Nitpicking: The Next Generation

What do you get when you combine Competent Troi, good writing and the ability to pass the Bechdel Test? One of the best TNG episode EVER! Includes guest commentator Jill Neff. Be sure to stick around at the end for a special musical surprise! (Apologies to "The Patty Duke Show.")

Once again, it's an episode so bad Neil and Dan won't touch it, so it's up to guest commentators Jill Neff and Cynthia Taylor to discuss a murder mystery involving a creepy Geordi LaForge and a Dogus Ex Machina.

Yet another retread when La Forge's inability to lock down his personal files leads to the reappearance of Professor Moriarty. This time with extra recursion!

Picard decides that there are four lights, but we're far more interested in following the trials and tribulations Captain Jellico's thankless work in the ending to this two-parter.

In our sixth extrasode we take on the last remaining entry in the Star Trek franchise, the Animated Series, with a time-travelling flashback to Spock's childhood.

We finally reach the moment that Neil's waited for the entire series: the appearance of Captain Jellico! Oh, and Picard is sent on a secret mission and falls into the hands of the Cardassians or something.

A mash-up of two previous (and pretty good) episodes, minus anything resembling science.

This 24th-century visit to Deadwood is one of the 20% of times that the holodeck tries to murder the crew. Includes guest commentator Victor Rubio.

Two goofy events that would be unlikely anywhere other than on Star Trek lead us to the return of Cranky Picard and guest commentator Cynthia Taylor's favorite line from TNG.

This middle-of-the-road Q episode is the answer to a question no one has asked.

A mix of pretty good previous episodes produces a nightmare-based terror that leads to an interesting bit of detective work on the part of the crew, resulting in a real implementation of Algorithm Two!

This charming bit of fan service has everything: technobabble, future shock, a Dyson sphere and a personal issue resolved by danger. Includes guest commentator Victor Rubio.

A collection of some of the worst Star Trek tropes, including People Who Can't Give Consent, The Wanton Woman, and The Indispensible Man, thrown into a blender along with a cursed item straight out of "Friday the 13th: The Series".

Barclay truly takes on his mantle of the everyman by assertively declaring what we all already knew: the transporter is a clever death machine.

We begin Season Six in 1800s San Francisco and wrap up things pretty much how you'd figure. Complete with aliens which, like a lot of things on Star Trek, make no sense.

We talk about some of TNG's new secondary characters -- particularly Ensign Ro and Alexander Rozhenko -- and take a look ahead at Season Six.

The Enterprise crew makes their first jaunt through time to find yet another copy of their unique android, Data.

What starts as a lovely piece of unlikely theater becomes a horrific exercise in enforced empathy.

In another entry in the 'Ro is Right' category (which Dan somehow missed first-run), Ro and Geordi get to attend their own funeral, and in normal Federation style, it's boring.

A standard Star Trek episode in which, while dealing with an ethical dilemma involving an abandonded Borg, the Enterprise crew entirely fails to come to any real answer.