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Graph of TNG Season 2 episode scores. Average is 3.18. Asterisks (*) indicate an episode where diplomacy saves the day (at least in part). "The Child" 1 "Where Silence Has Lease" 1 * "Elementary, Dear Data" 4 * "The Outrageous Okona" 3 * "Loud As A Whisper" 3 * "The Schizoid Man" 3 * "Unnatural Selection" 3 "A Matter Of Honor" 5 * "The Measure Of A Man" 5 * "The Dauphin" 3 * "Contagion" 3 "The Royale" 2 "Time Squared" 3 "The Icarus Factor" 4 "Pen Pals" 4 "Q Who" 4 * "Samaritan Snare" 4 "Up The Long Ladder" 2 * "Manhunt" 3 "The Emissary" 5 * "Peak Performance" 4 "Shades of Gray" 1

Season 2 of The Next Generation (TNG) replaces Crusher (one of my favorite main cast members) with Pulaski (my least favorite), and yet it still surpasses Season 1.

Average scores for this Star Trek project have been a LOT closer than expected, so we're using two decimal places now. We are smart.

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is burnout over? am I ready to get back to regular morning streaming? with a guest, maybe?? let's find out as I get closer to that Make A Good Mega Man Level 3 100% completion!

drop on by and say hi, I missed y'all <3
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A ★ review of Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) Why I watched: My dad wanted to see this when it first came out, and although I'd never had any interest in the Apes reboot movies before, I thought the trailer for this one looked interesting. We nev...

Over a year ago, I spent a few days catching up on the Planet of the Apes reboot movies specifically so that I could watch the latest one: Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, directed by Wes Ball.

With this review, I am DONE with this series. What a wonderful day!

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Title screen of Mega Man Relay, with the game name in the traditional Mega Man title style, with options below for GAME START, OPTIONS, CREDITS, and EXIT, with a starfield backdrop.

I'm excited to share the long-awaited release of Mega Man Relay!

Joining the ranks of Mega Man Endless, OH JOES!, and most of the MaGMML series is another fangame with levels perpetrated by yours truly.

Expect a livestream once it's had a couple weeks to breathe. :)

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Graph of TNG Season 1 episode scores. Average is 3.04. Asterisks (*) indicate an episode where diplomacy saves the day (at least in part). "Encounter at Farpoint" 4 "The Naked Now" 3 "Code of Honor" 2 "The Last Outpost" 2 * "Where No One Has Gone Before" 3 "Lonely Among Us" 3 "Justice" 2 * "The Battle" 4 "Hide And Q" 3 * "Haven" 4 * "The Big Goodbye" 2 "Datalore" 2 "Angel One" 4 * "11001001" 5 "Too Short A Season" 1 * "When The Bough Breaks" 2 * "Home Soil" 4 * "Coming of Age" 4 "Heart of Glory" 3 * "The Arsenal of Freedom" 5 * "Symbiosis" 1 * "Skin Of Evil" 5 * "We'll Always Have Paris" 3 "Conspiracy" 4 "The Neutral Zone" 1 *

We've finally arrived in the 24th century, my favorite era of Star Trek.

People will tell you that Season 1 of The Next Generation (TNG) is not very good. Those people are ugly giant bags of mostly water.

Sure, there are rough edges. But it's reverent toward old Trek while boldly going new places.

One of my favorite things in video games is to discover something new on a replay. For the players who *didn't* notice the first time around, you've just saved them a little treat for later. :D

Slightly diminish a game

Kirby & the Pretty Nifty Mirror
Mega Man: The Wily Scuffles
Mario & Luigi: B-List Celebrity Saga
Preowned Super Mario Bros. Wii
LEGO Star Wars: The Video

A ★★ review of The Secret Agent (2025) Why I watched: The trailer looked interesting, I'm a sucker for '70s period pieces, and I'm always up for getting exposure to more international cinema. What I liked: Everything about the look and fee...

