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Re: TNG S5: The Inner Light

For me, this is the most overrated episode of Trek ever. There is almost no sc-fi in it. the narrative is hardly compelling (if this was a TV series itself, it wouldn't survive a single episode), but most of all, the premise is totally absurd. These aliens are able to figure out how to create this mind probe, but they aren't able to figure out how to save themselves? Come on! It just doesn't make any sense at all: it would have been far easier for them to build ships to take them to another planet than to invent the technology required for the mind probe. A boring episode, and a dumb episode too.