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Just spent the last few months watching every TNG episode in order from episode 1 all the way through to AGT.

Even after 30 years since I watch this as a teenager, this show still blows me away.

AGT is the culmination of 7 years of hard work from some very talented actors, writers, producers, directors, make up and visual artists and everybody else that's involved with making these excellent shows, and it doesn't disapoint.

The second time around its still hard to say goodbye to the crew one last time, but if your going to end on a high, this episode has to be one of the best series finales ever made.

Watch it uninterrupted, with friends and think of all the things you can accomplish in your future, its not written yet.........

"I should have done this a long time ago."

"You were always welcome."

Tears.

Your reading this for one of possibly two reasons:

A) You want to know how others feel about this final episode that you've also seen or,..

B) You have no idea about Star Trek

Given the popularity of this series, I'll assume "A" is your reason. However, if your the rare "B" person, then I recommend avoiding this episode until you've watched at least a few episodes of The Next Generation.

This wonderful 2-hour finale utilizes the history of these characters and plots beautifully and with reverence.

The lead character of the series, Jean Luc Picard, finds that he is inexplicably shifting between 3 time periods within his own liftime (past, present and future). Once he finds the reason for this, things become more complex and intriguing. His eyes are opened to an even greater threat than what he had perceived to be his own. As wonderful a premise that is, the subplots greatly enhance the characters and draw you into the story.

For example, Tasha Yar, a well regarded character in the series was killed early in the shows run. In his shift into the past, Picard once again sees her alive, accompanying him to the Enterprise for the first time (again, ironically). Once he returns to the present, he laments over having seen her again. A beautifully played little scene.

The main story combined with these subplots makes for one of the best written series endings ever in TV history.

Let's hope that future TV series (not necessarily Trek, of course) have the opportunity to do the same.

Ten years ago (i was 21 years old), studying an university exam (Diritto Pubblico), i started to watch Star Trek The Next Generation. It was a great daily meeting for me and my school-mate Loris and i still remember my delusion when we missed the second part of the "attack of Borg" cause the local Italian television transmitted it on Saturday. After 10 years i have just finished the vision of "All Good Things" and i must say i am tearing for commotion. I bought the 7 DVD-series of STTNG (i received some of them as a present too) last year and now, after one year, i saw all the movies. I have no words: WONDERFUL. I have the first three DVD series of Deep Space Nine ready, but i am certain that in the present, in the past and in the future, my only captain will be Jean-Luc Picard. (sorry for my English)

I cried at the ending of the movie, because you remember all good thing you had , all good times you had , when you watched all of the series.

Great , the BEST ending of a series that i loved and shared with the rest of the world.

The best actors,who played the best characters, did an outstanding job. Thank you.

You can watch every episode within this series, and I don't think you'll find one that runs on all cylinders like this one. I'll admit, as many have already noted, that there are technical flaws in the storyline, but that doesn't take away from the best finale I've ever seen.

Character development has evolved so much within the series, it is fantastic that the finale revolves around Picard, his crew and foes unique to STNG. I, for one, enjoyed seeing how the writers projected these characters beyond anything they had presented in any of the previous episodes.

So, if you enjoy the series, and are looking for an all encapsulating episode that contains action, thought, character relationships and a little Trek history, this is definitely the episode for you. Without spoiling this story, I felt the final scene was the best way to send this show into it's TV conclusion.

"All Good Things" easily surpassed many of the Star Trek movies in its politically intricate and emotionally charged plot. It is a tradegy that ST:TNG had to come to an end at the crest of its success since two of the three movies "Generations" and "Insurrection" didn't come close to keeping the glory and concept of Star Trek Alive. "All Good Things" will go down in the Star Trek and Sci-Fi grapevine as the most watched and defining show of its time. Kudos.

There is only two logical places to comment on TNG series and this is one of them. I've been watching the DVD Year sets of TNG and its great to see the show again, without commercials! I remember when I watched this last episode. Seeing it again recently, I thought then and now that it was one show that could've gone on much longer. Except for some of the Enterprise episodes, Star Trek hasn't been as good since, and its really too bad that this crew will not likely make another movie after the underrated Nemesis.

TNG had some really good performances, both by the regular cast and guests. Some actors worked for scale wages just to be a little part of the Star Trek experience. Although all of the cast were great, the standouts have to be Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner. It is amazing that neither one garnered awards or even nominations for their work on this show. Their acting elevated the some of the scripts to another level.

True fans won't be able to resist having this show at their fingertips and this last show "All Good Things..." is reason enough to get Season 7. I'm on Season 4 and enjoying all the episodes again on my way to it...

I've seen almost every episode of STNG and all of the STAR TREK movies. This series finale is the best two hours of STAR TREK, ever. The third, fourth, sixth, and eighth movies come close. Here, finally, is the crew bonding as a family in a great story that is well executed. "Star Trekking" at its finest. Bravo!

We start the episode with a distraught Picard being bounced around through time, unaware why as the episode starts, going from his first day on the Enterprise as Captain of the federation flagship, the present as a Captain older and wiser and twenty years time as a retired wine maker back in his beloved France. To wrap things up even more Q appears and has apparently placed humanity back on trial as a savage warlike race. However this time it is Picard himself who has caused the destruction and unravelling of the universe itself, although he has no idea how?

