Shades Of Grey

[Trek Survivor]

"Shades of The Gray" isn't too bad. Those that think it is haven't seen some of the truly dreadful "excuses-for-clip-show" episodes from shows such as "Friends", "Simpsons", "Frasier" and others.

At least it wasn't a: One of the crew considers leaving and everybody else sits around remembering previous good times and thinking about how much they're going to miss them.

As far as clip shows go, SoG was at least an innovative, slightly sci-fi'y way of rehashing old clips.

 

[sonak]

Imo 26 episodes a year is a bit much, then you get forced to strech the budget and sometimes do clip or bottled shows.

there were only twenty-two episodes in season two due to a writers' strike.

 

[MikeS]

"Shades of The Gray" isn't too bad. Those that think it is haven't seen some of the truly dreadful "excuses-for-clip-show" episodes from shows such as "Friends", "Simpsons", "Frasier" and others.

At least it wasn't a: One of the crew considers leaving and everybody else sits around remembering previous good times and thinking about how much they're going to miss them.

As far as clip shows go, SoG was at least an innovative, slightly sci-fi'y way of rehashing old clips.

Very true.

But I'm glad they came up with "bottle" shows like The Drumhead in latter series. These were even better thought out, standing alongside some of the best stories across all series.

 

[Alrik]

"Shades of The Gray" isn't too bad......
.....As far as clip shows go, SoG was at least an innovative, slightly sci-fi'y way of rehashing old clips.

I absolutely agree. At least it had a good story behind it, and it actually helped to develope Riker's character a little more.