![]() ![]() In the main plot, meanwhile, two separate races from different planets want Picard to turn over Okona for reasons they’re reluctant to share. STAR TREK SUB ROSA ANDROIDThe comedian is trying to teach Data about comedy by sharing famous jokes and the android gets so bored that, with a mischievous gleam in his eye, he fast-forwards the holographic funnyman to make the experience of listening to his act shorter and less painful. There is one good gag here and it predictably comes at Piscopo’s expense. The Next Generation hoped to land Jerry Lewis for the role of the comedian but he was filming a guest shot for Wiseguy instead so much of Piscopo’s performance consists of a terrible extended Lewis impersonation that causes Data to inquire, “If you put fake teeth in your mouth and jump around like an idiot, that is considered funny?” Data wonders aloud how one man can be so simultaneously sexy, funny and irresistible, leading him to seek comedy lessons from the comedian played by Piscopo. At the very least, the younger man would clearly appreciate any help he might be able to provide him in the all-important task of losing his cursed virginity.Įveryone is just way too impressed by Captain Okona and his stupid ponytail. Wesley is supposed to envy the stranded captain’s confidence and skill with the ladies but there’s something more than a little homoerotic about the way he looks at Okana as well. The dashing Captain who fucks takes an instant shine to Will Wheaton’s Wesley Crusher. I recently excised all references to Donald Trump from both versions of The Weird Accordion to Al partially because his presence in my book about “Weird Al” Yankovic’s life’s work seems to have enraged Trump super-fans and detractors alike but also because I worried that writing too much about the current president in a book like that might date it horribly. “The Outrageous Okona” combines my love of the mermerizingly awful with my overlapping fixation with the television and film career of Joe Piscopo, who guest stars in the episode as the 1980s comedian who teaches curious android Data (Brent Spiner) about comedy with a healthy assist from Whoopi Goldberg’s wise alien bartender Guinan. ![]() These episodes are only semi-random because while it is off-brand for me to write about any iteration of Star Trek I have long made my living writing about things that are egregiously, fascinatingly terrible and am also weirdly obsessed with the life and career of steroid-addled Jersey joker Joe Piscopo. The show is Star Trek: The Next Generation and the not so random episodes in question are “The Outrageous Okona” and “Sub Rosa.” This generous patron is now paying for me to watch and write about the cult animated show Batman Beyond and I also recently began even more screamingly essential deep dives into the complete filmographies of troubled video vixen Tawny Kitaen and troubled former Noxzema pitch-woman Rebecca Gayheart. STAR TREK SUB ROSA MOVIEI’m deep into a project on the films of the late, great, fervently mourned David Bowie and I have now watched and written about every movie Sam Peckinpah made over the course of his tumultuous, wildly melodramatic psychodrama of a life and career. STAR TREK SUB ROSA SERIESOr you can be like three kind patrons and use this column to commission a series of pieces about a filmmaker or actor. The price goes down to seventy-five dollars for all subsequent choices. It’s the career and site-sustaining column that gives YOU, the kindly, Christ-like, unbelievably sexy Nathan Rabin’s Happy Place patron, an opportunity to choose a movie that I must watch, and then write about, in exchange for a one-time, one hundred dollar pledge to the site’s Patreon account. ![]() Welcome, friends, to the latest entry in Control Nathan Rabin 4.0. ![]()
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