My first exposure to the work of director Kleber Mendonça Filho—and I think it's my first Brazilian film, too—was not the transformative experience everyone else seems to be reporting.

Here's a review of The Secret Agent, from one of the very few who didn't like it:

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Mega Man goals for 2026:

1. Finally record that MM8 playthrough for YouTube
2. Add manual subtitles to my YouTube playthroughs
3. Finish the remaining MaGMML3 replay videos
4. Resume fangame livestreams

I'm done waiting for the stars to align. I'm setting aside time every week to do *something*.

3.00 is textbook "baseline for what I expect from Trek", which reinforces that my scoring system does what I want it to!

Number of episodes was the tiebreaker, but I'm finding a straight 3/5 is the more comfortable watch in the short term, and yo-yo scores are the seasons I remember more fondly.

Star Trek ratings, presented in the visual style of an LCARS display. A title bar says "STAR TREK RATINGS", and listed below are the average score, series/season, and number of episodes/movies. Each series is color-coded. 4.33 TOS Movies (6 movies) 3.48 ENT 4 (21 episodes) 3.24 ENT 1 (25 episodes) 3.10 TOS 1 (30 episodes) 3.00 TOS 2 (26 episodes) 3.00 ENT 3 (24 episodes) 3.00 TAS 2 (6 episodes) 2.79 TOS 3 (24 episodes) 2.75 TAS 1 (16 episodes) 2.73 ENT 2 (26 episodes)

Rewatching ALL of Star Trek in chronological in-universe order has been a fascinating treat so far.

Before I boldly go to the 24th century, let's look back at the scores so far. They're extremely close!

Reminder that I'm keeping the Discoverse separate, and this doesn't count the ENT finale yet.

Graph of TOS movie scores. Average is 4.3. Asterisks (*) indicate a movie where Earth is in danger. The Motion Picture 5 * The Wrath of Khan 4 The Search for Spock 4 The Voyage Home 5 * The Final Frontier 3 The Undiscovered Country 5

Now that all the reviews have been posted, how about a graph?

The six movies that followed off of Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) were a high point of my franchise rewatch—collectively, they are far and away the highest-rated "season" yet.

Next up is my all-time favorite. Onto TNG!

Whoops, this was generated before my *actual* Last Watch was recorded. I figured that might happen, so here's what it looked like originally:

A ★★★★★ review of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991) Why I watched: This was part of a rewatch of the ENTIRE Star Trek franchise. What I liked: Everything I like about this era of Trek is at its peak here, and it's a fitting sendoff for this crew we've ...

For decades, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country has been my undisputed favorite Trek movie.

Pitting the theatrical cut against The Motion Picture in 4K Ultra HD, that title may now be in dispute. Versions are weird.

Either way, I still love this movie. A review:

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GeminiLaser Hi, I'm Nathaniel Hoover, AKA GeminiLaser, AKA Flashman85. I record playthroughs of the official Mega Man games for this channel, and I occasionally record videos for other channels that end up in pla...

Have you checked out the other playlists on my channel? I know they're not exactly the same thing, but "Livestreams I've Done" and "Videos for Other Channels" alone have over 250 videos to watch, and there's a ton of Mega Man in there.

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Flashman85’s 2025 Letterboxd Summary A short summary of Flashman85’s 2025 activity on Letterboxd.

Letterboxd just informed me that my 2025 Year in Review is ready, so I figured I'd share. I absolutely love the pairing of first and last watch.

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I had every intention of using my holiday break to get some MM8 recording done. The break did not go as anticipated.

I'm working out a plan to make sure I actually get some recording done this year, and soon. Watch this space.

A ★★★ review of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) Why I watched: This was part of a rewatch of the ENTIRE Star Trek franchise. What I liked: While the things I like about this era of Trek are present to some extent (the music being a major highlight)...

Each Trek fan hides a secret pain. It must be exposed and reckoned with. Share your pain... Share Star Trek V with me and gain strength from it.

