That the seventh season would be the final season of Star Trek: The Next Generation was well-known in advance. At the time, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine was also on the air. […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation – All Good Things…
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 – Genesis – Makeup, Special Effects, and Performances
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 – Discovering Empathic Echoes
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 – Transformations and Beliefs
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 – Weak Script and Strong Performances
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 – A Multiverse Adventure
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 – Dark Page – Lwaxana’s Hidden Pain
Written by Hilary Bader, Rene Echevarria, and Naren ShankarDirected by Les Landau The Enterprise is transporting the Cairn, a species of humanoids that communicates through telepathy. Lwaxana Troi (portrayed by Majel Barrett-Roddenberry), […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Phantasms – Data’s First Nightmare
Written by Brannon Braga, Rene Echevarria, and Naren ShankarDirected by Patrick Stewart During the sixth season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the android, Data (Brent Spiner) gained the ability to dream. […]
Star Trek: The Next Generation – Gambit Part I – Captain Picard Goes Undercover
Written by Naren Shankar, Christopher Hatton, and Rene EchevarriaDirected by Peter Lauritson After starting off the seventh season with three duds in a row, along came the two-part episode Gambit. Under normal […]
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