Pound for pound, you won’t find a more consistent or entertaining run of Trek episodes than Seasons Three and Four of this 30-year-old series. That’s when the show found its footing, after two very uneven seasons burdened with epic behind-the-scenes clashes. The show that emerged from that gave us Sir Patrick Stewart, The Borg, the franchise’s first cliffhanger (“Best of Both Worlds, Part 1”), and several straight-up classics (“Yesterday’s Enterprise,” “The Inner Light,” “Cause and Effect,” and the all-timer series finale “All Good Things” … to name a few).
While the series petered out creatively in its last two seasons, it managed to change the genre and the franchise in a way that rivals the original series and still resonates today (hello Old Man Picard series!)
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