My girlfriend is making up for lost time (she says), and wants to catch up on everything I’ve spent a life time watching. So, I put together a list of episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation to watch (and those to skip) to help her get a feel for the series without spending the next ten-years on some less than stellar TV. Episodes to watch are Bold and Italic. If you are a Star Trek fan, what do you think of my list?
Season One
- “Encounter at Farpoint” (Two-part episode)
- “The Naked Now”
- “Code of Honor”
- “The Last Outpost”
- “Where No One Has Gone Before”
- “Lonely Among Us”
- “Justice”
- “The Battle”
- “Hide and Q”
- “Haven”
- “The Big Goodbye” (Peabody Award Winner)
- “Datalore”
- “Angel One”
- “11001001”
- “Too Short a Season”
- “When the Bough Breaks”
- “Home Soil”
- “Coming of Age”
- “Heart of Glory”
- “The Arsenal of Freedom”
- “Symbiosis”
- “Skin of Evil”
- “We’ll Always Have Paris”
- “Conspiracy”
- “The Neutral Zone”
It’s quite the mixed bag. I kept “The Naked Now” on the watch list because it’s so bad it’s good. A lot of season one was very preachy and some episodes just don’t add much to the series.
