Nitpicking: The Next Generation

A fun and entertainingly executed episode about language, metaphor, and communication that ultimately makes no fucking sense.

Season Five opens with a disappointingly compressed conclusion to the Klingon civil war.

We examine continuity in plotlines and characters as we end the fourth season and take a look ahead at Season Five.

We finish up a season rife with continuity with the beginning of the end of the House of Mogh saga.

In our ONE HUNDREDTH EPISODE (how did THAT happen so fast?) we find an "exciting science!" B-plot that's almost as artificial as Data's relationship with his new girlfriend. Includes guest commentator Ryan Veeder.

A small bit of continuity does little to save an episode in which the Romulans try to stupidly reimplement The Manchurian Candiate.

Our fourth extrasode plays out as a cat-and-mouse game between James T. Kirk and a Romulan who looks very Vulcan.

In an suprisingly progressive (but not progressive enough) episode, we have another Crusher who just can't deal with change.

One of the best episodes of TNG, full stop, and a wonderful example of what Star Trek is all about.

Another installment in the 'Admiral Goes Rogue' category, except this time Picard gets called on the carpet as well.

This horrible (and derivative!) Q episode gives you a not-completely-awful opening section, only to really get you in the second half. Includes guest commentator Jill Neff.

Lt. Barclay returns to help the Enterprise crew yawn its way to the center of the galaxy. Includes "hierarchical collective command structures." Interrogative!

Geordi manages to science his way out of a shaky-cam horror movie--without burying us in tech talk.

In an episode that Dan somehow managed to miss first-run, the Enterprise crew combat a deadly attack of sleep apnea.

The long-anticipated end to the Leah Brahms duology tells you all you need to know about Geordi La Forge.

The story of Riker royally bollixing up a first contact situation is made bearable by the fact that he spends most of the episode unconscious.

Thirty seconds of lost time leaves the Enterprise crew with an awful execution of a stupid mystery that has something for everyone to hate.

Picard takes on the godmother of all drag queens, as she tries to take over a planet of FABULOUSLY fashionable people.

In a nice change of pace, a captain (not an admiral) goes rogue against the Cardassians, who suddenly appear to have been at war with the Federation for years.

Data watches everyone (including the newly introduced Keiko O'Brien) be stupid in this slice-of-life episode. Oh, and there's something about a Romulan spy. Includes guest commentator Ryan Veeder.