#tng peak Performance

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Roy Brocksmith

15 September 1945 – 16 December 2001

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[pic: brocksmith as sirna kolrami, peak performance, tng]

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All right, I couldn't stop thinking about how cute s2e21 “Peak Performance” is, so here's my quick post gushing abt it.

How Picard is like "No my Number One is the best shut up and watch" the whole episode - he's so protective and then so smug when Riker does well

How Data has his little self-confidence crisis - bad enough that Deanna and Pulaski are like "no but fr he's depressed and yr basically his dad pls talk to him"

The talk itself, which is amazing advice regardless of whether ur an android or not

How the war games are almost like a little field trip where Riker goes to all of his friends to be like "but u are coming, right?"

Esp the bit where he goes to Geordi and is like "It's a really old ship and I'm gonna need someone I can trust-" And Geordi just goes,

"I'm already packed."

The whole bit with him asking for an extra crewmember and then choosing Wes, and the way Wesley's face lights up 😭

Him convincing Worf, and then making him the first officer!

And Wesley basically cheating, to which both Riker and Geordi are like ... okay, cool

The whole episode is definitely one of my favorites and the ending is just *chef's kiss*

Pulaski: "Then you have beaten him!"

Data; "It is a matter of perspective, Doctor. In the strictest sense, I did not win."

Pulaski and Troi: "Data ..."

Data: "I busted him up."

And the way Picard is like "It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose, Data. That is not a weakness, that is life." Goes so hard unironically

Just fr one of my fav episodes

Featuring Quark as a Ferengi pirate

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stargate atlantis, the seer:

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Podwórkowa radość z gry

Nierecka, Star Trek TNG: Peak Performance 2x21

[#37] Reblog, Discord Star Trek

A to bardzo dobry po prostu rozrywkowy odcinek. Wariacja na typowy dla lat 80. temat gry wojennej i motyw rozrywki przez współzawodnictwo. Już po kilku minutach wiemy z ogranego schematu fabularnego, że Riker wygra, a Data jakoś utrze nosa mistrzowi teoretycznych strategii. I czujemy, że może wydarzyć się ingerencja trzeciej siły.

Scenariusz nie walczy z oczekiwaniem widza. Karmi go podwórkową radością z tejże gry.

A fani DS9 szybko rozpoznają znajome oczy na okręcie Ferengi 🙂 To Bractor.

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Powrót do listy nierecek :)

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Episode 79: Pulaski's Last Stand

TNG: "Peak Performance" and "Shades of Gray"

It's a farewell to season 2, spandex, and Doctor Pulaski in this week's SSHB! First up: war games go awry and Data has ennui in "Peak Performance"! Then executive jackassery forced a clip show in the infamous "Shades of Gray".

Also this week: the quality of extras, a better alternate title, and s.1 vs s.2!

Timestamps: synopses: 1:14; Peak Performance: 7:44; Shades of Gray: 37:08; Season 2 wrap up: 55:17

Season 2 Wrap Up: Season Two of TNG: Worse Than Season One?

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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 2 Episode 21 "Peak Performance"

STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - S2E21 Peak Performance

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My Favorite "Ugly" TNG Aliens

5. Pucker Pouts (Bre'el, "Deja Q"). A bit bland at first glance, typical Westmore forehead but then BAM, you see the mouths. Benevolent Salt Sucker vibes.

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4. Snots. (Gamelanian, "Final Mission"). I remember audibly gasping the first time I saw this. Breathtaking choices all around. The hair, the orange, the snots... just amazing. Perhaps one of Michael Westmore's children was sick with a cold at the time.

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3. Infinity Eyebags. (Zakdorn, "Peak Performance"). There is something so normal yet so unsettling about this man and his face bags. A rare case of a real hairline. I also love his Clergy-like cape.

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2. Tumor Biopsy (species unknown, "New Ground"). This guy taps into some kind of fight or flight response deep in my brain stem. Maybe the instinct to not touch infections? I think he'd look good in like, Fallout or The Last of Us. Great post-apocalyptic radiation scarring.

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1. Shower Drain Clog (Yridian, "Gambit Pt. 1"). My all time favorite of the ugliest aliens. Look at all the sprouting hair around his neck, amazing details.

Yridians win the ugliest of ugly for me because well, if you look with your eyes, you will see that they are quite ugly. The ears, the hair, the color pallet, the ball-sacky nature of the skin seam.

