I think it worthwhile for me to make perfectly clear where I am coming from. I am not a great Star Trek fan, I mean its a pretty good show, and all, but its not something I watch religiously. I have seen a number of the TOS episodes, less than half of TNG, and a couple of DS9 episodes. Voyager hasn't made it to Australian television yet.
All Good Things was screened by the Nine Network in Australia on Saturday the 23rd of September 1995. TNG had previously been screening on Nine in an 11:00pm Tuesday timeslot. This is one of the reasons I hadn't been watching.
All in all, I thought it was quite a good effort. The production values were excellent for what was, after all, just another television show. The actors all appeared to portray their ageing process very well. I felt that both the Picards (Beverley and Jean-Luc) could have used a little more makeup to emphasise the ravages of time; they just didn't look as old as they were acting.
There was, for mine, one gaping continuity flaw which destroyed any sense of the illusion that might have been engendered in me, and that was to do with the temporal distortion. The anomaly was made up of anti-time, so it travelled back in time, expanding as it went further back. Thus the earlier you got there, the larger it was. When the future Enterprise first arrived there, the medical ship had just created the anomaly. The Enterprise left, then returned some time later, to find that the anomaly was present, when it had in fact been created previously, which is to say its creation was in the future in the negative time stream which governed its existence.
But maybe I'm just being too picky. I will say that while I could admire the show for the way in which it was made, it failed to capture my attention, perhaps because I hadn't followed the development of the characters closely enough.
7/10
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