The surest way to distract from Nolan Gould and Ariel Winter's increasingly labored acting is to give more screen time to Joe and Lily and theirs.

Maybe not great, but surprisingly watchable. Waterhouse wasn't called on to be violently angry or petulant in his season 18 scripts, that certainly helped, and his adulation of Baker comes across, certainly more so than any time Baker was pissed at him for offering acting tips!

It's such a rarely-dredged up part of the Doctor though, that cold reaction to someone dying in front of him. Dramatically, it's fantastic, but it's borderline out of character, even for an unpredictable alien. The Fourth Doctor's portrayal in "Pyramids of Mars" is fascinating and culminates with his disregard for…

One can call them wrong with authority, but TV Guide did name this the best episode of Star Trek ever made. All of Star Trek. That kept my subscription going for a couple more years!

One can call them wrong with authority, but TV Guide did name this the best episode of Star Trek ever made. All of Star Trek. That kept my subscription going for a couple more years!

Absolute hogwash. Not a single one of the main human characters on DS9 behaves in a way not in keeping with Star Trek, certainly not on the level you are branding it, "from the start" indeed. Even Sisko, for his short temper and willingness to betray some principles during the war, still grapples with his morality and…

That Voyager never cultivated even as strong a recurring cast as TNG did is hard to fathom. Sure, the saved money went into nifty production values, but it's insane to think that the crew of a stranded ship of 150 people never gets explored beyond the main cast unless someone has to die.

All fair criticisms.
The episode also suffers from a budget being stretched more thinly than any other finale. All the recurring guest stars on tap and the war hijinks leading up to the finale obviously took their toll on the bottom line. The space battle has to reuse footage for a whole protracted sequence, bustling…

I do give her a lot of credit for trying to consistently humanize and patch up glaring inconsistencies in how her character was written over the years!

The Borg battle in First Contact I forgive - that budget wouldn't have stretched to it being much more elaborate, sadly.
IMO Voyager managed two decent Borg event stories: Scorpion and Dark Frontier. We got Seven of Nine, Species 8472 and a return of the Borg Queen. None of these things would have been possible had…

There's a tantalizing taste of what HD DS9 could be with "Birthright Part 1" on TNG's season 6 blu-ray. You get to see Alexander Siddig, the DS9 promenade sets and the shots of the Enterprise docked at the station in glorious HD.

"Faces" is really quite effective.

It says something when all the best Tuvok episodes are the ones where something stressful or catastrophic causes Tuvok not to act like Tuvok.

Chakotay and 7 of 9 share an entire story together maybe 3 or 4 episodes before the finale. There isn't a single hint of mutual attraction between them. There was one rather good episode where 7 tries to take her humanization as far as possible with pretending a holographic Chakotay is her boyfriend, but in context…

DS9 technically had better ratings than Voyager, but was harder to physically watch. As one of the last successful first run syndicated dramas (a market TNG broke), it was often pushed out of primetime as local stations became WB or UPN affiliates or simply moved it for newer programming.
Voyager was on an inept…

His performances were sometimes unusual, but I rarely would cringe. He always had my attention, especially as he settled into the right kind of intensity around the end of season 3.

There were no bad actors in the DS9 cast. On Voyager, Garrett Wang, Robert Duncan McNeill and Robert Beltran were… marginal, to be charitable.

The Prophets vs. Pagh-Wraiths drama wound up just being glorified Dungeons and Dragons silliness with mythical books and prophecies and visions and it managed to take Dukat and Winn down with it. Still doesn't detract too much from DS9's ambitious endgame.

Enterprise -is- on Blu Ray and in HD as it was broadcast. Only the VFX are not 1080p. So, the worst show was the easiest to remaster.

The interface on Playstations and Xboxes has always been terrible, and was recently revamped to be even worse.