🖖Star Trek TNG S06E14 Full Length Reaction
Added 2025-02-01 02:30:49 +0000 UTCS06E14 Face of the Enemy
Face of the Enemy-- literally Troi gets a face swap and then steps up her bossiness game to 100! I loved to see it! And it was cool to see things from a (freakin) Romulan perspective. Engage! 🖖
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The guy who played N'Vek also played Tosk on DS9 Captive Pursuit.
Paul Sophocleous
2025-03-17 23:51:08 +0000 UTCI watched both TNG and DS9 in its original airings. I’m glad she is doing it that way.
Bobby Coolbreeze
2025-02-25 02:17:07 +0000 UTCMaybe after Schisms and Chain of command Worf delayed trimming his hair
Harmony through Time
2025-02-08 10:54:58 +0000 UTCSure, but that's in part because that was information viewers had at the time from the wider publicity around the new show. It's not actually addressed on screen in TNG when he leaves, so if that's someone's only source of information, they wouldn't know. That's not critical to the plot, especially when it comes to a recurring character who doesn't appear in a lot of episodes anyway, but there are a few things like that every now and then where knowing what's going on in the other series would add some extra context. Both series can absolutely be enjoyed separately without those minor details, but either way, I'm happy to get a mix and not rush to the end of either one, so to me it's a minor added benefit with no real drawbacks.
Derek Hagen
2025-02-05 06:55:21 +0000 UTCI didn't watch DS9 until years after it was finished, but I watched TNG as it was released and multiple times over. I promise you, I didn't miss anything. Chief O'Brien wasn't there anymore, I knew why. It didn't change my enjoyment of TNG, and it didn't affect my eventual DS9 watch.
Jon Hoover
2025-02-05 02:18:20 +0000 UTCI'm glad Jen is doing it this way, as it's the order that people watched them in the first place and for the things that do cross over, it lets her experience them in something resembling the original context. Both shows can stand alone, but for things that do cross over - Chief O'Brien suddenly not being on the Enterprise anymore because he transferred to DS9, for an easy non-spoilerish example - some things would make more sense watching them in the order they aired.
Derek Hagen
2025-02-05 02:13:09 +0000 UTCYeah, I'm not crazy about the simultaneous watching either. This is my first time doing a full watch through of TNG and I was eager to finish and start the movies. Plus, I'm sure the people that are here just for DS9 want her to get through those faster too. As far as I can tell, it doesn't really add anything to the experience by going back and forth between them.
Joe Blankenship
2025-02-03 03:26:14 +0000 UTCGood ep! (Freakin') good reaction. 💜
Jason Scade
2025-02-03 01:30:13 +0000 UTCI like that actress who plays the Romulan Commander. She's got a distinctive look. I just saw her in Mr. Mom when rewatching that movie. Cool episode! Worf's ponytail! Great Troi adventure.
Banes
2025-02-02 03:29:07 +0000 UTCYes
Anthony Picard
2025-02-02 03:04:00 +0000 UTCAlso, Im pretty sure she played the Romulan sub-commander in Season 2 episode “contagion” but her name there was Taris
Anthony Picard
2025-02-02 03:02:47 +0000 UTCI came here to say this lol
Paul Sophocleous
2025-02-01 23:49:45 +0000 UTCthe guest star has played other roles in star trek, she played the scientist in the episode first contact and I think another episode that at the moment escapes me.
Brian Sartini
2025-02-01 18:45:30 +0000 UTCThe Tal Shiar vs military conflict is the same conflict of philosophies of governance and strategy that we saw on The Great Escape between the Luftwaffe guards and the Gestapo, or as in Valkyrie between the SS and the Wehrmacht.
SnabbKassa
2025-02-01 18:28:35 +0000 UTCIt's the pointy ears and her attitude maybe lol
Clyde Frog
2025-02-01 17:51:55 +0000 UTCA very different type of episode, but I love this. Marina actually gets to have some opportunities to act here, and she did great. Carolyn Seymour, the Romulan Commander, was also good. You may remember her as Marasta Yale in Season 4's First Contact. I have always felt that they started pulling out the stops once DS9 started, coming up with stranger and stranger stories, but many of them compelling and showing the cast in different situations than we have seen. Good stuff coming.
Damon Corrigan
2025-02-01 15:41:31 +0000 UTCDoes anybody else think that Marina Sirtis and the guest star playing the Romulan Commander were both amazing in this episode?
Thegonagle
2025-02-01 05:51:28 +0000 UTCI'll be completely honest, I love the DS9 reactions, but I'm also the tiniest bit resentful that it's taking us longer to get through TNG. We've got some key episodes coming up. I don't want Jen to get burnt out. I'm not suggesting more episodes. I wish I could have my cake and eat it too, but I know it's not going to happen of course.
