‘Captain, we’re receiving 285,000 hails’.
It feels like a long time since the last ‘great’ episode (it was *Duet*, 24 goes ago). But I found this episode nearly flawless. There’s a great slow, steady development of something being ‘not quite right’, and then mercifully little time on the technobabble before we move in to the resolution.
There are a ton of little grace notes throughout, but my favourite was the completely uncommented upon return of Wesley Crusher. It was a nice touch, and one they handled well.
301 down, 436 to go.