History YMMV / StarTrekTheNextGeneration

** "You shall have NO vaccine, and NO Lieutennant Yar!!"

** In one episode, Crusher is sucked into an alternate reality of her own making. As the [[DwindlingParty crew starts vanishing by the hundreds]], none of those remaining remember those gone. At one point, Wesley is following her, she rounds a corner, and he is gone by the time she turns back around. She is having a conversation with Picard at one point, and he vanishes as she ''blinks''(especially creepy since she had a medical scan of him being announced over the intercom. Just before he vanished, the computer read: "'''SYNAPTIC FUNCTION: ZERO'''"). Crusher activates the viewscreen and sees a "warp energy field" around the ship. After establishing that there is no penetrating the field, she asks the computer to define the universe. In one of the most horrifying lines the show has had, it replies, "'''THE UNIVERSE IS A SPHEROID REGION 705 METERS IN DIAMETER'''". The computer says that there is ''nothing'' outside of the ship.

** The people of Kataan in "Inner Light" are human because Picard is human. His subconscious gave them AFormYouAreComfortableWith, after all, it all happened in a MentalWorld. Had it happened to Worf, they would have looked like Klingons.

* MagnificentBastard: Q. Omnipotent, yet petty; cruel but not vicious; causing devastation yet helpful at times, you really couldn't help but love the bastard(s).

** "Face of the Enemy" is the reason that [[StarTrek TNG TNG]] is the TropeNamer.

* YouFailBiologyForever: "Genesis". '''AND HOW.'''

* ToughActToFollow: Averted ''and'' played straight. It managed to step out of TOS's shadow as a highly successful series, but it made every subsequent Trek franchise, especially ''StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', feel rather lacking.

** He might have been more tolerable if he hadn't been given an "important" role in so many episodes. Indeed, the episodes that focus on him are SoOkayItsAverage.

** "Face of the Enemy" is the reason that TNG is the TropeNamer.

** Then, there's Miles, a completely minor character, but got so much fan attention, he became a main character in DS9.

* CharacterAlignment:
** Picard: LawfulGood
** Worf: LawfulGood
** Q: ChaoticNeutral

** He might have been more tolerable if he hadn't been given an "important" role in so many episodes. Indeed, the episodes that focus on him are SoOkayItsAverage.
* YouFailBiologyForever: "Genesis". '''AND HOW.'''

* YouFailBiologyForever: "Genesis".

* HilariousInHindsight: In "New Ground", Geordi is excited to try out the experimental soliton wave due to its historical significance, saying "it'll be like being there to watch...Zephram Cochrane engage the first warp drive!". In ''StarTrekFirstContact'', Geordi actually takes part in Cochrane's first warp flight.

* {{Narm}}: Was not deliberate with "The Last Outpost", but the audience reaction to the Ferengi as the BigBad of the series was so much this, that the writers dropped them as villains in favor of the Borg.

* TearJerker: "The Inner Light" has been known to reduce grown men to tears.
** Both the episode "Sarek" and Mark Lenard's [[OneSceneWonder last scene as Sarek in "Unification I"]] are beautifully sad in their portrayal of the tragic degeneration that comes with age to even the greatest men.
** Dowd's confession at the end of "The Survivors".
** O'Brian talking his former captain out of his crusade in "The Wounded".
** The last fifteen minutes of "Dark Page".
** Then there's "Darmok", in particular the scene where Picard recounts TheEpicOfGilgamesh to the dying Captain Dathon, and with it they finally understand each other.

* FridgeLogic: Lwaxana Troi's behavior, both personality and her constant attempts to marry or push Deanna into marriage, make a lot more sense when you consider that not only did her husband die when Deanna was young, but only a few years before that, her first daughter died in a tragic accident for which Lwaxana blamed herself.

** Fajo and Data in S03E22 'The Most Toys'. The part where Fajo comments that he'd prefer it if Data was naked.

** Perhaps the biggest strike against her was that she was a SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute - not of Crusher, but of Dr. McCoy. Both are abrasive, dislike the transporter and take shots at the emotionless science officer, but Pulaski lacked the humor and likability of McCoy.

** "Dark Page" is not only a Good Troi Episode for both Deanna and Lwaxana, but one of the few good episodes from TNG's seventh season.