The least disliked episode 2021 - TNG Season Seven

[Seven of Five]

I've totally missed this new contest this year, I've been a little preoccupied with Mass Effect.

I don't remember Lower Decks winning before, so it makes a change. It's definitely a great episode, one of the better of S7.

Of course, the 'correct' answer The Pegasus or All Good Things...

 

[Qonundrum]

I've totally missed this new contest this year, I've been a little preoccupied with Mass Effect.

I don't remember Lower Decks winning before, so it makes a change. It's definitely a great episode, one of the better of S7.

Of course, the 'correct' answer The Pegasus or All Good Things...

^^this

Depending on mindset, LD can be perceived in unintentionally unsavory ways. ATG was a great bookend. Pegasus has a great use of the "evil cap'n of the week" trope, but nothing happened after the episode so I just drink a cup of warm cocoa, pretend Q made it up, and all is well again. DS9 was also too busy working on its own stuff to build up that plot strand, which is good because "small universe syndrome" is often not unlike watching a toilet start to flush.

 

[Swedish Borg]

IMO, "Preemptive Strike" is the one that should have won. It's by far the strongest story and Michelle Forbes is a great actress. That's too bad that she never came back in the franchise.

 

[Qonundrum]

IMO, "Preemptive Strike" is the one that should have won. It's by far the strongest story and Michelle Forbes is a great actress. That's too bad that she never came back in the franchise.

I recall enjoying it a lot. It's a downer considering where Picard was hoping Ro would succeed, but it's well-acted. Though nobody could agree on how to pronounce "hasperat", it's either a local accent in the way Trek of the era never considered because everyone in each species always neatly talked the same, or I wish I was a fly on the wall during rehearsals to observe the infighting over how to pronounce various words and treknobabble...

 

[Orphalesion]

Of course, the 'correct' answer The Pegasus or All Good Things...

Honestly, I think Lower Decks (the episode, and even more so the series) is more enjoyable than the Pegasus or All Good Things.
Particularly All Good Things isn't "All that Good"

 

[DonIago]

My main gripe with AGT, beyond the slightly sloppy handling of the anti-time anomaly (though I can usually forgive it while watching the episode), is that while it works fairly well as a series finale, I wish it wasn't quite so Picard-focused and felt like more of an ensemble episode.

 

[Swedish Borg]

My main gripe with AGT, beyond the slightly sloppy handling of the anti-time anomaly (though I can usually forgive it while watching the episode), is that while it works fairly well as a series finale, I wish it wasn't quite so Picard-focused and felt like more of an ensemble episode.

I find it funny though that they were so willing to die, especially the ones from the past given than in a similar situation (When pseudo-Picard told them to get dangerously close to an anomaly they revolted) so why would they acquiesce this time?

 

[Orphalesion]

What kind of a crap test lets you just repeat the exact same scenario over and over until you come up with the desired answer?

Yeah, honestly I was thinking the same. I know the way Starfleet works is nebulous, but considering she's taking a "test"/"exam" for Command you'd think there'd at least be a limit to how often she can flunk before she's barred from trying again....or at least until there's a considerably time frame that has to pass before she can try again (like a year or something in that category)
Especially her childish tantrum about how she's gonna take the test hundreds of times if it's necessary. Yeah I don't think that would fly in any real life military/pseudo-military institution.

 

[DonIago]

^The part that pissed me off most about that test was that the answer was to kill a holographic chracter. Sure he looks and sounds like Geordi, but he's not Geordi, and Troi in particular would know that given her Empathy. She might as well have had to phaser a rock to pass the test.

I would have been far more convinced if the test at least had the realism level of the Kobayashi Maru scenario, or if steps had been taken to ensure that Troi didn't know she was on the holodeck (though, again, given her Empathy, that would require some creativity).

Ultimately it felt like the writers wanted to come up with their own version of the KM scenario, but had neither the time nor the budget to do something as effective.

 

[DonIago]

I find it funny though that they were so willing to die, especially the ones from the past given than in a similar situation (When pseudo-Picard told them to get dangerously close to an anomaly they revolted) so why would they acquiesce this time?

It's a fair question, though probably another point I can at least forgive in the spirit of it being the finale of the show.

It was at least neither as abrupt nor as embarrassing nor as head-scratching as Trip's sacrifice in TATV.

 

[Swedish Borg]

It's a fair question, though probably another point I can at least forgive in the spirit of it being the finale of the show.

It was at least neither as abrupt nor as embarrassing nor as head-scratching as Trip's sacrifice in TATV.

Yeah, seeing these two imbeciles (Trip and Archer) running around the corridors, knowing that the ship had just been boarded, UNARMED, always get me. Talk about being stupid! How could these two have survived the expanse???