The following post will contain the list of the episodes in season 3. Peruse that list and count the number of episodes you think are good--not great episodes, but episodes that don't find you flipping the channel after a few minutes. Count them up and give me the results in the poll.

Now for the round 1.5:

Give me nominations for the best of this season. The more nominations an episode receives, the more likely it will be in the next round.

If you have selected all or nearly all the episodes as good, please nominate the ones you would leave OFF the final list (and tell me which is which).

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From Trek Nation
#401 The Best of Both Worlds, Part Two | Riker and the crew try to find a way to save both Picard and the human race when the Borg use the captain as part of their plan to assimilate Earth.
#402 Family | While the Enterprise is repaired at Earth's spacedock, leaving crewmembers time to see their families, Picard visits his resentful brother.
#403 Brothers | When Soong summons Data and accidentally brings Lore home as well, the two androids struggle with one another for possession of an "emotion chip,".
#404 Suddenly Human | A human child is discovered among a group of possibly abusive aliens, and Picard risks a war to reunite the boy with his human family.
#405 Remember Me | An experiment of Wesley's traps his mother in a warp bubble, where crewmembers seem to disappear one by one.
#406 Legacy | Tasha Yar's mysterious sister comes on board and becomes close with Data when the crew is sent on a rescue mission to her home planet.
#407 Reunion | Picard is asked by the Klingons to mediate a power struggle, forcing Worf to confront the Klingon family which disgraced his own.
#408 Future Imperfect | Riker awakens in sickbay after a disastrous away mission to discover that sixteen years have passed, he now commands the Enterprise, and he has a young son.
#409 Final Mission | On his way to Starfleet Academy, Wesley accompanies Picard on an away mission which turns deadly, leaving him to keep the captain alive and defeat a sentry blocking the water supply.
#410 The Loss | When a cluster of two-dimensional life forms affect Counselor Troi's empathic powers, she resigns her post but helps save the ship anyway.
#411 Data's Day | During twenty-four hours in the life of Data, the impending wedding of Miles and Keiko causes the android to study human feelings, which in turn enable him to sniff out a Romulan spy.
#412 The Wounded | A Federation starship commanded by a captain who lost his family to the Cardassians begins attacking their ships, claiming that they are preparing for a new war.
#413 Devil's Due | Picard testifies against a woman claiming to be the devil on a world which has committed its citizens to eternal slavery to her.
#414 Clues | Picard and the crew find mounting evidence that Data is lying to them about how much time they were unconscious and what transpired while they were out.
#415 First Contact | When he is injured during a reconnaissance mission, Riker's identity as an alien is discovered by an alien culture deeply fearful of the idea that they are not alone in the galaxy.
#416 Galaxy's Child | While the crew fights to save an alien baby whose mother was accidentally killed, LaForge tries to bond with Leah Brahms, who is nothing like his holographic dream woman.
#417 Night Terrors | The crew is trapped in a rift in space where lack of dreams causes hallucinations; only Troi can still dream, and she is plagued by horrible nightmares.
#418 Identity Crisis | A parasite which has transformed several crewmembers who went on an away mission to Tarchannen Three earlier begins to affect LaForge and a friend of his, altering their DNA.
#419 The Nth Degree | After an encounter with an alien probe, Lieutenant Barclay develops superhuman intelligence and tries to take over the ship.
#420 Q-Pid | In the middle of an archaeology conference, Q, trying to show the captain a good time, turns Picard and crew into Robin Hood and his merry men.
#421 The Drumhead | A famous Starfleet admiral leads a hunt for a traitor aboard the Enterprise, destroying her own credibility when she attacks Picard.
#422 Half a Life | When a visiting scientist who becomes Lwaxana Troi's lover seeks asylum to avoid having to commit ritual suicide, Picard fears losing the planet's scientific participation in the Federation.
#423 The Host | Crusher falls in love with a Trill, only to discover that his real personality exists in a small symbiont living inside his body, which must be transplanted into Riker to survive the host's death.
#424 The Mind's Eye | LaForge is kidnapped and altered by Romulans to take part in an assassination plot against a Klingon ambassador.
#425 In Theory | Data creates a romantic subroutine to experiment with love when a crewmember becomes interested in dating him.
#426 Redemption, Part One | When Picard is asked as Arbiter of Succession to oversee Gowron's installation as governor, Worf decides to resign from Starfleet to fight for his family honor against the Duras and their Romulan ties.

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Best episode of Season Four: First Contact
Honorable mentions: Best of Both Worlds Part 2, Brothers, The Wounded, Night Terrors, The Drumhead.

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What I would leave off:

Final Mission: Good Picard moments, but Wesley must die.

The Loss: As a disabled person, I find the whole idea that a non-empathic Troi could consider herself disabled disgusting

Q-Pid: after a run of good Q eps, back to the crap.

Devil's Due: Feels as cheesy as the original series, which isn't surprising, since it was originally a script for Roddenberry's unfilmed Trek follow up

Half a Life: Some positively wretched astronomy, a tepid David Ogden Stiers and Lwaxana (gag) Troi. Weird to see a pre-Ro Michelle Forbes getting all sobby.

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i've always like "the Nth Degree"..
but of course, Barclay is one of my favorite TNG characters for some reason or another.

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In my opinion, the 4th season was the starting point in which STNG truly became a great series. My three favorites were:

#415 - First Contact

#403 - Brothers

#419 - The Nth Degree

The Nth Degree was my favorite Barclay episode.

I actually like Devil's Due, though more for the concepts than the acting. Definitely can see the rather cheesier side of it. The Drumhead was good but I thought they were trying to channel McCarthy a little too hard.

I like haunting style stories, so Night Terrors is my pick for the best. I would have to add Best of Both Worlds to the final list.

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401 The Best of Both Worlds, Part Two
415 First Contact

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I've got four episodes I will add to the list from this season but I'm still looking to see if anybody has any more suggestions or comments.

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First Contact
Devil's Due
Nth Degree
Future Imperfect

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