When I first saw this double episode adventure I was a major fan of the series and having been largely disappointed with series 7 was hoping I would get a big finish to the series and I was not disappointed. The story is great and continues very much in the vain of the last Q episode "Tapestry" arguably up there as one of the best Q episodes ever.

The performances by the cast are verging on perfect as they have got to the point where the characters are like a favourite suit that you were with pride and panache, because you know that whatever happens, you're gonna look great in it. The effects are great and there are some truly fantastic images and moments that are so well written that it brings home everything that we love about trek. The direction is flawless and the ending is so amazing that it almost makes me cry.

Better than all the next gen films out together and so sad that they couldn't do it on the big screen. However for non-next gen aficionados check out the best eps from the first seven series before you see this one, as you have to get the meaning from the other shows before you can appreciate this.

It was the best series ending till "Doctor Who's Army of Ghosts and Doomsday" but it's the best finale to a series that wraps everything up beautifully. Happy Days!

This is the final episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and it was a double-length one at that. It begins with Picard having SERIOUS problems. It seems that he's been bouncing back and forth in time. But why? Why do we see three different Picards at three different points (seven years ago, the present and in the more distant future)? All of this is explained, to a degree, when Picard realizes Q is behind all this in this episode that clearly seems to have been inspired by "A Christmas Carol".

While I did enjoy seeing the past, present and futures for the Enterprise crew, this is once again a time travel episode which is jam-packed full of scientific nonsense and solutions that are made up of lots of meaningless buzzwords (temporal inversions, anti-time and much more). If you like this sort of stuff, it's a great episode. As for me, I thought it had its moments but called for way too much in the way of pulling answers out of thin air.

The only part which I liked in this episode is the ending when Picard joins the card game. The rest is an incoherent mess. I find most time travel episodes to be problematic. But this one is particularly bad. It seems to me that the powers that be wanted to do too many things for the finale and they felt that the only way to do all of them was to use time travel with a bit of Q to fake an explanation. But this resulted in a time travel episode less coherent than any Star Trek time travel episode in any of the series. I excluded this episode from my personal collection. But someone was praising it online and I noticed that the IMDB rating is over 9. So I decided to watch it again online. For me, this isn't quite the worst episode but is in maybe the bottom 5-10.

The final episode of Star Trek: TNG is my absolute favorite episode of the series. In my opinion it is better than "Best of Both Worlds". The series ended where it began, in more ways than one. It went back to the first mission of the Enterprise-D and scored the No. 1 position in the ratings. A masterpiece.

I recently watched the whole series from start to finish and it brought back a lot of nostalgia. But felt the need to leave a comment on this episode as it was a terrific tribute to a much loved series. The best of the TV franchises by far.

This is definitely one of the high points of the Star Trek: NG show -- too bad it was the last -- just saw ST 9 and this

final episode was 10 times better than it and about 20 times better than ST 7. Rent it if you haven't seen it -

great little episode.

Excellent writing by two "homegrown" Star Trek producers, Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore. This episode marks the final mission undertaken by the USS Enterprise as commanded by Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart). Some familiar faces stop by for the last ride--John de Lancie as Q and Andreas Katsulas as Tomalak. It seems as though each individual working on the hit TV series put one final jolt of energy into creating the best ending to a series. It's not M.A.S.H.'s final episode but it takes a nice slice of the cake.

Along with "Yesterday's Enterprise", "I Borg", "The Inner Light" and "Tapestry", among the very best of the ST:TNG episodes.

Only one MAJOR technical glitch (for those of you who remember the episode). The current Enterprise travels back to the space anomaly to prove time is moving backwards. If so, the space anomaly should NOT have been visible because it didn't exist BEFORE the photon torpedo was fired.

Superbly produced, written, directed, acted; thought provoking. This is the BEST last episode of ANY series.

Wow, what great twists and turns through the storyline. Jumping from the first TNG episode to the future and of course Q is involved.

It was great to see how it can twist the time line into reverse and keep you guessing right along to the end, as in true Star Trek style. It finished neatly with the Captain joining into a card game, something he had never done in any other episode, and of course, the Enterprise D sails off into the 'sunset'.

In a way, you sort of wish that the final episode said goodbye to TNG as it appears Voyager has done. However, I do appricate the later films in their quality and they just pick up the life of the crew of the Enterprise.

May Star Trek live long and prosper.

I can't think of many, if any, finales that were so confidently and brilliantly written. This should be the blueprint for how to conclude a series.

If you haven't seen The Next Generation, I'd suggest, as others have, watching some highlight shows over the 7 year span, including the first episode of the show. The first episode isn't one of my favorite, but it's necessary for getting some of the references in the finale.

Even looking at the title "All Good Things..." referring to "All Good Things Must Come to an End" which is both a reference to the show ending, along with a reference to the plot itself, which manages to be both incredibly epic and intensely personal at the same time.

I agree with the people who say this can be considered one of the best Star Trek movies made. I wasn't a huge Next Generation fan, but there were between 10-15 episodes that I thought were excellent, and then this finale just hit me exactly how a show should. It takes every single thing from the previous 7 seasons and encapsulates them in one final adventure.

Finales just don't get better. 10/10.

TNG wasn't a bad outing for the Star Trek franchise, but make no mistake, the omnipresent Q always felt a little sour. So having a finale inundated by Picard's Q induced ramblings, and the dreaded Time-Travel.. is a little hard to take. But i guess that's what you get from milking Star Trek to death. "Boldy Go" becomes more than a little brain dead as bizarre plots become the norm.