DS9 also had no Braga and limited Berman. Always a plus.
One of the biggest pluses for TNG was that it was produced for syndication. That way, each market could put it where it needed to be. In our market, for instance, it was on Sunday nights at 10:40pm on the local NBC affiliate. Sunday night’s news had an extended sports weekly for the extra ten minutes. Following the first run TNG show were repeats of TOS and later on in the run repeats of early TNG. In talking to a local exec at a party one night, she told me that they abosolutely owned Sunday nights for those 3 to 4 hours for seven straight years, virtually a total market share for their broadcast area.
But now, Paramount and UPN are tied in to a set production schedule and are competing for a market share as tho they were a major network. Hence, their complaints about the very real problem of low viewership.
They should’ve syndicated this show from the get go, but the Bergama Follies were the real bane of this series. Idiocy loses viewers. ENT Season II was the worst Trek ever, and this series never had a chance after that.
Not that it did any good… 
Seriously, I’d like to keep discussing the episode here in the episode thread, and discuss the cancellation over in the cancellation thread. Splitting the cancellation discussion will lead to fractured commentary, general confusion, and quite possibly colon polyps, but don’t quote me on that.
K?
To get back on track, I have a question about this episode: Since they figured out that it was the Romulans, won’t that screw with the timeline in TOS where the actor that later played Sarek was supposedly their first encounter with the Romulans?
And now that I think about it, wasn’t this more or less that exact episode?
That was not Humans first encounter with Rommies.
It was the first time they SAW them.
Don’t forget the Romulan Wars which will start right after ENT.
Ah. Carry on.