Series: Star Trek: TNG
Episode: 5.15 Power Play (2/17/1992)
Rating: 5/5
Redshirt Status: 0/1/35
Notable Guest Stars:
This episode is largely a bottle episode, taking place mostly with actors already on the show (main and reoccuring) and on already built sets. All the notable guest stars for this episode are reoccuring guest stars, which I stop mentioning after an episode or two.
Review:
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Series: Star Trek: TNG
Episode: 5.14 Conundrum (2/10/1992)
Rating: 3.7/5
Redshirt Status: 0/1/35
Notable Guest Stars:
Erich Anderson (Kieran MacDuff) He is best known for his role on Friday the 13th: The Final chapter, but he has been a reoccuring actor on several TV shows.
Liz Vassey (Kristin) – She appeared for six seasons as Wendy Simms on CSI (the original).
Erick Weiss (Kane) – Weiss is a reoccuring member of the Star Trek acting pool. He appeared as Ensign/Crewman Kane twice in this season, and will appear in DS9
Review:
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Series: Star Trek: TNG
Episode: 5.13 The Masterpiece Society (2/3/1992)
Rating: 4/5
Redshirt Status: 0/1/35
Notable Guest Stars:
John Snyder (Aaron Conor) – Synder is a repeat actor on Star Trek. He originally was on the show as Bochra, a Romulan officer.
Ron Canada (Martin Benbeck)- Canada is often on screen as a member of law enforcement, such as he is here as Martin Benbeck. He started his career as a journalist and won awards for his work. He also appeared as West Wing as a Secretary of State.
Dey Young (Hannah Bates) Like Synder, Young is a repeat actress on Star Trek. This is the first of three appearances. She also appears on DS9 and Enterprise.
Review:
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Series: Star Trek: TNG
Episode: 5.11 Hero Worship (1/6/1992)
Rating: 3/5
Redshirt Status: 0/1/35
Notable Guest Stars:
It was hard to find any suitablely notable credits for the members of this cast. However several of the appear again in Star Trek or are character actors who play bit parts in many series. I’ll list the main cast.
Ben Lemon (Jev) – Lemon did not have an extensive Credits
David Sage (Tarmin)
Rick Fitts (Martin)
Eve Brenner (Inad)
Doug Wert (Jack Crusher)
Craig Benton (Crewman Davis)
CONTENT WARNING: CONTAINS REFERENCES TO RAPE
Review:
Continue reading “The Rewatch 186: Violations”
Series: Star Trek: TNG
Episode: 5.11 Hero Worship (1/6/1992)
Rating: 4/5
Redshirt Status: 0/1/35
Notable Guest Stars:
Joshua Harris (Timothy) – Harris is most known for his role as “Christopher Ewing” on Dallas prior to his appearance on Star Trek. He currently runs his own production company 4th Wall Entertainment.
Harley Venton (Hutchinson)- Venton worked on Guiding Light in the early eighties, but most of his recent work has been on the stage.
Review:
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Series: Star Trek: TNG
Episode: 5.9 A Matter of Time (11/18/1991)
Rating: 3/5
Redshirt Status: 0/1/35
Notable Guest Stars:
Matt Frewer (Berlinghoff Rasmussen)- Matt Frewer is probably best known as Max Headroom, but I know him best as Charlie, the lovable knight from Alice.
Stefan Gierasch (Hal Moseley) – Gierasch is a character actor who has appeared in many television series, including ER and Starsky & Hutch
Shelia Franklin (Felton)- Franklin does not have many credits to her name, but she is a reoccuring Ensign this season.
Review:
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Series: Star Trek: TNG
Episode: 5.7-8 Unification (11/04-11/11/1991)
Rating: 4/5
Redshirt Status: 0/1/35
Notable Guest Stars:
Leonard Nimoy (Spock) – Do I really need to explain Leonard Nimoy?
Mark Lenard (Sarek)- Lenard has played Sarek for three television series now.
Joanna Miles (Perrin)- Miles reappears as Perrin, Sarek’s second wife.
Denise Crosby (Sela)- Crosby’s back, back again…
Malachi Throne (Pardek)- Throne was a popular guest star on television through out his carrer. He appeared on Star Trek, Man from UNCLE, and The Fugitive. His first appearance in Star Trek was as Commodore Jose I. Mendez. He originally had done a voice of the Keeper, but they altered the voice when they decided to use him as the Commodore.
