The least disliked episode of TNG - Season Three
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Well, I've been umming and arring for a while between The Defector and a couple of other episodes to choose. As the others have gone, I can now just pick it without a much indecision. Amongst those remaining, it's the one I'm least likely to choose to rewatch outside of a full run- through. (It was previously between this, The Enemy and Sins of the Father).
Yesterday's Enterprise
The Offspring
Hollow Pursuits
Sarek
The Best of Both Worlds Part I
Yesterday's Enterprise
The Offspring
Hollow Pursuits
Sarek
The Best of Both Worlds Part I
Im surprised some of the remaining episodes have outlasted The Enemy, which I think is the perfect brinksmanship/stranded enemies must work together stories. The direction and Dennis Mcarthy's score make this a classic in my view. With what's left, I'd beam out Sarek. It's a solid episode but I enjoy the remaining episodes much more.
Yesterdays Enterprise
The Offspring
Hollow Pursuits
The Best of Both Worlds Part 1
Yesterdays Enterprise
The Offspring
Hollow Pursuits
The Best of Both Worlds Part 1
I've got to drop Hollow Pursuits. It's a really good episode, but for me the remaining three are all-time classics.
Yesterday's Enterprise
The Offspring
The Best of Both Worlds Part 1
Yesterday's Enterprise
The Offspring
The Best of Both Worlds Part 1
Well, there's goes my prediction about the TNG ending with Sarek and Unification Part 1 at the last hurdle out of the window
(as the TOS one ended with the 2 episodes featuring Mark Lenard). Not that I actually disagree that it isn't as strong as the others.
So tempted to make a choice but it just ain't the moderator's job. Either one will be a big thumbs up from me.
let me take it from you - i kick the best of two worlds (part I) as the best episode of a season shouldn't end on a cliffhanger
So Yesterday's Enterprise wins this season? That's awesome. I've been rooting for that the whole time, I looooooooove Yesterday's Enterprise. I've seen it even more times than Best Of Both Worlds. For me, Tasha's arc in this might be the most moving thing in the entire series.
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Thanks for making my choice for me. I love that episode as one of the best of TNG.
Great result! My favorite (single) TNG episode!
Moving, definitely agreed... and very original for sci-fi. I don't recall anything like that tried before, or since...
SPOILERS FOLLOW
Yes, the writer had a field day with setting up the love interest - I can see what they were going for, to maker a tragic ending. Which pays off because "Redemption" discusses just how tragic it was.
Ultimately and unfortunately, Sela would be poorly written, but the basic concept was riveting and had a TON of potential. Squandered.
Best of all: Sela's coming into being was singlehandedly Picard's fault, for which Guinan has to remind him of despite his not knowing it, and it made for an awesome scene because Guinan is the only character apart from Q that has an inkling of the space time continuum above and beyond most beings, which is probably why she and Q are my favorite characters, but I digress. And Picard was the one who usually WON the games of chess with the Romulans. And now he's lost and both the Federation and Romulans paid the price for it, more so the Federation.
I wish they found another way to bring Denise Crosby back after Yesterday's Enterprise. They could have set a whole episode during the first season like they did in All Good Things. Doesn't Redemption weaken the romantic and heroic ending of Yesterday's Enterprise when she went back with The Enterprise C to die a meaningful death? I wish the writers had kept her fate a mystery.
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