I think that's an incredibly concise way of putting it.

They lamp-shade that in the show though. For example, when Riker meets other Klingons, he's surprised by the fact that they laugh and take the piss out of each-other and they express the same feeling. It turns out the perception of their cultures is largely shaped by the fact that meetings between humans and Klingons…

That one is in my top 5 and certainly doesn't get enough love. It also has one of the all time greatest Picard speeches, where he disobeys the orders of Starfleet for perhaps the only time in his career.

Well they never outright say that he didn't end up becoming his own grandfather, but if his characterisation is anything to go by chances are he struck out.

True, he's exceptionally talented, but I always thought the subtext with him was that he was probably encouraged to go and live on the frontier of deep space because everyone found him to be an insufferable pain in the ass.

Don't get me wrong. I love The Inner Light, The Best of Both Worlds two-parter and some of the other more obvious choices for best episode, but the themes of Tapestry resonates with me in a really profound way and I think Stewart and John De Lancie performances are pitch-perfect. When Picard makes his choice to die…

It's hilarious when Bashir tries to justify sleeping with the crew member who flirted with him by arguing that he is his own great-grandfather and if he doesn't do it he might never be born.

He knew Picard well enough to know that he was in love with Vash. Is it crazy to think that Q may have already gone back through Picards timeline and witnessed the incident with the Nausicans?

Wesley was best used when he was put in a bottle storyline with Picard. Wesley being young and new to the crew allowed him to ask Picard questions the others wouldn't ask and the audience to understand Picard better. That said I think sending him to Starfleet Academy when they did was a good choice. He needed to be…

Or when Spock nerve grips the punk thug on the bus who was being obnoxious. One of the all time greatest Spock moments.

I think all of the original cast movies (I-VI) are good to great. The weakest is probably the first followed by the fifth. The Voyage Home is my favourite in spite of it not really being about anything, or perhaps because it's not really about anything.

I would say that is true of Q in his early appearances, however I think Q gradually develops an obsession with the Enterprise and Picard in particular and genuinely considers Picard a friend by this point in their relationship, one to whom he knows that he owes an invaluable debt for helping him rejoin the continuum.…

I don't think it's a hallucination, mostly because of it's complexity and the fact that we know Q has god-like universe manipulating powers. Also because if it were a product of Picards mind I would imagine he would wield more control over what was happening, whereas instead he is thwarted at every possible turn. To…

TAPESTRY?!?! Only the bet episode of Star Trek full stop.

I don't view any of the TNG films as canonical. Mostly because they SUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!

That episode is truly great. It's a shame there are so few of that quality in the Voyager series.

I can't believe you went to the trouble of writing this article and left out the greatest episode of Star Trek ever made: Tapestry.

2 seasons though.

Honestly, who gives a fuck about comic books? Go play dungeons and dragons you fucking nerd.

I think it's been spinning it's wheels for four seasons and that it's finally given up on finding a new kind of story to tell. There were enjoyable moments in the last three series and it's generally better executed under this current show-runner, but the show has long since run out of ideas.