Star Trek TNG - Best of Both Worlds 1 & 2 just starting now on G4

[NewJeffCT]

That's 191 on your DISH Network.

[CatholicEdHead]

1. Bring back TechTV

G4 stinks

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2. Best of Both Worlds 2 was a piece of shit.

One of the most disappointing and uncool episodes ever, especially of the cliffhangers, except that totally putrid and utterly inane and juvenilely ignorant one with Data and Lore with Lore leading the Bord. Rick Berman should be executed just for that, though his list of crimes is long enough to hang him ten thousand times.

[Orrex]

3. With due respect

The worst cliffhanger IMO was the one with Data learning to dream and Worf learning his father's fate. The cooler plotline (Data's) was dropped completely for the second episode, focusing instead on yet another boring and pointless exploration of Klingon boo-yah rites of passage. Ho-hum.

Additionally, the episode was redolent with the stink of DS9...

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5. That was a real stinker, too -

But it was just a two-parter. By cliffhanger I meant ones that episode I was the end of one season and episode II was the start of the next. But I realize my terminology was totally inadequate to my assumption. :-)

And yes, it stunk of DS9 and endless Klingon bullshit. The final seasons were almost every episode an amazing one, but also too many of those fucking awful crossovers with DS9 and Voyager that always felt forced and unnatural and, ultimately, UNNECCESARY. :grr: If all the crossover bullshit, and the endless and stupid Borg shit and Klingon homeworld/civil war bullshit was taken out, the final few seasons would have been the best writing on any TV series ever, I think.

[Orrex]

8. Oops--I see your point

"Cliffhanger" is as good a term as any for what you're describing. I was only thinking in terms of generic two-parters because it's been so long since first-run that I can't remember what was a season finale and what wasn't.

And they wasted far too many episodes on boring minutiae about Klingon politics.

[NewJeffCT]

6. I loved the first part of the cliffhanger

thought, I'll admit the 2nd episode was not worth the months long wait. I do commend the people behind the show with not jumping the gun and bringing the Borg back a few episodes after their Q-inspired first encounter. They waited like a season & a half to do that, I think. Which, in TV Land, is a long long time.

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7. Yes, the first one is great! Compelling, well-written, riveting...

the second episode was just crap.

And you're right - they waited a VERY long time, in TV terms, to bring the Borg back. They first made mention of the Borg powers (though no mention of the Borg themselves) in the last episode of the first season ("The Neutral Zone") and then Q took them to the Borg mid-second season ("Q Who") and then the first episode of Best of Both Worlds was the final one of season 3. So in a sense, it was a two-year long wait - unheard of in TV outside of "The X-Files" and perhaps a couple other series.

[Guava Jelly]

4. Probably the single greatest sttng episodes ever!!

:)