Classic TV themes in Trombone Champ
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Trombone Champion It is the gift that keeps on giving. Somehow, the gimmick of classic melodies being mockingly performed to the shrill tones of a poorly synthesized brass instrument never seems to get any less fun over time. Until now, probably because I tried to play some classic TV tunes in free play jam mode.
That is all. That is the writing. Can I leave it there, Tom? What more is there to say? I can do a deed Star Trek: The Next Generation best musically inspired episodes if you want. Well, I’m doing it anyway.
the inner light
Possibly the best episode of TNG (it won a Hugo Award and all), The Inner Light sees the crew of the Enterprise encounter an ancient probe from a long-extinct race of aliens whose planet, it seems, had been destroyed centuries earlier. An energy discharge from the device renders Captain Picard unconscious for a few minutes, but while he is out of action, he revives the entire life of Kamin, a gifted scientist who launched the probe as a kind of time capsule to preserve some of his dead civilization. .
It is this episode that gives Picard his Ressikan flute: an important moment in the character’s life, which will be referenced many times in the following decades.
lessons
Not as memorable an episode as The Inner Light, but just as important to Picard’s arc: It features a love interest (he didn’t have many because he’s old and bald), Lieutenant Commander Nella Daren, who appears as a star cartographer. expert and ends up teaching him how to play his Ressikan flute from the previous episode. A lot of other stuff happens too, but I’m not going to summarize the whole plot because I’m literally just doing this to complete the description of the video.
11001001
Most of the first season is coils, but there are a few gems, and this is one. It features a bunch of horrible little goblins making upgrades to the ship, and Riker taking the trombone out of it for a sexy holodeck character. Classic Berman-era nonsense, then, but oddly quite significant for Riker: the trombone frequently reappeared in the show as a constant source of comic relief.
Also, the aforementioned love interest Minuet would make a surprise return in the fourth season episode. imperfect future as Riker’s wife in a fabricated reality designed to convince him that a virus had robbed him of 16 years of memories, when in reality it was all a ruse concocted by a little alien who just wanted Riker to be his father.
Which is extremely relatable, because I wish he was my father.
Inheritance
Brent Spiner once opined that Data is the main character of TNG, and even though it’s an ensemble show, I understand where he’s coming from: Star Trek is as much about exploring what it means to be human as it is about exploring strange new worlds. and Data is an android on a personal quest to find his own humanity.
This quest comes to a head when Dr. Juliana Tainer, ostensibly Data’s “mother”, comes on board in season seven (after a long and twisted multi-season subplot about Data’s origins) and, to short, she is about his mother but also about his sister. But in a respectable science fiction grappling with the nature of the self a kind of way and not a kind of “extended family in Norfolk”.
well that’s enough
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