Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 5 product reviews

Back for season six are we....? Season six of The Original Series has one of my all time favourite Star Trek episodes ever.

We have a few varied episodes here, and a lot that involve life or death situations for specific members of the crew. Ro and Geordi appear to have died but have only been separated from their bodies, Worf has an accident and becomes paralysed, Captain Picard becomes trapped in an turbolift with some children (a particularly fun episode given Picards reluctance to be around children and suddenly left alone with them, injured and unable to communicate with anyone else). There are a couple of episodes that seem to miss their aim but they are luckily balanced out by other episodes.

My favourite one is episode 25, "The Inner Light" in which Picard is hit by a beam of sorts and ends up living the life of an alien man, though he wakes up after 'dying' but has only been unconscious for less than half an hour. I really enjoyed this episode given Picard having not had a family of his own, his original reluctance and then his sadness at finding out it wasn't 'real'. I could watch "The Inner Light" over and over.

I can't wait for season six.