One early episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation was so bad, it had Michael Dorn worried that the show was doomed. TNG struggled to find its footing in its first season as it worked to figure out what kind of show it wanted to be. Several early TNG episodes would not have been out of place on Star Trek: The Original Series, and some, like “The Naked Now” even directly retell stories from TOS. Still, TNG season 1 did some things right, establishing a beloved cast of characters led by Patrick Stewart’s Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
