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(More customer reviews)The reason this is one of the best series finales in all of television history is that it's clearly a labor of love on behalf of the show's fans. Unlike some series ends which merely include gratuitous flashback, or which portray a significant event such as marriage, "All Good Things" is 100 minutes of innovative plot that pays homage to the entire run of the series. Building on the very first episode of the show, it creates in effect a "bookend" to tie the series together. At the same time it closes out the show, it also prognosticates about what's to come and shows us a bit of series' origin. Better still, it does so by affirming the most idealistic of Star Trek's core values, preferring to be an episode about exploration rather than conquest.
What makes it most impressive, however, is that it's ultimately about the relationships among the various crewmates. This, more than the plot-induced time trippin'--shows how far the show has come. Gone are those initial days of painfully awkward dialogue that made Denise Crosby (whose Tasha Yar thankfully reappears here) leave the show. No, just as THE WRATH OF KHAN is arguably the best Star Trek movie involving the original cast, "All Good Things" succeeds most because we get to see what these characters mean to each other.
It's such an effective blending of dynamic plot, fan wish-fulfillment, and amazing acting (especially by Patrick Stewart), that one hopes that future editions of this story will be treated more like a movie than a mere episode. Though Paramount doesn't have a particularly great track record of making feature-rich DVD versions of Star Trek movies, hopefully one day they'll release "All Good Things" on DVD with behind-the-scenes featurettes, and cast and crew commentaries.
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