Star Trek: 25 Greatest Next Generation Episodes

6. All Good Things, Parts 1 & 2

The series finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation is the perfect ending to this sci-fi classic. The entire overlapping plot of the previous seven years comes full circle so beautifully and the fact that it ended just like any other episode just shows that the adventure is far from over, as evidenced by the release of Star Trek: Generations mere months later.

Captain Picard finds himself shifting between three time periods against his will: the present, his first days as the captain of the Enterprise, and twenty five years in the future as a senile old man. In two of the three periods, a massive spatial anomaly is discovered in the Neutral Zone, a spatial anomaly that gets progressively larger in the past.

When Picard appears alone in the post atomic court, exactly where he stood seven years ago, it is instantly known that Q is behind his time shifting, and that this is another test in his trial for humanity that began seven years ago. The anomaly is larger in the past and doesn't exist in the future where Picard is dismissed as a demented old man, and one mistake could literally cause the destruction of humanity, and only Picard can stop it.

If that isn't a perfect goodbye to this series, I don't know what else would be.