Thoughts on: Star Trek TNG Season 2

• "Shades of Grey" is one of the better 'lazy' episodes of anything I've seen (most of the episode is comprised of clips of previous episodes, also known as a 'filler' episode.)
• I don't know why Salia was so worried that her true form was ugly ("The Dauphin"); I thought it was beautiful.
• "The Measure of a Man" was my favourite of this series, and the best one overall so far. It does a far better job of 'do synthetic people count as people' than Fallout 4!
• "The Schizoid Man" was terrifying; though I think Get Out did it better.
• I wonder why, during "Unnatural Selection", they weren't reminded of the similar situation from TOS ("The Deadly Years") in the same way the 'drunk disease' did in S1?
• To be honest, I think "The Child" was a rather unnecessary storyline. And a bit problematic, as it brushes on being on the wrong side of the body autonomy arguement...
• Also, I'm pretty sure that no matter how 'caring' and 'polite' the being was, they wouldn't be able to avoid literally ripping Troi open from such a fast gestation. Seriously, a week? Two max!? It couldn't wait the 9 and a half (the average that I'm guessing a human/Betazoid gestation period would be) months? It's not like they had anything super urgent to do - they only did what they did to learn about humanity after all.
• "The Royale" was quite the interesting episode. You think they'd realise that their 'guest' was deceased and so their creation was no longer needed. Though I can sympathise with the whole 'needing to see the ending of the story' aspect.
• Was I the only one who saw the solution to the problem the Mariposans were having long before they did? ("Up the Long Ladder")
• It's nice to see that Miles O'Brien was upgraded from 'named background character' to Transporter Chief. It felt like he was just hanging around trying to be useful in S1; like the character was supposed to do some important things but it all got rewritten so it was the other characters that did them.
• Thanks to "The Measure of a Man, I now ship DaForge. Definitely something I didn't see coming!