Best episode of the season so far, pretty easily. One of the best episodes of the series.
Gene Roddenberry could claw his way out of his grave, drive to my door with a platter of my favourite Tex Mex to soften the blow, and personally tell me that atrelene is, was, and always has been a Q, and I would still call bullshit.
• T'Pring!
• Orions!
• Black & White episode!
• TOS hair Uhura!
• Dragon!
• Trelene.... ̄\_(ツ)_/ ̄
Interesting that they didn't include Sam Magg's credit as the writer of Star Trek: Picard's Academy, one of the worst comics I've ever read.
Considering that there's unlikely to be a new Trek television series for quite some time now, I think any claims that some bit of supplementary media is canon is unlikely to be tested any time soon.
TNG Season 8 was great fun. Mike McMahan also wrote Warped: An Engaging Guide to the Never Aired 8th Season, that is basically full episode outlines for an entire season, based on his TNG_S8 posts.
Additionally, I'd recommend https://bsky.app/profile/foundepisodes.bsky.social, which I recently discovered, and is inspired by TNG_S8