{"id":5657,"date":"2014-12-15T08:51:39","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T08:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/116-Too-Short-a-Season"},"modified":"2014-12-15T08:51:39","modified_gmt":"2014-12-15T08:51:39","slug":"116-too-short-a-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/2014\/12\/15\/116-too-short-a-season\/","title":{"rendered":"1.16 &#8212; \u201cToo Short a Season\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        \n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>1.16 &#8212; \u201cToo Short a Season\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Plot:<\/strong> The <em>Enterprise<\/em> escorts an elderly Starfleet admiral who is infected by a wasting disease to a hostage negotiation on Mordan IV. On the way there, they notice that the admiral seems to be getting younger, and stronger, to the bewilderment of Dr. Crusher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Thoughts:<\/strong> I&#8217;d like to return from our hiatus to a great episode&#8211;but, alas. \u201cToo Short a Season\u201d is too long. The episode should have lasted about as long as it would have taken for the transporter device to lock on to the hostages and beam them to safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nobody was nominated for Emmys based on the makeup or acting in this episode. The actor playing Admiral Jamieson appears to be imitating a Muppet parody of Emperor Palpatine. Remember how great and subtle the age makeup was in TOS 2.12, \u201cThe Deadly Years?\u201d That was in 1967, and they probably spent less money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I note that this episode would flunk the Bechdel test. It does contain a conversation between three named female characters, but the only subject of their conversation is a man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Again, I\u2019d love to have good things to say. Episodes like this, however, make me wonder if it would be a virtue to skip ahead. <strong>Grade:<\/strong> Fail.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.memory-alpha.org\/wiki\/Too_Short_a_Season\" class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-recommend=\"0\" data-card-width=\"100%\">http:\/\/en.memory-alpha.org\/wiki\/Too_Short_a_Season<\/a><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        1.16 &#8212; \u201cToo Short a Season\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-5657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek-relive-the-majesty-tng-episode-threads","tag-kevin-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/relivethemajesty.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}