Star Trek: The Next Generation - 5x01 - Redemption Part 2

    Picard makes some efforts to persuade the Federation to play a role in preventing Romulan interference in the Klingon struggles for power.  Picard's plan is to cast a field that would give away if any Romulan ships are running supplies.  In the meantime, the two Klingon factions are still fighting, and Worf is hanging out with his brother and the new head of the Klingon empire.  Tasha Yar's daughter (played by the same actress) shows up as the Romulan aiding the Klingons.
    This is a step up from the last episode, but it has some massive weaknesses.  Particularly, it suffers from Ronald D. Moore's style of writing.  He loves dramatic sequences, and he's willing to sacrifice character in order to play out a scene with the action and tension he wants.  In this case, there are two major points that he gets wrong.
    First, the idea of the fleet of Federation ships casting a "net" is perfectly fine - except that they're doing it in space.  This net would make sense if they were surrounding a location, like a planet, or a ship.  The fact that they're blocking a path in space is weird.  Do ships not move up and down in space?  There's no reason given why the Romulan craft couldn't just go around their net, especially since they recognized it was there.
    The second misstep was the storyline with Data.  He's put in charge of another ship.  The first officer doesn't like working under an Android.  Data acknowledges this, and denies his petition to leave the position.  Then, during the standoff, Data doesn't let anyone know what he's doing, and gets angry (!) at the officer for questioning his orders.  This makes Data both a jerk, and not much of a leader.  And he's showing pretty obvious emotion, which really seems conspicuous.
    The bit with Tasha Yar's daughter is kind of an interesting idea, since it ties back to Yesterday's Enterprise.

    But this wasn't particularly great.  There's some nicely dramatic stuff, and a bit more action than usual, but by the end of it, it didn't seem like anything really was at stake.