TNG: Remember Me

            The mid season slump came really early in season 4! This is one of those episodes that I guess maybe they thought was "hard science fiction" but really it is just silly. Dr. Crusher is trapped in a static warp bubble (I think this may be the first time they use this particularly bad bit of technobabble) created by her thoughts that is gradually shrinking which manifests itself as people on board the ship vanishing with no trace. And nobody but her seems to notice that it is happening. What???? That doesn't actually make any sense and to top it off with a visit from the traveler to tell Wesley how awesome he is is just the worst. That may be a one point subtraction right there in fact.
            The episode opens with Dr. Crusher greeting an old colleague who is visiting while they are in starbase. He talks about missing all his friends who have died and this makes Beverley sad so she stops by engineering to see Wesley. Wesley is doing some sort of experiment with the engines that causes a flash of light, but everything seems fine. Beverley goes about her business but when she visits her doctor friend he is gone. And there is no trace of him or record of him being there. Worf even has teams search the ship but he doesn't turn up. More and more people keep disappearing and no one seems to listen to her. It gets to the point that she is the only one on the ship and when she asks the computer it turns out there are no other ships or any more universe other than a rapidly shrinking bubble around her.
            Back in the real world Dr. Crusher is missing and they figure Wesley's experiment is to blame. They race back to where it happened because spacetime works that way in this universe I guess but Wesley can't do it alone! Fortunately (for him, not us) the traveler appears and helps guide Wesley. There is some phasing in and out of reality for both of them but just at the last second Beverley figures it out and goes to engineering in her bubble universe and makes it to safety just in time. And rather than talk about how what Wesley did was reckless they just all congratulate him and the traveler for saving the day.

            Review: As I was watching the first 2/3rds I was thinking, "this isn't great, probably a solid 4/10," but when the traveler showed up and it became apparent how this was all about the power of though I realized this:

3 out of 10