"I don't hate you, Cardassian. I hate what I became BECAUSE of you." - Miles O'brien

Dude, Barclay clearly wasn’t “a man of average intelligence.” He was held back by his neuroses, but was consistently portrayed as very knowledgeable

The Offspring "I love you, father." "I wish I could feel it with you." "I will feel it for both of us… thank you for my life."

"Rascals" is one that could be on this list. The kids who played the young versions of Picard, Ro, Guinan, and Keiko were excellent.

Guinan stabbing Q with a fork Never gets old for me.

O'Brien and Maxwell singing the Minstrel Boy, the music swells... "I'm not going to win this one am I chief". "No Sir". Brings a tear to my eye.

Sito’s death is one of the saddest moments in any TV series in my opinion.

"Half a Life" was not only a great Lwaxana episode, but also featured an amazing performance from David Ogden Stiers.

TNG Lower Decks has me in tears every time, you can feel the friendship, and the loss they all felt... amazing episode...

I, Borg could make the list too. That scene with Guinan going and talking to Hugh? That's some powerful shit. And the entire story arc of growing from an expendable pawn to a genuine, kind, and compassionate person? Primo.

I want to find the timeline where both Ro and Kira are on DS9. Cuz as great as Michelle Forbes was, Nana Visitor is a goddamned treasure of an actor and made Kira one of the greatest Star Trek characters ever. We deserve one scene with those two together!

I'm not ashamed to say, that Lower Decks episode brings a tear to my eye every time.

I also liked the Barkley episode where he overcomes his transporter fears in one of the bravest acts in the series.

I don't remember the episode but the one that really stands out to me there's a really great episode for a non-standard cast member as well as an excellent performance from Patrick Stewart is the one where Sarek comes on board to negotiate with those aliens that will have no one but him and yet it is discovered that he has a disease that is rare and causes him to lose control of his emotional suppression. Picard's mind meld with him and is able to at least temporarily give him his own control, while simultaneously experiencing the full range of Vulcan emotions which are far more intense than human ones

This type of list is custom made for DS9, which had a great cast of supporting characters. Do that next please!

What also is special about “Lower Decks” is we, the audience, are used to being in the observation lounge with the main cast hearing the discussion and knowing what they know. This episode has the senior officers leave the bridge with us not knowing what’s going on just like the lower decks.

Michelle Forbes was amazing in this role. I am disappointed she didn't continue.

Half a Life didn't make the cut? The long scene between Lwaxana and Timison is simply fantastic. That's a hugely underrated episode.

There were even a few good episodes featuring the children on the ship. The one where the girl has the imaginary friend that turns out to be an alien lifeform, the one about the boy who's mother was killed under Worf's command, and the one where Pichard is trapped with the children in the turbolift

I wish Ro showed up more often. Michelle Forbes was so compelling in that role.

For me, the best Lwaxxana episode on TNG was "Half a Life". Seeing her change from essentially a horny maneater and comedic foil into a sensitive, loving advocate for the life of another was unexpected and refreshing. Her acceptance on the Kaelon Resolution in the end reveals her as a sensitive and understanding person.

i really like the theory that Locarno was Paris under an assumed name, to stay out of the shadow of his Admiral Father

Ensign Sito was a one of the best characters. The shock of her being killed is emotional every single time.

“The Wounded” one of the best lines that O’Brien says to a cardassian and was a great line in regards to prejudice and racism, “you see Cardassian, I don’t hate you, I hate what you made me become.” Awesome line said brilliantly by Colm Meaney.

Lower Decks, the TNG episode. Such a heartbreaking episode....

Barclay was one of my favorite characters. He was very imaginative but uncomfortable around others, something I understand.

One could argue that “The Offspring” (S3 E16) could be added to the list. Although the episode is more or less about Data, Hallie Todd as Lal gave an incredible performance.

"The Wounded" is one of my favorite episodes and often overlooked as one of the top TNG episodes. Introduction of the Cardassians and the Nebula-class starship, O'Brien taking a greater stage, and the last scene with Picard and the Cardassian are all excellent aspects to the episode.

I've sat in the TOS captain's chair they used for Relics. It was part of a Star Trek exhibit that came to the UK a little over 20 years ago. And now, 20 years later, it's passed on the curse of Scotty's weight 😂 I mean, that's actually more a thing that happened during the plague lockdown but it's far more fun to blame the chair.

Ro's betrayal is MUCH more significant than Eddington's. Picard and Ro had a much closer relationship. Eddington was just some guy who worked for Sisko. Picard was a mentor and friend and supporter of Ro's who single-handedly helped her turn her life around and gave her a future. Eddiginton and Sisko had a cordial, but strictly business relationship.

The 80s/90s era of Trek just had something special. Some of these episodes have more heart than an entire season of new Trek.

Seeing Dwight Schultz on TV again was delightful. I had known of him through his work as Howling Mad Murdock on The A-Team TV series.

I find Sean's pacing in this video much better than the ones where he's standing in front of the camera without a script. I find him sounding more sure of the material here.

DS9 may have had the better plot archs. But TNG’s one off episodes are some the best TV has to offer.

