<P> In 2010, Zack Handlen gave "Family" a rating of A for The A.V. Club . He said it was "one of the best hours TNG has ever done", saying that the Picard scenes were the highlights . He called the scenes where Picard confesses his feelings about the Borg to Robert his favourite of "all Stewart's amazing acting moments on the show so far". He summed up "Family", saying "It's also a remarkable episode, thoughtful, a little sad, but in the end full of hope . The final shot shows Picard's nephew dreaming under the stars . Like much of this episode, it could've been corny . And like all of this episode, it isn't ." "Family" was included in a top ten list of the non-typical best episodes of the series by Carol Pinchefsky for Forbes; she called the scene where Picard admits his feelings towards the Borg as the highlight of the episode . </P> <P> Keith DeCandido reviewed the episode for Tor.com, rating it ten out of ten . He suggested the episode may have had "most impressive collection of guest stars of any episode of Star Trek", lending further praise to Wert, Birkin and Dennis Creaghan as Louis . But he added that Kemp, Eggar, Bikel and Brown was "near perfect casting". He said that "Family" was "an absolute high point of TNG and one of the best episodes they ever did", as it made the characters appear as "people". He said that the writing "cemented (Ronald D. Moore's) place as one of the top writers of the franchise", and described the acting as "simply phenomenal". </P> <P> In 2014, the episode was ranked as the 73rd best out of the 700 plus episodes in the Star Trek franchise by Charlie Jane Anders for io9 . She described it as "revolutionary" due it to showing the outcome of a "big' event' episode". James Hunt, in his review for Den of Geek in 2015, said that it was an "off - template" episode which was likely to cause a strong reaction from viewers . He said that he had enjoyed it, as it took time to address the trauma of the previous two episodes whereas episodes such as "Hard Time" in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine saw characters getting over such incidents in a matter of minutes of screen time . Because the plot of "Family" followed on from the events of "The Best of Both Worlds", Hunt considered it to be the third part in the arc . Aaron Couch, when writing about the Borg story arc for The Hollywood Reporter, described "Family" as "an understated but highly acclaimed episode". </P> <P> "Family" was first released on VHS cassette in the United States and Canada on February 6, 1996 . The episode was later released in the United States on September 3, 2002, as part of the Star Trek: The Next Generation season four DVD box set . The first Blu Ray release was in the United Kingdom on July 29, 2013, followed by the United States on July 30 . </P>

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