I'd be remiss to not bring up Mr. Jaglom Shrek, who, unlike Yranac pictured above, recognized his receding hairline and, to preserve his enviable good looks, shaved his scraggles.

The sheer creativity these makeup artists had to churn out, week after week, is astounding. The planning, the molds, the sculpting, the applications, the hours of labor, the patient actors, what a privilege it is to witness such creation. These aliens may be ugly, but they are definitely not boring.

Thank you Michael Westmore, your footprint in Hollywood is vast and untouchable.

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Accidental Kisses! || TNG Star Trek x Male!Reader

William Riker

You stumbled down the stairs while he was walking up, Willaim lunged to catch you, which knocked your lips together.

"Oh- are you alright, Lieutenant? You took quite a tumble."

You apologize for stumbling into him and kissing him, to which he smiles and waves it off as an accident. After all, there was no harm in it!

Afterwards, he absentmindedly licks his lips and tastes your chapstick, reminding him of the encounter. His cheeks tinge pink- hopefully his feelings still remain a secret

Worf

As Worf's assistant and Assistant Chief of Security, Worf expected you to be in peak physical condition- this kiss happens while sparring- he tackled you to the ground, and in the struggle, you two share a rough kiss.

Worf pins you down by the neck and arms, which effectively left you prone. He mumbles "That better have been an accident." You nod frantically and he releases you.

Apologized for getting too rough with you- blaming it on reflex more than actual aggression. You apologize for the kiss, which still haunts his sweetest dreams to this day.

Data

You had no idea what the fuck happened. Suddenly, you were saying "hi" to Data in the rec room, then his hands were on your cheeks as he kissed you with a mountain of electricity tingling behind his lips.

"What? the hell?" You manage to sputter out, Data seemed confused.

"Apologies if I startled you. I was giving you an authentic European greeting from Earth. Did you feel appropriately greeted and our relationship assured?"

"Data- I- first of all, not all of Europe kisses to greet, NEXT OF ALL, THEY KISS THE CHEEKS!"

Geordi La Forge

It was a moment of excitement shared between you two- a project you both had spent countless nights on performed without a hitch in front of the investors. After the meeting, you two were so excited and hugging- it just sorta... happened.

"Oh- oh my god- I'm so sorry." Geordi apologized quickly as he recoiled away from the hug. "It was an accident."

"Yeah- we were just excited, totally an accident on both ends." You respond just as quickly as your cheeks burn up.

Q

Alright, this kiss isn't an accident. He's pissing you off by bothing you during your work, begging for you to entertain him. He wants a human experience! He already looks like one in this form! Do something human!

So, you punched him in the gut, then kiss him roughly- tongue invaded his mouth in a way that made his eyes roll back into his skull at the feeling of being properly paid attention to- even more than expected!

Q finally shut up for a good while as he behaved himself- at the promise of more of those. So, he sat down next to your station and waited patiently for you to be done with our work- then he kissed you!

His kiss was- well, it was Q, what did you expect?

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s t a r t r e k t h e n e x t g e n e r a t i o n created by gene roddenberry [peak performance, s2ep21]

'It is a matter of perspective, Doctor. In the strictest sense, I did not win.' - data

'Data!' - pulaski

'I busted him up.' - data

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I was going to say something about how I love this B-plot for character reasons but then I got totally distracted by that absolutely amazing old nautical map sweater just behind Data in the bottom gif. What a gorgeous thing to wear on a starship! I love it! And it looks so cosy!

Star Trek: The Next Generation // S02E21: Peak Performance

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Li'l TNG Season 2 I am so excited everyone loved revisiting season one so I'm very happy to share season 2 - also so many faces from my Tumblr past - it's so cool seeing you all!!!

The Child

Where Silence Has Lease

Elementary, Dear Data

The Outrageous Okona

Loud As A Whisper

The Schizoid Man

Unnatural Selection

A Matter Of Honor

The Measure Of A Man

The Dauphin

Contagion

The Royale

Time Squared

The Icarus Factor

Pen Pals

Q Who

Samaritan Snare

Up The Long Ladder

Manhunt

The Emissary

Peak Performance

Shades of Gray

[thewomancallednova]

TNG season 2 overall thoughts

I don't really have a formal rating systems, because that would require too much effort, but i did briefly review my notes on the past twenty-two episodes and sorted them into the categories "sucks", "bad", "mid", "good" and "great". This season got: 5 sucks 3 bad 3 mid 4 good 6 great

I think overall this was worse than season 1.

