Contraversial maybe but Im taking out Tapestry. It has a couple of good one liners in it but in a recent rewatch I found it so boring my attention just lapsed elsewhere.
No controversy here, the episode is overrated tripe. It pretty much says "if you're not a Bridge officer, you're worthless". Gaslighting the alternate Picard by saying he lacked such and such ability is gaslighting everyone in the crew who isn't on the bridge. There's an interesting idea in this episode, even though it's not the most original, but the execution is a real mixed bag at best.
Another slant to this: Remember those postcards and matchbook packets where it says "Can you draw Tiddles the turtle? If so, send us your picture of 'im and you might win some money or car or pin-up model calendar or the actual model." Well, guess what, like every other profession, everyone's ability to do it might be varied and under different conditions.
Sorta like this but not as embellished:
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"Tapestry" is so grossly overrated.
i found face of the enemy hard to follow
And hard to buy into. Especially with no universal translator, but there's headcanon for that.
A shame they didn't get the Romulan commander from "The Enterprise Incident" back.
Bigger shame they couldn't get the same actr-- wait, they did get Carolyn Seymour back, but they slapped her character with a different name because "This is KAOS, we don't mention season two here!" And the show is a po-faced lampoon of itself at this point, never mind how many season 2 stories are glossed over despite reusing some characters that were
good.
The dinner scene is probably the strongest, it has moments, but it's not the best season 6 story by any measure for sure.
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Descent (I) started off promisingly, but the cliffhangers is one of the worstt TNG did.
The sons of Soong line was so corny.
UGH!!!!!!!!!!
The episode, frog bog fartmuzak that's thankfully minimal aside, really starts with real potential in the mess that Picard singlehandedly created. And this is a big mess, with psychotic murderous Borg roaming the galaxy in an improved ship design and mercilessly slaughtering how many untolds by now. So what do they do? "Plotting by numbers", to put it mildly. This one needed to be an action piece to fix the problem, not put that to the sidelines to then explore phony robot emotions and Lorewank at the end. TNG deserved better. TNG was far better. Season 1's worst stories are almost better because, even when they fumbled, they weren't mired in fanwank - ironic given the number of TOS set pieces involved!!
Picard is even given a slap on the wrist, and Nechayev is right. Don't even begin to ask how Troi can pick up biological emotion sensations from a positronic robot, which is a dead giveaway that something else is afoot. Or at least bad scripting and this season's loaded with plenty of both.
Lore's reveal is the biggest plummet of all time, for which part two is as far worse as it is superficial trash... not that I'm opinionated or anything.
