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Star Trek: The Next Generation, 115 (Feb. 6, 1988) - “Too Short a Season”

Teleplay by: Michael Michaelian & D.C. Fontanta Story by: Michael Michaelian Directed by: Rob Bowman

The Breakdown

A Federation ambassador and their team have been taken hostage on Persephone V by alleged terrorists who refuse to talk to their planetary leader, Karnas. So who WILL they talk to? None other than the legendary Admiral Mark Jameson, who successfully negotiated a hostage situation on Persephone V, some 45 years ago. Though his aging body has been ravaged by an incurable degenerative illness (confining him to a wheel chair), his mind is still sharp, and therefore has been given command of the mission with the aid of Picard and the Enterprise. However, as the Enterprise makes its way to Persephone, our boy Mark begins to regain his strength and virility! This on its own should be impossible, but when the Admiral starts to rapidly grow younger it raises more than a few eyebrows. We discover that Jameson has been taking an alien de-aging treatment, which is extremely risky for most species. With his new mission, Jameson apparently felt that he would take two full doses of the treatment all at once (instead of one dose slowly over years), so that he could be in his physical prime and ready for action.

So why the urgent need for his restored youth? Well, it turns out that Jameson may not have used the most ethical of tactics in that hostage situation all those years ago. You see, back in the day Karnas’ house was just one of several families fighting for planetary dominance, and he was also the dude holding the hostages that Jameson originally “negotiated to freedom.” Karnas had demanded an exchange of weapons for the lives of his hostages, so that he could gain the upper hand in his fight for political dominance. Giving weapons to aid a non-federation civil war is strictly prohibited by the prime-directive, but seeing no other way out, Jameson opted for super neat loophole; He gave Karnas his weapons, and then once the hostages were safe, also provided all of Karnas’ enemies the same weapons, resulting in a 40 year war that killed millions (which TECHNICALLY doesn’t violate the prime directive, I guess). Jameson then lied about all this in his report, and the federation evidently never bothered to corroborate any of it (which doesn’t speak to larger cover-up at all).

Not being the forgiving sort, Karnas has now taken the present-day federation delegates hostage in exchange for Jameson’s life (the alleged terrorists never existed). In the mean time, that treatment that's restored Jameson’s youth has gone too far, as his health rapidly declines from his organs imploding. Realizing this is the end of the line, Jameson gives himself over to Karnas who ultimately satisfies himself with watching Jameson die painfully in front of him. Since he did technically get what he wanted, Karnas agrees to honour his terms, and allows the hostages to go free.

The moral of the story: If an a guest Admiral boards your ship to command an away mission, prepare yourself for some morally dubious goings-on.

The Verdict

My biggest criticism is how little starfleet seems to hold their commanding officers accountable. Even accepting that Karnas kept Jameson’s secret, I find it hard to believe that between all the other warring factions, that word wouldn’t have gotten back to Starfleet command/the Federation about their inadvertent sponsorship of a planetary war. I also think that realistically Picard should have just contacted Starfleet as soon as their assigned Admiral started de-aging 50 years immediately before heading up a vital mission. The same could be said for Jameson’s sudden decision to switch from negotiations to a surprise offensive (which fails miserably), but then I guess that would make for a short episode. Needless to say, Picard is going to have one hell of a report to submit.

All that aside, I otherwise quite enjoyed this episode. The story nicely sets up the reveal of Jameson’s past misdeeds, showing us that our heroes are often not what we imagine them to be. Jameson’s actions initially feel irrational and contrived, until we understand he’s just a desperate man running from his past out of guilt and shame. It makes for a mostly-relevant observation of the way our own political and military leadership alter history to the benefit their legacy, while avoiding accountability for their actions. Very Shakespearean stuff.

3 stars (out of 5)

Additional Observations

Power Corrupts Starfleet Admirals: This is the first corrupt 24th century Admiral that we’ll run into, but it’s a trope that I believe goes all the way back to the TOS era. It makes sense given that Starfleet apparently has no follow-up process with commanding officers after major missions.

