Some notes on the middle episodes of Season 2:
- In "Loud As a Whisper", we get a PSA for sign language in the form of a negotiator who uses a chorus of interpretors--one of whom hits on Troi
- Brent Spiner gets a chance to overact when Data's mind is taken over by a dying professor in "The Schizoid Man"
- Makeup!! Diana Muldaur gets the old age treatment when yet another disease causes hyperaging in "Unnatural Selection"
- In an important episode, Picard argues for Data's rights at a Federation hearing in "The Measure of a Man"
- It's the same old story--boy (Wesley) falls in love with shapeshifter, shapeshifter is destined to rule a planet--in "The Dauphin"
- We get our first reference to "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot" in "Contagion". They also figure out how to resolve a nasty computer virus, by doing what we do in 2012--reboot the computer.
- Shades of Gumby! It's a high concept episode when the away team is stuck inside a second rate novel in "The Royale". Data really gets into his role as a high stakes gambler.
That's plenty for now--more of Season 2 to come. Star Trek: The Next Generation is available on Netflix--more to come!