Interestingly I don't even think it's because of the overall direction not going where I'd have liked it to (kill Picard, make Riker captain, Geordi XO, bring back the parasites from Conspiracy etc.). In fact I think the show did well with Geordi as chief engineer and even made Picard more likeable. I think it's genuinely just the average quality of the scripts going down.

The season continues to mostly use just a single plot per episode and does a/b plot in a few cases.

Two trends in the storytelling I've noticed:

Especially towards the end of the season we see less of the Enterprise's actual mission and much more of the build-up. In Peak Performance we spend most of the episode preparing for the war games and then the last few scenes are the war games. The Emissary is mostly dedicated to Worf and K'Ehleyr's relationship, while the mission is just handled in the last scene. In Manhunt we spend the whole episode following Lwaxana Troi's shenanigans, the diplomatic conference isn't in the show at all and we only see the beam-out at the end. That's episodes 2x19-2x21 all doing that format. I would also argue that Samaritan Snare is a harbinger of this format, with the Picard/Wesley plot being about their relationship and the actual medical procedure being in a few scenes at the end.

And then more towards the start, we have episodes where there is a guest star who will be the real main character of the episode, with the TNG cast just serving as background to sometimes inform their decisions or influence them slightly. We see this in The Outrageous Okona, in a slightly strange way where Brent Spiner is the guest star in The Schizoid Man and also in Unnatural Selection. Again, this is more of an observation and these episodes range from excellent to very much not excellent.

I want to stress that I don't think that format is inherently good or bad, I both liked and disliked some of them. But I do think it lessens the overall feeling of the show if that makes sense. In the sason one special features someone from the effects team talked about basically making every episode as cinematic as possible and basically making a movie every week. And I think you really feel that with season one, every episode feels like a new epic tale. And season two is less exciting than that. We more often just hang out with the characters and their personal lives, while an interesting plot (like the Klingon sleeper sihp in The Emissary) is relegated to the final scenes.

O'Brien! He gets a name and a new job! And he gets to be friends with the main characters too, playing poker with them!

I think they tried to do something like that with Sonya Gomez too, but I guess that didn't work out?

I think Picard is vastly improved here. We learn some actually interesting things about his backstory and character in Samaritan Snare, he gets to be so righteous about Data in The Measure of a Man and he finally softens his views of the prime directive a tiny tiny bit in Pen Pals. And Picard's views on nonviolence and death are an important backbone to the show's moral compas, that are best shown in Contagion and Where Silence Has Lease.

Riker I think is kind of done a disservice this season. He just seems like he is settling for being the XO, when he really should be a captain. Which he of course gets to be this season, twice, on a Klingon ship in A Matter of Honor and on a derilict Starfleet vessel in Peak Performance. And those worked well, I just wish the show went there. I did also generally like the new backstory elements given in The Icarus Factor, even if I disliked their resolution.

Obviously this is a great season for Data, he plays Sherlock Holmes, he gets to have an antagonist in early Pulaski and someone who gets better in dealing with him in late Pulaski, he gets to prove his humanity over and over again, even if no one wants to acknowledge it, and he's core to my three favourite plots this season, The Measure of a Man, Pen Pals and the b plot of THe Outrageous Okona.

I think Worf settles into the security role very well, and I am very glad that he has a defined role now. And he is hilarious. I mentioned this before, but Worf's dry comments in The Child, Up the Long Ladder and Manhunt were the only moments I laughed out loud during the season. I wish some things went differently though, the episodes focusing on him (the b plot in The Icarus Factor and The Emissary) establish basically that Klingons are just genetically more aggressive and I think that sucks. And I think it makes it worse than the portrayal of the Klingons in TOS (well, sans the blackface and orientalism which are both inexcusable). On the other hand I found A Matter of Honor (which focues more on Riker than Worf) to be an interesting and nuanced take on Klingon culture. Honestly, I think that's just the biggest thing for me. A Matter of Honor is about Klingon culture. The Emissary (and that one line in The Icarus Factor) are about Klingon biology. And Trek would be wise to focus on the former and not the latter.

Troi didn't get that much to do this season. I do really enjoy her and Riker's weird little relationship. Honestly, any fictional relationship where they don't put labels on it and it's clear that they deeply love and care for each-other and still fuck other people is 10/10 to me.