Jameson armed multiple hostile factions in a global dispute, ostensibly without Starfleet’s knowledge or approval; which leads me to wonder where he procured the weapons that he gave away? Am I to believe that he used his ship’s replicators to provide enough artillery to fuel a world war? Wouldn’t that raise a few eyebrows amongst his crew, some of whom must have had their reservations over such a questionable bargain? As much as I enjoy Star Trek, there are some mental gymnastics one must perform in order to ignore the otherwise-fairly-obvious signs of widespread corruption within Starfleet’s upper echelons.

Although Picard and Crusher are probably the most featured main-cast members of the episode, the story is predominantly driven by Mark Jameson. Unlike future evil-admirals who will function as proper villains, this episode comes closer to framing Jameson as the protagonist, making him more of an anti-hero.

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Release: June 2, 2023

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I still hear you

I know what I should say

"I don't think of you, " but I do

Oh, I do, I do

Black car on the highway

Could've sworn I saw your face

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Call me, "Baby"

I know you go home to another one

Say you hate me

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Like I still belong to you

Do you? Do you?

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Call me, "Baby"

I know you go home to another one

Say you hate me

It's okay, boy, you're not the only one

Another year, we're still here

Call me, "Baby"

I know you go home to another one

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I know you go home to another one

Another year, we're still here

Call me, "Baby"

I know you go home to another one

Leroy James Clampitt / Lucy Alexandra Michaelian / Madison Elle Beer / Timothy Paul Sommers

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smrcministry · 10 months

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🕊️REMEMBERING MARTYRIES:

🌱As today, in years past: the tragic murder of Rev. Tateos Michaelian in Iran. Rev. Michaelian, a brilliant scholar and translator as well as pastor, was killed in June 1994. He was disappeared #OTD in 1994. His body was found 3 days later, riddled with bullets.

As a true lover and proclaimer of the Word of God, we are sure Tateos would be delighted that million copies of the Scriptures have been printed. As a result, countless Iranians have come to faith; lives, marriages and whole families have been transformed; churches have been planted and strengthened; and the hunger for the Word of God keeps growing.

Rev. Michaelian did not live to see the remarkable harvest in Iran. But God had given him faith for the generations to come. When asked why he was eager to translate so many Christian books into Persian, he responded, "Now we have very few Persian-speaking Christians, but I know God will have plenty in a few years. I know that this is God's plan for Iran... I know the doors will be opened for Christ."

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Bonesaw Helps Nailers Cut Through Iowa in Series Opener, 5-2

Things got interesting in the closing minutes of Wednesday night's series opener between the Wheeling Nailers and Iowa Heartlanders at Xtream Arena, but in the end, the Nailers had it all the way. After Austin Eastman tied the score with his second goal of the contest, Jarrett Lee put the Nailers ahead with 4:38 to go. Thanks to insurance strikes by Ross Krieger and Keltie Jeri-Leon, Wheeling never looked back, as it earned a 5-2 win. Brad Barone was a big reason his team ended up on the right side of the equation, as he denied 38 shots between the pipes. Both teams got on the scoreboard in the first period. Iowa collected the first marker of the night, which came just 2:02 into the contest. Justin Michaelian sent an aerial pass to the front of the crease, and got a friendly bounce, as the puck hit off of teammate Austin Eastman and dribbled in over the line. The Nailers had a plethora of chances in the opening stanza, as they peppered the net with 17 shots. The 17th one went in to tie the match. Chris Ortiz carried the puck out of the right corner and set off chaos around the crease. David Jankowski ultimately dragged the puck free, and deposited a wrist shot into the right side of the cage. Goaltending helped to preserve the 1-1 tie in the early stages of the second period, which featured Brad Barone's best sequence of the evening, as he denied three straight high-grade scoring opportunities. Wheeling fed off of the tremendous play of its keeper and scored a go-ahead marker moments later. Keltie Jeri-Leon helped battle the puck out of the defensive zone, then got rewarded on the other end, when he zipped a pass from Peter Laviolette in from the right circle. The score stayed that way for over 27 minutes, before the Heartlanders pulled even at the 14:44 mark of the third. Nolan Orzeck drilled a shot from the slot, which was stopped by Barone. However, the rebound fell out to Eastman on the left, who potted his second of the evening. The Nailers immediately put their heads down and battled back to retake the lead 38 seconds later. Cédric Desruisseaux slid a pass into the right circle for Jarrett Lee, who roofed a wrist shot into the top-right corner of the twine. Ross Krieger added a big insurance tally 1:28 after that, when he gobbled up a loose puck in the left circle, and also flew his shot into the right side of the net. Jeri-Leon put the finishing touches on the 5-2 Wheeling triumph with his second of the night, as he found the vacant goal from his own side of the red line. Brad Barone was outstanding to earn the victory for the Nailers, as he made a season-high 38 saves on 40 shots. Hunter Jones also had a busy night for Iowa, as he came away with 40 stops on 44 attempts in the loss. The Nailers and Heartlanders will have Thursday off, before concluding the 2022-23 season with games on Friday and Saturday at 8:05 in Coralville. The Wheeling Nailers, considered one of the top things to do in Wheeling, West Virginia, provide affordable family entertainment for fans throughout the Ohio Valley. Read the full article

