Star Trek TNG Season 5 Tier List
Added 2025-03-10 01:10:34 +0000 UTCTarget Audience tier list every episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5!
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the right character at the right time
TwoWeeksGuy
2025-03-15 23:37:24 +0000 UTCYou might notice that most of my favourite episodes have Ro in them. I wish her story had started about 5 years earlier.
jon bolton
2025-03-15 07:09:45 +0000 UTCJosh you were more generous than me with Darmok, i'm sticking with D lol.
jon bolton
2025-03-15 05:53:05 +0000 UTCS The Next Phase Disaster Cause And Effect Conundrum Redemption 2 Power Play A Ensign Ro Cost Of Living A Matter Of Time Violations I, Borg The Game Unification (both) The Masterpiece Society Times Arrow Imaginary Friend B The Perfect Mate New Ground Hero Worship The First Duty C Silicon Avatar The Inner Light D Darmok Ethics The Outcast
jon bolton
2025-03-15 05:45:46 +0000 UTCI could certainly quibble with some of the rankings you guys gave, but that's part of the joy of not being part of the Borg hive mind!
Ian Westcott
2025-03-14 20:30:20 +0000 UTCNot to mention The Offspring where Lal was "born," walked around and interacted with the crew for awhile, and then chose her gender based on what she thought would appeal after experience with the world.
Ian Westcott
2025-03-14 20:29:01 +0000 UTCI laughed!
Ian Westcott
2025-03-14 20:27:02 +0000 UTC100% agree, it's the rare episode that hits even harder on a rewatch. You really start to feel for the residents earlier on in the story when you realize the doom they would come to see in their lifetimes.
Ian Westcott
2025-03-14 20:26:32 +0000 UTCI see it as being a patron perk.
Ian Westcott
2025-03-14 20:21:19 +0000 UTC"They're lucky you posted [I, Borg], I would have just left them with Imaginary Friend for a few days, just to sit with it." Well, you did leave us with Time's Arrow, Part 1 to sit with for awhile, haha.
Ian Westcott
2025-03-14 20:20:34 +0000 UTCPatreon goes by the full watchalong timeline. Would love to have all the edits done already but can’t wait to get them all done before moving on with the show.
Josh (Target Audience)
2025-03-13 18:54:00 +0000 UTCOK, I'm new to being a patron, but why are we getting tier lists and top fives for season 5 when there are still half a dozen episodes we haven't seen the edited version or reviews for, not even here on Patreon?
Frank Pauze
2025-03-13 02:08:31 +0000 UTCHave not got to that yet sorry
Ben Levitin
2025-03-11 22:01:38 +0000 UTCWe talked about it in the season recap
Josh (Target Audience)
2025-03-11 20:57:13 +0000 UTCWas not a fan of the end. I am fine with you giving whatever grade you like to anything. However I like to hear why you do it!
Ben Levitin
2025-03-11 20:37:31 +0000 UTCI think Mike is.
Josh (Target Audience)
2025-03-11 19:12:01 +0000 UTCI have to say, I fully expected the uprating of The Inner Light. It's an episode that stews with you. Rewatches hit harder than initial watches. It's an episode that would not have been my favorite the first time I sat down and watched the show, but now? It's up there with City on the Edge of Forever, and, well, not gonna say anymore to avoid spoilers.
ijp8834
2025-03-11 15:37:39 +0000 UTCNo one's laughing.
Jovet
2025-03-11 07:44:28 +0000 UTCIf it were silicone it would have just jiggled instead of exploding ;-)
Bret Kay
2025-03-11 05:33:25 +0000 UTCIs director David Livingston a patreon here? Show yeself!
Narnman
2025-03-10 20:57:14 +0000 UTCAbsolutely. It’s a separate episode, it has the same blank slate they all do.
Josh (Target Audience)
2025-03-10 17:38:49 +0000 UTCFor this post, yes. Although you’re spoiling yourself on how we feel about the later episodes of the season but that’s your choice
Josh (Target Audience)
2025-03-10 17:37:58 +0000 UTCI'm a free member, yet I can watch this. That's normal, right?
Gaming the Systems
2025-03-10 17:34:12 +0000 UTCdo you think part 2 has a chance of salvaging it for you?
