Haven’t thought about this very much and I’m still basking in my enjoyment of the season, but it does strike me as another nail in the coffin for the brighter more aspirational TNG ethos. We got that warm and fuzzy moment when the nebula gave birth and the effect it had on a damaged Riker, but overall…it wasn’t a grim dark series but it was darker in multiple ways and about trauma and broken people. This is all the sauce of a writer, not so much the philosopher. I think what many of us here and more casual fans the world over liked about TNG (the show this season was all about bringing back to much enthusiasm) was the transcendent worldview of it beyond our own, and that, no, was not much present in this sendoff.
If we’re talking legacy of this series, it’ll be good character work and performances, a reawakening maybe of the focus on the Bergman era, a return to the “present,” more cursing lol…other stuff…
If we’re talking legacy of this series, it’ll be good character work and performances, a reawakening maybe of the focus on the Bergman era, a return to the “present,” more cursing lol…other stuff…