[TNG] Season 2, Episode 14 (Netflix: S2 E14): The Icarus Factor
Rating: 2
Riker has father issues. If this seems like a lame theme to you, you’d probably want to skip this one.
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Notes:

Riker confronts Pulaski about them having a history and Pulaski says “it wasn’t exactly a secret, it just never really came up.” Well, there was that one time Riker was making eggs with Pulaski and he started talking about his father

Worf is also having a problem this episode of yelling at everyone. Wesley, Data, and Geordi are trying to figure out what’s wrong

Worf’s friends and Pulaski gather to watch him go through a Klingon ritual. Worf was upset because he thought he didn’t have anyone he could do it with

Riker and his dad decide they’d like to duke it out. Kyle Riker: “Anbo-jyutsu, the ultimate evolution in the martial arts.” They probably say this at the beginning of every match to make themselves feel less stupid

This fight could have been cool, like if it was similar to the fight at the end of Red River, or maybe like in The Big Country, in that they fight to exhaustion in order to sort out their differences. Instead it’s Anbo-jyutsu, the silliest thing ever thought up
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