Weird Star Trek Episodes - Man of the People aka "Troi's Gettin' Old, Hot, Bothered, and Scratchy!"

Counselor Troi, did you throw on my old man makeup again? I must say that it at least looks better on you than I and that is not saying much!

Well, it’s time for another weird episode from the Star Trek franchise. I haven’t done many of these in a while.  You can only watch so many weird episodes of Trek. I’d rather watch the good ones. Anyway, today’s episode is from Season 6 of TNG. That was a fine season for the show but I can’t really say that about this episode. “Man of the People" was the third episode for the season and it involves Counselor Troi going through the gauntlet again. It tends to happen a lot with her.

The episode starts out with the Enterprise finding a transport being attacked. Apparently, they’re being attacked because a diplomat, Ramid Ves Alkar, is on board. They save the transport and save Alkar who’s with his really overprotective mother. Starfleet orders the Enterprise to take Alkar to his destination since he’s needed for an important peace negotiation. While he’s on board, Alkar takes a liking to Troi and his mother isn’t liking it one bit. The mother then suddenly passes away. Dr. Crusher wants to run an autopsy, but Alkar’s customs won’t allow that. He then gets with Troi to do some sort of funeral ceremony that involves weird stones.

After the ceremony, Troi starts to feel… turned on sexually. She makes advances at Alkar but he refuses her. This leads her to find some random Ensign. Riker finds out about this and is kind of weirded out. It even gets weirder when Troi starts to age rapidly, act unprofessional, and not wear her uniform. She even came on Riker at some point and scratched his neck badly. She tries to get with Alkar again but he refuses. When the Enterprise makes it to the planet and Alkar is preparing to leave, a really old Troi finds his party and tries to kill his female assistant in a jealous rage. Instead, she stabs Picard.

Is that the "Talk to the Hand" maneuver, Sensei Worf?

Random Pics for the Month - Nine Things About Battlestar Galactica's Starbuck

Well, it's another May and another Sci-fi Month. It's time to dust off this old segment and return to the 12 Colonies of Kobol. So, what can I say about Starbuck? All of the Starbucks?

Starbuck was once a man... a cool but sometimes annoying man. Also, he looked good in white.

Starbuck saved the last episode of Galactica: 1980. Seriously, that show sucked!!!

Kara Thrace is one cocky woman.

Kara Thrace loves to get into trouble.

Kara Thrace loves to be the attention of all men. Seriously, whether you're old, lost one eye, egotistically smart, a daddy's boy, some sports star, or some random black dude who has a blog, Kara's got your heart by the strings.

As I said, Kara Thrace loves to get into trouble.

Kara Thrace loves to tick off the people she cares about. She even ticks off the audience at times.

Kara Thrace does actually resemble the old man a bit.

Finally, Kara Thrace's ending still confuses me. SERIOUSLY, WHAT WAS UP WITH THAT?

Overall, Starbuck was a character that could be anything: interesting, cool, sexy, annoying, and cocky.

Movie Talk - Thor: Ragnarok and Black Panther

Well, I got two more movies left before I go see Avengers: Infinity War. Since I'm not really into sitting in movie screens today (finally got new glasses), I'll be seeing it this weekend. Anyway, I was able to see Black Panther with my family the weekend it was released. It was pretty cool since we don't do that much. I think the last movie we saw together in theaters was Ghostbusters. What sucks is that I kinda called off a date... hey, I tried to invite her at least, but her job got in the way. Thor: Ragnarok is actually one I didn't see until last weekend at home. I just felt like holding off for this one. So, how were these two vastly different movies?

Movie Talk - Guardians of The Galaxy Vol. 2 and Spider-Man: Homecoming

Welcome to part two of this whole MCU review. It's two movies (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 and Spider-Man Homecoming) instead of three today. Like with the last batch, I saw these movies in the theatres. Seeing Spider-Man: Homecoming was memorable not because of the movie but because that day was busy in a good way. I drove in rain, I worked at church, I ate at a going away party, I ate again on a date, and then saw the movie. We almost left at the post-credit scene. I was able to re-watch these either on Netflix or the Redbox.

Movie Talk - Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War, and Doctor Strange

Since Avengers: Infinity War is finally hitting theaters in April (I’m glad they moved it up so I can use that weekend for other things), it’s finally time to look at the other movies in the MCU. Right before Avengers: Age of Ultron was released, I pretty much went through every MCU movie released at that time. While I’ve given a little opinion on these movies in other posts, it’s time to revisit some of them. I was trying to get this out but one, "little" movie kept holding me up.

Since I got seven movies (Infinity War will be its own post), I’m splitting this up. Today, it’s Ant-Man, Captain America: Civil War, and Doctor Strange. I pretty much saw all of these movies in theaters. I was able to re-watch Civil War and Dr. Strange on Netflix somewhat recently. As for Ant Man, I had to look for that elsewhere.