Yup. I've seen a handful of episodes, those comfy ol' favorites, but am rewatching what are sometimes perceived as "lesser episodes" to gain a new perspective. "Tuvix" and "Microcosm" being two recent examples, though "Tuvix" is largely great and "Microcosm" is still better than the sum of its parts despite not being as robust as it otherwise could be, but both are still better than many offerings from TNG seasons 5-7.
Another recently rewatched entry was one of the least-liked by fandom, known as "Twisted". It's twisted for sure. There's no real way they could have made it work convincingly without another rewrite and refining. The high concept notion of making the ship like a labyrinth where its corridors change is a creative one (which I'd seen once before in another show), but on top of a spatial distortion put in as a generic cause of the problem, they made it worse by making the spatial anomaly a sentient one that's even trying to say "Howdy, may I borrow a cup of sugar from you while I fiddle with your corridors and try to crush you?" at the end just craters the episode that was already sinking, but at least they kept the cause of the problems held back to keep the moment of the current situation relatively intriguing. (Oh yeah, via X, Y, and Z axes, they could have used that "Z" one to go up and around the ring around the collar there and not worry in the slightest...) But the ship would have been torn apart long before it looped itself. The episode needed another draft to refine the ideas a bit more. Of course, as a loose metaphor, the story, its ideas, and presentation could work as something else... albeit completely unintentionally.
I'm not sure I want to give "Threshold" another viewing but it's been over a decade now... with luck, maybe I'll have misjudged it so badly that I'll go find the action figure - the one with his three tadpole offpsring he co-created - to put on display... that's right kids, your least favorite Trek adventure of all time was so misleadingly bad that they made collectible figures to play with. Just don't give them to Dark Helmet...
Cuz that's how it's really done.
Am looking forward to "Prey" and "Killing Game" again, though they're more of the go-to episodes than the mid-level ones...
