TNG - Cause and Effect

Cause and Effect is a unique episode. It involves time travel but not in the conventional Star Trek sense. This episode provides a vehicle in which to destroy the Enterprise, without really destroying it. The opening of this episode, the destruction of the Enterprise, is definitely attention-getting. While much of the episode is repetitive, each time the crew of the Enterprise travels through the causality loop, many of the same scenes are the same or very similar to the scenes from the crew’s previous travel through the loop. However, despite this, the episode does not become boring, as one might expect. Instead, the repetitive footage in the episode gets more interesting as the episode goes on, because of the subtle variations in voice inflection, dialogue, and camera angles. The same goes for the episode in general; while much of it is repetitive, instead of making this episode boring, the subtle differences in it make Cause and Effect the best episode of the 5th season.