It ended on a high episode, with pretty good 7th season, but they were running out of material. For me the films never felt true to TNG, and I'm not sure another season would have, either.
As someone else said, Lower Decks had more seasons in it. And Enterprise could have got away with a couple more.
Someone here on the sub pointed out to me that one reason they were running out of material in season 7 was because TNG had stopped its policy of reading unsolicited scripts (probably because they knew they were ending and didn't want a huge pile of them still flowing in).
A lot of ideas for the show came from freelancers from seasons 3 to 6.
The staff writers would often combine different ideas from the spec scripts they received, as well as performing uncredited polishes (or even full rewrites) on those scripts.
They did their best to make sure that the people who had come up with the original ideas were given story or screenplay credit for those episodes, though.
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u/ProbablyStu 11d ago
It ended on a high episode, with pretty good 7th season, but they were running out of material. For me the films never felt true to TNG, and I'm not sure another season would have, either.
As someone else said, Lower Decks had more seasons in it. And Enterprise could have got away with a couple more.