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Missed the part about it being insidious just like the federation

"Ugly Bags of Mostly Water"! Breath of fresh air this week with nice Matte paintings and a guy getting lasered to death! 14:30 Caleb's brain has officially been fried from watching season 1 XD. Its nice to see Troi have stuff to do but I don't think the writers know how to use her Betazoid powers properly yet. You went into it but I don't know what the scientists were hiding from the Enterprise, did they understand there might be life on the planet or not, it seems like the episode couldn't decide? This episode does a much better job with the Drama, escalating from a murder/mystery plot to an alien entity plot pretty well, though it really is a rehash of "The Devil in the Dark". I'm not surprised that the show had production issues considering the blazing fast pace they shot they show, 5-6 days a week, 10 months a year. Thanks for the review as always guys!

Ummm….what did this have to do with Star Trek????

"Melanoma" This episode was pretty bad not gonna lie. Riker talks em up like they are gonna be this awsome civilization and they just suck. Why cant we give them orphans to solve their problem, iv seen Star Trek there must be loads. It seems the writer wanted it to be like the movie Idiocracy where the computers takes care of everything and everyone forgets how to do anything but its real half baked. Sorry Caleb and Will better luck next week thanks for the review as always.

Purely constructive criticism? While I appreciate the reading of the writers and cast list, and we should thank them for their work, I think you should consider only reading the names of those that people are likely to remember from other shows and films (or who have some other interesting trivia related to them). I, a casual viewer, am not going to remember the names, but now that you have mentioned the lead scientist was in James Bond, I will always think of that when I see him in shows and films of the past.

Suns assist

Water works

Keep searching will

Silly guys. Well do dune

Murchison. So many points

Keep up the good work. Relax will and caleh

Next generation. Season 3 and a bit. 🖖

Thank you for explaining your absolutely bonkers rating system! I’ve got it now. One of the better episodes of season 1, overall. You guys riff well and I enjoyed your show as always.

"Home Soil" is a 1988 TNG episode that reminds me of a 1964 episode of The Outer Limits, "Counterweight". Earth scientists located a lifeless planet called, "Antheon", that is perfect for terraforming and colonization. But, when the actual lifeforms of Antheon learn of Earth's plans they make themselves visible to the first group of colonists with the retort, "do we look lifeless to you, now?". And then engage in delightful trash talk, calling all humans, "overgrown children scared of space monsters - better to stay on Earth hiding in your rooms". Home Soil also has a dressing down scene for the human race. There's something refreshing about having aliens tell us to, "go cry to your mama, she's also made of water and just as ugly".

I must be missing something...

"When the Bough Breaks" first aired in 1988 and at the time I had no issues with the episode. As time passed I got the impression that this episode was planned in the studio cafeteria over pie and coffee, by writers with no background in science fiction or medical science or basic human behavior. This is truly a strange episode combining future technology with 1940's medical procedures. This is one of those times when TNG feels like a show produced by high school students. This episode informed me that I needed to raise my entertainment standards.

The return trip back to the 24th century was loosely based off the first draft script of Back to the Future

Hang in there, guys! TNG season 1 will eventually end - promise! 😂

"I'm Johnny Knoxville and welcome to Jack-Ass" That old man make-up is awful I'm glad Caleb brought up Jack-Ass its what I thought immediately. I agree with Will that this is the worst episode that's not sexist or racist so that's notable. Season 1 TNG really is a ToS season in many ways, never seen a crazed admiral before! Picard was hitting his personal relaxation light too much to notice the Admiral becoming young and crazy. I liked Caleb comparing Gene and George and that Gene was stuck in what interested him and really couldn't expand his idea's, Episode I is not a great movie but it sure is fascinating and its much different than A New Hope. Also Caleb brought up that the stakes of episode are non-existent, it sure is hard to enjoy the show when the Drama is so boring, and this isn't the first time, the Bynar episode was like this too. The death scene sucks, Mark Jameson sucks, Michael Michelin sucks, Maizlish sucks, this episode sucks, season 1 sucks. Thanks for the review as always guys.

"Blondes and Jazz!" I agree that Riker did an amazing job docking the ship and deserves all the praise. The Bynars are a good alien species and its nice that it's not just a dude with stuff glued to their face. Worf has a great one liner "if winning wasnt important why keep score" and Troi is missing of course. Minuet's introduction and her first scenes interacting with Riker are a bit creepy and besides that I don't think they work very well as a scene. We have not really interacted with many Holodeck beings in the show so far and its hard to compare how she acts different than the Holodeck girl at the very end of the episode besides talking. Minuet doesn't really act any different than the being in "The Long Goodbye"; though you did mention that they moved the episodes release order. The resolution of the episode has all the excitement of restarting your computer. The Bynars really believe in its easier to ask forgiveness than ask permission. Pretty good for season 1 keep up the good work guys!

