Monday 20 October 2008

Star Trek: TNG 2.12 - The Royale

Review 122 - Episode 118 (Mar 27th 1989)

The One with the Casino in space


Acknowledged as one of the worst TNG episodes to be produced, I actually thought this was just bad, not awful. I mean, the concept alone, of God like beings creating a Casino based on a book an astronaut had in space, has TOS written all over it. I'm not sure anyone could save this basic terrible idea. But it has a cheesy charm, or maybe I was in a generous mood watching it.


Riker, Worf and Data have to try and escape from their strange prison by pretending to be characters in the book. The whole episode is bizarre and actually becomes watchable as you watch in awe at the fact it was commissioned and made.


A bad idea that no execution could save, but strangely enjoyable.


2/5
Overall Star Trek Franchise Rating so far: 354/615


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2 comments:

Rains said...

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Unknown said...

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