PATRON TAKES - TNG S6E13

The only nice thing about this episode was the dog.

Definitely an episode always forget about, but it's still enjoyable, just not on par with other episodes... I rate this a "meh 🤷‍♂️"

This is what we used to call a shaggy-dog story -- which WIKI defines as: An extremely long-winded anecdote characterized by extensive narration of typically irrelevant incidents and terminated by an anticlimax.

This one's not a favorite at all, interesting mystery and definitely enjoyable, but the show can be so much better. Pretty forgettable too. 6.3/10, D Tier, Decent. Below TOS's The Empath and above TNG's The Icarus Factor

Nothing better then decades later Seth McFarland hosting the young gun writers of TNG (Moore, Braga, Echevarria, and Shankar) and having them recollect their work. And when talk about what didn’t work Moore and Braga bring up this episode…….never a good sign.

Murder, My Pet.

uhg ... next pls

I liked this one a lot, first species from the Gamma Quadrant encountered, interesting concept

I never remember what this one is about except that it's boring and as interesting and intriguing as random pot of cold spaghetti. The guest and Geordi had no chemistry, but I guess we got a hint at his "O" face. haha

This is a bottom 5 or bottom 10 for me. It goes back to this trend of Geordi being a sort of pathetic, sad guy in terms of romance which the series had seemed to move past with Transfigurations and a few other episodes and then the rest of it is focused on this guest character that I really have a hard time caring much about.

Guest star could take acting lessons from Rachel Zegler.

They did my boy Geordi dirty man. I never really liked this episode and I always remember when I see it there’s something about the dog… bad Odo effect is what that is lol

I just can't get into the acting performances. The guest actor nor Geordy seem to have any real connection. She just is flat and brings the whole eps down.

Man where are we gonna put this stinker? I know! Maybe if we squeeze it right in to the middle of the season nobody will notice!

I’ll always remember this one for the concept of two people being assigned to a floating can in space. Just too bad the execution fell flat. Oh look, Geordi’s questionable choices with women continues. D for “dog deserved better”

This reminded me of the 1940s Noir murder mystery "Laura", and I liked this more than many of the episodes I've seen. There's a murder here, while in another episode this year the so-called hook was a guy is afraid of the transporter. I know which premise sounds more interesting to me. Its not great, but they tried at least to tell a little whodunit.

I am wracking my brain trying to remember this episode, and coming up blank, which means it is bland, boring, which is honestly worse than awful, cause at least something like Captain's Holiday is memorable.

Kind of sad knowing that the dog died. The old Hollywood motif of generally not killing dogs, which has made it all the more intense when a dog does die (classic movie Shane or obviously John Wick). Also that is one creepy monster/alien, seeing as it doesnt just replicate the appearance of what it eats it also replicates their thoughts and brain patterns is so in a way it is the person it killed and now you gotta kill it again.

STOP WRITING SHITTY GEORDI EPISODES, HE DESERVES BETTER!

I DO like the idea of the isolated lighthouse in space murder mystery, but I'm never sure if the execution failed it or just made it meh. Also, just a weird contrast for an evil, mindless shapshifter monster while DS9 is now on-going with Odo. It's like if TOS had a sister show with a Horta-esque main character.

Obviously this one didn't gel. What I do like though is it shows how fragile the Federation Klingon alliance is. Even a D-tier episode is giving me a little crumb of political intrigue.

Blah. Boring filler.

It’s been a while since we’ve had a “let’s dump on Geordi” love story. This one was a dud. D

Please! Stop doing Geordi dirty! IMO this SHOULD be an interesting mystery, but to me is so~ boring. Hey! It's a dog! Good boy!

Oh boy do I hate this. If you are going to do a classic trope, do it in an interesting way. And the guest star seems so flat to me

Very bad love episode, With none other then Gordi La Forge.

Geordi really got screwed over by the writers when it came to the quality of his episodes.

One of the 5 most boring episodes in all of Trek. E.

Why do they write Geordi this way? Any episode involving "romance" with him makes me cringe.

Let’s face it, we were long overdue for a Ronald D Moore/Cliff Bole team up miss. When you’re on top, there’s nowhere to go but down. D tier episode but adjusted to E for dragging good talent down with it.

I've watched this episode multiple times and I still forgot nearly everything about it. And I don't even have a dog! I think..... Wait, what's that weird sound? This episode was probably made just because the SFX guys really, really liked that DS9 Odo effect.

When I first saw this I thought finally a character (even though not seen) had my first name. Didn't realize until watching it with you guys that the name was also used in Redemption part 2.

How many magic sex objects does the bridge crew need to encounter before there's a ship wide PSA??

Another episode I have zero memory of. I’ll be re(?)-discovering it along with Target Audience when I sync the uncut reaction.

A bit of a dud for me. It’s super bland and, that creature effect is an awful. Geordi can’t seem to catch break with love interest he always comes across badly.

They just can't help themselves with Geordi and the stalkler vibes. Boooorring. It's not Imaginary Friend or anything, but very skippable.

How not to write a murder mystery or a romance episode

D. An example where the sum is less than its parts - mixing in another Geordi failing love story with a monster mystery (with Cliff BOLE!), but somehow falls flat. Skip.

This episode is like The Thing but lame.

Awful. They really wrote some terrible Geordi episodes.

It's hard for me to put my finger on exactly why I think this episode doesn't work. But it just doesn't. Also, RIP good doggy.

"Hey, let's make an episode that's a murder mystery combined with elements from 'The Thing' and have Cliff Bole direct it! Guaranteed banger episode!" Fuck. No. How they managed to turn this into a "Geordi falls for an unavailable woman like a creep" episode that is objectively terrible with the flattest, most uninteresting guest star(s) and a boring Klingon is completely beyond me. Worst episode of the season by far, and at least top 5 worst episodes of ST:TNG.