PulaskI! I did generally like where her character went. I love that she starts out being bigoted towards Data, but is able to learn and overcome that bigotry and in turn become one of Data's bigger advocates, like in Pen Pals where she validates his emotions towards Worf. Speaking of, I like her little friendship with Worf. We don't see that much of it, only its beginnings in Up the Long Ladder and some light bantering later, but it's cute. I do think it sucks that her only major episodes are Unnatural Selection (the worst episode of TNG so far) and Shades of Gray (the clip show). Everywhere else she is usually more of a supporting player than the star of the show. I do regret that she didn't return for season 3. Nothing wrong with her character at all.

Wesley! I feel like Wesley got some interesting stuff early on in The Child, where he grows up a bit by staying on the Enterprise instead of returning to Earth with his mother, and then again in Pen Pals, where he gets to be in command a tiny bit. Those are both really well done. I felt less positively about his pseudo-father/son relationship which I think the writers were going for in Samaritan Snare, and I'd have preferred they delve more into his relationship with Riker. I think that'd have made for a much stronger found father/son dynamic. And then he gets to be a stereotypical teenager in The Dauphin I guess.

Geordi, I of course want to see in the XO chair, but honestly Burton nails being the tech-enthusiastic chief engineer so well, I can see why they went for it. Especially in Contagion but also in Samaritan Snare, he just does it very well.

I continue to enjoy the lack of killing and the importance that is placed on death and preserving life. I feel like at the end of the show, this will be the major thing that I love about it.

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Sirna Kolrami (AKA that guy who plays stratagema with Data in Peak Performance) =)

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hey, where do I start with star trek?

It really depends on whether you want to watch all of it or if you're mostly hoping to do a bare bones viewing of the older shows before you see the shows currently in production. There's a lot of viewing guides out there if you want to do a completionist viewing, so I'm going to answer this with the assumption you want to do the latter.

Before I begin, I'm not really sure if there's such a thing as a non-contentious version of this list, so keep in mind there's going to be different people with different opinions and some are going to take some pretty big issues with this one.

The Original Series: The Cage, Where No Man Has Gone Before, Mudd's Women, Balance of Terror, Arena, The Menagerie Pts. I and II, Errand of Mercy, Amok Time, Mirror Mirror, I Mudd, The Trouble With Tribbles, Journey to Babel, The Enterprise Incident, Spock's Brain

The Animated Series: Honestly, I'm probably going to get some flack for this one, but you can safely skip it entirely

The Next Generation (the best series): Encounter At Farpoint, The Battle, Hide and Q, Datalore, Skin of Evil, Conspiracy, The Neutral Zone, Elementary Dear Data, The Measure of a Man (I have issues with this episode but it is very popular regardless), Q Who, The Emissary, Peak Performance, Who Watches the Watchers, Yesterday's Enterprise, The Offspring, Sins of the Father, Tin Man, Transfigurations, The Best of Both Worlds Pts. I and II, Family, Brothers, Reunion, The Drumhead, The Mind's Eye, Redemption Pts. I and II, Ensign Ro, Reunification Pts. I and II, I Borg, Chain of Command Pts. I and II, Tapestry, Birthright Pts. I and II, Rightful Heir, Descent Pts. I and II, The Pegasus, All Good Things

Deep Space Nine: Honestly, just watch the entire thing. A lot of the episodes, even the earlier ones, end up tying into ongoing arcs in this show. If you want just one episode to sell you on it, go see Duet or the Past Tense two parter.

Voyager: Caretaker, Jetrel, Threshold (c'mon, it's one of the holidays), Death Wish, Tuvix (notoriously one of the most contentious episodes of any Star Trek show ever made), The Q and the Grey, Worst Case Scenario, Scorpion Pts. I and II, The Gift, Year of Hell Pts I and II, Message In A Bottle, The Killing Game Pts. I and II, Living Witness, Drone, Equinox Pts. I and II, Q2, Author Author (aka what TNG's The Measure of a Man could have been like if it was good), Endgame.

Enterprise: Broken Bow, The Andorian Incident, Shadows of P'Jem, Shockwave Pts. I and II, Carbon Creek, Minefield, Cease Fire, The Expanse, all of season three because it's a season long arc and honestly one of the better seasons, Storm Front Pts. I and II, Borderland, Cold Station 12, The Augments, Babel One, United, The Aenar, Affliction, Divergence, In A Mirror Darkly Pts. I and II, Demons, Terra Prime, These Are the Voyages (also a contentious episode)