Beer Space Nine

We kick off season 5 of TNG with two great episodes! Start off fast and furious with more Klingon intrigue and the appearance of  mysterious Romulan. Then we have a great character study when Picard learns to trust and communicate with a new people.

Bringing season 4 of TNG to a close, we have Data getting a girlfriend (again), and lots of Klingon intrigue. Barron loves those Worf episodes.

We have reached our 100th episode!! Never thought we'd get this far. Also, we both forgot until we were recording...Anyway, this week Doctor Crusher gets a mysterious boyfriend, and poor Geordi gets kidnapped for the first of many times.

We get a couple of great guest stars this week! First in The Drumhead Picard goes up against Jean Simmons, yet another of Star Trek's crazy admirals. (Seriously, you don't want to be an admiral in Starfleet.) Then Lwaxana Troi falls in love with a doomed man played by David Ogden Stiers in Half a Life. Some dramatic moments for us!!

Barclay is back!! This time he gets Flowers for Algernoned. Guy really can't seem to catch a break! Also, Q is back!! He seems to have a thing for Robin Hood. And Worf is most definitely NOT a merry man!!

This week the crew of the Enterprise lose their ability to sleep causing crankiness to abound. Except for Deanna who has dreams about hydrogen. The Geordi starts turning into another creature! Can they save him in time?

This week we talk about TNG episode First Contact. Not THAT First Contact. Sadly no Vulcans this time. Then we have the return of Leah Brahms, who is not as happy with Geordi as he is with her.

The crew of the Enterprise encounters the devil, or someone claiming to be the devil. Sadly no one bets a fiddle of gold. Then, a TNG mystery!! Everyone was knocked out for 30 seconds...or was it a little bit longer? What happened while they were supposedly asleep? Join us while we drink liquor and we discuss!

And TNG brings it back this week with two good ones in a row!! First we spend 24 hours with Data as he tries to navigate the mind field that is human emotion. And then we meet the Cardassians for the first time while trying to avert a war! 

Well...season four of TNG had to stumble eventually, and Brooke and Barron are not the biggest fans of these two episodes. Although Barron is positively gleeful that Wesley is leaving the ship to head off to Starfleet Academy. Brooke is a little more somber about it. Then we have Counselor Troi going apeshit when she loses her empathic abilities. And, as always, we drink liquor and are merry.

Worf's lady is back!! Bringing a KID with her...And the Klingons are once again fighting over who will run the high counsel. Riker, meanwhile, wakes up in a future he doesn't remember, with a kid and in command of the Enterprise. And Barron claims it was all stolen from an episode of GI Joe. GO JOE!!

Crew members start disappearing and Doctor Crusher is the only one who notices in Remember Me. The we meet Tasha Yar's long lost sister in Legacy. And Brooke keeps drinking wine. She swears she'll get back to beer when the weather gets nicer. Barron, as always, drinks whisky.

Lore is back!! And we meet Data's father in Brothers. Then Picard bonds with a human orphan in Suddenly Human. Family is a major theme suddenly on TNG.

"And now the conlusion..." Season four of TNG comes in strong with the second half of Best of Both Worlds! We also see the aftermath of the Borg in Family when Picard goes to visit his brother.

This week we muddle through Tansfigurations, seriously Brooke doesn't even remember this episode existing, in order to get to one of the best episodes of TNG ever!!! Best of Both Worlds Part 1!! Picard is captured by the Borg!! Cliff hanger!! We're very excited, clearly.

This week a little bit of TOS joins TNG when Sarek comes on board the Enterprise. Then we get the Ferengi trying to make it with Lwaxana. Another good one and not so good one in season three of Star Trek the Next Generation.

Captain Picard is over worked and over tired and forced to go on shore leave. The Enterprise crew should realize by now that evil forces always lurk whenever they go on shore leave! Luckily for Picard he meets a mysterious woman and gets to go on an adventure! Then an old patient of Troi's comes aboard the ship to help them find a mysterious living ship and fight the Romulans. Getting toward the end of TNG season 3!

This week Barron is happy because we have a Worf episode!! Worf meets the brother he never knew he had and drama ensues. This episode effects Klingon relations in many episodes to come! Captain Picard also gets kidnapped and an imposter takes his place this week. We're having a lot of fun with TNG season three.

This week we have one of the absolute best episodes of TNG ever, Yesterday's Enterprise!! History is rewritten and the Federation is at war. Pretty sure we just gush about it for 25 minutes. And you know what? The Offspring isn't bad as well. Data creates a daughter. Seriously if you haven't watched either of those episodes in a while, go back and watch them now!

Guess who's back...back again. Q is back. Tell a friend. We discuss another classic season 3 TNG episode Deja Q! And Star Trek does Rashomon with A Matter of Justice. Brooke's dog is a special guest star this week, and we get cut off a bit at the end due to the dog's antics. But she's so cute we forgive her!