exchange parting words. Nagilum vanishes from the ...
Captain Picard enters the bridge. Counselor Troi senses that he concerned for...
After his parting talk with Nagilum the Captain returns to the bridge.
After vanquishing their opponents in a holodeck exercise, Worf turns on Riker...
When considering and object in space of unknown origin and form, Data makes a...
Picard attempts to answer the same question that Nagilum wants answered.
Wesley's observation earns him a pat on the back from the Captain and approvi...
After putting forth two opposing philosophies, Picard puts forth his own.
The ship moves closer to the anomaly and stops. A few seconds latter a whoosh...
Riker compares their current situation to a time when humans thought the Eart...
Doctor Pulaski, enters the bridge. She asks Data to increase viewer magnifica...
A criminally under-worshipped film from the 1980s, Lost in America exists both as a comedic cautionary tale for all those who seek to embrace their inner Thoreau and the notion that well-fed boredom can be toppled by a mindless divorce from the swaddle cloth of society. Co-written, directed and starring Albert Brooks, Lost in America [...]
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Over the last few weeks, we’ve seen some large sea changes on Mad Men, so many changes that we seemed due for a break. Last night’s episode, “The Crash” was a break in more ways than one and an unanticipated jaunt through the back alleys of show creator Matthew Weiner’s mind. The Stalker We’ve never [...]
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We knew that changes would come when Don and Ted merged SCDP and CGC, but while this week’s episode did show off some of those anticipated growing pains and redundancies, we also got a chance to pivot back to Don’s consuming love affair with his neighbor Sylvia. The Treehouse. Like a shoebox filled with valuable [...]
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