In this ENGAGE-ing Star Trek TNG podcast, Ben and Michelle rank each episode from "Encounter at Farpoint" to "All Good Things." Along the way, they fight over Worf's redeeming qualities, whether or not Wesley has an unhealthy addiction to sweaters, and whether or not Geordi has an unhealthy addictio…
Picard and the gang beam down to a planet once inhabited by weapons merchants, which unfortunately leads to Jeordi in charge of the whole Enterprise. Until, that is, Jeordi rips the ship in two. Oh Jeordi.
In this episode Worf meets some of his Klingon buddies and they all scream a lot. But then his buddies turn out to be bad dudes and Worf has to step up. Oh, and two crew members die but nobody seems to care.
This is the breakout episode for Worf! And . . . some other things happen with a conspiracy and investigation.
In this episode, the United Federation of ugly bags of mostly water take their primitive, arrogant flesh sacs where they don't belong.
In this episode we meet the people of Aldea, a mythical cloaked planet. Because of their reliance on technology, the people of Aldea have become too stupid to live, and in their dumb dumb minds, they think kidnapping children from the Enterprise is the way to go. But not on Picard's watch!
In this episode, a terrible actor Benjamin Button's his way through the galaxy while the crew of the Enterprise tags along.
In this episode, we meet the Binars, and Data shows he's not very good at hide and seek. Also, the holodeck diet! Coming soon.
This week, Picard and the gang use their galaxy-class star ship to go after a few humans who have nothing to do with the Federation. Uh . . . what?
In this episode, Data's brother tries to elope with a giant snowflake, and Wesley, as usual, sticks his nose in where it's not wanted.
In this episode, Picard plays a private dick, and Data learns how to plug in a light.
In this episode, a ship arrives in orbit carrying the Plague, and still everyone would rather be on that ship than on the Enterprise with Troi's mother.
In this episode, Q returns, Riker gets power happy, Picard gets a little smug, and Geordi gets creepy. But what else is new?
As a gift and gesture of friendship, the Ferengi give Picard his old ship the Stargazer. Nothing odd about that. I'm sure we can trust the Ferengi. Not!
Lots of naked people and Wesley running around like a dolt. That's this episode.
In this episode, Picard is acting damn peculiar. But, meh, what can you do? Um, how about your job? Do your job, Riker!
Here we have The Traveler, ready for Disco, and Wesley drowning in sweater. Save the boy! The boy? Yes, the boy.
In this episode, we meet the Ferengi, another upstanding, laudable alien race roaming the galaxy. Not!
Tasha considers giving up her career to date a macho, sexist, backstabbing chieftain, and that's the best thing that happens in this episode. Oh! There's a jungle gym.
In this episode, Picard makes some very funny noises, Data takes advantage of drunk Tasha, and Geordi establishes himself as one creepy dude.
A big moment, we see Wesley's first sweater, and perhaps the best-named character on the show, Groppler Zorn.
In this first episode, Q puts up a chain-link fence to keep out the riff-raff, and someone gets trigger happy with the fire extinguisher.