Ensign Ro is the first episode with the Ro character but it is not Michelle Forbes first appearance. She first appeared in Half A Life as the daughter of a scientist called Timicin.

My favorite part in _The Wounded_ was when Riker, Troi, and the Cardassians are leaving the transporter room and Troi stops and looks back at O'Brien because she can sense the hate coming from him and it's probably the first time she has sensed something like that from the crew.

Dude, Wesley's squad wasn't the Prototype of Red Squad, it was Red Squad, the later unit in DS9 was the same Academy unit, just a later class of Cadets.

Ensign Ro is my favorite guest on Star Trek the Next Generation. She was even better as the Admiral for the USS Pegasus in Battlestar Galactica. She's one of those rare female actresses that gets better with age. Not to mention she was super sexy as hell!

Ro was a fantastic character. It's a shame we didn't get more of her.

Also in Deja Q gave us the now famous Picard Facepalm.

Even all these years later, I still teared up when you got to the conclusion of your number 1 episode. The writing on Next Gen was amazing to have held up after all this time, and as you said to make us feel so much about a character in just ~40 minutes.

Unification (Spock/ Sarek) and Hollow Pursuits (Reg Barclay) are bona fide classics. Barclay always stole the show whenever he popped up.

Hero worship the kid who played Timothy did a fantastic job

It says something about the power of these episodes that I still feel the emotional impact even from just these little clips, especially Lower Decks.

Hero Worship is one of my favorites. About the little boy saved by Data so he begins to pretend he is also an android.

I loved 'Relics'. I remember being so excited to see Scotty again and to me, Jimmy Doohan did not disappoint! Loved his scene outside the holodeck: "Show me the Enterprise bridge. N-C-C-1-7-0-1. No bloody A, B, C (and with a twinkle in his eye) or D!" One of the best moments of the episode for me.

Another great list! Keep 'em coming!!! I felt, however, "Unification" with Spock should have been mentioned, and if somehow it doesn't count, I don't know how! But I do really agree with your number one choice!

"With ensign Sito, [Picard] seems almost cruel. However, it is all a test, one that she passes [...]. Her reward for passing..." **Shows Sito Jaxa with a black eye** Well played, Trek Culture. Well played...

Dude, NICE CALL on Picard confronting Ro Laren in Picard. Brilliant prediction.

"Lower Decks" made me cry. It was so well done and so sad at the end.

It's when Capitan Picard addresses the entire ship at the end of Lower Decks that hits me.

It was great that they brought O'Brien to DS9 and made him one of the main characters. Wonderful character played by a truly underrated actor.

While I might re-order some of the other choices, Lower Decks is the clear #1 by light years. Brilliantly written, cast and acted by everyone. In the later seasons of DS9 when they really started to expand on the stories of Garek, Nog, Damar and several others is when that show became my favorite. Lower decks was similar, they stayed in the galaxy and the Starfleet we know, but they reminded us that in an organization or a galaxy that big, there would be thousands of heroes, not just a half dozen. Its for similar reasons that I love Rogue One. There are thousands of untold stories in that galaxy as well.

Major Kira wasn't the only character who was supposed to be Ensign Ro. The role of Belanna Torres was also originally planned for Michelle Forbes, but when she turned down a spot in the cast of Voyager, as well, it was radically rewritten. She must have made quite an impression on the producers of the franchise at the time.

I LOVE the idea of Ro returning on Picard! I really hope that somebody gets that idea in their heads and does it. I just hope its not as short as Icheb's appearance.

Roga Danar from "The Hunted". Just fantastic commentary on how we treat out soldiers after sending them off to war.

to me 'the Nth Degree' is a tragedy. in effect a horror story, because of how it ended. it isn't so much that Barclay's 'super-intelligence' is gone, but that he is left with the memory of having it. how hellish it must be to 'remember' being Great and know you cant ever get it back.

Being reminded of the STNG episode 'Lower Decks', having assumed I'd remembered every 1, right before the debut of STLD S02 is reason enough to appreciate your guy's efforts in making these videos. Kudos!

The look on Riker's face when he removes the cigar - Classic! (0:57)

Just as with Ro, Sito's body was never shown so it's possible both are still alive.

Loving thatt from 100k to 111k in 2 weeks. Well done guys. You deserve it :)

Wish there was room on the list for Daniel Davis’ holo-Moriarty from ‘Ship in a Bottle.’

I am so glad that you mentioned Sito Jaxa and Lower Decks. Glad that it tops the list. It is often such an underrated and forgotten episode and that is sad. Especially when it is such a powerful episode emotionally. I still cry when I watch it.

ABOUT DAMN TIME Ro got some love!!

I always wished that Cito, and the young fella, that apparently died in the last episode mentioned, had actually survived...somehow, and return...eventually, together. Scarred, but very much alive, still managed to achieve their secret mission goals and bring back vital secrets needed.

2:28 Worf: "I am NOT a merry man!" OK I know it wasn't in that episode but it reminded me of it.

This is why I always wanted moře episodes focused on other people or simply have more other people getting some improtant role in common situations.

