tng episodes
- 50 minutes of nothing
- omnipotent being does something bad
- Everyone Is Trapped In The Holodeck
- wesley figuring everything out
- an alien entity possesses someone; nobody notices until said someone tries to murder a person
- dr crusher’s love affairs
- geordi’s love affairs
- riker’s love affairs
- prime directive strikes again
- random star trek tos cameo shows up and is the reason Everything is happening
- 🅱org and what they do
- the ferengi showing up, pissing everyone off, the leaving
- picard goes through a horrible experience thats never discussed again
EXCELLENT post OP but you forgot a few important ones
- federation bureaucracy causes some dumb fuck shit
- data learns more about Emotions and How Humans Work. there’s probably some contrived moral dilemma
- variant: data’s family drama. bonus points if Absolutely Everyone In The Episode Is Played By Brent Spiner
- speaking of family drama, Worf tends to have his fair share. it makes him even more temperamental and moody than usual
- one of the crew is dying and/or stranded somewhere. there’s angst
- troi’s mum shows up, flirts with everyone, and wreaks havoc
I’m laughing so hard thinking about how many times data has calmly staged a one man mutiny, and how every single time afterwards he just apologises like he broke a plate or smth
and picard without fail goes: aw that’s ok data :)
data: I have done nothing wrong, ever, in my life
picard: I know this, and I love you
geordi: gets tortured and nearly murdered by data
deanna: gets stabbed by data and nearly dies from blood loss
both of them: aw it’s ok data we love you :)