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Kourken Michaelian's simulation theory of memory (STM) is slowly becoming the leading post-causal theory of episodic memory. Put forward in the already seminal Mental Time Travel, STM characterizes episodic memory as a kind of imaginative simulation, performed by a cognitive system aiming to represent an episode from one's personal past. In this brief essay, I examine the notion of simulation and the role it plays in the simulation theory. I argue that the notion is importantly ambiguous and that this ambiguity may threaten some of the central commitments of STM.

(PDF) Is the simulation theory of memory about simulation?

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The Shaman's Apprentice

Episode Recap #50: The Shaman's Apprentice Original Airdate: June 3, 1989

Starring: John D. LeMay as Ryan Dallion Louise Robey as Micki Foster Chris Wiggins as Jack Marshak

Guest cast: Paul Sanchez as John White Cloud (as Paul Miceli-Sanchez) Gordon Tootoosis as Spotted Owl Heather Hess as Sasheena Isabelle Mejias as Blair Gerard Paul Miller as Dr. Eric Jeffries Fiona Reid as Vera Anderson James B. Douglas as Dr. Thomas Lamar Ellen Horst as Nurse Meredith Peter James Haworth as Dr. Ralph Walker Candee Jennings as Night Nurse (as Candace Jennings) Tom Harvey as Harrison Bill Vibert as Anaesthetist

Written by Michael Michaelian Directed by William Fruet

This week, we are at Riverview Hospital, and join a surgery in progress. One doctor is not thrilled by a younger doctor's advice to proceed carefully. The older doc, Dr. Lamar, is also not a fan of both the low-income patient or the Native American nationality of the younger man, John White Cloud. Soon, the surgery goes awry, and John calls Lamar a butcher, causing the older surgeon to revoke all of his privileges at that hospital.

Later, at a small home, a Native American Shaman is chanting and telling an ill man he can rise and walk, but he cannot. Shaman then says his time has come. He doesn't want to hear it and offers money. John shows up, he is the Shaman's grandson. Him and a young woman, Sasheena, leave to talk. Seems his family wanted him to follow in his grandfather's footsteps instead of going to med school. Sasheena is learning, instead.

They go to a ceremonial place and John notices an old Shaman's rattle, a symbol of the power over life and death. It shakes as he holds it and spirits moan. A vision shows him the healing power of the rattle.

Later, at the hospital room of the surgical patient, John arrives to check on him. Another doc says Lamar is going to be pissed he came and picks up the phone. John holds the rattle up, it shakes and flies into the air. The other doc screams in pain and has a gory aneurysm and dies. John grabs the rattle and tells the patient in bed he will be okay.

At Curious Goods, Micki asks Jack to cover as she visits a sick friend, Blair, in Riverview Hospital. Seems her friend has a rare lung cancer. Seems only 1% survive.

