Here’s your weekly Omnibus Edition of Craggus’ Trek Trek Phase II covering Season 1 episodes 8 to 14:

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#StarTrekTNG S1E08 - The Battle. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The Ferengi are back and acting completely differently from their first appearance. Their gift of a mind control night light provides an acting headache for Patrick Stewart as Picard is visited by some very old flames. The crew doesn’t mutiny this time despite their captain being compromised by alien mind control for the second time in as many weeks. Who’s in charge of security around here anyway? ⭐⭐⭐ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #StarTrek #TheNextGeneration #thebattle #CraggusTrekTrekPhaseII #StarTrekTheNextGeneration

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#StarTrekTNG S1E09 - Hide and Q ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Q returns as a three-headed snake to see if absolute power corrupts absolutely. The episode writes Troi out before it even starts and Tasha Yar demonstrates her continued incompetence as security chief by having a tearful tantrum. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ It may nominally be about Riker becoming the god of terribly misjudged gifts (and it gets what ten-years-older Wil Wheaton will look like hilariously wrong) but the best bits are Picard and Q quoting Shakespeare at each other. John de Lancie is always worth at least 2 stars on his own. ⭐⭐⭐ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #StarTrek #TheNextGeneration #hideandq #CraggusTrekTrekPhaseII #StarTrekTheNextGeneration

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#StarTrekTNG S1E10 - Haven ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ When confessing to her weirdly regressive pre-nup, Deanna calls Riker Bill for some reason. That and Lwaxana Troi's cougar-prowling the ship are the only things of note which make this forgettably dull premarital fable almost watchable. ⭐⭐ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #StarTrek #TheNextGeneration #haven #mrhomn #thankyouforthedrinks #CraggusTrekTrekPhaseII #StarTrekTheNextGeneration

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#StarTrekTNG S1E11 - The Big Goodbye. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Who'd have thought it would take ten episodes before we got our first Holodeck-goes-wrong story? Picard puts Shakespeare aside to Private Dick around with some pulp fiction. It's the beginning of a beautiful friendship (between the writers and the malfunctioning holodeck trope) and ends with Picard greeting an alien race based on the knights who no longer say 'ni!' ⭐⭐⭐ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #StarTrek #TheNextGeneration #thebiggoodbye #CraggusTrekTrekPhaseII #StarTrekTheNextGeneration #montypythonandtheholygrail

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#StarTrekTNG S1E12 - Datalore ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Oh brother! While ‘just in the neighbourhood’ of Omicron Theta, the crew pop back to the planet where Data was discovered and in five minutes find a whole hidden laboratory missed by the official fully equipped survey team. Brent Spiner hams it up as his own evil twin without the need for a mirror universe goatee and Wesley gets ignored AGAIN. ⭐⭐⭐ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #StarTrek #TheNextGeneration #datalore #CraggusTrekTrekPhaseII #StarTrekTheNextGeneration

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#StarTrekTNG S1E13 - Angel One ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Angel One tells #CodeofHonor to hold its beer, get in the kitchen and make it a goddamn sandwich as it baffles with an egregiously ham-fisted battle of the sexes. Riker gives us a hairy eyeful while the rest of the crew come down with a random and narratively unrelated dose of the ‘flu as the writers realise that can’t keep the flaccid gender-swapped power struggle plot up for the whole 44 minutes. 💩 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #StarTrek #TheNextGeneration #angelone #CraggusTrekTrekPhaseII #StarTrekTheNextGeneration

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#StarTrekTNG S1E14 - 11001001 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Picard finds time for #atastydebrief and Riker douches it up by repeatedly misgendering the Binars while asking them to literally pimp out the Holodeck for him so his time off has a ‘happy ending’. Meanwhile, it turns out the Enterprise is really, really easy to steal from a starbase. Kirk and co certainly made a meal of it in #TheSearchForSpock. ⭐⭐ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #StarTrek #TheNextGeneration #11001001 #CraggusTrekTrekPhaseII #StarTrekTheNextGeneration

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