The following post will contain the list of the episodes in season 6. 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
#601 Time's Arrow, Part Two | Data meets Guinan and Mark Twain in the 19th century.
#602 Realm of Fear | Barclay's terror of the transporter leads him to believe that he's being attacked while within the beam.
#603 Man of the People | A visiting ambassador puts his negative feelings into Troi's psyche, causing her to age prematurely and to act nastily.
#604 Relics | When the crew discovers a Dyson Sphere, they also discover the original Enterprise's chief engineer Scotty trapped in limbo in the transporter of a damaged ship which has been in orbit for decades.
#605 Schisms | Members of the crew experience bizarre symptoms and recreate a vaguely remembered alien lab on the holodeck, which leads Riker to seek the aliens who have apparently been experimenting on them.
#606 True Q | A promising young student realizes during her stay on the Enterprise that her unusual powers are the result of her being descended from the Q continuum.
#607 Rascals | transporter accident turns Picard, Ro, Keiko, and Guinan into children, just before Ferengi take over the ship; Picard pretends to be Riker's son to help take it back.
#608 A Fistful of Datas | When Data is connected to the ship's computer while Worf and Alexander are playing out a Wild West holodeck scenario, the Klingons are trapped with hostile images of Data in their story and the safety protocols off.
#609 The Quality of Life | When a scientist develops a sentient machine, Data risks Picard and LaForge's lives rather than allowing the exocomps to be sacrificed.
#610 The Chain of Command, Part One | Picard, Crusher and Worf are abruptly reassigned for a classified mission. While Captain Jellico tries to whip the crew into shape for a confrontation with the Cardassians.
#611 The Chain of Command, Part Two | While the crew battles Jellico over his tactics in dealing with the Cardassians, Picard resists torture by the vicious Gul Madred.
#612 Ship in a Bottle | When Data reopens the Sherlock Holmes holodeck file, he discovers that the archvillain Moriarty can exit the holodeck and hold the ship hostage until his lover can also be freed.
#613 Aquiel | LaForge falls in love with a Starfleet officer whom he is supposed to be investigating as a murder suspect.
#614 Face of the Enemy | Kidnapped and forced to play the role of a Romulan operative, Troi must match wits against a wily Romulan captain as part of an elaborate defection scheme.
#615 Tapestry | When Picard's artificial heart fails and he dies after a surprise attack, Q gives him a chance to relive his youth and change his fate.
#616 Birthright, Part One | Worf learns from an alien that his father may be alive in a Romulan prison camp, while an experiment by DS9's Dr. Bashir causes Data to see visions of his father.
#617 Birthright, Part Two | Held by the Romulan-Klingon society which has grown out of the prison camp, Worf is willing to die to show the young Klingons their lost heritage.
#618 Starship Mine | While the Enterprise is shut down for a cleansing purge which is deadly to humans, Picard finds himself trapped on the ship with a band of thieves trying to steal toxic residue to make a weapon.
#619 Lessons | Picard falls in love with an officer on his ship, but finds that the stress of command protocol and the conflict between emotion and duty makes the relationship difficult, especially when he must send his lover on a dangerous mission.
#620 The Chase | Picard is drawn by an archaeological mentor into a competition with Cardassians, Romulans, and Vulcans to solve an ancient mystery.
#621 Frame of Mind | After a case of stage fright and a difficult away mission, Riker finds himself in an alien mental hospital, facing mounting evidence that he is going insane.
#622 Suspicions | When a scientist dies and another apparently commits suicide while testing a metaphasic shield, Crusher must unravel the mystery of who is causing the deaths, and why.
#623 Rightful Heir | The legendary Klingon warrior Kahless returns from the dead, precipitating first a crisis of faith and then a crisis of politics as Gowron attempts to unravel the mystery of the reappearance of a myth.
#624 Second Chances | When he returns to the site of a mission from years earlier, Riker is shocked to find a clone of himself trapped on the planet.
#625 Timescape | An away teams returns to find the ship frozen in time on the brink of destruction by a Romulan ship, caused by alien interference, and must figure out how to reset the clock far enough in the past to prevent a warp core breach.
#626 Descent, Part One | The Borg return to battle Starfleet, though they now have feelings and give the same to Data, courtesy their new leader, Lore.

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Remember, there are FOUR lights.

Is there a bad episode in that list? Maybe 'Man of the People' and 'A Fistful of Datas'.

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for some reason, i don't remember ever seeing Descent part 1...

and is "the Chase" the episode where we find out why most aliens are just humans with bumps on their foreheads?

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The.. Best.. Thread..Ever...

In my opinion, season 6 was the peak of STNG. Every episode was a good episode, and there were several truly great ones in the mix. Perhaps, the best single season in any sci-fi series. Here are my favorites:

#610 - The Chain of Command Part I

#611 - The Chain of Command Part II

#608 - A Fistful of Datas

#626 - Descent Part I

Patrick Stewart was fantastic in "The Chain of Command". His performance in this episode rivals his work on "The Inner Light". The best two part episode in the entire series. Yes, "A Fistful Datas" was silly, but I really enjoyed it, as it was one of the few episodes that gave me a good laugh. It reminded me somewhat of Dr. Who; silly, but fun and entertaining. Another excellent two parter was "Birthright".

Best episode of Season Six: Tapestry
Honorable mentions: Relics, Schisms, Chain of Command (both parts), Starship Mine, and Frame of Mind.

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I think the Genolan was on the surface of the Sphere, not in Orbit...

Dale

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Well, the sphere was in orbit around the sun, but that is stretching things a bit.

I would put Frame of Mind and Tapestry on top closely followed by Chain of Command (part 2 was better than part 1). Any of these deserve to be among the best of TNG.

Rascals was almost too cute (not too mention horrible biology), but an interesting story. I really found it fascinating how many different ethical conflicts they could come up with during this season.

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A Fistful of Datas, The Chain of Command, Part Two, Frame of Mind, Tapestry

Chain of Command part 2 was great, even though it was a brazen 1984 rip off. David Warner and Stewart were perfect. Frame of Mind was one of the truly original Trek episodes.

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It's gotten to the point where careful investigation is needed just to tell parody from reality. I think that means reality is broken.- Noclevername.

I will take SEVEN episodes from this season as the polling now stands. I am definitely hoping for more votes and I really want to see what other episodes everyone likes from this season. As I said above, the more times an episode is mentioned, the more likely it is to get on the next list.

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601 Time's Arrow Pt 2
604 Relics
606 True Q
607 Rascals
612 Ship in a Bottle
626 Descent Pt 1

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I liked most of this season.
My one dislike is Descent. I can't stand Lore. Though I'm sure it was it was great fun for Spiner.

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