John is at the hospital and another doctor, Jeffries, tries to talk with him, telling him to stop upsetting Lamar. John won't listen, saying Lamar isn't really interested in patients, just money.

John comes in to check on Vera, a patient who shares a room with Blair. She says she's in pain, John says he'll talk to Lamar as the man walks in. Lamar says they have done all they can for Vera. John tries to talk to him, but he won't listen, and tells John after today he better not see him in the hospital again. John appeals to the nurse, but she sides with Lamar.

That night, John follows the nurse to a supply room, and she isn't happy to see him. John says she just dopes the patients up and holds up the rattle. It flies about and kills the nurse. He then holds it over Vera and chants, as Blair watches.

Next day, Vera is arguing with Lamar, saying she is well and leaving. She won't listen and packs her bag. She tells Blair to visit with Dr. White Cloud. Blair tells Micki what she saw. Micki tries to calm Blair, who then tells her about the dead nurse. Micki tells her she will look into it.

The old man who the Shaman couldn't cure is seen by John, who asks how much a cure would be worth to him. John says he wants a fully staffed clinic. The man thinks John is just like the rest, but John offers to prove it with another patient.

Micki tells Jack and Ryan about what's going on at Riverview. They all agree it sounds like a cursed item. Jack remembers something in the manifest. He finds an entry for the ceremonial rattle Lewis sold to someone named Spotted Owl. He is the tribal Shaman of the local Iroquois reservation. Jack says he'll go alone.

Jack visits Spotted Owl and says he wants to buy back the rattle to keep it safe in their vault, but Spotted Owl disagrees. He says it belongs to his tribe, but Jack worries in the wrong hands it isn't so benign. Spotted Owl knows Jack means well, but says the rattle is in a safe place. Jack says otherwise, and the old man says he will look into it himself.

Sasheena, Spotted Owl's granddaughter, walks Jack to his car and tells Jack about John, but has faith in her grandfather. Jack isn't so sure, and leaves. Sasheena and Spotted Owl go to where the rattle was kept and find it gone. Sasheena says John was there with her.

Later, at a ceremony, Spotted Owl calls to the sprits to give him a vision of guidance. He sees John at the hospital, with the rattle, following Lamar. He hears Lamar talk about a patient of his that will help change medicine. John slips into this young patient's room and uses the rattle to kill him. Spotted Owl is shocked by this.

At his clinic, John brings in a young boy with the same illness as the old man. John uses the now-powered up rattle on the boy to prove what he can do for the sick man.

Micki is trying to help Blair deal with the treatment she is undergoing, but Blair is desperate and wants to go to John for help.

Later, John walks the young boy, now healed, out of the hospital. The old man says he will be back and his accountants will be in touch. Ryan shows up and asks John about what Blair saw him do. John says he uses herbs and extracts, and was just chanting a mantra to calm his patient. He leaves.

At the store, Ryan tells Jack that the old man's chauffeur told him the boy he was was deathly ill when he entered John's clinic. And that old man Harrison is just as ill. Micki arrives with info from the hospital about the young patient's strange death. Jack connects all the dots, from dead people to cured patients. Jack says he has to go visit Spotted Owl again. Ryan is unsure why John would use a cursed item.

Sasheena is visiting John and asking him to return the rattle. He says he can do more good with it, saying Spotted Owl lied to her. But Sasheena isn't buying it, saying John has changed. She asks him to bring the rattle back and that their grandfather is preparing a ceremony to take the rattle's power away.

Micki is trying to talk with Lamar, but he isn't interested and cuts her off. Dr. Jeffries tells Micki that Lamar was served with a malpractice suit. Micki asks what happened, and Jeffries fills her in on the death and the feud between Lamar and John. He then tells her Blair is leaving for John's clinic. Micki rushes to talk sense into Blair, who won't listen. She tells Micki she's fighting for her life.

Spotted Owl tells Jack he was right about John having the rattle, but he won't risk Jack's life. He says he will work on getting the rattle back himself, and tells Jack to return tomorrow.

