Seasons 7 is harder to get through than Season 1

Season 7 is more competently made.

Season 1 is far more interesting though. Plus, it has better music.

 

Season 1, TNG was still finding it's own identity. Many of its episodes played on themes from TOS. By S7, it had found it's own path... and perhaps gotten a bit complacent on it.

 

Season 1 was about exploration; Season 7 downplayed the exploration in favor of military intrigue.

 

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The Better Episodes (IMHO)

Season 1:

1. Encounter At Farpoint
2. Where No One Has Gone Before
3. The Battle
4. Hide & Q (some of it, anyway)
5. Datalore (not for the plot but its execution, which is pretty amazing considering what's on paper)
6. 11001001
7. Home Soil
8. Coming of Age
9. Heart of Glory
10. Skin of Evil (some of it, anyway)
11. Conspiracy

Season 7:

1. Phantasms (some of it, anyway)
2. Parallels (up until the ending that conflates space with time travel reset button magic)
3. The Pegasus
4. Lower Decks (some of it, anyway)
5. Thine Own Self
6. Genesis (not for the plot but its execution, which is pretty amazing considering what's on paper)
7. All Good Things...

For episode count, season 1 wins out for me.
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I've run the numbers time and again as well and season 1 always edges out season 7 for total number of better episodes. Even though Pegasus and All Good Things are 2 of my favorite episodes, gotta go with season 1 for the win overall. Much maligned for the uniforms and a couple of big turd episodes, season 1 is intriguing, engaging and adventurous despite it all.

 

I’d take S1 and S2 of TNG over S6 and S7 every time.

While it’s very clear the first two seasons are flawed and unsure, they are rarely boring. The last two seasons of TNG are just so pedestrian and dull that it is an immense slog to get through.

 

I agree almost entirely with this list, except I’d strike “Datalore” from S1 and “Genesis” from S7, both of which I think are horrible.

 

Season 7 feels oh so very tired.

 

The admiral's banquet bit could have been dispensed with.

Though I wonder what kind of consequences Picard had to face for conveniently failing to get to yet another admiral's banquet... maybe they made him attend the next three in a row. Bad idea to piss off Evil Admirals...

 

Season 7 gets a lot of critique but from the latter seasons I think it's stronger than season 6.
Warning - this post might include an opinion.

 

We don't post opinions; we post irrefutable facts.

 

Well, in that case I must be somekind of mirror Trek BBS posting thing.

 

The only irrefutable fact is that there are no irrefutable facts.

 

I disagree.

 

I am flattered, but...I won't be exploding today.

 

Depends on how you define 'exploding'. The day is not over yet, after all.

 

*Snickers*
*Giggles*
*Laughs out loud*
*Howls with laughter*
*Rolls on the floor laughing*

 

Season 7 had 5 classic episodes and two or three good ones:

All Good Things...
The Pegasus
Lower Decks
Pre-emptive Strike
Parallels
Inheritance
Phantasms

Everything else ranges from guilty pleasure (Genesis) to what the hell were they thinking (Sub Rosa, Force of Nature.) There were also a lot of mediocre tech plots or repetitive long-lost family member-of-the-week episodes.

You can tell that the writing staff are burnt out, and it's a shame that they didn't end in S6. S6 wasn't perfect by any means, but it still felt more like the show.

I think TNG for me didn't gel until season two when Wesley was toned down a bit from his boy genius status. S2 I rate above of S7.

That said, the show was definitely picking up in the last third of S1.

 

I don't think they were burnt out. I think they were too distracted and focused on an upcoming movie (2 scripts being written by TNG's top talent starting in the middle of season 6) and ramping up Voyager.

Take these 2 things away and I bet it would have been a much tighter season.

 

Once again I must say that I'm not 100% sure but didn't Ronald D. Moore say that while he and Brannon Braga were writing 'All Good Things...' they were also working on 'Generations' and sometimes almost mixed the two during writing?