Nerd Tutorial Podcast

Topic: Star Trek Review   Last week we discuss the long lineage of Star Trek, how it's had a fixed rotation in syndication for decades after it went off air, it's dominance in the 90s, and it's revival over the last decade.  For our review, I had Mom watch some newer episodes of Next Generation.  It's an interesting conversation we had.   Review:   Offspring, Season 3, Episode, 16 Data creates an offspring called “Lal” and attempts to raise it as his own child.  Starfleet eventually learns of this and tries to take the project/android to be studied further, prompting Captain Picard to Step in.  Eventually, “Lal” is overwhelmed with emotions, causing a malfunction in its brain, which eventually causes her to shutdown forever. (Directed by Jonathan Frakes)   The Pegasus, Season 7, Episode 12 Admiral Pressman is trying to find the Pegasus, a starship lost to an asteroid field, using the Enterprise to do so.  Pressman and Riker have history and the Riker is coy about what really happened during a mutiny on the Pe