I’ve been watching TNG for the first time and so far season 1 has been hit or miss. Ether a episode will be really good or really bad. So far I think episode 23 is a really good episode! I hope that Tasha isn’t actually dead. I liked her and thought she was a gorgeous woman! This is the one and only time I will ever want spoilers but is she fully dead or does she return?
She did pretty well with what she was given. The writing for early season was not great, and I personally think that it got much better later on when it settled in. Symbiosis is infamously terrible, and Code of Honour doesn’t even bear thinking about.
As an example, the only person that seemed to have any character development at all in Season 2 is Dr. Pulaski, and it’s subtle enough that people still hate her for her first portrayal, where she she was mean to Data and a little dismissive to Picard at first (although she got better over time, and ended up as one of his ardent supporters).