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Season 1

Season 1 Overview
1x01 Encounter at Farpoint (1)
1x02 Encounter at Farpoint (2)
1x03 The Naked Now
1x04 Code of Honor
1x05 The Last Outpost
1x06 Where No One Has Gone Before
1x07 Lonely Among Us
1x08 Justice
1x09 The Battle
1x10 Hide and Q
1x11 Haven
1x12 The Big Goodbye
1x13 Datalore
1x14 Angel One
1x15 11001001
1x16 Too Short a Season
1x17 When The Bough Breaks
1x18 Home Soil
1x19 Coming of Age
1x20 Heart of Glory
1x21 The Arsenal of Freedom
1x22 Symbiosis
1x23 Skin of Evil
1x24 We'll Always Have Paris
1x25 Conspiracy
1x26 The Neutral Zone

» Details

» Series : The Next Generation
» Episode Title : Hide and Q
» Episode Reference : 1x10
» Aired : 23rd November, 1987.

» Author : Richard Lyth

» Synopsis

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» Review

» Counselor Troi has gone home! Already this is a quality episode...

» A corridor with stripey walls! Makes a change...

» Q appears in impressive "three snake heads on a shiny ball" mode.

» Worf growls at Q like an adorable little puppy. Aww!

» Picard recaps the entire plot of the pilot for newcomers.

» Q strands the crew on an unconvincing studio set, and interferes with their minds to make them believe they are on an actual planet. The fiend!

» Q serves everyone drinks. Riker has lemonade, while Geordi looks like he's having absinthe. Would have thought it would be the other way round, but okay...

» Picard gets trapped on the bridge with Tasha. Have we got to the part where everyone's wishes are granted already?!

» Tasha cries like a girl. So much for strong female characters...

» Worf describes the Napoleonic guards as 'vicious animal things', with absolutely no trace of irony.

» Q and Picard quote Shakespeare at each other, saving Roddenberry from writing dialogue for a few minutes.

» Q disguises himself as Data, but entirely misses the opportunity to cop off with Tasha.

» Q wants to understand Riker's 'need and hunger'. That shouldn't take long...

» Wesley is stabbed through the heart with a spear! BEST EPISODE EVER!!!

» Riker promises not to use his Q-powers. I give it five minutes...

» More dead children. What good, wholesome family entertainment this isn't.

» Riker calls Picard 'Jean-Luc'! For the first and only time?

» Q appears dressed as a monk, or possibly as the Emperor from Star Wars.

» Riker has had long talks with Wesley, apparently. WHY?!

» Wesley turns into a big strapping man. "Not bad!" says Geordi appreciatively. Hang on, whose wish WAS this, anyway?!

» Geordi can see! "You're as beautiful as I imagined!" he says to Tasha. Beverley clears her throat. "And Doctor...you're as old as I imagined..."

» Riker produces a Klingon woman for Worf. He turns her down, possibly because a real Klingon woman would never wear fishnet tights.

» Wesley wants to turn back to his real age. Possibly because he's still stuck with a 13-year-old's voice.

» "Perhaps some day we will discover that time and space are simpler than the human equation." Er, right, Jean-Luc...maybe you should just stick to Shakespeare, eh?