Timothy Nikiforovs
2025-03-10 16:51:51 +0000 UTCThe ending LMAO
mike
2025-03-10 15:38:40 +0000 UTCEvan, I think if you had grown up during the Borg war you’d understand the episode
Josh (Target Audience)
2025-03-10 11:46:04 +0000 UTCLong story short it’s the most egregious “all set-up” part 1 thus far and Mark Twain is insufferable
Josh (Target Audience)
2025-03-10 11:39:31 +0000 UTCNot enjoying Time's Arrow is just wild to me. Easy A for part 1, I really don't understand what you didn't like about it.
Angarl
2025-03-10 11:31:07 +0000 UTCThe only thing about the S tier ranking decision that you guys have decided on is that, as you define in your rankings explanation, S is a rank reserved for an excellent episode that speaks personally to you so it seems odd that it would get rounded down. By definition, it's an excellent episode that has the added benefit of being personally meaningful to Alex or Josh so... rounding down seems a little odd?
JMB
2025-03-10 10:09:12 +0000 UTCI'd like to imagine that "Silicone Avatar" would have been about Data questioning his gender identity and trying to be a female for an episode, in the wake of the events in "The Outcast".
Yorin
2025-03-10 08:12:09 +0000 UTCTo me, Inner Light is alot like City on the Edge of Forever. My two most favorite episodes in ALL of Trek! Though Yesterday's Enterprise is there too. And one more that hasn't come up yet
Steel Tacos
2025-03-10 07:08:36 +0000 UTCIt's a slow burn, meaning, it takes time to work into your psyche. We've all rewatched it so many times so we're already there, but I think most people on an initial watch don't have it at S-tier either.
Paul
2025-03-10 06:55:00 +0000 UTCI'd bump "First Duty" up to S. Of all the ones I've seen, I'd say it's the best episode in the entire series other than YE. "I, Borg " I can go no higher than a C because it is plot point writing that forces the characters to not make sense and be stupid just to move the plot along. It's watchable though.
Ken R
2025-03-10 06:29:54 +0000 UTCSilicon as in Silicon Valley, not silicone as in silicone breast implants.
Linda Stricker
2025-03-10 03:38:36 +0000 UTCI am glad you took it down and reposted it..even if I stopped before the last two episodes, I'm sure the comments would have spoiled it..good call! Now about changing your grade on Inner Light..hmm I'm 50/50 lol. WWKD?
Badger
2025-03-10 03:14:08 +0000 UTCCopy. Thanks!
Sainjl
2025-03-10 02:46:26 +0000 UTCMore like I, Bore
Evan Guthrie
2025-03-10 02:42:35 +0000 UTCBoth of us? What are the odds?
Evan Guthrie
2025-03-10 02:42:21 +0000 UTCI, Borg was an S when we watched it
Josh (Target Audience)
2025-03-10 02:20:51 +0000 UTCFirst takes don't easily survive the context of future episodes, rewatches, or just plain time to think on them. And that makes them precious.
#MaxwellDidNothingWrong
2025-03-10 02:14:05 +0000 UTCI got an email from David Livingston as well. He said he owed me $25,000.99, and needed my bank account info. He's a super nice guy!
tyranusfan
2025-03-10 02:09:37 +0000 UTCThis is a solid tier list! Mine would be pretty similar. The Inner Light is the episode I've seen the most times by far, and every time it hits me emotionally. Patrick Stewart is a gift to humanity and uplifts everything he's in. I'm so glad after sitting with it you agree that it's an S tier episode!
David Clamage
2025-03-10 02:08:41 +0000 UTCWatching you guys experience TNG for the first time is so nostalgic for me I just don’t even have words. This is a fantastic bit of content, regardless of your takes. Keep it up!!!
aaron millisor
2025-03-10 02:07:51 +0000 UTCThank you for upgrading IBorg and Innner Light 👏
David Gottlieb
2025-03-10 01:47:47 +0000 UTCThey will all be posted this week. In order (probably) it will be recap, top 10, 25th anniversary reaction, DS9 preview
Josh (Target Audience)
2025-03-10 01:27:28 +0000 UTCIs there an order that you plan to post the rest of the videos before the next season? Like top 10 S5, and DS9 pre watch… etc.
Sainjl
2025-03-10 01:19:33 +0000 UTCGlad you came to your senses and upgraded Inner Light. lol.
Joshua Langweil
2025-03-10 01:13:30 +0000 UTC