Jon Hoover
2025-02-01 05:29:18 +0000 UTCYes, we finally get to Worf's ponytail. They should have given him a ponytail from the beginning. So much better.
Jon Hoover
2025-02-01 05:26:08 +0000 UTCFace of the Energy is an episode that I learnt to appreciate far more with age for the obvious political satire of the Cold War and Soviet Union respectively. I'm going to get political here, but I'll only be talking about the board historical parallels the episode employs with a bit of background context. If we go all the way back to Star Trek TOS, many people, including actor Michael Dorn who played Worf, have stated that the Klingons were the stand in for the Soviet Union with a few episodes having a Cold War theme regarding the 2 galactic empires striving for dominance. The weakness of course in the allegory was the little we knew about the Klingon Empire in TOS painted them as having nothing in common with the Soviet Union with regards to it's political structures or overriding state ideology which undermined a deeper exploration of the could war beyond a crude anti-war and anti-militarism. The film Star Trek: The Undiscovered Country was able to incorporate many real world political developments with the at the time seeming opening up of the USSR towards the US, the disaster on the Klingon moon of Praxis being a stand in for the Chernobyl nuclear meltdown with the Klingon Chancellor Gorkon being presented as a Gorbachev like figure, or at least the Western perception of him at that time. With the decision to start the TNG era with The Klingon and Federation alliance already firmly established, building on the themes of hope and optimism that the once long standing enemies of the Federation are now at peace, another race was needed to continue to tell Cold Ear stories that were still very politically relevant when TNG started in the 80's. The Romulans were then chosen to fill this roll were quickly fleshed out with new lore in TNG to make them being about deception and subterfuge, making them a much better fir for the cloak and dagger political intrigue of the could war with this episode making the highlight where very conscious comparisons are made. We have the return of the defector Stefan DeSeve who is shown to have defected to the Romulans in his youth for ideological reasons than he now looks back on as naive and misguided. This mirrors the small number of spies or defectors to the USSR or other states in the Soviet bloc from the West during the cold war, the majority of them radicalised at University where they too found their ideology compelling. The far bigger comparison one could draw of course would be between the Tal Shiar, the Romulan intelligence service and secret police and the KGB. While Jen in her reaction contrasted them with what she knew, namely modern day Western intelligence agencies, it is clear from the the information provided in the episode they operated far more like the KGB both in terms of the level of presence they had but also seeing their role as enforcing political conformity with Commander Toreth's embittered story of her farther disappearing at their hands for simply saying the wrong thing. Beyond the cold war parallels I think that guest actor Carolyn Seymour as Commander Toreth gives one the best guide actor performances of any guest actor in the show. She is helped of course by a script that gives layers to the character she is playing. Regarding the character herself, there is an element of tragedy in that, while I doubt she has any kind of sympathy for the dissident movement, seemingly being very loyal to the military and the Romulan state, her open contempt for the Tal Shiar and what they stand for indicates that she may be the kind of person that could become an ally to the dissident movement at a later stage if they grow large enough to split the Romulan Senate and military into factions as you could see her, if she was forced to choose between two equally powerful factions, she would throw her lot in with the one that would be calling for the Tal Shiar to be disbanded, which would no doubt be a central demand of the dissident faction.
Dominic Smith
2025-02-01 05:12:47 +0000 UTCOh the BANGER episodes coming up!!!!! I love this episode. Chain of command is where we see some interesting changes in Trois character
Brett Whittaker
2025-02-01 04:25:11 +0000 UTCAm I the only one who thought Troi looked hot as a Romulan? It certainly isn't the Moe Howard haircut or the recliner chair uniform, so what is it? lol
Zapp Rowsdower
2025-02-01 03:53:13 +0000 UTCOne of my favorite episodes of S6 because focuses on Troi (as you seem to like), especially with her doing an excellent job. I liked her decisiveness. I agree that the interaction between the Romulan Captain and Troi was interesting and well done -- good acting -- another reason that I like this episode. I don't think Troil reveled the Romulan role, but her intensity (borderline exuberance at times) was to be convincing. She is smart. Lastly, Troi would make a good leader.
Clay F
2025-02-01 03:38:13 +0000 UTCYou've seen Troi's Romulan ally (N'Vek) before quite recently. He was Tosk on Ds9's "Captive Pursuit". Actor Scott MacDonald. He will be returning in other roles.
Ortizmo
2025-02-01 02:57:13 +0000 UTCThe second half of the season gets into high gear. It’s great.
Geoff S.
2025-02-01 02:32:42 +0000 UTC
