the plot. Zack Handlen reviewed "Tin Man" in 2010 for The A.V. Club, giving it a rating of "B+". He suggested that it could have been better than it ultimately was. Handlen praised Groener generally, but he found his performance as Elbrun "off-putting", although suggested it was perhaps deliberately so. Handlen suggested that Gomtuu could have had more of a personality, and the ending should not have been quite so predictable or convenient. James Hunt wrote about the episode for Den of Geek in 2014, calling it a "trite, predictable episode that you're best off skipping". He said the main issue was the highly predictable ending, but also criticized the scenes with Data which he said were "massively trite and worse still, tacked on". In 2014, the episode was ranked as the 68th best out of the 700 plus episodes in the Star Trek franchise by Charlie Jane Anders for io9. In 2018, CBR rated Gomtuu as the 16th most powerful spacecraft in the Star Trek universe, noting the vehicle for its ability to destroy a Romulan Warbird. Home media release "Tin Man" was first released on VHS cassette on August 8, 1991 in the United States and Canada. The episode was released with Star Trek: The Next Generation season three DVD box set, released in the United States on July 2, 2002. This had 26 episodes of Season 3 on seven discs, with a Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track. It was released in high-definition Blu-ray in the United States on April 30, 2013. See also Galaxy's Child (TNG S4E16 also has bio space ships) Bioship (spacecraft) Notes References External links Star Trek: The Next Generation (season 3) episodes Bioships 1990 American television episodes Television episodes about telepathy Fiction about supernovae Television episode directed by Robert Scheerer