Star Trek The Next Generation: Skin of Evil (First Watch: S1E22)

Death/injury count: Yar thrown.  Sorry, dead.  Riker’s now possessed by aliens.

Worf and Yar talking.  Cool.

Before they even came up, I could tell something was wrong due to the music.

Evil puddle on the ground.  That’s what it is.

Throw a rock at it!

WAIT NO THAT’S THE BLACK OIL *PLAYS X-FILES THEME*

Don’t pay attention to the wizard behind the curtain.

It’s not every day you expect a cross-over with the X-files.

Uhhh, if she’s dead, how would Sickbay help?

…that’s a defib.

You don’t often meet nihilist monster oils.

Deanna is more interesting here than in, like, ever really.

Thoughtful Worf!!!

You’re kidding, this is a black oil monster bullied story?  Wait, this is…Jeff the Killer, oil version???

It’s using—no.  it’s not.  (I thought it would use Riker’s body.)

I like this conversation.

NEVER TRUST TITANS, SERIOUSLY

….uh, that’s a different tack than I would’ve gone.  I would’ve said that abandoning a creature that needs attention would be evil.

TNG episodes, other than a few, either start out awful or begin awful and have a change midway.

Where in the world are you?  this is the cliché image of heaven.

Just when she started to get interesting.

“You are the best.”  That’s a way of talking.

I like her message to Worf.

Guys can cry!

It must suck to be the empath, feeling everyone else’s sorrow.

That’s human-like grief, Data.