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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 : Home Soil
» Episode Reference : 1x18
» Aired : 22nd February, 1988.

» Author : Richard Lyth

» Synopsis

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» Review

» Picard hails the commander of a terraforming expedition. Five minutes later, he's finally managed to drag his zimmer frame over to the screen to answer.

» Picard tries to wangle a visit to the base, but the old man tries to fob him off. "I'm not trying to be rude, sir, but piss off!"

» There are three men and one woman stationed on the base. Wonder what the sleeping arrangements are...

» A six-feet-tall globe of the barren, featureless planet. Money well spent...

» The chief engineer is called Bjorn! Wouldn't it be ironic if he got assimilated by the Borg?

» The hydraulics engineer gets blasted by a laser drill. It's Goldfinger in Space!

» Data reactivates the Evil Killer Drill, and it immediately starts attacking him. And he's supposed to be intelligent...

» Bjorn is really annoyed that Data destroyed the drill. "You bastard! I'm calling Claims Direct!"

» Troi investigates the suspects' psychological profiles. Just like Robbie Coltrane in Cracker, except she looks better in a jumpsuit (well, marginally)

» Geordi sees colours, rhythms and harmonics. Either he's found a new life form, or his Visor's on the blink again.

» And the alien of the week is...a glowing bit of wire. Makes Doctor Who look like Star Wars, this...

» "I create life! I don't take it!" Oh yeah? Where are all his kids, then?

» Riker calls on Louisa Kim (any relation to Harry?) to help comfort her in her grief. Or, to put it another way, take advantage of the situation.

» "It's very beautiful. I could arrange for you to see it if you like." Is he still talking about the lifeform?!

» The lifeform tries to communicate. That, or it's just trying to find a decent station on the radio.

» "It's intelligent life." "How do you know?" "It doesn't like Marmite."

» The new chief engineer looks like one of the Golden Girls.

» "Ugly...giant bags of mostly water." An accurate description of Troi, at least...

» The microbrain declares war on the humans, and metamorphoses into a pink crystal. Ooh, scary...

» And all they need to do is turn down the lights to have it begging for mercy. Not the most intimidating of foes, it has to be said. But if it got together with some vampires, they'd be unstoppable...