TNG Season 5 Wrap Up: Please post your closing thoughts about TNG Season Five.
TNG Season 5 Wrap Up: Please post your closing thoughts about TNG Season Five.
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7 responses to “TNG Season 5 Wrap Up: Please post your closing thoughts about TNG Season Five.”
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Nice graphic! Ensign Ro is my favorite thing about Season 5 and I am beyond bummed that we must say goodbye to her. Season 5 has some great episodes and some real clunkers… all in all, TOS has yet to live up to TOS in my mind. Still, some neat ideas and philosophical themes are being explored and there are a few delightful characters (Lwaxana, Ro) and others are developed a bit (Picard, Worf, Geordi) while other main characters remain frustratingly cardboardish (Riker, Troi, Krusher). Onward to Season 5!
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Or 6!
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Hahaha yes!
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This was a busy season, full of extremes. I had 10 episodes at 4 stars above, and 9 at 2 stars or below. It was lumpy, too. Episodes 19-22 were awful. 23-25 were great. 4-13 were all mediocre. Overall the collection of 26 seemed very diverse, trying lots of different things, serving up variety week to week even when it was only moderately successful. Even kind of bad episodes like “Silicon Avatar” were visually striking and memorable. And the missteps were very baaad. “Violations?”
A run-of-the-mill franchise can’t serve up episodes like “Darmok,” ” “Cause and Effect,” “The Next Phase,” and “The Inner Light.” I think TNG had reached the point where it was capable of greatness, but also overwhelmed with the production demands of 26 episodes a season. Also the writing staff was not diverse enough to avoid falling into pitfalls periodically, especially around gender, although I appreciate the writing of strong female characters in “The Outcast,” “Ensign Ro,” and Ro Laren’s appearances in “Disaster” and “The Next Phase.”
No, it isn’t TOS. But TOS wouldn’t have, and couldn’t have given us “The Next Phase” and some of the other quirky delights of the season.
TNG rode its momentum into the development of a new series–DS9 is ahead, and Season Six involved staff transitions as the production team expanded and adapted to producing two shows at the same time.
We are 71% finished with TNG (52 episodes to go!) and still only 31% finished with Star Trek (um, 498 more). We’ve watched 227 episodes since “The Cage” on June 6, 2013. Onwards!
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Yay! Should we start interspersing DS9 or watch through the end of TNG then start DS9?
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It’s tricky! I’m still if favor of following release order (approximately), which means doing some interspersing. However, the first season of DS9 was 20 episodes compared to 26 for TNG, and they held back the premiere of DS9 until January 1993, after a crossover where (I believe) the Enterprise visits DS9 in TNG episodes 6.10-11. Then five episodes of DS9 aired in a row. So, I think the plan will be 1) Watch the first 11 episodes of TNG S6; 2) Watch the first 5 episodes of DS9 S1; and 3) then alternate for the last 15 episodes of each season.
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Woo hoo! Can’t wait for DS9 to start!!!!
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