That is why I would take a "Genesis" or a "Code of Honor" any day of the week over most of the cathartic by the numbers non-sense of this season like "Force of Nature" or masks. I have long since stopped caring if things in Star Trek are possible, and more if the stories make sense and the acting and music are good quality. Did you jerks forget they are flying PAST the speed of light in EVERY episode. It is nowhere in the realm of BOBW or yesterdays Enterprise, but come on, it is really fun! Who cares if the "science" of it is stupid. "and Than Picard walked in on Beverly masterbating to her grandmothers candle"? SPOCKS BRAINNNNN. I mean, during the third season did you really think you would some day be able to say the following sentence. I really wondered if Patrick Stewart was going to fall asleep during those horrible boring episodes.īut this one is just too stupid to be bad! Even at 12-13 I remember thinking "seriously"? But then when you take it for the joke that it is(that I thought it was, thanks for THAT Jammer), it is really quite enjoyable. In my opionion, worst is a close tie between "Masks" and "force of nature". I am with you Jammer, this is not even close to the worst episode of the series. Like this site? Support it by buying Jammer a coffee. Did I mention Beverly has sex with a ghost?.I don't remember " Genesis" being nearly this bad (nor as laughable), but we'll see. This must be the worst episode of the season.(Is Ronin a rapist? Is this episode misogynistic? Etc.) But I won't be the one to bother writing it. There's probably a review to be written arguing how offensive this story is if you actually took its situation seriously.
An overheated, hysterical and, yes, quite awful performance - but brave. Gates McFadden turns in a brave performance while drowning in oceans of dreck.Hey, look! Graverobbing! And the animated corpse of Beverly's grandmother speaks!.Picard walks in on Beverly while she's very close to having an orgasm.Quint is killed in the later acts by Ronin's sci-fi (or, if you will, ghostly) abilities, a victim of Screenwriting 101.Beverly resigns her Starfleet commission to go live on the planet full-time with Ronin, because erotic supernatural adventures just SCRAMBLE WOMEN'S MINDS.Note to self for pitching the next spinoff series: Sex and the Saucer Section! Double LOL! Beverly's 10-Forward discussion with Troi about her supernatural paramour has a tone that pretty much translates to: OMG, HE GETS ME SO HOTT, LOL.Green lightning! Thunder! Wind! Faces in mirrors that aren't there when you turn around! Beverly getting possessed! No cliché goes unused as the writers and producers channel haunted house ideas that had clearly been simmering for years.Then again, Quint is so urgent a Scotsman as to make James Doohan's Scotty seem restrained by comparison. Helpful Quint dialogue: "Dahnaht laaght thaht caandle, and dahnaht goo to thaht hoose!" Beverly of course ignores these warnings. Beverly is warned early on by Ned Quint (Shay Duffin) that there's a ghost that brought her grandmother nothing but misery and bad luck, especially if she lit that dreaded candle.
(Note: I said "almost." I'm afraid it actually wasn't.) It appears to have been conceived as some sort of homage to 19th-century period romances crossed with haunted house stories. Make no mistake - this is a terrible, terrible hour of so-called "science fiction" - but it's also a cheese-fest so absurd you almost wonder if it was meant in jest. I can't bring myself to hate "Sub Rosa" simply because it's way too goofy to be worthy of hatred. The old adage "so bad it's good" was coined for just this sort of affair. Truth be told, I enjoyed watching "Sub Rosa" (granted, for all the wrong reasons) a lot more than I enjoyed watching " Homeward," but that's because I like to laugh at overcooked and overacted camp. After season seven's endless parade of Family Tree Theater, this episode takes the cake - then blows it up with dynamite birthday candles.Īh, "Sub Rosa." This may be TNG's equivalent to " Spock's Brain" - an episode so insanely, deliriously, hilariously, notoriously, transcendently bad that it manages to elevate awfulness to a sort of epic grandeur. A ghost named Ronin (Duncan Regehr) who, we ultimately learn, has been seducing the minds and cohabiting the bodies of the women in Beverly's family for generations. (It's an "anaphasic lifeform," blah, blah, blah.) But for all intents and purposes, yes, a ghost. Okay, not really a ghost, because this is Star Trek. Star Trek: The Next Generation "Sub Rosa"īeverly attends her maternal grandmother's funeral on a colony modeled after Scotland, where she finds herself drawn uncontrollably into a bizarre and unexpected tryst with.