The Final Frontier, directed by William Shatner, may not be the popular favorite, but it's an outing I enjoy. A review:

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A ★★★★★ review of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) Why I watched: This was part of a rewatch of the ENTIRE Star Trek franchise. What I liked: All the usual stuff that I love about this era of Trek, but especially the humor (I know whales aren't fish, ...

The fan-favorite fourth installment of Star Trek on the big screen delivers basically everything I want in a movie: whales, pizza, and Sulu flying a helicopter.

Here's a review of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home:

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A ★★★★ review of Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) Why I watched: This was part of a rewatch of the ENTIRE Star Trek franchise. What I liked: Aside from everything I generally enjoy about this era of Star Trek? I love how this movie gets back in touch...

Rewatching Star Trek III: The Search for Spock made me appreciate just how much of The Original Series spirit director Leonard Nimoy brought to it.

This installment introduces so many things I love, from the Excelsior to Sulu's fashionable capelet. Here's a review!

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A ★★★★ review of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) Why I watched: This was part of a rewatch of the ENTIRE Star Trek franchise. What I liked: Everything that I generally like about this era of Star Trek: the main cast, the music, the space vessels, th...

My rewatch of ALL of Star Trek continues with The Wrath of Khan, directed by Nicholas Meyer.

Ask any fan for their favorite Star Trek movies, and this one is guaranteed to be on the list. Unless you ask me; it's not even in my Top 5!

A review to explain my heresy:

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A ★★★★★ review of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) Why I watched: This was part of a rewatch of the ENTIRE Star Trek franchise. That's only, what, 700 hours of TV and movies? No biggie. There are multiple versions of this film; I went with the 2022 Di...

After so many weeks of charting my episode ratings for Enterprise, The Original Series, and The Animated Series, I've reached the first of the Star Trek feature films. Time for a review!

The Motion Picture, directed by Robert Wise, is my second-favorite of all. :D

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Infographic of TAS Series Average: 2.8 Season 1 Average: 2.8 Season 2 Average: 3.0 Total episodes that use animation to accomplish what likely would have been too expensive or impractical for live action: 18 of 22 (82%) FIGURE - Number of episodes by score: 0 (1), 1 (1), 2 (5), 3 (10), 4 (4), 5 (1) TABLE - Teleplay/Story/Writer Episodes Average David Gerrold 2 3.5 Other (1 episode) 16 2.8 Chuck Menville 2 2.5 Margaret Armen 2 2.5 Stephen Kandel 2 2 TABLE - Director Episodes Average Bill Reed 6 3 Hal Sutherland 16 2.8

When I first watched it some 15 years ago, I liked Star Trek: The Animated Series (TAS) more than The Original Series (TOS). Novelty and pacing were big factors.

Revisiting TAS and now comparing against TOS Remastered, my opinion has flipped. There's more to say, but this infographic is a start!

Graph of TAS Season 2 episode scores. Average is 3.0. Asterisks (*) indicate an episode that uses animation to accomplish what likely would have been too expensive or impractical for live action. "The Pirates of Orion" 4 "Bem" 3 * "The Practical Joker" 3 "Albatross" 3 * "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" 2 * "The Counter-Clock Incident" 3 *

Season 2 of Star Trek: The Animated Series (TAS) barely merits a separate graph from Season 1—it's only 6 episodes and feels almost the same!

On a rewatch, I was more critical of some aspects of TAS...but less critical of, say, tricking Romulans with an inflatable Enterprise.

Onto the movies!

