jalanhenning
I love this! Now you need to do an analysis like this one on Star Trek and the Bechdel-Wallace test!
I realize you’re not trying to predict quality, just personal enjoyability, but I do wonder how it relates to quality.
I actually think it might be slightly more predictive of the quality of a show overall than of individual episodes. But both ST:TOS and ST:TNG have many great captain-centric episodes that I’m not sure if it is predictive of episode quality particularly.
Great suggestion! Everyone remembers the Gorn, but the Metrons are fairly representative of the incredibly advanced aliens typical of TOS (like the Organians, Thasians, or Providers).
I think I'd suggest a planet-of-the-week episode. From TOS, "This Side of Paradise" or "A Taste of Armageddon." From TNG, maybe "Who Watches the Watchers" or "Up the Long Ladder."
I hang out at my local game store once a week. I've timed the following playlist to fit the commute!
- Status Report
- How Would That Feel
- I’m Ready
- I’m the X
- We are One
- Subspace End Credit Medley
I felt like Freeman included Rutherford because his “gee whiz! lookee there!” naïveté added to her misdirection.
I'm slowly and tediously working my way through ST:TNG season 1.
Very clever! And thorough. Thanks for posting this analysis.
"Spectre of the Gun" has a pretty surreal set and I could easily imagine it as a play.
TOS “The Empath”
Egads this is hard! I got two lines in and gave up. Free to anyone who wants to continue:
Captain Pike, Number One, emotional Spock, Talos IV,
Alien zoo, laser overload, General Order 7,
Thanks, that sent me Googling. "KIM: I'll try extrapolating the verteron exit vector. No, I can't get it. There's a strange phase variance in the radiation stream. We'll have to wait until the probe exits." Episode 6 (another wormhole?!) http://www.chakoteya.net/Voyager/106.htm