"Lower decks" --- the first "dark" TNG episode?

[data_lover]

huh, maybe because i only watched tng and never read the books i wasn't particularly invested in sito and so wasn't upset or surprised by her demise. she was a red shirt in disguise in my head.

 

[Michael]

"Conspiracy" Didn't work for me. The story felt like it was rushed. It had great potential which I think was wasted by wrapping it up in one episode. To me it was a storyline that could only really work by having a story arc over an entire series(at least). The initial warnings should have come at the start, with a few warnings and clues coming in subsequent episodes, followed by a danger point, and near disaster where the Enterprise crew are infiltrated then have to fight their way to earth. Then the final showdown at Starfleet HQ.

Not necessarily what you would have wanted, but actually the events of Conspiracy were foreshadowed in the earlier episode Coming of Age, thus making it The Next Generation's first quasi-arc.

huh, maybe because i only watched tng and never read the books i wasn't particularly invested in sito and so wasn't upset or surprised by her demise. she was a red shirt in disguise in my head.

You might want to rewatch the TNG episode The First Duty, were Sito's character was originally introduced.