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Season 5 opens with Capt. Picard and his crew having to stop the Romulans from helping their pawns win it as Worf fights in the Klingon Civil War; Picard must learn to communicate with a race that speaks in metaphor under a difficult set of circumstances.
CRITICS OF "Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 5"
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It's a far cry from the current cinematic vision of the franchise, which puts spectacle before substance and gives characters little time to pause and reflect.
After an increasingly self-assured third season, TNG upped its game in impressive fashion with one of the best cliffhangers in the history of genre TV.
In many ways, Darmok is the quintessential Star Trek episode: it's about cooperation, cross-cultural understanding and it embodies the utopian ethos that has always been at the heart of this seemingly bottomless franchise.
It's full of great moments as Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) and Lt Cmdr Data (Brent Spiner) shanghai a Kilingon ship to go undercover on Romulas in a search for Spock.