Therein lies the difference. For me, the fact that it changes the rules of Angels is the least of the episode’s problems.

I don’t really care about plot minutiae like that. If a story’s good it’s good. If I did I wouldn’t be a massive fan of Doctor Who.

The character stuff was really lacking.

Having the rules ‘change’ is fine by me as long as there’s a strong idea backing it up, and The Time of Angels has a couple dozen crammed into 90 minutes. This not so much, though it was definitely the best episode since The Haunting of Villa Diodati.

He wasn’t mediocre in either.

Still a smaller margin than having liquid mousseline.

Except we have to consider the margins of error, as well. Prue loved Jurgen’s signature (feels like that should count for something since there are two judges here, not just one), and his showstopper was still very good (impressive engineering as usual). Whereas Chigs’ technical couldn’t have gone any worse than it…

The margin was far slimmer. The only real complaint they made about Jurgen’s was about appearance, which Chigs also had with his plum apples.

Yeah, if they’re not going to count it, they may as well not have it be a part of the competition at all.

And with such stiff competition you’d think a rubbish technical would disqualify you from the final. Hm.

Oh man, I hate the finale of Voyager! Shows us the crew getting home....without dealing with any of the consequences of it. So infuriating. I thought the finales of DS9 and TNG were much more gratifying, despite their flaws (pah-wraith stuff, a bit too much technobabble).

I agree with that, but the creators are the ones in charge. It’s ultimately on them to ignore toxic fans.

Perhaps but Chigs didn’t get anything right on the technical this week. It’s a bit ridiculous that he made it into the final. Jurgen’s mousseline wasn’t liquid....

Chigs also bombed the technical. He got everything wrong. I feel like he should’ve left this week. I’m not that emotionally invested in this show or anything, but this was just a poor call.

It’s definitely Top 3. I concur with popular consensus that Wrath of Khan is the best.

Deep Space Nine is a surprisingly excellent show that holds up many decades later. It’s aged much better than The Next Generation.

It’s the most serialized Trek show...but it’s so bad at what it does.

Voyager hits much higher highs, I’d argue. Living Witness bangs.

The Undiscovered Country made the argument that all things must end eventually. Unthinkable in the modern media landscape.

It’s the same thing holding back Star Wars and Doctor Who. Endlessly clinging to past glories instead of moving forward.