Nitpicking: The Next Generation

The Enterprise crew encounters the rogue-iest (the most roguey?) rogue to ever rogue his way through a bad Romeo and Juliet ripoff.

In yet another "Dear god, never go on the holodeck" episode, the Enterprise computer is revealed to be a magical wish engine.

The Enterprise crew encounters ANOTHER omnipotent being who makes attempts to make their heads explode, both figuratively and literally.

Season Two gets off to an inauspicious and offensive start when Troi suffers a mystic pregnancy. Includes guest commentator Jill Neff.

A summary of our feelings as we (finally!) finish off the first season of TNG and take a look ahead at Season Two.

Season One goes out not with a bang, but with a yawn as the Enterprise learns a not-very-important lesson from a bunch of people who have slept through the last three hundred years.

The Enterprise crew is faced with a conspiracy so transparent a first grade classroom could see through it.

What do you get when you insert an an old flame episode into a time loop? Boredom. (But, Michelle Phillips!)

In the best episode of the series thus far, we bid a sad farewell to Tasha Yar.

The Enterprise crew films a public service announcement entitled "Just Say No to the Prime Directive."

An arms dealer confronts the Enterprise with the ultimate hard sell, giving the crew's people of color a chance to save the day. For once.

Our first look at real Klingons and our first experience of just how ineffective forcefields in the brig really are.

We are made to witness the mind-games that are the Starfleet entrance exam while yet another admiral acts shifty.

After sixteen episodes, the writers finally serve up a science fiction story for us ugly bags of mostly water.

We find the inevitable endpoint of the Federation in the form of an antiseptic, naive, technologically over-reliant Atlantis of the Stars.

The long tradition of Starfleet admirals up to no good begins with a gun-running renegade hopped up on the Fountain of Youth.

While Riker is on the most pathetic cyber-date in history, the Enterprise is hijacked. Again.

The crew of the Enterprise interferes with a matriarchy enough to tick them off but not enough to do any good. And Riker gets sexy. For some value of sexy.

Data's encounter with his evil twin leaves everyone in a plot worthy of General Hospital without the genre savvy to deal with it.

The first holodeck episode finds the Enterprise crew trapped in the most boring noir novel ever written. At least until The Royale.