DVD, TNG S2 (The Outrageous Okona)
The B-story with Data attempting to learn how to be funny, wasn't played to its full potential, but even so, it's the more watchable strand of the episode for Guinan's input, and the Holodeck comic scenes. The events surrounding titular character Okona (pronounced O-Konna, but I always want to say O-Koh-na), are moderately watchable, but hardly engaging. He comes across as a space pirate, and one that has a lot of cheek. His 'charm' certainly seems to affect the normally strait-laced Starfleet females (including Teri Hatcher in an early role), making them seem rather unprofessional. It doesn't help that Riker and others find it amusing rather than keeping this 'rogue' in check.
Nice how it turns out he's simply covering for a couple of young lovebirds, and there's occasionally something to peak the interest, such as Worf stomping off to bring the outrageous one to the bridge - it wasn't just Worf, I wanted him to resist too! The writing's a bit flat, the effects of the ships aren't that great, but we get to see what may be the first 'conference' setting applied to a viewscreen. Small reason to rewatch... I have to say the quality of the first few episodes, which started well, has gone down each time, I think as a result of the writer's strike of that time. Season One is often considered to be the unbalanced one, but this season has matched it for unpredictable quality so far.
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