I'm often tempted to rewatch TNG, especially since the HD remaster came out, but slogging through 178 episodes of extremely variable quality with some truly interminable stretches feels like an inexcusable waste of time even by my standards. I'll never get around to the important things in life at that rate, like watching Blake's 7.
So I allowed myself a year. Season three isn't just the year TNG got good, it's also one of the finest collections of episodes in the franchise, hammering out the flaws of the early years while still feeling fresh and setting the standard for 90s sci-fi TV. At least, that's what rosy nostalgia and received opinion tell me, I haven't watched most of these since the 90s.
Let's see what's out there...
