Continuing our adversaries series, we’re looking at DS9 season four. We’ve seen a number of different patterns season to season, with season one being ‘Q and Prime Directive’, season two being ‘Cardassians and Introspection’, and season three being ‘Dominion, Time/Planar travel, and Introspection’. Let’s see what’s out there… S4: High: 7 (3 Dominion) Equal: 4 … Continue reading DS9: The Power of Adversaries, Season 4
Continuing our adversaries series, we’re continuing with DS9. Today we’ll see if season three follows in the footsteps of season one, season two, or something else entirely. As usual, moderate to severe spoilers below. S3: High: 8 (3 Dominion) Equal: 6 Low: 3 Self: 9 Note that all of the times that the Dominion appeared … Continue reading DS9: The Power of Adversaries, Season 3
Continuing our adversaries series, we’re continuing with DS9. Today we’ll see if the trend which separated DS9 from TNG continues in season 2. As usual, moderate to severe spoilers below. S2: High: 3 Equal: 8 (mostly Cardassians) Low: 6 Self: 9 Season two is a marked departure from ‘Q and Prime Directive’ mix from season … Continue reading DS9: The Power of Adversaries, Season 2
Continuing our adversaries series, we’re starting today looking at DS9. I’m curious to know how it will diverge from TNG, and when. Or maybe it won’t. Which will mean there’s something about the Star Trek formula, or perhaps the general television formula[1]. S1: High: 8 Equal: 2 Low: 9 Self: 0 So, this presents a … Continue reading DS9: The Power of Adversaries, Season 1
Season seven is a bit of an enigma for me. I don’t remember most of it, probably because I’ve never actually watched most of it[1]. S7: 20-100 2-102-1 210-11 -12-121 -102-122 High: 9 (2 for ‘All Good Things…’) Equal: 3 Low: 6 Self: 8 Season seven continues with the themes of self-searching along with terrifically … Continue reading TNG: The Power of Adversaries, Season 7
Now that we’ve looked at all seven seasons of TNG, we can look at the series as a whole. Somewhere between season 3 & 4, the balance shifted from low-powered adversaries to the crew (or Starfleet) themselves as the adversaries. Perhaps this is because you have to have a certain number of ‘plot‘ episodes before … Continue reading TNG: The Power of Adversaries: Recap
In our previous installments, we talked about seasons 1-5 of TNG, and the relative power of the various adversaries our intrepid heroes faced. As before, I defined ‘high-powered’ challenges as those where firing phasers would only make the problem worse, so the crew must needs turn to guile. ‘Equal-powered’ challenges are those situations where firing … Continue reading TNG: The Power of Adversaries, Season 6
Continuing from where we left off talking about TNG: Seasons 1-3, here are the stats for the power levels of the crew’s adversaries in Seasons four and five. As before, I defined ‘high-powered’ challenges as those where firing phasers would only make the problem worse, so the crew must needs turn to guile. ‘Equal-powered’ challenges … Continue reading TNG: The Power of Adversaries, Seasons 4-5
Today, I was thinking about the power levels[1] of the various adversaries that the TNG[2] crew had encountered. They faced some truly powerful adversaries, like the judging trickster god Q, alongside challenges which were only challenging because they were being polite (anything to do with Lwaxana Troi or almost anything to do with the Ferengi), … Continue reading TNG: The Power of Adversaries, Seasons 1-3
Please note that this is one a series of posts, all of which may contain spoilers for the MCU, and particularly Endgame. After the somewhat disappointing The Incredible Hulk (2008), we turned to the next movie in the MCU, Iron Man II (2010). I had low expectations for this one, not remembering a lot of … Continue reading Processing Endgame IV: Iron Man II (2010)