Best Line:
"Nothing in the way of a bath here...just go outside and roll around in the snow."
Then came a 'Star Trek: Voyager' ep 'Drone' in which a spontaneous proto-nebula and yet another fraking transporter malfunction meld some of Seven's nanoprobes, the Doctor's 29th century mobile emitter and an unfortunate Ensign's tissue sample into a new Borg drone. Seven is ordered to raise the Borg fetus. I will admit the sight of a Borg fetus is a truly Lovecraftian creepy sight. The Ensign gets no reaction to any of this. The Doctor is smug and whiny. Why did no-one notice the Borg tech in the science lab? The fully grown drone stumbles around and then the Borg show up to transfer custody. Drone dies. Seven is sad. This could have been better. Janeway was dim and why did the drone have blinking lights like an Ibiza nightclub?
Best Lines:
"I thought you said this was a fetus?"
"An hour ago it was."
Then came a season 2 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' ep 'Becoming part 1' in which Angelus decides to end the world for no clear reason. Snyder sneers. We get unending flashbacks to Angel's past. Spike lingers. Buffy finally finds the bloody floppy disc. Willow babbles. Kendra shows up. Xander is hateful. A vampire burns up in a classroom and the police do not show up. Kendra dies. This was BORING. Then came a boring 'Martial Law' ep 'Trackdown' in which Andrew Divoff of 'Lost' was the baddie o'the week. Kelly Hu does nothing. A truck is worked and some goob annoys.
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We come to the 2000 tape. First up is a season 1 'Angel' ep 'She' where Wesley is a prat. Bai Ling shows off her terrible acting. Demons with silly make up run around and it is all crap. Then came a season 3 'Xena Warrior Princess' ep 'The Debt, part 2' in which Gabrielle yaps. Ming Tien whines. Lao Ma is dead. There are endless flashbacks to Xena's past in Chin and endless pointless fights. Ming Tien is dispatched with a hairpin. He never mentions his half sisters who would show up in season 6. Yawn.
Then we a season 1 'Buffy The Vampire Slayer' ep 'I Robot, You Jane' in which Jenny Calender annoys. Willow gets an internet boyfriend who is really a demon who is grooming her. Buffy wears a cute shirt with a cat print on it. There is really out-dated computer tech and no-one wonders why the library is full of occult books. Jenny is a technopagan, no other ones have ever been seen again. The demon gets a robot body and lumbers around looking DUMB. Today this ep would get this show canceled. Xander, Willow and Buffy brood on their crappy love lives.
Finally there was a season 1 'Earth Final Conflict' ep 'Sandoval's Run' in which Sandoval's CVI breaks down freeing him from Taelon mind control. Sandoval runs off to find his wife and be free. No-one helps him, no-one at all. Boone clenches his jaw and is really unhelpful. Sandoval reunites with his wife. Lili is a prat. Seriously TPTB would later turn Sandoval into a panto villain, but after the way he is treated by the 'heroes' in this ep. Well they all deserved to die. Dr Belman is a screeching harridan, Doors is a dick and there is bad acting all round. Poor disheveled Sandoval is dragged back and given a new CVI. This wasn't as good as I recalled.
Best Lines:
"You're still thinking like an implant."
"It's like he's almost human again. There's actually somebody home up there."