Better than the start of the episode suggested, but still not that great. I think the idea just wasn't strong enough on its own. The real strength of…
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Good teaser: the Enterprise explodes. Bad teaser: Data reads poetry and Riker falls asleep. This episode could have been great - aliens from another dimension stealing Enterprise crew…
Scotty! The third of the original crew to turn up in Next Generation, and the only one to get a story about him - Bones got a cameo,…
So, this ambassador who is really a psychic vampire turns up, seduces Troi, but then they work out what's happening and stop him. Yuck. Bad episode, bad premise,…
The basis of this episode feels very real - Transporter phobia would undoubtedly be a very real thing in the world of Star Trek. The episode starts out…
Not a great start to the new season - not bad, just missed the mark with me. We spend an awful lot of time with Sam Clemens -…
The season was chronologically split by the final movie of the original crew, making this a real season of two halves. Prior to *The Undiscovered Country* the episodes…
Silly 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…
Simple. Affecting. Beautiful. Perfect. 233 down, 504 to go.
G-g-g-g-g-ghost Bajoran! Telling a good Star Trek story is about balancing the philosophical with the plot action. We want to see a good SF idea explored, but also…