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| Star Trek TNG - Masks by Arbit 05/01/2012, 2:12pm PDT | ||||
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| OK this episode was so fucking awful I wrote a little review and posted it to some dumb website. Why not post it here, I thought?
Just awful. Some "highlights": - Picard getting impatient and deciding to just melt the comet (!??!?) - Ancient civilization capable of creating a gigantic space temple many times the size of the enterprise living in fear of a sun god - The crew struggling to identify the crescent-shaped companion symbol of the sun symbol (perhaps... they are antlers?) - Alien communication device accidentally transmutes spaceship parts into crappy looking concrete blocks and random jungle foliage (I can see it causing power surges and other weird phenomenon, but what sort of communications tech screws up so bad it starts transmuting matter? Maybe I'll try to plug a USB flashdrive into an old PS2 port and see if my computer will transmute my couch into gold bricks) - Picard literally talking the sun god to sleep - Etc etc Maybe the worst part about this episode is it was a waste of a totally awesome premise. An ancient 87+ million year old comet/temple, traveling in deep space to nowhere, starts to interfere with the ship's systems, projecting strange runes on readouts and materializing strange totems everywhere! What sort of Cthulian interdimensional horror have the crew uncovered? The crew, belonging to an intergalactic hippie empire, immediately assume it's an ancient repository of information. "Yeah right" you think. "And the creators chucked into deep space where no one had any reasonable chance of finding it? Set course for INSANITY, warp ten billion!!!" No, it's really just an archive and it accidentally started projecting its boring sun/moon god mythology onto the ship. Literally the worst episode I've seen. It even beats the terrible clip rerun episode. That one you can rationalize and forgive as a low budget act of desperation. There's no such excuse for Masks. |
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Star Trek TNG - Masks by 05/01/2012, 2:12pm PDT  "Sounds like something from the 1st season" by 05/01/2012, 2:22pm PDT Oh yeah by 05/01/2012, 3:00pm PDT |
