re: #109 Sherlock Hound

Early TNG, that’s absolutely true. After Gene died, the storylines improved a lot, though I consider DS9 to be the best, and my favorite.

The big issue with early TNG was that it’d been greenlit in the wake of the success of the TOS films, so the writing direction was basically “TOS 2.0,” even going so far as to recycle entire scripts from the aborted TOS reboot and rejected scripts from TOS itself. Combine that with Gene chaining the writing staff down to his “future humans are perfect beings” philosophy and directors who were misogynist/racist asshats and you got a series that was all the worst aspects of the 60s brought into the 80s.