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Not planning on skipping anything. If i encounter a bad episode or several, so be it.

Episode 6: Lonely Among Us

Cool idea in an electrical entity. Still doing diplomatic work (not that it matters much to the plot).

Picard seems to have mellowed out a fair bit. Tolerates a surprising amount of Data's nonsense. Has a passionate interest in literature, which is great. Clearly felt the death of the engineer (I think this is our first crewmeber death). Stewart's acting is so consistently excellent that its hard to pick a highlight, but the look he gives to the camera might count as one.

Actually seems calmer and more relaxed when merged with the entity. The way its played suggests, to me, that the entity was being honest and that a decent chunk of Picard was still there.

Loving Riker's reactions to the various shenanigans, especially from Data and the delegates. Pretty overworked, having to handle both plots. Very smug in his speech on pseudo vegetarianism.

Even when he hasn't got too much to do, La Forge is still a delight to watch. Quite decent to Wesley and I got a kick out of him and Worf just having a conversation.

Yar is not having a fun time of it. Has disgust written all over her whenever dealing with the delegates and their cultural quirks. Got to share in the great reactions to Data's silliness.

Worf felt like a member of the main cast for the first time. Being slightly irritated by sensor duty is funny. Very loyal to Picard, even when being attacked by him.

Crusher, even without the entity, is more attentive to her son than she's ever been. McFadden has some fun playing the entity as confused and slightly distracted. Palpable trepidation when confronting not Picard. He really is a subject of fear to the staff, isn't he?

Troi was more useful here, feeling Picard out in the cloud. I felt a vibe of frustration from her when she felt that Picard had seemingly closed his mind. Her loneliness when she feels Picard's state is pretty great.

Data as Holmes is fantastic. I truly hope he continues to find odd human things to latch onto. Spiner is a master of facial expressions and physical comedy. Simply turning a monitor around is a source of laughs. He's an absolute treasure.

Wesley probably works best in small doses. His general archetype means that he's unlikely to ever be one of my favourites, but I didn't mind him helping out in this one. The general earnestness could still stand to go, but I don't really have a problem with in this episode.

The two delegate races had some great designs and provide a source of very bleak humour to the proceedings. What little we hear of their eating rituals is mildly interesting.

The work on the cloud is just as good as everything else. Surprisingly good atmosphere of dread when the Picard entity spills the beans and prepares to transport. Likewise, the relative silence on the bridge after hes gone is pretty harrowing. I'm impressed how dark, in the literal lighting sense, they allow this show to go. Scenes like the mutiny discussion are often stunning.

Pretty fun episode. Perhaps a little average.

Will see Justice tomorrow.