scalisti

What I think made this episode bad was the fact that Riker's flashbacks were only limited to his last 2 years on the Enterprise. This was probably because the budget was very low at the time and so they can only recap earlier episodes. I think they should have hired younger actors to play a young version of Riker as a boy during his boyhood days in Alaska, and also a teen Riker entering the academy. That would have made some good flashbacks that would have helped develop a backstory of Riker but that never happened.