#TNG S01E24, "We'll Always Have Paris". Picard refuses to go to therapy. "I can't compete with a ghost from his past," declaims Dr. Crusher--a line which will come back to haunt her six years later.

#TNG S01E25, "Conspiracy". Alien parasites have taken over the bodies of key admirals in Starfleet for nefarious purposes--an operation which continues more-or-less unhindered for the next five centuries.

This episode is a fucking banger. Camp scale off the charts. Almost unrecognizable as TNG.

#TNG S01E26, "The Neutral Zone". The D'deridex class is mother. There's an A and B plot too, I guess.

#TNG S02E01, "The Child". The USS Enterprise and Commander Riker's face are resurfaced at Utopia Planitia shipyards, with varying results. Sometimes a family is a single mom and a radioactive parasite. Sometimes a family is three dads and a fresh-faced acting ensign.

#TNG S02E02, "Where Silence has Lease". A postmodern nemesis flummoxes the Enterprise with modular arithmetic. Picard decides to kill everyone and retires to his quarters for some muzak.

#TNG S02E03, "Elementary, Dear Data". This episode is famously known as the "PBS Grand Slam", and was broadcast as an episode of "Mystery!", "Reading Rainbow", and "Wishbone" (with Data, of course, playing the titular dog). As previously mentioned, every holodeck is in fact sentient.

Jokes aside, this is Peak Star Trek.

#TNG S02E04, "The Outrageous Okona". Westley "The Dread Pirate Roberts" Crusher visits the Enterprise. Picard has no patience for Zoom calls.

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Captain Okona being all handsome & roguish