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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 : Skin of Evil
» Episode Reference : 1x23
» Aired : 25th April, 1988.

» Author : Richard Lyth

» Synopsis

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» Review

- Tasha flirts with Worf, thus dooming herself to certain death like every other woman he ever got involved with.

- "It'll be good to have Counselor Troi back, won't it Number One?" "Yes, I haven't had a shag in ages."

- The new chief engineer announces himself as "Lieutenant Commander Leland T Lynch". This is required protocol, as the constant changes in chief engineers mean even Picard can't keep up with who's doing the job at any given moment.

- Lynch starts the warp engines without bothering to test them, and the ship explodes.

- Troi's shuttle has crashed on a barren, rocky studio set somewhere in California.

- An oil slick blocks the away team's path. Data does his best to analyse it, but ends up completely clueless.

- It's the Creature from the Black Lagoon! Only slightly less convincing.

- Armus kills Tasha, only ten minutes into the episode! Wonder what Denise Crosby was thinking when she read this script...

- "Status, Doctor?" "Unchanged." In other words, she's still dead. What does he expect, this isn't Xena!

- DeadTasha now has a big red blotch on her cheek, similar to the one on Gorbachev's forehead.

- Armus moves to the shuttle, to continue his attempt to kill off the entire cast one by one.

- Armus needs to feel suffering. Well, he's talking to Troi, so that's definitely a step in the right direction...

- Worf gets promoted, but still keeps his red shirt, feeling that under the circumstances it might actually be safer than a yellow one at the moment.

- Riker takes another away team down, but Worf decides to stay on the ship. Smart move!

- Troi psychoanalyses the oil slick, seizing the opportunity to build up her part now that there's one less person in the credits.

- The away team talk to Troi and satisfy themselves that she is alive, but don't bother about the pilot because he's just an extra.

- "Creatures whose beauty now dazzles all who see them." Armus knew Atomic Kitten?!

- Riker is pulled under the surface of the oil slick. Two down, seven to go...

- Armus operates Data by remote control, but unfortunately doesn't make him do a funny little dance, which would have been cool.

- Riker emerges from the oil slick looking like a seal or something.

- Picard gets Armus really angry, and everyone beams up, just leaving it there, ready for a sequel should they need to kill off anyone else at some point.

- Tasha leaves behind a farewell video, in which she says more than she ever has in the past twenty episodes. "Will Riker, you're the best...Data, you were pretty good too...Geordi, you were crap to be honest...Deanna, I didn't like to mention it before, but yes, your bum DOES look big in that...Worf, I'm leaving you my complete collection of Guns and Ammo magazines...Beverley, don't worry, I never told Wesley that Captain Picard was his real father, your secret dies with me...Scarecrow, I'll miss you most of all..."