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Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Storyteller (1993)
Really not worth a watch
There's a lot to groan about this one. It's clear they were still getting Bashir's characterization down, the special effects work comes off real tacky and cheap, though I don't blame them too hard on that, and it was pretty boring for the most part. The big scary monster coming in and having to be thwarted off by everyone's psychic power of feeling strong and united as a community would be whatever but it's pretty clear there's a bit of an exploitive and cultish nature with this village and the priests that invented the monster in the first place. Them offering women to Bashir and O'Brien was real skeevy considering that the narrative ultimately condones what's happening in the village. It ends by O'Briend helping restore the status quo and I think that's a big problem. May have been a middle of the road episode if the writing actually challenged what was happening there.
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Future Imperfect (1990)
A twist too far.
Most of this episode was great, all the way up until the last five minutes. The characterization of everybody on the future Enterprise was all very uncanny let alone the question as to why most of the crew is unchanged after sixteen years. All the little hiccups and glitches, all the wrong things adding up to increasing suspicion was great. I half expected the boy to find a way to ask about the starbase. It becomes easy to guess that the Romulans had taken Riker but I don't mind a twist that you can figure out with the clues being dropped. The last five minutes gets rid of the Romulans altogether for some kid doing space magic. The ending twist was a huge let down honestly. Would have been a fairly solid episode otherwise.