Chances are that unless you're a Trek aficionado, you won't remember all of the stinkers we've assembled below-even if you've seen them, your brain has probably repressed the memories. Over its seven-season run, the crew of the Enterprise-D had some truly awful, awful, awful moments (usually involving kids, transporters, holodecks, or all three at the same time). For every ' Family' or ' Measure of a Man,' there's a ' Masks' or an ' Angel One' waiting in the wings. Behind the reused visual effects shots and the endless parade of bumpy-headed aliens, the show's finest moments still stand out in memory-even though, shockingly, more years separate ST:TNG's premiere and the present day than separate the original series' debut and that of TNG.īut today, we're not here to talk about how good TNG was: we're going to talk about how bad it could be.

We get misty at the end of ' The Inner Light' because it's a well-written, emotionally-gripping tale about how the transience of the human condition distills and magnifies joy, hope, loss, and sadness.

When it was at its best, Star Trek: The Next Generation transcended the normal confines of syndicated sci-fi television and used the medium to tell powerful, deeply resonant stories about humanity and our contemporary world.

How Star Trek artists imagined the iPad.

Hating parts of Star Trek is an essential part of loving Star Trek.

Three generations of Trek fandom (and non-fandom) in the family.

The 50-Year Mission reveals the egomania and idealism that built Star Trek.

Review: Star Trek Panic makes it almost fun to suffer hull damage.

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