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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302703641
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302703646
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: May 31, 1995
Running Time: 46 minutes
Sales Rank: 13914
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: September 26, 1987
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
A substandard Trek adventure that attains a bit of notoriety as the final episode of Denise Crosby's Tasha Yar--at least until her cleverly conceived return in the third season's 'Yesterday's Enterprise.' When a shuttle crash strands Counselor Troi and a (barely glimpsed) crewman on a barren planet, the away team's efforts to rescue her are frustrated by a black, viscous pool that moves to block their path. The oily goop soon identifies itself as Armus, not an alien being per se, but rather the cast-off remnants of an ancient race that had learned how to make manifest the cruel, destructive sides of their own nature and abandoned this physical embodiment of evil as a hindrance to their evolution. Armus immediately proves his own motiveless malignancy by killing Tasha with wonton dispatch. But murder proves insufficient to satisfy his cravings, and he goes on to torment and torture the remainder of the landing team through such schoolyard stratagems as playing keep away with Geordi's visor and forcing Data to hold his phaser on his comrades. A pretty regrettable episode overall, with laughable dialogue and special effects (the evil oil slick may be the lamest-looking villain in all of Star Trek), but in hindsight the brutal offhandedness of Tasha's death, done without preamble or any great effort on Armus's part, was the first healthy sign that TNG would outgrow the self-congratulatory PC smugness of its first few seasons. --Bruce Reid
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - "I hope I met death with my eyes wide open."
Tasha Yar (Denise Crosby) exits Star Trek: The Next Generation in "Skin of Evil" and you cannot help but wonder why the writers did not give her a better send-off. Surely, the character deserved a better fate than being done in by a giant ink blot.
The Enterprise-D attempts to rescue the crew of a crashed shuttle on planet Vagra II. Their efforts are impeded by a living mass of black goo named Armus (Mart McChesney). Armus torments the away team sent to the planet and swiftly kills ... Read More
Rating:  - Nice video
Nice video but too much commercials in the beginning. Somehow I missed this episode and now completed my collection with this one. I'm not going to say anything about the content except it is a certified ST stuff. It sure is worth watching.
Rating: - Moving ending, rather ineffective getting there
This episode is memorable only for the demise of Tasha Yar and the holodeck scene where she says goodbye to her friends. A shuttle-containing counselor Troi crashes on Varga 2 and the Enterprise rushes to assist. When the landing party arrives on the surface, they are confronted by a mobile oil slick called Armus. He prevents them from reaching the shuttle containing Troi and the pilot and in a fit of pique, kills Tasha. Phaser fire is ineffective against him, so the landing party is powerless.
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Rating: - characters go through more development
Some of the plot has more than its fair share of holes in it, but you can see a substantial amount of character development between this and the first episode.
Troi is returning via shuttle from a conference, ready to rendevous with the Enterprise. The Enterprise, the flagship of the Federation fleet, only has one batch of Dilithium crystals, so when they're being aligned, it's tough cookies if you need to go to warp. No back up crystals - very interesting.
Troi's shuttle experiences ... Read More
Rating: - Tasha is killed by an annoying villain...
The villain in this episode, Armus, isn't really that much of a threat. And he's really annoying too. Tasha Yar dies so quickly, we almost don't believe it happened. Counselor Troi and Expendable Crewman #28b are trapped in a shuttlecraft surrounded by a large walking chocolate syrup monster. This guy can force people to do things for his own amusement, but fails to be amused by the Enterprise crew. Picard never even breaks a sweat in defeating Armus. This is a significant episode only because of Yar's death. ... Read More
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Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786302703641
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6302703646
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Release Date: May 31, 1995
Running Time: 46 minutes
Sales Rank: 13914
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: September 26, 1987