Alex Daily! 
Speaking of 1990s writers room-brained allegories, woof.
I think that's all I have to say about this one.
This might be one of the least successful hours of "Trek" I've ever seen -- those holodeck scenes are beyond baffling -- but, and I can't believe I'm saying this, Lwaxana Troi as a character is kinda starting to work for me. Her admitting to Alexander that she feels old and lonely may be the most moving this character has ever been. #startrek #tng
A hoot, but I feel like the only thing that really makes this a season finale is that it's a two-parter -- you can kinda find Data's head buried under San Francisco for half a millennium any day of the week, no?
Though maybe I'm saying that based on later shows I've already seen doing this kind of thing more frequently? #startrek #tng
every Barclay episode be like
* Barclay shits himself
* the crew gently tries to get him to at least aim at the bowl
* Barclay keeps shitting himself, just all over the place, it's a real problem
* wanting Barclay to stop shitting himself all over the place, the crew finally take Barclay seriously and start looking into it
* they get Barclay the help he needs
* turns out helping Barclay also resolves the B-plot. wow, convenient.
At my current pace, I'll hit DS9 very soon.
...Do I have a DS9 emojo? 
Yeah, that works.
Funny how "the gang has to covertly sneak onto a planet" is a big two-parter here, but the kind of thing Strange New Worlds just casually does off-screen as a joke now, while "the new captain we're all gonna have to get used to" is here a sort of busywork B-plot, while it feels like it was half of Discovery's season arcs. #startrek #tng
* Would simply not have my entire life ruined by some Frenchman's Main Character Syndrome problems. Pitting Sisko so strongly opposite Picard is a smart choice.
* As is the conflict with the Bajorans -- hard not to feel like they're basically right about Starfleet setting up shop here.
* Have seen this one before, but I don't think I got very far into the season.
* That this show hasn't been remastered really makes TNG's remaster look incredible.
geordi
you're investigating a murder and though the structure of Trek means she didn't do it, /you're/ definitely not sure she didn't do it
geordi
this is unprofessional at best
(there's some unhealthy patterns in Geordi's romantic life that this 90s writers' room is just incapable of interrogating -- he was like this with Brahms, too, just instantly making himself part of a "we" with somebody who doesn't get consulted on whether she wants that)
Works, but does so define itself in relationship to the TNG Q stories that it, perhaps inadvertently, really makes clear that the dynamic he has with Picard is something special, something that just doesn't really exist with Sisko, who simply takes none of the guff Picard so beleagueredly tolerates from Q. #startrek #ds9 #tng
I think this is a pretty great story, and a great display of exactly what makes the dynamic between Q and Picard tick. Great take on "Christmas Carol"/"Wonderful Life" only TNG could do.
But that whole friendship completely falling apart immediately just because Picard, given the chance, would strongly prefer not to get stabbed in the entire Hades-damned heart, woof, Johnny, make better friends.
On the one hand, lovely to see Worf connecting with his Klingon culture, finding not just value but beauty in those traditions.
On the other hand, frustrating that that means being racist to Romulans, that it means trying to force violent and outdated ways of doing things on a peaceful colony of people who are clearly fine without all that junk. #startrek #tng
bashir is so cute
Worf might be the only character on TNG you could do a sincere belief in the return of a prophesied messiah figure story with, but even then I don't think this really works. It's all a little too Jesus, and the conclusion it comes to to dodge the Jesus of it all feels like the writers room trying to please Gene's ghost.
Simply too compromised to work.
Lwaxana Troi has grown on me, and it's fun to watch her removed from the Enterprise, hassling DS9 — and poor old beset-upon Odo. She's so nice to him — the character is always at her best when she has to play vulnerable — when he has to revert to his puddle form.
You just know this evil computer A-plot will never come up again for even a sentence.
Fascinating choice to end this new show's first season on the conflict of a religious person trying to rigidly enforce their beliefs on a secular classroom, so much more solidly real than the Borg taking Picard. (Vedek Winn is such a piece of shit.)
I dunno if there /should/ be Roddenberrian balance to be found when one side literally does terrorism about it, but I suppose I respect where Sisko lands on it.
I enjoy when TNG interrogates what it means to be a person, but even if it wasn't clearly a scheme by Lore, we've /done/ Data's first emotion before, and any appearance of the Borg where they do anything less than killing somebody we care about is always just gonna be diminishing returns.
Liked the DS9 season finale, but this one's just kind of ploddy and dull. #startrek #tng
There's stuff I like here, but this is a deflating followup to an already poorly-inflated balloon.
None of this will change Data in a meaningful way, not really, because Lore hasn't convinced him, he's just controlling him. The rest of the crew get subplots of them running around that are on the level of an overstretched Doctor Who six-parter.
A shame to make this where Hugh goes next, too.
Madayar