I am going to be away from computers and screens for a week so this will be my last review for 7 days. After that I will return to my normal schedule for the foreseeable future. On to today's episode: A CLIP SHOW??????? By far my least favorite episodes of the Simpsons are the clip shows. They always feel like a punishment for having loyally watched the show because now you get to watch it again only without context. In this case we get to see clips of Riker from the last two seasons cut together without any effort to make it make sense. I didn't recall the episode existing, but I do remember the shots of the needles going into his head so I am sure I have seen it before.
This episode has a cold opening with Riker and Geordi exploring a planet and Riker has been injured. Something stabbed him in the leg and when O'Brien tries to beam him aboard an unknown microbe is detected in his leg. Pulaski agrees to use the transporter for the first (and last) time Pulaski has used the transporter. After waving her tricorder over his leg for about a second she agrees to override the biofilter and beam him back to the ship. She discovered life never seen before spreading through his nerves. Riker is trying to put on a good face but while being visited by Deanna he passes out. Pulaski discovers it is almost to his brain so she puts needles in his head which makes him start reliving his "memories."
The rest of the episode is a bunch of clips from earlier in the show inter cut with Pulaski and Troi watching him die. Just as he appears do die they figure out how to save him and shockingly he recovers, but fortunately Pulaski is gone after this episode.
Review: I cheated and wrote up this review while watching the episode and looked up stuff on memory alpha while watching which I never do. And I don't feel bad at all. I hate clip shows that aren't The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular.
1 out of 10
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