What's fascinating, tough, is how well they use the basic scenario for the series finale, All Good Things, meaning the scenes there set in the Farpoint era really do feel as if they could have been in the pilot, and not in a bad way (they're way better written than the pilot), just in how the characters still don't know each other.

Yes, I'm still amazed that they found a good use for Encounter at Farpoint that didn't involve burning it for fuel *g*. Those scenes really demonstrate how far the show had come in terms of quality.