Star Trek: The Next Generation – Season 1

So, I finished the first season of the second Star Trek series. After I watched the first season of the original series, some episodes of the second season and the first six movies I decided to start watching The Next Generation. Why? Because I stopped during the second season of TOS and never went back. And for my year in Canada I only took the whole TNG series with me. But I will watch the rest of TOS eventually sometimes next year.
Hopefully.
Now, here my very little recap of the first season. Every episode short commented with points from 1 (very bad) to 10 (genius episode). I will do that for the other six seasons, too (and maybe for other series soon, who knows).
The first season ran on syndicated networks between September 26, 1987 and May 14, 1988.

Episode 01/02: Encounter at Farpoint Well, I have to say the pilot was boring as hell. Nothing much happened and like the opener of TOS I was right into the whole story. Maybe it would be better to start like the first movie – but we will never find out. The first encounter with Q was kind of trivial; it didn’t interest me that much. Maybe it would be better, if the two parter was only one episode.
Oh yeah… Why the appearance of McCoy? To have at least one remnant from TOS? 5/10

Episode 03: The Naked Now I remember the “prequel” from TOS. Back then it was a boring episode. And now this was boring, too. The crew behaved like drunk people, and Wesley as Captain? I laughed my ass off, that was some funny shit (negatively speaking). By the way, this episode was another remnant from TOS; maybe the authors couldn’t find their own stories :/ 5,5/10

Episode 04: Code of Honor Boring planet of the week episode with a guest actor who reminded me of one of the season enemies of 24.
My favorite quote: Riker: I’ll see that (Wesley) leaves immediately.
Picard: No.
Riker: No?
Picard: Why don’t you sit down at Ops next to Lt. LaForge?
Wesley: Sir?
Geordi: Sir?
Picard: Is the whole ship deaf? Sit down over there, young man. 6/10

Episode 05: The Last Outpost Yeah… I don’t know. The Ferengis are crappy and annoying aliens, but it had some thrilling moments. The end was lame. 6,5/10

Episode 06: Where No One Has Gone Before Finally a good episode. I liked the Traveler character, but I didn’t like that the story was moving that fast. This would be excellent for a two parter. 8/10

Episode 07: Lonely Among Us What a crappy story with an even crappier ending. What was this? How was it possible that Picard was still living? And what is it with the death of the peace delegate? Picard, Riker and Troi are laughing about it? But a few moments were good. 3,5/10

Episode 08: Justice I heard this was one of the worst episodes. I did find it very amusing… somehow. Okay, the whole Prime Directive thing was confusing for me, but the planet itself? Very nice – looooove all over the place. Basically you can have sex on the sidewalk, this is absolutely… ROFL.
Am I a real Trekkie, when I am giving this episode 7/10?

Episode 09: The Battle The Ferengis again. Down with these crappy and annoying aliens. Picard’s past was nice, but the manipulating device reminded me of old trash stories from The Adventures of Lois and Clark.
So, there are no headaches anymore? Great future 6/10

Episode 10: Hide and Q The next episode with Q. So he wants to get Riker to join the Q. Yeah, that is the episode i wanted to see (not). But it was funny while it lasted.
And what did I read? Riker maybe still has the power of the Q? The fans are really thinking about that stuff. It is like Lost 6,5/10

Episode 11: Haven I don’t remember much of the episode. Just Deanna, a Calvin Kline model and some planned wedding. It had to be boring. I will give it 4/10

Episode 12: The Big Goodbye So, that is the first holodeck episode. Interesting story, but bad characteristics from the crew. The action of Picard and Beverly was really dumb. They have to follow the rules of that time… No wonder a redshird died. 7/10

Episode 13: Datalore The episode was interesting, but the intro was running and running and running and running and running… It was clear all the time that Lore was a bad android, that he would do something. An episode without any thrill, but still good. Somehow.
btw: I had to watch that episode twice. I fell asleep during the first run. 6,5/10

Episode 14: Angel One Another planet of the week episode. I found it very amusing. A planet ruled by women? Holy shit, this can’t be true. One of the actresses (I don’t know her name) strongly reminded me of Mira Furlan. The semblance was intriguing. 6,5/10

Episode 15: 11001001 The best episode so far. But still with a problem: Why do the authors have to write an actual threat every time, even if it isn’t a threat for the crew? The whole Bynars thing was dissolved in a crappy way. And the girl in the holodeck was ugly. How can Riker find her hot? 8,5/10

Episode 16: Too Short a Season I didn’t like that admiral. And the story was crappy, too. The acting was too theatrical and the ending too pointless. I couldn’t like this episode, but somehow it had some good moments. 4,5/10

Episode 17: When the Bough Breaks Another planet of the week with nice habitants, who kidnap children. Hm, it wasn’t boring, but it wasn’t good either. 5,5/10

Episode 18: Home Soil I don’t know about that either. It has a great story, a great alien, but the episode wasn’t that great. The guest characters were written too crappy and the alien too nice at the end. Could somebody do a little bit damage on the ship? 6,5/10

Episode 19: Coming of Age Why does everybody hate the character of Wesley? I found his story very charming. The on ship story was great, too. And I knew this would be a prelude to episode 25. Actually a good episode. 7,5/10

Episode 20: Heart of Glory Worf’s first story: boring. I don’t like the Klingons whysoever, so I really didn’t care much about the story. But the escape of Worf’s two buddies was pretty lame. And how did they manage to bring a whole weapon into the brig? What is up with the Enterprise’s security? 5,5/10

Episode 21: The Arsenal of Freedom Interesting episode with an interesting new weapon. And finally some serious danger for the crew. And LaForge did well as commanding officer. So shall it be.
My favorite quote: Deanna: What happened to all the people?
Worf: War?
Data: Disease?
Geordi: A dissatisfied customer? 8/10

Episode 22: Symbiosis Baah, that was a shitty episode. With its drug related theme it reminded me of one of those 7th Heaven “upholder of moral standard” episodes. OMG, gruesome. 2/10

Episode 23: Skin of Evil I had some memories about that episode. Just another planet of the week, but I had some images about it the whole years after I watched that probably as a kid on television. This was real nostalgia. Oh, and a good episode, too. And finally Tasha is dead, she was a really boring character. 6,5/10

Episode 24: We’ll Always Have Paris I love that “new dimension” stuff, but that was crap. That was nothing. The time loop story was not logical enough to amuse me and I didn’t understand Data’s conflict in the finale: Why was the middle one in the right time, when we always saw the first one? And the romance could be more cut. 4,5/10

Episode 25: Conspiracy It was a good episode, but I was hoping for more. So it was just an unknown alien (how boring). But the ending was really nice. And I read, no other Star Trek episode or series concluded that theme. Interesting. 8/10

Episode 26: The Neutral Zone WTF? People from the 20th century, are you frakking serious? This story was just awful and terrible. And the conflict with the Romulans… Joar, what conflict? They just said: “We are back.” Great, what a gimmick. This wasn’t seriously the season finale?
It was bad. 3/10

Season average is 5,88. I will start the second season next month. First I have to finish some other seasons of other TV shows. See you then.