TNG - "Too Short A Season"

When the Enterprise is sent on a mission to negotiate for the release of hostages on the planet Mordan, they are also host to an elderly Admiral, Mark Jamison, who negotiated the release of hostages on Mordan 45 years ago. Jamison then secretly begins taking an experimental anti-aging medication, quickly and painfully reverting to a young man. It is eventually revealed that Jamison's success came at a terrible cost which plunged the planet into civil war for decades. The current hostage crisis is in reality an attempt to get Jamison back to the planet, where he can pay for his crimes. Eventually, Jamison dies due to the medication, and the hostages' captor releases the hostages, satisfied.

This episode could have been a very good one, if not for (ironically) the character of Mark Jamison. He was terribly-acted and covered in terrible aging makeup for the majority of the episode. Additionally, his entire "quest for youth" storyline seemed to be unnecessary. Either the hostage crisis or the youth potion storyline would have been fine episodes on their own, but together they seem to come into conflict.

This just isn't a very entertaining episode. It centers on a character we don't care about, then forces us to watch as this character does more and more stupid things, all the while badly acted and covered in muddy-looking makeup.