The Star Trek franchise is arguably one of the most popular sci-fi franchises of all time, up there with Star Wars; I'm not even going to touch the whole "which is better" debate here or anytime soon. Lets save that for William Shatner and Carrie Fisher, eh? One of the hardest things I've ever written was the
top 25 episodes of The Next Generation because, to me, nearly all of them are great and some don't get ranked as high as others. Each episode, in their own rite, mixed adventure, humour and storytelling in a way that is unique to this particular show. While there are a select few episodes which are either somewhat questionable or truly abysmal, TNG has a very strong batting average weighing in its favor with notable classics such as The Inner Light, Yesterdays Enterprise, Q Who, and, the universal favorite The Best of Both Worlds. Other episodes, including Code of Honor, Angel One, and the universally panned Shades of Gray (the second season finale for which even the producers remain openly embarrassed to this day) remain buried in our minds as they very well should. Even with the impressive track record of quality for the crew of the Enterprise-Ds adventures, some episodes have, in the test of time, wrongfully ended up lost in the limbo between the aforementioned peak and trough of quality. These 10 episodes, whether just above average or unappreciated greats, have escaped our minds for reasons that may include unfortunately subpar acting, writing or storytelling, or they could simply live in the shadow of an episode that either preceded or followed it. Number 10 after the jump