Started my TNG rewatch. Seems like I'll know how you guys feel when I keep calling Star Trek Discovery dumb. Fair play and all.
Anywho, I watched Encounter at Farpoint, Naked Now, and Code of Honor.
I gotta say, I don't get the hate for Farpoint. It's not very well executed, but the idea is pretty classic Trek I thought. The acting is pretty meh from most of the supporting cast and it has a lot of problems, but I still think the core of it is pretty good. And given the context....being a TV show in the mid 1980's that is a sequel to a 60's show, I can understand they didn't have a ton to work with at the beginning there. It's also why I don't allow those same considerations for Discovery or Picard. It's not the 1980's/1990's anymore. TV isn't where actors either go to die or when they aren't talented enough for movies. TV isn't just a silly past time that people watch on occasion. It's not filled with writers/directors that didn't have what it took to make it in the movies. So I hold the differences in quality to different standards given the time of it all.
The Naked Now......dumb, but with some fun moments. I liked a lot of the Picard/Beverly stuff, and Data was funny when he was all silly. But yea, aside from that a real stinker. I know Gene wanted to essentially reuse a ton of TOS scripts in TNG and take advantage of the higher budget, and I'm glad it mostly ended with this episode. What an awful, awful idea.
Now Code of Honor....that's a REAL heap of garbage. And apparently we're not alone in that. It seems the whole crew of TNG and even Roddenberry hated it and considered it extremely racist. Seems that was mostly the director's doing since he's the one who decided that the whole alien planet would be black and resembling colonial era African tribes. Script never asked for that. However, on top of being REALLY stupid and racist, it's also pretty sexist in a more overt way than a lot of the other stuff. I mean Troi and Yar have a little conversation about how good Yar felt when the big strong man wanted her. Eesh. Ah well, glad it's over with and we can get on to quality ST! Like Angel One and Justice!