"Family"

[Alrik]

I've always felt 'Family' was the perfect 'book end' for BoBW ever since the first time it aired. It has alway been around my top 25.

What a shame that the Picard family angle was thrown away in Generations. There was some great potential there.

Try this, look at 'Generations' the same way I do. It was just another of Data's dream sequences and never really happend. There, feel better now?

 

[RegFan]

I really like this episode, and I actually prefer it to The Inner Light (seeing as those two episodes are so similar). I especially love the ending and the scene where Picard breaks down.

 

[Archaeologist]

This is definitely one of my favorite episodes. I wouldn't say I prefer it to The Inner Light, but it's definitely up there. Family is very moving, actually, and is a memorable, dramatic episode. I found the scene where Picard and his brother hug and end all of their differences to be heartwarming. I also liked Worf meeting his parents.

 

[Mojochi]

The other thing that made this episode a challenge to get approved was that there's no fantasy or science fiction aspect to the story itself at all, beyond the century it's coincidentally set in.

There was the Atlantis Project, that his old friend Louis was involved with, an attempt to create a new continent in the Atlantic Ocean

A definite favorite of mine, this episode. It's when I really knew that some of the really terrific stuff in season 3 wasn't just a fluke, & that we finally had a verifiable long running sci-fi of high quality

 

[Solarbaby]

A brilliant light hearted episode with moments of tragedy and realisation at the danger of space exploration and how those at home are affected. This is far superior to the inner light which I hate.

Worf's parents were great to watch

 

[nx1701g]

This has been one of my favorite episodes since I first saw it. Interestingly the relationship between Jean-Luc and Robert is very similar to the relationship between myself and my brother (and yes we have had fights like that in the garden behind our home).

 

[Flying Spaghetti Monster]

(It's also, I believe, the only episode of the series where we never once see the bridge.)

They never showed it during Liaisons either, and maybe a couple of others.

 

[BolianAuthor]

Just re-watched this one after not seeing it for quite awhile and I have to say it's a much better episode than I had remembered. Maybe just because it followed "The Best of Both Worlds," I didn't appreciate it at first.


But this is a very important episode for JLP and TNG in general. Following the TBoBW epic, this is a very fitting episode in the larger TNG story for so many reasons. More generally, I liked how it depicted the family experience from several different points of view -- siblings, parents, and children. And the moral of the story is timeless: cherish those around you while you still can.


To top it off, the "let him dream" line --with the shot of an imaginative youth looking up at the heavens --is a perfect ending. This one might always be underrated because of what came immediately before it, but it just moved up on my personal TNG list.

This is probably my favorite TNG episode, for all the reasons you mentioned.

 

[Sorak]

I watched this episode only a few days ago. Great stuff, I agree with what has been said by M-red and Red Ranger.