Star Trek: EVERY Season Ranked Worst To Best

It is hard to overstate the impact of the arrival of Michael Piller for Star Trek. He joined the show this year and employed an open policy for people to submit scripts for consideration.

One such script was submitted by Ronald D. Moore. Moore would go on not just to create what essentially became the Klingon culture in Star Trek, but following his time on Trek he would create, along with David Eick, the terrific Battlestar Galactica reimagining.

Apart from his discovery of Moore, Pillar also penned The Best of Both Worlds, which, along with Yesterday's Enterprise and Sins of the Father, is generally regarded as the best of the season, if not the best of the show overall. The show rose to a solid height during this year, exploring both the Klingon and Romulan cultures with greater depth, while also allowing Picard, Riker and Data more time to shine.

Gates McFadden returned as Dr. Crusher, following the departure of producer Maurice Hurley. All of the cast received new uniforms from costume designer Robert Blackman, which would be the familiar solid block of colour uniforms for the rest of the show. The men received a two-piece outfit while Marina Sirtis and McFadden had to continue with one piece costumes.

This season also saw the return of Mark Lenard to the franchise, finally opening the door for crossovers between the Next Generation and the Original Series, something Roddenberry had been vehemently against. Roddenberry, however, was rapidly declining in health, with the episode Sarek serving as a spiritual story of this deterioration.