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I rewatched TNG since that post.
First and foremost, you can really see in the HD version how thin the costumes are, especially in the first two seasons, but also in season 4 where the enterprise encounter's Tasha Yar's ridiculously hot sister. The camera really eats her ass up in one scene.
I also enjoyed the accidental '90s racism, like how the Ferengi are rather negroidic to begin with, and only convert to judaism later.
Moral quandaries interested me little, except to laugh at them when they were stupid or insane. Picard insists on destroying the ship— again, because some kind of "artificial life" has emerged, and we have to pretend that it can't be mass-produced.
The 7th season is where everything that had been good about Trek dies in realtime. Ro and Wesley abandon Starfleet for what I've come to refer to as "magical terrorism."
It's like in Fight Club, The Matrix, American Beauty, or Office Space, where having a dependable income is, like, squaresville, maaaaan so the moral of the story becomes "you should quit your job and... I dunno, I'm sure something better will come up."
I don't know if it's really hippie boomer bullshit or something more nefarious. Either way, it was the most interesting detail of various episodes of that season.
7x09 is the preachy enviroslop episode about how warp engines are going to destroy space in 10 to 20 years. Someone actually jumps up during a briefing to shit the already obvious "climate change" allegory right onto the table.
The finale was nice. Maybe the scifi aspects fall flat now, but I like the characters, and seeing season 1 Data juxtaposed with future Data tickled me.
The finale was set partly 25 years in the future which, relative to 1994, coincided with 2019. I'm given to understand through clips that there was indeed a nuTrek show in 2019, in which Picard is a mute geriatric whose only role is to be the foil to the new cast. Compare that to the firey, "second adolescence" Picard in All Good Things and a fairly clear picture of how badly the plot has been lost seems to become clear. Gone are the grandeur and dignity, etc.
But it was a good trip. I enjoyed many absurd details, too numerous to recount.
I might even say that TOS suffers for not being stupid enough to hold my attention.