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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 Icarus Factor
» Episode Reference : 2x14
» Aired : 24th April, 1989.

» Author : Richard Lyth

» Synopsis

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» Review

» The Enterprise is en route to Starbase Montgomery. If you didn't catch the name first time round, Picard, Riker and Data say it ten times each in the following scene just to remind you.

» Picard: "I think we could all use a 12-hour layover." Who does he think he is, Sting?!

» Riker is picked to captain the Aries, on a mission to seek out intelligent life in a galaxy that's many months away at maximum warp. Get the feeling someone wants to get rid of him?

» Riker's estranged father arrives to brief him. He looks uncannily like Gene Roddenberry. Surely it can't be him, though - even the vainest executive producer wouldn't stoop so low as to cast themselves in a role? (coughcoughJMScoughcough).

» Worf nearly bites Wesley's head off. Literally.

» Kyle Riker and Dr Pulaski are old, er, 'friends'. This brings up mental images too hideous to contemplate.

» Pulaski has three ex-husbands. Guess nobody can stand her for more than a year then...

» Ten-Forward has a very cute barmaid this week. Just thought I'd mention it.

» Riker looks at old photos of his time in Alaska. Wonder if he lived in Cicely?

» Troi can tell Kyle is Riker's father, because she "felt certain things". Like father, like son eh?

» Commander Flaherty speaks 40 languages, including Klingon and Romulan. But not Welsh - after all, he's not a genius...

» Pulaski would have married Kyle if he'd asked her. All those fairy tales about wicked stepmothers would just have come alive for Will then, wouldn't they?

» Worf's closest friends attend his Rite of Ascension anniversary ceremony, and O'Brien and Pulaski go along for a laugh.

» Worf gets poked by painsticks, to commemorate the anniversary of his leaving boarding school.

» Riker and father put on ridiculous armour that makes them look like Power Rangers, then swing at each other with giant cotton buds.

» Riker's father talks about the rift between them, and the death of his mother, and they hug, and the audience falls asleep.

» Riker decides to stay on the Enterprise after all. What a surprise...