The Least Disliked Episode of TNG - Season Six

[BigDaveX]

Time's Arrow II. An okayish season opener, but really nothing very memorable.

Relics
Chain Of Command I
Chain of Command II
Ship in a Bottle
Face of the Enemy
Starship Mine
Lessons
The Chase
Second Chances
Timescape
Descent I

 

[Brennyren]

Some "Lessons" aren't worth learning, and one of them is the dull, neurotic lesson that one can't have a starship command and a love interest. Darren, for the record, was badly treated here: transferred off the "flagship of the fleet" because Picard can't keep his anxieties in check.

Much of the episode was quite nice, to be sure; the guest star was excellent, and Picard bringing out his flute from "The Inner Light" for a duet with Darren was touching and rather sweet. But that resolution leaves me so stone-cold, this episode's gonna go.

Relics
Chain Of Command I
Chain of Command II
Ship in a Bottle
Face of the Enemy
Starship Mine
The Chase
Second Chances
Timescape
Descent I

 

[Sakonna]

"Descent I" Of all the dramatic directions available for the next appearance of the Borg, having a bunch of them become emotional individuals was the least interesting (though I did think it was executed well, but you can't escape a weak central idea...)

Relics
Chain Of Command I
Chain of Command II
Ship in a Bottle
Face of the Enemy
Starship Mine
The Chase
Second Chances
Timescape

 

[Discofan]

"Face of the Enemy" as a Deanna episode, and as Deanna episodes go is not one of the best. I didn't think she was very credible in that role. For example when she tells that guy that if he doesn't do what she says she'll have him thrown out of an airlock, she doesn't have to yell it at the same time. If the Tal Shiar are so powerful then why would they have to constantly remind people that they are and why would the captain constantly voice her disapproval? Doesn't quite add up.


Relics
Chain Of Command I
Chain of Command II
Ship in a Bottle
Starship Mine
The Chase
Second Chances
Timescape

 

[Farscape One]

Relics
Chain Of Command I
Chain of Command II
Ship in a Bottle
The Chase
Second Chances
Timescape

"Starship Mine" is not his... or mine. It is a well executed episode, but the weakest of the remaining.

And I never felt the captain should NEED their own DIE HARD episode. Janeway had it, too.

Kirk never needed it. Sisko certainly never did.

 

[Sakonna]

And I never felt the captain should NEED their own DIE HARD episode. Janeway had it, too.

I'm also skeptical of the "Die Hard" setup, but I'm glad TNG gave Patrick Stewart a decent antagonist to face off against. I always feel so bad for Kate Mulgrew in that ep, trying valiantly to play those scenes when her only scene partner is Terrible CGI.

 

[Takeru]

Relics is out, Scotty is annoying and whiny a d wastes time that could be spend on the way more interesting Dyson sphere.

Chain Of Command I
Chain of Command II
Ship in a Bottle
The Chase
Second Chances
Timescape

 

[Spirit of 73]

I'll take out The Chase. It's a good episode, but it's tone of fast-paced fun doesn't fit with the awesome, unimaginably old mystery it deals with. We needed more of a sense of awe and wonder than cutesy fun.

Chain Of Command I
Chain of Command II
Ship in a Bottle
Second Chances
Timescape

 

[Sakonna]

"Chain Of Command I" I love it, but the setup for even sending Picard, Worf, and Crusher on this secret mission in the first place is suuuuuuuuuuuuuuch a stretch. Of all these outlandish premises, this is the one I have trouble buying! Surely there were some highly trained Starfleet commandos more suited to the task.

(The bottom three on this list are all such perfect one-off episodes, this is a great line-up)

Chain of Command II
Ship in a Bottle
Second Chances
Timescape

 

[Discofan]

Chain of Command II
Ship in a Bottle
Second Chances

"Timescape" takes five. Picard getting "time-drunk" and drawing a smiley on a warp core explosion cloud or screaming like a little girl is a little undignified. I can't imagine Kirk in that scene (well, except maybe when he was "possessed" by a woman). Plus I like the ones left better so...

 

[Spirit of 73]

I'll take out Ship in a Bottle. It's good, but it doesn't have Chain's acting clinic and doesn't have the compelling drama with Thomas, Will and Deanna.

Chain of Command II
Second Chances

 

[Discofan]

"Chain of Command II" is the winner!!!


"Second Chances" doesn't measure up to Picard's performance.

 

[Spirit of 73]

Timescape is my favorite from season six, but Chain II is certainly an acceptable winner. Hard to see too many people arguing with that.

 

[Discofan]

Timescape is my favorite from season six, but Chain II is certainly an acceptable winner. Hard to see too many people arguing with that.

"Timescape" is ok but it contains too many plot holes to be a great episode.

 

[Starflight]

The Chase is my favourite episode of the season, glad to see it get as far as it did. Same for the absolutely ridiculous Die Hard knockoff with the green wall of death, which I expected to get taken out much earlier on.

Are we going to be doing these threads for Voyager and/or DS9 after this?

 

[Discofan]

The Chase is my favourite episode of the season, glad to see it get as far as it did. Same for the absolutely ridiculous Die Hard knockoff with the green wall of death, which I expected to get taken out much earlier on.

Are we going to be doing these threads for Voyager and/or DS9 after this?

I like "The Chase" but I think it could have been better.

 

[Starflight]

It could definitely be improved, but I really love the message at the heart of it about how all the major (and presumably, many other minor) species in Star Trek are essentially the same. That, and the irony of the ancient humanoid lecturing about peace and cooperation while everyone ignores it and threatens each other.

 

[Spirit of 73]

"Timescape" is ok but it contains too many plot holes to be a great episode.

Really? What plot holes?

I think it's just about the most perfectly executed script they ever did.

 

[Discofan]

Really? What plot holes?

I think it's just about the most perfectly executed script they ever did.

Well, it's rather complicated and I am in a hurry right now but I'll give you a detailed response as soon as I can. Suffice it to say for now that the different "weird time" scenes are not very coherent.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

It's not that the script has plot holes so much as the made up science for how time works has logical holes. Like, if you listen to Data for how long until the breach destroys the ship, and do the math, we should be able to see it visibly moving.

I think one of the series best moments is when Picard draws a smiley face in the warp core breach.