What does it say about an episode when the most exciting thing is the TOS phaser on the wall?

at 55s .... what is the smudge just off center just below middle (right side) .... considering sputnik wasnt up until 57 what is making that smudge .... it is not lens flare ... as it is oblong ... it has what appears to be defined edges ... and by the lack of focus on it several miles away ... so is this some discarded piece of the rocket or something else entirely ... do not care if it is or is not a flying saucer ... prove what it isnt first ... is it space junk from the v2 ... or even the v2 itself ... maybe but that was 2 toned ... the smudge is singular toned ... so what is the smudge .... is it some interior part of the nose faring ... since the nose cone was all black ... and why does it appear flat instead of curved ... so not the nose cone ... so what else can it be .... I cant think of anything else that would be up there that it might be ... so what is that smudge

The intro was awesome until you ruined it with JJ and woke trek...

Why would you use an AI image as your thumbnail instead of just capturing a screenshot from the episode?

It's only upon reflection that I realized this episode of TNG is a classic, "bait & switch". The Bynars hijacking the Enterprise during a computer retrofit is just a ruse, same as all the "Riker No Gay" barfly hanky-panky in the holodeck scenes - it's all just padding. The real purpose of "11001001" was to have TNG hop on the 80's Jazz revival that had taken over popular culture. This whole episode was simply to do a Jazz Club scene and get street cred with Wynton Marsalis, who dominated mass media as a self-appointed jazz ambassador. TV shows had to have a jazz episode just like radio stations had the play Spandau Ballet's, "True", since jazz in the 80's was like "diversity/inclusion" brainwashing is today. Thank you, Minuet.

I think the title is a clickbait stretch, at best. No mention of a Trek episode at all.

I also want to say how proud I am of my husband and brother here. Thank you both for not being sexist, chauvenistic, Gene Roddenberry's! ❤😅

I have so many comments on this. But I'll just say this; I appreciate that Klingons appreciate strong women. Also, I wonder if Roddenberry thinks women are 'vicious' because a woman told him no and he couldn't handle it. 🤷🏻‍♀️

No matter where you look, every radio broadcast, every movie, every television show; all entertainment in the latter half of the 20th century was the handiwork of that generation that survived The Great Depression and World War II. Even Gene Roddenberry, born in 1921, is a child of The Great Depression and World War II - this defining period in world history forms a backdrop to everything ever released as entertainment up to the turn of the century. And that's the generation of TV and movie legends that we say goodbye to. A hopeful future grew out of the events of the 20th century and it's time for a new generation of fans to keep the best of humanities dreams alive!!

For sci-fi television production, when every Alien is a human with different hair, makeup and wardrobe ; the result is always predictable. You get plots like liberals vs. conservatives, sexual politics with battle of the genders, alien/human romance (the worst). Sci-fi on television can't afford truly alien aliens and "Angel One" is a text-book example of the drawback to aliens as humans in costume. Social commentary via a television show does wear me down over time. Funny how sexism/racism/politics never comes up when Tholians are around.

YEAH BABY YEAH! Were back baby, back to bad trek hooray! Oh what not to like, Riker's Austin Powers chest hair, a Stink Disease, and worst of all a planet of women! I find the idea the Gene to be obsessed with sex as ridiculous as Caleb did, man enjoyed a short skirt. I liked Will's idea that a woman should have fought for the rights of men, maybe give Tasha something to do, she's in a position traditionally held by men. In any case its Cringe thanks for the Review as always guys!

SHUT UP WESLEY! Greeting guys gotta say pretty good one this week. I'm glad Caleb found Data's origins compelling, I wish they did more of this is season 1. I noticed too how cheap the Lore Props looked, but they did the split screen effect pretty well at least. Brent Spiner carries the episode with great acting, and he gets to threaten a child with the death he deserves. I bet we'll never hear or see Dr. Noonien Soong or the Crystalline Entity ever again! Episodes really carried by your wonder for the most interesting character in TNG so far, thanks for the review as always.

Thanks for the opportunity to have a share. It was a lot of fun! Glad to see the crew enjoy the game. Those Vulcans stood no chance!!!

