STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION (1987-1994) ↳ S03E15, YESTERDAY’S ENTERPRISE STAR TREK: PICARD (2020-2023) ↳ S03E01, THE NEXT GENERATION
oh my god I miss ds9 I miss it I miss it I miss it so so much it hurts
Ambassador Class Concept Art by Andy Probert
Fun fact I’ve been putting the episodes in a notepad and rank them how I remember them then tweak the ranking as I watch the season
IT IS REALLY HARD TO RANK SEASON 3 OVER HALF THE SEASON IS FANTASTIC AND EVEN THE LESS THAN FANTASTIC EPISODES ARE ALMOST ALL SOLID
like I’m having to nitpick to order the bottom 18 or so lmao
season 1 was shakey with potential, season 2 was solid, season 3 is like
*gestures helplessly* I’d argue the closest thing to a dud this season is comparable to a middle ground season 2 but I’d have to watch the two I’m on the fence about to decide if they’re okay, decent or good, as I only vaguely remember them
s t a r t r e k t h e n e x t g e n e r a t i o n Yesterday's Enterprise (S3ep15)
Tricia O’Neil as Captain Rachel Garrett 1990 in Star Trek: The Next Generation ”Yesterday’s Enterprise”
also, Yesterday’s Enterprise once again proves that Patrick Stewart is a far better actor than TNG ever deserved. The way he subtly plays the difference between our Picard and the alternate war-hardened Picard is masterful
Revisited the TNG episode “Yesterday’s Enterprise” recently, and I think it took me until now to finally realise that this may be the best alternate universe story anywhere in Trek. In most cases, particularly when the Mirror Universe is concerned, the idea was just “what if everything was terrible and all the characters you know are evil”, but here, it’s not as simple as that. It’s grim compared to the regular universe, yes, but more along the lines of there having been such a long and costly situation that all the hope and positivity has been worn out. Characters are harsher, more prone to anger, but we still recognise them as those characters. What a great outing that was for the show 😊
The Ambassador-class U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-C. Again, little crew members have been added to some of the drawings to provide scale.
Tasha Yar in "Yesterday's Enterprise".
"Yesterday's Enterprise" is undoubtedly one of the best Next Gen episodes ever. The prior Enterprise, NCC-1701-C, emerges from a temporal rift and the timeline goes to hell. It's about sacrifice and the greater good. But when Young Me first saw it all those years ago? I hated it.
Why? My local TV guide said something along the lines of "the old Enterprise emerges from a temporal rift" and of course I was MAD EXCITED for a few days thinking we were gonna have these guys
Meet these guys
And it would be the best thing in the entire history of the universe up until that point.
So as great as this was
It could NEVER live up to the hype😂
Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar) and Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan) 1990 during the filming of Star Trek: The Next Generation “Yesterday’s Enterprise”
I love the way characters in Star Trek talk about relations between Starfleet and the Klingons because inevitably they always bring up "The Federation-Klingon War" and it's just like
Build yourself an Ambassador-class starship.
old (alien) diplomats and their (human) husbands
s t a r t r e k t h e n e x t g e n e r a t i o n Unification, Part II (S5ep8)