For individuals who love Q episodes, “Qpid” is a delight. Directed by Cliff Bole and written by Randee Russell and Ira Steven Behr, “Qpid” finds Q doing what he does greatest, making an attempt to assist Picard in essentially the most annoying means potential. Right here, it’s reuniting Picard with the adventurer Vash (Jennifer Hetrick) and giving the Captain an opportunity to do his personal swashbuckling. On the very least, “Qpid” presents a significantly better model of motion Picard than any of the TNG films.
13. Keep in mind Me (Season 4, Episode 5)
Dr. Beverly Crusher is such an vital character that informal viewers don’t even do not forget that Dr. Pulaski was the Chief Medical Officer on the Enterprise-D for a whole season. Necessary as she is, nonetheless, Crusher didn’t get that many nice episodes on the present, and I say this as a defender of the attractive candle ghost episode.
When Gates McFadden does get an episode to herself, she completely shines, as seen in “Keep in mind Me,” written by Lee Sheldon and directed by Cliff Bole. “Keep in mind Me” performs like a paranoid thriller, by which Crusher notices that her crewmates maintain disappearing from the ship. Worse, nobody will acknowledge that the crewpeople ever existed. McFadden performs up Crusher’s logical thoughts and internal energy, permitting her to unravel a thriller that eluded everybody else on the Enterprise.
12. I, Borg (Season 5, Episode 23)
One of many benefits of retaining the Borg distant and unknowable was that it allowed for episodes similar to “I, Borg.” Within the episode directed by Robert Lederman and written by René Echevarria, a drone (Jonathan Del Arco) turns into disconnected from the collective and lands on the Enterprise. As Geordi works to uncover the drone’s identification, inadvertently giving him the identify “Hugh” alongside the best way, the story hits one of the vital enduring Trek themes: explorations on the character of humanity.
Nonetheless, “I, Borg” ties that query to an moral concern, when Picard learns that Hugh’s identification can act as one thing of a virus to the Borg. Do they use Hugh as a weapon to destroy a risk to the universe? Or do they protect humanity by honoring it in Hugh and his selections?
11. Decrease Decks (Season 7, Episode 15)
“Decrease Decks” ranked among the many greatest TNG episodes even earlier than the idea launched the wonderful animated collection, largely as a result of it underscored the fantastic ensemble present that the collection had turn into. Like TOS, TNG launched with a main trio—Picard, Geordi, and Riker as an alternative of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy—however over the course of the collection, the dynamics shifted, with a number of different characters incomes the highlight.
