Written by Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga, Rene Echevarria, and Naren ShankarDirected by Winrich Kolbe When Gene Roddenberry first created his vision of the future, he saw it as a sort of […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Preemptive Strike
Written by Rene Echevarria and Naren ShankarDirected by Patrick Stewart It was somewhat surprising that the second to last episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation focused not on a series regular, […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Emergence
Written by Joe Menosky, Brannon Braga, Rene Echevarria, and Naren ShankarDirected by Cliff Bole After a series of episodes that were somewhat disappointing during the seventh and final season of Star Trek: […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Genesis
Written by Brannon Braga, Rene Echevarria, and Naren ShankarDirected by Gates McFadden This is just one of those episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation that sticks in my head. When I’ve […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Eye of the Beholder
Written by Rene Echevarria, Brannon Braga, and Naren ShankarDirected by Cliff Bole For most of the run of Star Trek: The Next Generation, it seemed like the writers didn’t know what to […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Masks
Written by Joe Menosky, Rene Echevarria, and Naren ShankarDirected by Robert Wiemer This is one of those episodes that produces two reactions in me. The first is “What were they thinking?” The […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Thine Own Self
Written by Ronald D. Moore, Christopher Hatton, Rene Echevarria, and Naren ShankarDirected by Winrich Kolbe For a while, the writers of Star Trek: The Next Generation seemed immune from the sort of […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Parallels
Written by Brannon Braga, Rene Echevarria, and Naren ShankarDirected by Robert Wiemer When Star Trek: The Next Generation was good, it was very, very good. Parallels was one of those episodes that […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Inheritance
Written by Dan Koeppel, Rene Echevarria, and Naren ShankarDirected by Robert Scheerer In Inheritance, the Enterprise travels to the planet Atrea IV which is on the brink of a natural disaster. Their […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Force of Nature
Written by Naren Shankar and Rene EchevarriaDirected by Robert Lederman In most television shows, when the episode is designed to send a “message”, the most effective way is very subtle. Usually, there’s […]
Thoughts From the Mountain Top 
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