Later, John arrives but tells his grandfather he's keeping the rattle. Spotted Owl tells him he saw him kill with it. He tells him to return it or he will call on the spirits. John argues with him, then holds the rattle up to kill the old man, who does battle with the item, but to no avail. The rattle kills Spotted Owl. Sasheena watches and goes to he old man. John grabs the rattle and screams, but blames the old man for not listening.

At the clinic, John has cured the old man, who walks on his own. He asks John if he wants more than just a fully funded clinic. He leaves, and Lamar approaches John. He tells him the medical board is shutting John's clinic down. John almost hits the man, but stops, even though Lamar taunts him.

Micki, Ryan and Jack try to figure out what John will do next. Micki wonders if John will kill Lamar and then heal Blair. Jack tells her this is wrong, no matter how horrible a person Lamar is. But Micki says Blair is young, and should be worth more than an old bigot.

At the clinic, Blair begs John for help. John tells her to come back in a few days, and hints that Lamar may even be of help to her recovery. Later, at the hospital, Lamar is grabbed by John.

Jack, Micki and Ryan go to Spotted Owl's home, but Sasheena tells them her grandfather is dead. She asks Jack to help her awaken the spirits of her ancestors to stop John, who has tied up Lamar and is torturing him first.

Sasheena takes the trio to the burial cave of the Shaman, and they all head inside. They find this is where John has Lamar, and Sasheena says John is trying to purify himself. She tells them they have to proceed the right way and calls to the spirits to stop White Cloud. The spirits appear and tell John he has to return with them. He vanishes, leaving the rattle behind. Which Micki picks up, then goes to comfort Sasheena as Jack and Ryan untie Lamar.

Another day, Micki is wandering in the store. Ryan arrives and tells Jack he watched Sasheena put the rattle back into the burial cave. He thinks it should be in the vault, but Jack says it isn't theirs, and is sure Sasheena and the spirits will guard it. Ryan asks how Lamar is, Jack says fine. Micki thinks it is unfair that Blair is still going to die and Lamar is fine. Jack tries to comfort her. We see Blair arrive at the closed clinic, looking hopeless.

My thoughts:

A good episode, with a different type of antique.

I like how most here all want to do the right thing, but go about it all wrong. Lamar is a good doctor, but mainly for the acclaim and esteem that brings to him. John wants to heal, but then has no problem killing others to kill those he wants to heal. Vera, Blair, the old man, all want to be well without knowing how. And even Micki herself treads a dangerous line when comparing Blair's life to Lamar's. Quite a lot of moral quandaries.

I like how good our trio has gotten about figuring out the curses and how to approach the prospect of getting them back without causing more deaths.

The deaths caused by the rattle are intense. I liked how Micki described the nurse's death as way less gruesome than it actually was.

I also liked how Spotted Owl and the other spirits stopped John, not by going after the rattle a second time, but just removing John from the equation. No John, then the rattle is just lying there.

Also interesting that Jack lets or rather accepts Sasheena keeping the rattle in the cave. I can see Ryan's worry, but Jack is right, I guess. Not their place to just take it.

Very sad end, with Blair just finding her last hope gone. Big downer.

Next week: The Prisoner

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nedsecondline · 1 year

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Winter Birds — William Michaelian

Look at them. Some are so small, they seem only feathers and a heartbeat. And though we’re made differently, we’re made of the same things, and share…Winter Birds — William Michaelian

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Ehnenn, Jill R., ‘“Drag(ging) at memory’s fetter”: Michael Field’s personal elegies, Victorian mourning, and the problem of Whym Chow’, The Michaelian, n.s., 1 (2009)

Feuerstein, A, The political lives of Victorian animals: Liberal creatures in literature and culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019).

Field, Michael, Whym Chow: Flame of Love (London: Eragny Press, 1914).

Finch-Hatton, Harold, Advance Australia! An account of Eight Years’ Work, Wandering, and Amusement in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria (London: W.H. Allen, 1885).

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