Heart of Glory--The first serious episode of TNG involved Worf's backstory, and central question. This is as much for cinematography as for story.
Q Who?--A great script with weight to Q and the Borg, Starfleet's reaction to the new.
The Measure of a Man--Metaphysics and souls; ethics.
Who Watches the Watchers?--Picard becomes a god to a pre-warp society because of faulty equipment. God and technology morality play.
The Bonding--Loss is a central theme of this show and never is it sharper than here, and Family.
The Best of Both Worlds, Part II--The strength of the Borg becomes weakness; vice versa. Picard is rescued and it makes sense to the story. Pivots the rest of the series.
Family--Picard at his Borg finest.
Clues--What kills them, twice, is curiosity; mystery.
First Contact--A real-world reaction to the events of First Contact. A well-drawn society.
The Drumhead--Picard at his moral finest. The Salem trials of the Enterprise.
Half A Life--Tennison gives us the only acting I like of Majel Barrett, outside of DS9. A woman who has already lost a husband falls for a brilliant man about to be pushed out to sea. Brilliant!
The Inner Light--This is haunting, that's all I'll say.
The First Duty--Trudging through all that nonsense with Wesley has a payoff, and a definition of who these people, are!
Tapestry--Picard, the man, defined. Q plays God.
Chain of Command, Part II--Patrick Stewart is amazing in the torture scenes. Broken, and human.
Parallels--All the possibilities of writing sharpening the stories from both series running, at the time. Beautiful!
Q Who?--A great script with weight to Q and the Borg, Starfleet's reaction to the new.
The Measure of a Man--Metaphysics and souls; ethics.
Who Watches the Watchers?--Picard becomes a god to a pre-warp society because of faulty equipment. God and technology morality play.
The Bonding--Loss is a central theme of this show and never is it sharper than here, and Family.
The Best of Both Worlds, Part II--The strength of the Borg becomes weakness; vice versa. Picard is rescued and it makes sense to the story. Pivots the rest of the series.
Family--Picard at his Borg finest.
Clues--What kills them, twice, is curiosity; mystery.
First Contact--A real-world reaction to the events of First Contact. A well-drawn society.
The Drumhead--Picard at his moral finest. The Salem trials of the Enterprise.
Half A Life--Tennison gives us the only acting I like of Majel Barrett, outside of DS9. A woman who has already lost a husband falls for a brilliant man about to be pushed out to sea. Brilliant!
The Inner Light--This is haunting, that's all I'll say.
The First Duty--Trudging through all that nonsense with Wesley has a payoff, and a definition of who these people, are!
Tapestry--Picard, the man, defined. Q plays God.
Chain of Command, Part II--Patrick Stewart is amazing in the torture scenes. Broken, and human.
Parallels--All the possibilities of writing sharpening the stories from both series running, at the time. Beautiful!
