Nitpicking: The Next Generation

We celebrate the end of one journey and invite you to join us on another. Includes our all-time best and worst 10 episodes, the final version of the lists, and a few words from some of our guests. And please be sure to join us June 2nd for the start of our next adventure!

We review the final season, pick our top and bottom episodes, and prepare ourselves for the grand finale.

The story that began with Encounter at Farpoint comes to its inevitable end as we say goodbye to "Star Trek: The Next Generation".

In this tale of betrayal, we bid farewell to the redoubtable Ro Larren as she finds her loyalties torn between Starfleet and the Maquis.

This bog-standard, tropey episode is like the greatest hits album from the band's back catalogue.

This platonic ideal of a phoned-in episode has a ton of continuity to things you just don't care about.

Alexander's final episode is seventy percent of a good story, ruined by time travel.

In Wesley's final episode, we take an uncomfortable tour through cultural exoticism leading to more trouble with the Cardassians.

Guest commentator Cynthia Taylor joins us for the first episode of TNG she ever saw, in which Crusher resorts to using CRISPR instead of chicken soup.

This Troi episode is a murder mystery involving a gothic romance on a haunted ship that ends in Worf being turned on by murder. Includes guest commentator Ryan Veeder.

The Enterprise is taken over by yet ANOTHER probe, this time turning the ship into the City of the Space Aztecs.

Data practices selective science and Troi finally gets her mind-fuck.

This follow-up to 'The First Duty' gives us a look at how the other half lives.

Join us on Beverly Crusher's -306th birthday as we explore possible THE weirdest relationship in Star Trek history. Recorded before a live studio audience at Giocanni's Room in Philadelphia, courtesy of Philly AIDs Thrift. Includes a Q and A afterwards.

This mockery of 'Who Watches the Watchers' contains what may be our most hated TNG side-character.

In this long-awaited bookend to 'The Icarus Factor,' we finally learn everything we need to know about William Riker.

In an episode of much detail but little plot, we learn that while things generally work out on the Enterprise, events don't conspire quite as well in other universes...

An episode in which we meet Data's mom and find out more about his dad than we ever wanted to know.

This depressing early attempt to grapple with climate change is ultimately a good idea desperately seeking a B-plot.

This episode wraps one of the single best character moments in the whole of TNG in a tortilla of stupid. Includes guest commentator Jill Neff.