Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season Four

Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season Four, 1990-1991. A giant space ship flies around the galaxy, ostensibly exploring but usually running errands.

Created by Gene Roddenberry. Directed by Cliff Bole (5 episodes), Les Landau (5), Jonathan Frakes (2), Chip Chalmers (2), Winrich Kolbe (2), Rob Bowman (1), Gabrielle Beaumont (1), Robert Scheerer (1), Corey Allen (1), Robert Wiemer (1), Tom Benko (1), Robert Legato (1), Marvin V. Rush (1), David Livingston (1) & Patrick Stewart (1). Written by Ronald D. Moore (6 episodes), Jeri Taylor (5), Joe Menosky (5), Michael Piller (2), Brannon Braga (2), Rick Berman (1), John Whelpley (1), Ralph Phillips (1), Lee Sheldon (1), Thomas Perry (1), Jo Perry (1), Drew Deighan (1), J. Larry Carroll (1), David Bennett Carren (1), Kacey Arnold-Ince (1), Hilary J. Bader (1), Alan J. Adler (1), Vanessa Greene (1), Harold Apter (1), Stuart Charno (1), Sara Charno (1), Cy Chermak (1), Philip LaZebnik (1), William Douglas Lansford (1), Bruce D. Arthurs (1), Dennis Russell Bailey (1), David Bischoff (1), Marc Scott Zicree (1), Maurice Hurley (1), Thomas Kartozian (1), Pamela Douglas (1), Shari Goodhartz (1), Timothy DeHaas (1), Ira Steven Behr (1), Randee Russell (1), Peter Allan Fields (1), Ted Roberts (1), Michel Horvat (1), René Echevarria (1) & Ken Schafer (1). Starring Patrick Stewart & Jonathan Frakes.

Concept: 4/4 (Great)
Story: 3/4 (Good)
Characters: 3/4 (Good). Development of the main characters is taken more seriously this season, for better or worse.
Dialog: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Pacing: 3/4 (Good)
Cinematography: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Special effects/design: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Acting: 3/4 (Good). Lots of great performances are sprinkled throughout, and the acting's never particularly bad. Mostly just good, though.
Music: 1/4 (Bad)
Subjective Rating: 7/10 (Good, 3/4). Probably the best season of TNG. It doesn't have any of my favorite episodes, but it has a number of very good ones, and the writing maintains a consistently Perfectly Okay level. There's not a lot in the way of science fiction. Sometimes they don't bother with it at all; more often there'll be some sort of half-hearted sci-fi plot that's really just a backdrop for the character stuff. That's a shame, but at the same time it means the writers are far less likely to get out of their depth.
Objective Rating (Average): 2.6/4 (Good)