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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 Dauphin
» Episode Reference : 2x10
» Aired : 20th February, 1989

» Author : Richard Lyth

» Synopsis

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» Review

» The Enterprise is contacted by Anya. It's a Buffy crossover, excellent!

» Anya beams aboard with her hot young charge, Salia. Wesley immediately runs into them, and the background music swells up. As does his [CENSORED].

» "Commander, who is she?" "I think she's a governess..." Classic!

» According to the title, Salia is a dauphin. Funny, she doesn't look anything like Flipper...

» Anya shows hidden talents as she morphs into Madchen Amick from Twin Peaks, and then into an ugly little teddy bear. Presumably she uses different forms for different situations, so when Salia needs protecting she's the old woman, when Salia needs a cuddle she's the teddy, and when she needs an attractive young woman in a skimpy outfit (for whatever reason) she's Madchen.

» Wesley is distracted by thoughts of Salia, and nearly blows up the warp core in the process.

» Wesley asks various crew members for dating advice, and finally goes to Riker, who really should have been his first choice.

» Anya stands next to Worf, and looks about three foot tall by comparison.

» Wesley gives Salia some chocolate mousse. "It's customary for people to eat it off each other's naked bodies," he says hopefully.

» Anya morphs into an unconvincing hairy monster, and attacks Worf. He fights back, but not until she's back in old woman form. Smart move!

» Wesley impresses Salia with the holodeck, including a singing asteroid field. How the sound travels in space is debatable, but as it's only a holodeck recreation I guess it doesn't matter.

» Worf and Anya banter with a lot more chemistry than Wesley and Salia have.

» Picard tells Wesley that Anya is an allasomorph. "She's a DINOSAUR?!"

» Salia snogs Wesley, then turns into a big bug-eyed monster. It would have been fantastic if that had happened in mid-kiss...

» Wesley rushes to the transporter room, just in time to see Salia turn into a Vorlon. Well, at least she wasn't a Changeling I suppose...