Trekathon 234: Time’s Arrow (TNG)
April 26th, 2010Silly Data. You’re meant to leave your heart in San Francisco, not your head.
Much like Unification this episode suffers a bit from the prologue problem – not as badly as Unification, as at least this doesn’t feel too much like padding. But it’s hard to judge, as it feels like only half a story – not a cliffhanger per se.
It falls into the same problem a lot of time travel episodes have, with the gratuitous name dropping. Just once I’d like a time travel episode where they don’t run into a famous person, or some critical event.
Of the season ending two-parters (Best of Both Worlds, Redemption and this) it’s clearly the weakest – good, but not great. There isn’t the same sense of broad consequences, just a risk for one of the crew.
234 down, 503 to go.