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Season 2

2x01 The Child
2x02 Where Silence Has Lease
2x03 Elementary, Dear Data
2x04 The Outrageous Okona
2x05 Loud as a Whisper
2x06 The Schizoid Man
2x07 Unnatural Selection
2x08 A Matter of Honor
2x09 The Measure of a Man
2x10 The Dauphin
2x11 Contagion
2x12 The Royale
2x13 Time Squared
2x14 The Icarus Factor
2x15 Pen Pals
2x16 Q Who?
2x17 Samaritan Snare
2x18 Up The Long Ladder
2x19 Manhunt
2x20 The Emissary
2x21 Peak Performance
2x22 Shades of Gray

» Details

» Series : The Next Generation
» Episode Title : The Outrageous Okona
» Episode Reference : 2x04
» Aired : 12th December, 1988.

» Author : Richard Lyth

» Synopsis

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» Review

» The Enterprise picks up a Han Solo impersonator, for no other reason than that Troi fancies him.

» The transporter chief is Teri Hatcher! Whose bright idea was it to replace her with Colm Meaney?!

» Wesley looks adoringly at Okona. I'm sure it's just a stage he's going through...

» Okona shags Teri Hatcher, not at all put off by her baggy lingerie.

» Wesley: "What do you think of Captain Okona?" Riker: "I don't think you're his type, Wes..."

» Data doesn't laugh at Guinan's joke. His sense of humour seems fine then.

» Data meets the 20th century's funniest stand-up comedian. Is it Steve Martin? Bill Hicks? Eddie Izzard? No, it's some bloke nobody's ever heard of! And what's more, he's not funny at all! Pity Whoopi Goldberg's already playing a different character really...

»"A monk, a clone and a Ferengi decide to go bowling..." Instead of a Caption Competition, we really should have a "Finish the joke" competition one of these days...

» Eighteen minutes into the episode, and the plot finally starts! Woo-hoo!

» Okona is wanted by two different alien leaders. One for impregnating his daughter, and the other for breach of Lucasfilm's copyright.

» Worf searches for Okona through all the female crew quarters on the ship.

» Okona's first name is Thadium. Bet he doesn't tell that to any of his potential conquests.

» One of Okona's accusers has a young son, the other has a pregnant daughter. Gosh, I wonder what the twist could possibly be..

» The son confesses all. It's like some bizarre Shakespearean play, if Shakespeare was a talentless hack that is.

» Okona reunites the young lovers. So much for him being a carefree rogue, he's just Cilla Black with a ponytail!

» Data tells terrible jokes and the holodeck audience laughs uproariously at each one. It's just like watching a Jim Davidson concert.

» "Take my Worf, please!" Did they actually PAY someone to write this?! Absolute unmitigated drivel from start to finish! Most bad TNG episodes are just incredibly dull, but this (and 'Up The Long Ladder'and probably several more) is so spectacularly dire that it's actually compulsive viewing! And of course in later years this concept was revived and used for seven whole years of Voyager episodes...