The Star Trek tradition of sending down the majority of the senior staff on an away mission always makes me laugh. “How would Starfleet judge me?”, Riker says about the Captain going down. So he figures, I’ll just take all the senior staff instead! I understand the need to do so from the standpoint of the show, but it’s always been a funny thing to me. Regarding how the episode started and calling back to it, I think it was done out of respect for Data. Having to thwart your evil twin is nothing to sneeze at.

Cool intro to the Holodeck, they definitely had some things to figure out regarding the tech which will be addressed in future episodes. Apologies if you mentioned this at the beginning and I forgot, but William Ware Theiss won an Emmy in Outstanding Costume Design for this episode of TNG back in 1988 - pretty cool! Keep up the good work and greetings from my Federation Cube to yours!

This is what happens when societies are on their knees at the bank. War pigs.

Dixon Hill! Dix in the chat; not a bad episode this week. Will is right its weird that Picard loves this stuff and is confused by the setting that he loves. Picard feels outta place too when he's geeking out about the Holodeck experience. I liked the Mobster's but the characters didn't do anything to defeat him he defeated himself, kind of a let down. Two great moments when his partners talks about his family being back home and a great meme moment at the end of the episode with Picard saying the Alien greeting. The Holodeck is a cool device is the new series and your right it totally enables the characters to cosplay in any time period, if Gene had lived longer I bet Picard would have fought a holodeck Nazi at some point. Honestly I think the episode was just to show off the new tech for the audience but pretty forgettable. Thanks for the review as always guys!

I found the Holodeck episodes very entertaining. Seeing the TNG cast as novelized characters created for "holodeck theater cosplay" is fun, as long as it's not overdone. TOS used travel to different planets to introduce period costume dramas while TNG had the holodeck serving a similar purpose. I do find it odd that holodeck episodes seem to reference the past, but it's a past familiar to people from the 20th century. All-out fantasy would be my choice if the holodeck is a form of recreation.

"BANG THE GONG" I think this episode was missing God showing up, oh and a floating orb for good measure. Gene really dropped the ball on this one. I'm with ya Will i rather liked this one, Lwaxana Troi is a fun character to watch and she brings a lot of life to the show. Loved the Cat Calendar obviously. I liked the episode I didn't wince once while watching it so it gets a 👍. The wedding dinner sets look straight outta the dollar store, plastic ass forks. They just forgot about the Psychic link plot point Caleb, don't think about it 😅. I'm really digging watching Caleb descend into despair as he watches more. Nothing makes you realize how long a season is until u marathon season 1 TNG. Thanks for the review as always guys I laughed a lot watching this one.

What does this have to do with Star Trek?

1st season of next gen is unwatchable.

C'mon Majel loved chewing up the scenery.

lose the Nutrek.

Napoleon Pigman Bayonets Worf! Had a great time this week, de Lancie, Patrick, and Frakes are all doing a great job this week. I believe I'm like Will in that my knowledge of Q elevates the episode but he's more or less correct that this is how he acts from now on. Gene must have insisted that all the planets in Next Gen look straight outta the 60s, foam rocks and Green Screen skies. Only like 10 seconds of cringe when Worf yells "this is sex!" and Geordi looks at Tasha. Also remember that that child is still dead, thanks for the review as always guys!

The Picard Manuever! Ah the Ferengi my favorite aliens, not the worst one this time. I rather liked the episode Picard sounds right in this one and it developes his character. Will is right that Picards charisma and the Ferengi are miles better with there behavior and mannerisms. I liked the Ferengi first officer and the Riker dynamic. Will should know what the "Real" Picard Manuever is (it's them pulling down their shirts when they stand up lol). Oh Wesley I don't loathe ya but your ain't the best part of the show sorry not sorry. Thanks for the review as always guys.

PDA Planet! Loved seeing the Wesley clip from the top rope. He really destroyed that new plant and he didn't give a damn. I don't believe Wesley was sorry at all he only cares about how cool he looked. Picard is at fault here, he sent him on the sex planet to see if it was okay for children, the most obvious wingman is 15 year old Wesley. Gene was pushing the bounds with this one and the god orb/plot was straight outta ToS. It's Cringe thanks for the episodes as always!

The all-powerful alien who's mischievous pranks can help, or hurt, given circumstances. "Q" is a cliché character and represents lazy storytelling in my opinion. The popularity of "Q" among Star Trek fans reveals just how out of step I am with the fandom. "The Squire of Gothos", by any other name, still plays out the same to me. "Hide and Q" keeps reminding me that some TNG episodes are just standard television fare covered by a colorful sci-fi candy shell. Just my opinion, hope we're still friends!

This is wonderful timeline done in a intelligent thoughtful way!

No, TOS: Bread and Circuses occurred on a planet in System 892, not Earth 1945