Episode of the Week: 3x02 "The Ensigns of Command"

[Trekker4747]

Never liked Gremlins 2, misses all of the darkness of the first one and is too self-aware.

 

[Dream]

Remember, "Generations" came years later, and by that point the writers and Spiner all felt they'd kind of exhausted other avenues with Data, and the chip was the next logical step. Beginning of season 3 was too soon for a lot of what Snodgrass was suggesting...

Too bad they realized what a horrible mistake they made giving Data the chip, and pretty much completely ignored it in the last two TNG movies...