“The Perfect Mate” (Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5, Episode 21), is infamous for two things: Famke Janssen guest stars as a powerful psychic mutant almost a decade before doing it in that other franchise, but also, less positively,…
Remember dead zones? Once upon a time, in any manner of environs, your service would, seemingly at random, completely disappear. You’d be going about your business, chatting with an in-network friend, someone in your Top 5 perhaps, about a recently…
On the surface, the season three TNG episode entitled “The Enemy,” is clearly an allegory of Cold War era Soviet-US American diplomacy. The overarching plot is about an attempt to prevent war between the Federation and the Romulans, and Captain…