Another one of my long-winded lists.
6. “The Golden Boys” – Admiral Paris, Joe Sisko, Boothby, and Ambassador Spock move to a condo in Miami Beach and there enjoy some Centrum Silver moments. An even older member of the household adds extra spice, in the form of 300-year-old Admiral McCoy, who forgets every day that the “green-blooded son of a spork” he spends most of his time muttering about is his own roommate.
5. “Quark” – After he loses his bar, Quark finds himself the captain of a spacefaring garbage barge. His cohorts include a “transmute” with male and female characteristics, a highly-evolved plant-man named Ficus, Andy the Android, and Betty and Betty, who were always arguing over who was the clone of the other. Unceremoniously canceled and remembered only by those who obsess on TV/sci-fi trivia.
4. “Odo & Lwaxana” – Odo hangs out his shingle as a professional constable in New York, but spends most of his time palling around with his best friend Lwaxana, along with his flamboyant sidekick and her shrill secretary. Try as he might, Odo can’t find anyone “like him” to date, though he takes solace that the love life of man-hungry Lwaxana is even worse. At least they know that at the end of the day, they have their bitter, acerbic wisecracks.
3. “AfterTrek” – With “Next Generation” canceled, some of the bit players decide they want to keep their characters going. “AfterTrek” features Ensign Ro, Gowron, Nurse Ogawa, and Spot the Cat all ending up at Starbase Z97, bickering with each other, resolving minor emergencies, and trying desperately to ignore the gaping holes in their ensemble.
2. “The Powers of Julian Bashir” – On his 40th birthday Julian’s tweaked generic coding suddenly gives him uncanny “powers,” including the ability to accurately predict whether they’re in a Sisko-Gets-Angry episode or a Kira-Gets-Angry episode; the ability to visit the wormhole aliens and select which show they appear as characters from; and the ability to give O’Brien a “hotfoot” without the use of any matches whatsoever.
1. “I Love Beverly” – Zany hijinx ensue when the madcap redhead spins one scheme after another to get her own ship, despite the stolid interference of her foreigner husband, Jean-Luc Picard (played by a real-life foreigner himself!). When Beverly comes home after yet another medical starship has breeched its core, this wacky housefrau knows she’s got some “explaining” to do!
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