Star Trek: Insurrection gave it a score of six out of ten. The British newspaper "The People" also said it was an extended television episode. "The Independent" said that "Insurrection" "never stops being familiarly jolly and antiquated", and called the entire "Star Trek" film franchise "old-fashioned". "The Washington Post" also called the film old fashioned, but "in the best sense of the word", and said that the film did what the "doctor – make that Dr. 'Bones' McCoy – ordered". British journalist Simon Rose, writing for "The Daily Mirror" was more critical of the film, saying that it failed to break the odd-numbered
The Measure of a Man (Star Trek: The Next Generation) fundamentals of the "Star Trek" philosophy and what Gene Roddenberry had been writing about in different ways from the mid ’60s." But he said that his favourite episode was "The Inner Light". On Twitter in April 2013, Marina Sirtis (Troi) named this as her favorite episode. "Entertainment Weekly" said that "It is well-established Trek gospel that the first truly great episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation is 'The Measure of a Man'". Mark Jones and Lance Parkin, in their book "Beyond the Final Frontier : An Unauthorised Review of Star Trek", called "The Measure of a Man" "a blunt