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L.I. Underhill is a media critic and historian specializing in pop culture, with a focus on science fiction (especially Star Trek) and video games. Their projects include a critical history of Star Trek told through the narrative of a war in time, a “heretical” history of The Legend of Zelda series and a literary postmodern reading of Jim Davis' Garfield.

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  1. Sean Dillon
    May 11, 2016 @ 4:22 am

    Honestly, this could work as the season finale.

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  2. Robert Hutchinson
    May 11, 2016 @ 10:26 am

    There's so much that's great about this episode, it's almost impossible to believe that it was created as "the ultimate holodeck episode." That's like calling The Inner Light "a flute episode."

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  3. Ross
    May 11, 2016 @ 12:15 pm

    The neatest thing about this episode for me is actually what isn't in it. The Enterprise just became sentient and had a baby… And everyone is just cool with it. They're just like "Aight. That's a thing our ship can do. We'll roll with it." There's no conflict-for-conflict's-sake, no "tragically we must kill the ship and ensure this never happens again to preserve the status quo", no "the space-baby turns evil and comes back to avenge its mother's enslavement", it's just, yep, this kind of thing happens.

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  4. Daru
    August 4, 2018 @ 8:19 am

    Yeah – beautiful.

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