The Big Goodbye (⭑⭑)
This episode is deeply flawed, and aspects of it are terrible—but it's still the best episode since the pilot. The framing story about the insect race that is anal about…
Elementary, Dear Data (⭑⭑⭑)
This is one of the first genuinely good and flat-out enjoyable episodes of the series (notably, only the second one that I have rated above two stars). Its main weakness…
The Royale (⭑⭑⭑)
The third consecutive episode to which, based on what I've read elsewhere, I think I react somewhat differently than many other fans, this one is admittedly kind of a "turn…
Manhunt (⭑⭑)
I'll say this for this episode: the first time that I watched it after not having seen it in many years, it managed to pleasantly surprise me a bit. Maybe…
Time’s Arrow: Part I (⭑⭑⭑)
I have so many mixed feelings about this episode that it's hard to know where to begin. It strikes me as fundamentally ill-conceived on some levels, and most of its…
Time’s Arrow: Part II (⭑⭑⭑)
I'm not sure if I should count "Time's Arrow" among the TNG two-parters whose second parts fail to live up to the first, or not. I mean, I do for…
A Fistful of Datas (⭑⭑⭑)
There aren't a lot of TNG episodes that aim almost exclusively for comedy; even "Rascals," the episode immediately before this one, has some non-comedic aspirations, despite its ridiculousness. But "A…