From: bh@eng.auburn.edu (Brian Hartsfield)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.misc
Subject: Re: 3 more reviews (JUSTICE ... HIDE & Q)
Date: 16 Apr 92 17:27:22 GMT
Reply-To: bhartsfiel@lps3net.ksc.nasa.gov
Organization: Auburn University Engineering

In article <23377@life.ai.mit.edu> mary@wheat-chex.ai.mit.edu (Mary S. Lee) writes:
>In article <1992Apr15.162055.6691@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> kanamori@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Atsushi Kanamori) writes:
>>In article <1992Apr15.154206.8369@cco.caltech.edu> tlynch@cco.caltech.edu (Timothy W. Lynch) writes:
>>>kanamori@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Atsushi Kanamori) writes:
>
>[reviewing "Justice" and coming to the understandable conclusion that it
> was terrible...]
>>>>  Overall:    F- (If NEW GROUND was wiped out of existence, this would
>>>>                  be the worst of the series.)
>>>
>>>Oh, no.  I've got several that fall below this, "Qpid" and "The Royale" being
>>>the top (bottom? :-) ) of the list.  This is easily in the bottom 10, though,
>>>and probably the bottom five.  
>

 I agree with the original poster.  Justice deserves an F-.  More thought
later on how bad it is.

>
>>I'd say QPID and ROYALE are at worst, side-by-side to, rather than below 
>>JUSTICE and NG. The latter two had good intentions but executed it abysmally, 
>>while the former two were bad ideas to start with and thus, we couldn't 
>>enjoy either of their accomplishments. It's pretty hard to say which is worse.
>
>Although I thought that "QPid" was a very poor episode, I know several
>people who liked it, and I remember others defending it on r.a.s.  On the
>other hand, I can't recall *anyone* saying they liked "Justice."  Therefore
>"Justice" may be a better candidate for worst episode, as it appears to be
>almost universally disliked.  [Uh oh, visions of hundreds of irritated
>"Justice" fans frantically typing at their keyboards...]

I didn't think that Qpid was that bad. No, it wasn't one of the best TNG 
stories and it definitely wasn't as good as Deja Q, but I found it very
intertaining (maybe very is a bit strong.  Maybe I shoulkd just leave it
at entertaining).  I found it to be an aveage quality TNG story and a 
below average quality Q story (in comparison to the previous Q stories). 
In fact, I think it was probably the worst of the Q stories done to date,
but I still found it entertaining.  Nothing real great, but not that bad.
.
>
>As for "The Royale," I seem to recall that Michael Rawdon quite liked this
>one.  And while it's probably in my bottom quarter of TNG episodes, I don't
>think it's close to the bottom ten ("Damn it, Jim, I liked that revolving
>door and Data's manipulation of the dice.")
>

The Royale on the other hand, I thought was very bad.  I thought it was very
ill conceived and its execution was even worse.  I can't say wether I think
this episode was better or worse then Justice or New Ground or any of the
other bad episodes.  For the really bad episodes, I just classify them has VERY BAD
and leave it at that.  It doesn't matter to be how very bad it iS and I
consides Justice and thr Royale and New Ground in this area.  I also
don't really want to rewatch those spidoes enough to say which one is worse
then which.

By the same token, I never have sat down and decided wether "The Apple" or
"Spock's Brain" was worse.  I hate them both.
>
>Mary Soon Lee    (mary@ai.mit.edu)


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