Stephen Root (K’Vada)- While he appears as a Klingon captain in this episode, you may recognize him as Milton from the 1990s film Office Space.
Norman Large (Neral)- It took me awhile to figure out why Neral looks so familiar, but after looking him up on IMDB, I realized Large has also played on Veronica Mars, and appeared on Star Trek Voyager, and another episode of TNG and a few episodes of DS9. He’ll be around again.
Review:
Continue reading “The Rewatch 181: Unification (Part 1 & 2)”
Series: Star Trek: TNG
Episode: 5.6 The Game (10/28/1991)
Rating: 4/5
Redshirt Status: 0/1/35
Notable Guest Stars:
Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) – He’s back ladies and gentlemen. And to save the day, although all he wanted to do was relax, and maybe have a nice date with the lady in engineering.
Ashley Judd (Robin Lefler) – Ashley Judd also returns for her second appearance as Robin, this time she gets to be running a project in Engineering as well as getting the attention of Wesley.
Patti Yasutake (Alyssa Ogawa) – Also a return. Since she is on here several times, I’m going to retire her from Guest Star and put her down as reoccuring.
Katherine Moffat (Etana Jol)- Moffat was a child actress, staring in early shows such as The Nancy Drew Mysteries, and later she worked on several television programs including TNG, DS9 and for non-star Trek appearances Dukes of Hazzard. Her last credits date from the late 1990s, so I am assuming she has retired or has kept to mostly stage work.
Review:
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Writer’s Note: You may notice that I skipped episode 178. Recently I lost my grandfather, and right now am not in the right kind of disposition to write a review of an episode about a woman who is grieving her son and uses Data as a way of still having him. One day I will write that review, so I left the number open. Instead, I have chosen for now to move on to episode I can emotionally handle. Without further ado…
Series: Star Trek: TNG
Episode: 5.5 Disaster (10/21/1991)
Rating: 4/5
Redshirt Status: 1/1/35
Notable Guest Stars:
Michelle Forbes (Ensign Ro Laren) – This is her second episode as Ms. Ro, and she continues to be a great character, although maybe a bit too antagonistic.
Jana Marie Hupp (Lt. Monroe) – Jana might be better recognized as Mindy Hunter-Farber on Friends.
Erika Flores (Marissa Flores)- Flores is probably mostly known for being Colleen Cooper during the first three seasons of Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman. Her most recent role was in 2009 on the show House. It appears that she has retired from acting at this time.
John Christian Graas (Jay Gordon Graas)- Like Flores, he seems to have retired from acting, but not before several television and film credits including Kindergarten Cop with Arnold Schwarzenegger. Also, like Flores, he appeared in Dr. Quinn, only as a guest star in 2 episodes named Charles. He currently (according to IMDB) a member of the Marine Corps.
Rosalind Chao (Keiko O’Brien) – This is her third appearance on TNG that I can remember. She continues to be a reoccurring character, so this is the last time I’ll mention her as a “Guest” star. But she’s awesome.
Review:
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Series: Star Trek: TNG
Episode: 5.3 Ensign Ro (10/7/1991)
Rating: 5/5
Redshirt Status: 0/0/34
Notable Guest Stars:
Michelle Forbes (Ensign Ro Laren) – This is Forbes second appearance on TNG. She originally appeared last season as the daughter of Timicin, but now has arrived at the character that will be her reoccuring character.
Scott Marlowe (Keeve Falor) – Marlowe is a classic actor whose credits start in the 1950s. He has appeared in many cult favorites, like Bonanza and Gunsmoke, as well as Daytime Soaps like Days of Our Lives.
Frank Collison (Dolak)- The Cardassian Commander might be more familiarly seen in Doctor Quinn, Medicine Woman as Horace Bing. I actually had to figure out where he was in the episode because the makeup did a pretty good job.
Cliff Potts (Admiral Kennelly)- Potts may be found outside Star Trek in the films Silent Running and Little Women, so you can tell he’s not afraid to switch genres around a bit.
Jefferey Hayenga (Orta)- It was hard to find information on this actor, but he did appear in one of my least favorite movies, Prince of Pennsylvania. If you ever want to see a great cast appear in a horrible film, watch that movie. It also has Keanu Reeves and Fred Ward. He will appear on StarTrek again both as Orta (DS9) and Dr.Yuris (ENT)
Review:
Continue reading “The Rewatch 177: Ensign Ro”
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