Thanks for this. I always love your STAR TREK videos.

I LOVE "Nth Degree" just for Barclay's out-flirting of Riker. I mean the looks Riker gives Troi as she's thinking of Barclay's flirts is PRICELESS! Also "Dark Page" had me in tears! Brilliant episode!

This is one of your better pieces of work. The tightly defined and interesting category made this, my best 10 minute break.

Dark page & Ensign Ro are 2 of my highlights of TNG! 🖖🏻😁

Your top pick is spot on. An outstanding piece of drama. Relics is a favorite and I've always enjoyed the Barclay episodes. Dwight Schultz has a knack for switching from goofy to serious in an instant.

Glad that lower decks was in there - a really memorable episode! The Maquis weren't all killed off - a pretty big chunk ended up on Voyager!

two of the 10 best quotes in ST: TNG history were in The Wounded ....... O'Brien's line to the Cardassian in 10 Forward, and JLP's dressing down of Gul Macet in the conference room off the main bridge.

I had not seen The Wounded since its aired how many ever years ago when i watched it recently; and now being a Veteran it meant so much more to me and moved me beyond words. I dont suffer from the mental wounds of war, but i know many do and who cant seem to leave the 'moment'. This list shows how deep and brilliant the writers of this show were, especially when they got to create beyond the boundaries of the main cast,

EXCELLENT choices, Sean....Thank You for this episode ❤️❤️❤️

Silicon Avatar is another great episode not about the Main Cast. Dr. Marr and her killing the Crystalline Entity and seeing her rage, delusion, anger was quite stunning.

This ended up being a list of some of my favorite episodes. Well done. 8^)

You should do a story of all the actors that played helmsmen of the Enterprise-D beside Geordi LaForge, Wesley Crusher, Miles O'Brian and Ro Laren.

Superb choice for #1 (the only possible one, as you say) and absolutely spot on analysis

You should do some lists featuring Star Trek books. :) If you did one for TNG era stories, I’d include “Q-in-Law”. Very delightful. Feels just like an episode of the show. Oh, and the audiobook (while annoyingly abridged 🤪) done by John de Lance and Majel Barrett is a treat.

Awesome video!! perfect order!!!

Sean, I think this is far and away the best Trek Culture yet! BRAVO, and LLAP!

3:38 The Dark Page, a heartbreaking tear-jerker, revealed to me that there's a "tragic death" leitmotiv in the NextGen incidental music, which I've recognized in other episodes.

My all time fav list: "11001001", "We'll Always Have Paris", "A Matter of Honor", "The Survivors", "Who Watches the Watchers", "The Enemy", "The Price", "The Defector", "The High Ground", "Yesterday's Enterprise", "Captain's Holiday", "Tin Man", "Remember Me", "Data's Day", "Night Terrors", "The Nth Degree", "Ensign Ro", "A Matter of Time", "Face of the Enemy", "Rightful Heir", "The First Duty".

That ep lower decks

i will never stop being sad about sito's death!! rlly makes u appreciate how sad it is when any starfleet officer dies because they all had friends on the ship :(

Dark Page was Majel Barrett's best performance in Star Trek, and Marina Sirtis wasn't bad in it, either.

I like these random lists on Trek stuff. Top 10 Away Missions where someone died or was left behind. Top 10 times the guest stars stole the show. Top 10 most Evil Star Trek villains. How come we never see cars but also never see bicycles on alien worlds? Its like all the alien civilizations just skipped the wheel and went straight to rocket ship and warp drive design lol

Wow thanks for those episodes, I've forgotten a few of them.

This was a great list! And I totally agree about Lower Decks. Such. Good. Writing. I got weepy just thinking about Ensign Sito, and I've seen that episode multiple times!

Great video. Thanks

Really good episode thank you trek culture

With that last one, they revised the base concept for an entire animated spin off series.

Before even watching the video I’m willing to bet that “Lower Decks” is on this list. And if it’s ranking episodes it’s at least in the top three. Edit: Called it

I love Captain Picard, but Sisko was my Captain.

I forgot his name, (Reginald Cox or something) but Captain Jellinek, who took over the Enterprise while Picard was counting lights, was excellent. Steward was a tour de force in the two part episode, but I really thought the new captain showed why Riker was still a first officer and not a captain. Not that being a first officer was a bad thing. He also changed the Enterprise from being a "Main Cast Lounge Ensemble" to being the flagship of Starfleet

Nicely done! It would be interesting to see Ro on Picard.

The episode "The Hunted" was by far (in my humble opinion) the best episode regarding PTSD and more importantly combat veterans. Its theme was blatant and truthful. Having served in the US Army and being the son, grandson, and little brother of several combat veterans [WW2, Korea/Veitnam] I could appreciate the 'message' this episode tried to convey. But like ST: DS9's two-parter "Past Tense", no one was listening...

@ 5:32 Like my father and many others, James Doohan was a real World War II hero! He was one of the thousands who stormed the beach at Normandy got injured lost a finger to a bullet kept on fighting! Thank you to all the war veterans for protecting America!