Now saying this is the second worst doesn’t mean all the episodes are bad. I mean Season 1 is so bad that even this is vastly superior. But the episode ideas are practically gone, the characters are feeling worn out…there is nothing new to really say about Worf or Data or Picard. We know them now, and the writers seem less interesting in really trying to explore Geordi, Crusher, or Troi. So we aren’t really going anywhere with these characters, they had some great years, but not it was time to come to an end.
The only character storyline we really get is Worf and Troi sort of date over the course of a few episodes…and that is a terrible idea. Beyond that it is just bringing in an onslaught of uninteresting family members for our characters…Worf’s foster brother, Troi’s mom and the reveal that she had a sister, Data’s mom, Geordi’s parents, Worf’s son from the future, Picard’s fake son, Lore…the saddest part is most of the family stories aren’t all that good.
Luckily Season 7 does end on a high note. “All Good Things…” is a great way to end a series that was for me, a big part of my childhood. I’m glad that despite the sort of end of the road feel the season had, the finale managed to really seem like the end of a journey for our show and characters, and I thought it very nicely and cleverly bookended the seires with “Encounter at Farpoint”.
NEXT TIME: Whole Series Recap