101 Skin of Evil: Tasha's Goodbye

[Jehanne]

Very touching and very moving:






"Death is that state in which one exists only in the memory of others, which is why it is not an end but a beginning..."

[Angrboda]

The only good part about that episode is that Tasha dies. God I hated that character. And Denise Crosby couldn't act her way out of a wet paper sack.

[vulcanlogician]

I'm one of the few people who actually likes "Skin of Evil." Maybe it's cuz I like mythology. (There was a whole backstory about great beings who left the planet, leaving behind their evil natures who all coalesced into that episode's villain.)

I'm pretty "meh" about Denise Crosby and her character, Tasha Yar. I thought it was cool how they brought her back in "Yesterday's Enterprise" and I quite enjoyed the story arc that followed from that too.

[Jehanne]

The only good part about that episode is that Tasha dies. God I hated that character. And Denise Crosby couldn't act her way out of a wet paper sack.

That was, technically, not her last episode as Natasha. The studio filmed one episode with her after the Skin of Evil episode (which, of course, they aired before), and if you look carefully, you can see her waving goodbye in the background!

[KevinM1]

The only good part about that episode is that Tasha dies.  God I hated that character.  And Denise Crosby couldn't act her way out of a wet paper sack.

That was, technically, not her last episode as Natasha.  The studio filmed one episode with her after the Skin of Evil episode (which, of course, they aired before), and if you look carefully, you can see her waving goodbye in the background!

"Symbiosis." The one where the guy who played Kirk's son is a drug addict, and the drug is made, in part, by the guy who played Khan's right hand man in Star Trek II. She waves goodbye in the final scene, when Picard and Crusher are leaving the cargo bay.

And, yeah, Tasha Yar as a character was pretty meh. The whole "I was an orphan on a dystopian planet that featured roving rape gangs" backstory was just... ugh.

I think "Skin of Evil" gets a bad rap because there's far too much season 1 Troi (when she was simply there to be exotic and sensitive and... *puke*) mewling and pop-psychiatry-ing in the crashed shuttlecraft. The best parts are when the creature is fucking with the crew, and then Picard telling it to go fuck itself. And, of course, Tasha dying.

[The Valkyrie]

Skin of Evil was right up there with The Royale.

Bloody awful episodes.

But, let's be honest, seasons one and two of TNG were mediocre. The same is true for DS9, of course.

[vorlon13]

Arfg !!

Made me think of Savage Curtain

[The Valkyrie]

Arfg !!

Made me think of Savage Curtain

Don't even get me started on TOS...

[Jehanne]

Arfg !!

Made me think of Savage Curtain

Don't even get me started on TOS...

Don't you remember the actor who got killed off in one episode, only to appear in a later one? It was mostly the guys in red who ended up perishing. Hmmm...

[Angrboda]

Don't you remember the actor who got killed off in one episode, only to appear in a later one?  It was mostly the guys in red who ended up perishing.  Hmmm...

Mark Lenard played a Romulan Commander in The Balance Of Terror, and in later Star trek played Sarek, Spock's father.