Thursday, December 6, 2012

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 5x06 - The Game

    Riker picks up a headset video game on his vacation, and brings it back to the Enterprise.  The game seems to have peculiar addictive properties.  Wesley is visiting for awhile.
    This is a pretty campy episode, and it's got a lot of unintentional humor.  The pleasure that people seem to get out of the game is a lot of fun to watch.  There's also a romantic plot for Wesley, who gets to hit it off with Ashley Judd.
    I kind of like the way that the episode is not especially forthcoming about exactly what it is that the game does, except that it causes pleasure, and makes people more suggestible.  But this is counterbalanced with Judd's annoying "rules" schtick, which just makes me cringe.

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