Graph of TAS Season 1 episode scores. Average is 2.8. Asterisks (*) indicate an episode that uses animation to accomplish what likely would have been too expensive or impractical for live action. "Beyond the Farthest Star" 3 * "Yesteryear" 5 * "One of Our Planets Is Missing" 4 "The Lorelei Signal" 2 "More Tribbles, More Troubles" 4 * "The Survivor" 3 * "The Infinite Vulcan" 2 * "The Magicks of Megas-Tu" 2 * "Once Upon a Planet" 2 * "Mudd's Passion" 3 * "The Terratin Incident" 4 * "The Time Trap" 3 * "The Ambergris Element" 3 * "The Slaver Weapon" 0 * "The Eye of the Beholder" 3 * "The Jihad" 1 *

Gigantic tribbles? Shrinking crewmen? An ill-advised crossover with Known Space? Must be Star Trek: The Animated Series (TAS) Season 1.

Fuzzy canonicity aside, TAS is a welcome continuation of Kirk's 5-year mission that (usually) fits with established Trek. That's really all I want from a spinoff!

For convenience, here are the individual season breakdowns (posted previously).

Infographic of TOS Series Average: 3.0 Season 1 Average: 3.1 Season 2 Average: 3.0 Season 3 Average: 2.8 Total episodes where any man treats any woman in a way that probably violates Starfleet HR policy: 43 of 80 (54%) FIGURE - Number of episodes by score: 0 (1), 1 (7), 2 (22), 3 (21), 4 (21), 5 (6) TABLE - Teleplay/Story/Writer Episodes Average Oliver Crawford 3 4 Gene L Coon 9 3.3 Lee Cronin 4 3.3 Margaret Armen 3 3 DC Fontana 8 3.1 Other (≤2 episodes) 38 3.1 Jerome Bixby 4 2.8 John Meredyth Lucas 4 2.8 Arthur Heinemann 3 2.7 Robert Bloch 3 2.7 Gene Roddenberry 12 1.9 TABLE - Director Episodes Average John Meredyth Lucas 3 4 Jud Taylor 5 3.8 Joseph Pevney 14 3.5 Marvin Chomsky 3 3 Marc Daniels 15 2.9 Ralph Senensky 6 2.8 Vincent McEveety 6 2.8 Other (≤2 episodes) 23 2.6 Herb Wallerstein 4 2.5 All averages are rounded. Names are arranged by unrounded average. Due to shared credit, episodes may be counted more than once.

Infographic time! Here's a recap/overview of my scores for Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS).

Considering this is the show that set the standard for the franchise, the series average is fitting—3.0 is my baseline for what Trek should ideally be.

Interesting which writer ended up on the bottom!

Graph of TOS Season 3 episode scores. Average is 2.8. Asterisks (*) indicate an episode where any man treats any woman in a way that probably violates Starfleet HR policy. "Spectre of the Gun" 3 "Elaan of Troyius" 3 * "The Paradise Syndrome" 3 "The Enterprise Incident" 5 "And the Children Shall Lead" 2 "Spock's Brain" 2 * "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" 2 * "The Empath" 2 "The Tholian Web" 3 "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" 4 * "Day of the Dove" 3 * "Plato's Stepchildren" 1 * "Wink of an Eye" 4 "That Which Survives" 3 * "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield" 4 "Whom Gods Destroy" 4 * "The Mark of Gideon" 4 * "The Lights of Zetar" 2 * "The Cloud Minders" 4 * "The Way to Eden" 3 "Requiem for Methuselah" 1 * "The Savage Curtain" 1 "All Our Yesterdays" 4 * "Turnabout Intruder" 0 *

The third and final season of Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS) might rank slightly behind the others, but don't let Herbert tell you it's bad.

More narrative consistency. Fewer egregious HR violations. So much that sparks my imagination. Forget the 1960s; this feels like the 2260s.

Onto TAS!

I've seen Power Guy come up in my recommendations, but I specifically avoid most Mega Man videos, so as not to influence my own.

Fun Flash Fact: Aside from occasionally tuning in on the few livestreamers I follow, I almost never watch Let's Plays at all, unless they're of a game I worked on.

Mega Man 8 recording update:

In all these years, I don't think I've ever seen Aqua Man's taunt where he sticks out his butt.

In all these years, I don't think I've ever been killed by Aqua Man's butt.