Star Trek: The Next Generation Rewatch: "The Outcast"

Arguably TNG's most controversial episode, as they attempt to tackle queer issues and do it so badly that they probably shouldn't have bothered. The TNG Rewatch takes a look at "The Outcast."

An excerpt:

The crimes committed by this episode have been enumerated by many, but they mostly lose sight of one of its worst: it’s a crummy episode. Poorly written, with a forgettable technobabble problem to keep the plot moving that’s mediocre even by TNG’s incredibly low standards of forgettable technobabble problems to keep the plot moving, and a complete failure as a guest character, it’s just bad.

Ultimately, this episode reminds me of a famous exchange between Oscar Wilde and one Mr. Carson, who asked, “May I take it that you think The Priest and the Acolyte was not immoral?” to which Wilde replied, “It was worse: it was badly written.”

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