Still powering through TNG season 7. I got to the point of the season lull, where I really became so disinterested, episodes got bad, they felt like they were phoning it in, I noticed the warts more because everything was so bad or lackluster, and it felt like a different show. And it put me to the point of being glad there was not a season 8. It also put me to the point of researching why it felt so different, which was because Michael Piller went to focus on DS9, handed it off to Jeri Taylor, and the show closed itself to outside script submissions. And in addition, they were stretched between the series, the film, DS9 and planning Voyager. However, as I'm nearing the end, it is starting to pick up again and it feels like they readjusted themselves by "Lower Decks". "Genesis" is bad, but I like "Masks" and it feels like a season 8 would have been back to task if it had ever been. But alas, what awaits me is a movie worse than the final episode and Paramount blowing up the Enterprise-D for dramatic effect.