This episode starts very high, with a suspense inducing plot about a conspiracy so secretly stablished, only some very loyal and skilled captains, including a Picard's personal old friend know about it. This is something huge, very menacing and unusual.
Then slowly transforms into a mindless B-class horror movie with everything and mind controlling parasites protruding of the neck, worm-eating, people being melted and an intelligent newly discovered life form being phased to oblivion. All of this, not only breaking all the things that make Star Trek, but also wasting what could have been a wonderful plot.
I don't know why it's rated as the best in the season
Then slowly transforms into a mindless B-class horror movie with everything and mind controlling parasites protruding of the neck, worm-eating, people being melted and an intelligent newly discovered life form being phased to oblivion. All of this, not only breaking all the things that make Star Trek, but also wasting what could have been a wonderful plot.
I don't know why it's rated as the best in the season