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Star Trek: The Next Generation Re-Watch: “Samaritan Snare”

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– October 11, 2012 8:00 amPosted in: TNG Re-Watch

“Samaritan Snare”
Written by Robert L. McCullough
Directed by Les Landau

Season 2, Episode 17
Original air date: May 15, 1989
Star date: 42779.1

Mission summary

It’s Starfleet exam time again for Ensign Wesley Crusher. While Enterprise looks at some stars, he’s going to take a shuttlecraft to Starbase 515 to justify his existence on the Bridge crew. But the boy gets quite a shock when Captain Picard announces he’s tagging along. Everyone’s curious about his mysterious personal business, but he plays it close to his chest. Anyway, road trip! (Er… star trek?)

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Tags: bluffing, dumbest plot ever, geordi has a really bad day, heart transplant, sandwiches, the tao of picard, troi earns her paycheck, wesley and picard are BFFs, worf shut down

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Star Trek: The Next Generation Re-Watch: “The Last Outpost”

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– December 22, 2011 8:00 amPosted in: TNG Re-Watch

“The Last Outpost”
Written by Herbert Wright
Story by Richard Krzemian
Directed by Richard Colla

Season 1, Episode 5
Original air date: October 19, 1987
Star date: 41386.4

Mission summary

Enterprise pursues a Ferengi starship to recover a stolen T9 energy converter, with the hope that they will also be able to establish first contact with the mysterious race of space traders. Things are off to a rocky start when they face off in the unexplored Delphi Ardu system and the Ferengi open fire on them.

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Tags: abandoned civilization, bluffing, diplomacy, everyone loves riker, ferengi, forcefields, fully clothed man-wrestling, geordi's a dork, godlike powers, hew-mans, it's a trap, life support, losing power, merchants in space, picard is french, portal, rip van winkle

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