Star Trek: TNG 4x26 Full Reaction!
Added 2025-10-11 17:00:12 +0000 UTC
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That was a great handful of WTFs in response to the ending, yes. There’re quite a few episodes in the next season that I’m greatly looking forward to seeing and hearing Jess’s thoughts on them. Hard to believe we’re now past the midway point and are onto the latter half of the series. There is a touch of the the Weeping Angels in the thumbnail now you mention it.
Thomas Corp
2025-10-11 21:15:02 +0000 UTCLoved this season finale reaction, Jess. An emotional end to a pretty strong season. Your reaction to the shock cliffhanger was great. I counted 5 WTFs to that ending. I'm looking forward to watching your journey through season 5. Crazy to think we only have 3 more seasons of TNG reactions left. Getting a slight Weeping Angel vibe from the thumbnail for this reaction.
Geordie Joe
2025-10-11 21:05:59 +0000 UTCThis is one of those two-parters that are relatively standalone on both sides, where part one is rather neatly resolved, then they drop something on you as a hook for part two. More on that in a second. Moore’s love for these political plots shines rather strongly here. Very much appeals to Jess with her love for those types of plotlines, I’m in the same boat. This one does the good demonstration of the realistic outcome that even our heroes can only do so much, which is rather groundbreaking in the era of television that this is from. Yeah, Worf has had such strong focus this season, like I said, I sort of view The Drumhead as a Worf episode, and my favorite Worf episode at that as his was the more pronounced arc in that one. That episode, and the others pushing us to the moment of resignation, that yes, though perhaps not as nail biting as the suspense of was it the end for Picard last season, there was still the genuine question of whether this would be it for Worf on this show way back when it premiered. (Curious what would be the Klingon equivalent of a teddy bear left on Hawkeye’s cot in this scenario?) That honor guard scene surely packed the punch, and you knew Jess would react to it as she did. Really do need to refresh my memory, Voyager-wise. The Duras sisters are less blatantly a retcon that Weems is a distant relative of the Addams family. (Much though more Gwendoline was nice.) And though they don’t have as iconic a status as siblings introduced later via retcon like Simon Gruber is, they do some good work here. And good notes on the cleavage windows in their outfits. Heard Moore regretted the one line, and he corrected it later. The Duras sisters do have a bit of Zemo to them, true. And now we have the answer as to why Mary, the shadowy mystery Romulan evaded justice. (And the wrath of Jess, for now.) Love that Denise had such a good time with Yesterday’s Enterprise that she came up with this. We’ll reserve discussion on this development for later, though I will say that I can only imagine thirty-four years ago, the response from the audience of having that Biff response of, “What the hell is going on here?”, and that it probably was hell for people waiting in the months leading up to the premiere to see the resolution.
Thomas Corp
2025-10-11 19:08:23 +0000 UTCI actually had no idea which way you'd go on when to watch the Season 5 premiere, since as you've seen, while this is technically a two-parter, it's more in the vein of Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning where the immediate story has been dealt with and there's no real cliffhanger like "Mr. Worf, fire," and it just happens that there's more of the story to be told after that, plus the very final shot that just leaves you thinking "What the fuck is going on?" Ron Moore loved digging into these kinds of political intrigue stories from the start, and this one goes further than ever with how much it forces Picard and Worf to reckon with how no matter how clearly they're the good guys against the bad guys in this situation, there's still severe limits on how much they can do in that fight. And it's especially neat to see from this era of TV, which mostly did just come down to "I'm the hero so everything I do is automatically right." It also makes you realize just how much Worf has been the central figure of this season, all of it deliberately designed to push him to that pivotal moment of resigning from Starfleet, which I imagine hit even harder at the time when people really didn't know if this would be it for him on the show. I knew that would get you hard, and even more his honor march off the ship, which is marred only slightly by the same thing later being done for fucking Neelix. I'll give Lursa and B'Etor the best compliment I can, that they immediately worked so well that I never once minded how much of an obvious retcon their very existence is. Even the boob windows that everyone rolled their eyes at even back then work here as they're clearly deliberately using it to throw the room full of dudes off-balance. That's the downside of only letting men in government, something Moore quickly came to regret establishing so in Deep Space Nine he introduced that women have absolute power over their households. Even within their first episode, they clearly have much more potential staying power than Duras ever did, with depths beyond just being pure evil that you imagine could lead to a Zemo situation where they'd be perfectly willing to work with the Federation if their goals aligned. And then there's that ending, where returning like this was actually Denise Crosby's own idea that she approached the crew with after she enjoyed doing Yesterday's Enterprise so much. And now you see why those Romulans didn't get any comeuppance last time; there's much more in mind for them. Of course, I can't say anything more at the moment, but just like the end of last season I very much remember this had everyone talking the next day about what it could possibly mean, despite not watching the show at all.
Ryan
2025-10-11 18:40:12 +0000 UTC
