#TNG S03E18, "Allegiance". The Enterprise fantasy committee delivers on Jean-Luc's perennial requests for kidnapping *and* brainwashing scenes. For efficiency they opt to combine the two, causing the crew to--once again--relieve him of duty. He gets revenge by gaslighting Riker.

#TNG S03E19, "Captain's Holiday". Jean-Luc uses the mysterious Front Turbolift. I have questions about the post-scarcity service economy of Risan resorts.

#TNG S03E20, "Tin Man". Starfleet arranges a codependent marriage between a telepath with boundary issues and a depressed starship of incredible destructive power.

#TNG S03E21, "Hollow Pursuits". God this is a good episode. Troi, Guinan, and Crusher all get *incredible* gowns. Barclay turns on the holodeck cheat codes and plays Saints Row: Enterprise and The Princess Bride. The ship goes Too Fast, Again (TM). We meet Short Riker. Everyone gets to ham it up.

People clearly have sex in the holodeck, but somehow Starfleet has never established a cultural norm of knocking before entering.

#TNG S03E22, "The Most Toys". This episode can--and does--say "faggot".

#TNG S03E23, "Sarek". Oof. That concert sequence...

#TNG S03E24, "Ménage à Troi". Slamming from serious drama to high camp--Lwaxana will not stop hitting on Jean-Luc. Picard, for his part, continues to lie to Lwaxana Troi in order to get away. He knows full well she's telepathic, but insists on lying aloud out of inescapable British politeness. She thinks he's playing hard to get.

#TNG S03E25, "Transfigurations". Sometimes Will brings back little gizmos from his away missions for the captain to hold, as a treat.

#TNG S03E26, "The Best of Both Worlds, Part 1". Jean-Luc is *once again* mind-controlled by an alien power.

This is a banger episode. Firing on all cylinders.

#TNG S04E01, "The Best of Both Worlds, Part 2". The Borg can not, in fact, have little a nap, as a treat.

#TNG S04E02, "Brothers". After years of struggle, England finally conquered France in 2138. The territory persisted in name, but the French language and accent were systematically purged. From the early-2200s on, every "French" person--vis. Jean-Luc Picard and his entire family--was a proper English gentleperson.

Pardon me, that was "Family. #TNG S04E03 is "Brothers". Dr. Noonian Soong receives a pull requests on software he abandoned years ago.

#TNG S04E04, "Suddenly Human". The Enterprise rescues the most obnoxious boy from an abusive Dom/sub relationship, and assigns him to Daddy Sir Captain Picard.

#TNG S04E05, "Remember Me". Dr. Crusher discovers that it's true: the universe does, in fact, revolve around her.

#TNG S04E06, "Legacy". Starfleet's only weakness is caring too much.

#TNG S04E07, "Reunion". Suzie Plakson is mother.

#TNG S04E08, "Future Imperfect". Oh NO! Commander Daddy Riker has been CAPTURED and MIND CONTROLLED. This definitely won't awaken anything in me. 🥵

#TNG S04E09, "Final Mission". Captain Picard bums a ride in a 1992 Geo Metro, with predictable results.

#TNG S04E10, "The Loss". Troi finally gets to be an actual person with feelings.

#TNG S04E11, "Data's Day". A good day for autistic representation.

#TNG S04E12, "The Wounded". O'Brien is finally allowed to have a meal.

#TNG S04E13, "Devil's Due". Lwaxana Troi tries a new ruse to seduce Jean-Luc Picard.

#TNG S04E14, "Clues". Embarrassed by the banal events of S04E11, "Data's Day", Data erases the crew's memory and tampers with the ship's records.

#TNG S04E15, "First Contact". "I have been prepared for the realities of space travel since I was nine years old and sitting in a planetarium."

This episode is just A+ optimistic 90s sci-fi. Everything I dreamed of as a kid.

#TNG S04E16, "Galaxy's Child". The very much married Dr. Leah Brahms discovers Geordi used AI to make out with her on the holodeck, and due to the writing equivalent of existing in a non-inertial reference frame, somehow comes around to the idea that this is fine.

#TNG S04E17, "Night Terrors". Counselor Troi is trapped in a Heart music video.

#TNG S04E18, "Identity Crisis". This is actually a really fun episode. Geordi goes to the holodeck and spends a lot of time dissecting a recording, and everyone has to hold still while their "simulation" is paused.

#TNG S04E19, "The Nth Degree". The IT guy is smarter than everyone else and will NOT shut up about it.

#TNG S04E20, "Qpid". Beverly wears a power sweater to morning tea. Vash caps off her 47-load weekend by sitting bisexually in the captain's chair. Riker puts together a trip to Lazy Bear.

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Dr. Crusher in an oversized waffle knit Mykonos blue sweater, looking absolutely fabulous

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Vash sits knees up and sideways on the bridge

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Riker in a fur tunic

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A very burly executioner

#TNG S04E21, "The Drumhead". Good drama! McCarthyism! Transatlantic accents!

#TNG S04E22, "Half a Life". Lwaxana Troi is a goddamn gem.

#TNG S04E23, "The Host". This episode is earnest and emotional and a bit of a soap opera and I'm very much here for it. Feels a bit like an Ursula K. Le Guin plot.

#TNG S04E24, "The Mind's Eye". Geordi asks the Romulans for an abduction scene, and winds up in the Academy Chair. "What are you doing!?" He shouts as the Romulans, following his twenty-five page script, feed images directly into his brain while jerking him off off-camera. Most of these images have to do with shooting a huge load all over Chief O'Brien.

"Please don't mind control me!"

#TNG S04E25, "In Theory". Lieutenant D'Sora sexually assaults a copy machine.

#TNG S04E26, "Redemption". Boob windows.

#TNG S05E01, "Redemption". Sela inherited her mother's looks, but not her hairstylist.

#TNG S05E02, "Darmok". Darmok and Jalad. At Tanagra!

#TNG S05E03, "Ensign Ro". The parasites from S01E25 "Conspiracy" continue to control most of the Starfleet admiralty.

In #StaTrekTNG's "Darmok"⬆️ the new wall ribbing on the inner wall of the Observation Lounge can be seen for the first time. Sadly gone are the golden Enterprise models from previous seasons of #TNG ("The Nth Degree"⬇️).

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Not sure what was going through the prop guy’s mind. 👀

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TOS (8ET): What are Little Girls Made Of?
TNG (9ET): Lessons
DS9 (10 ET): Emissary, Part 2
VOY (11 ET): The Raven
ENT (midnight): The Seventh

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Kirk holding a stalagmite that looks like a phallic symbol

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Tonight has some cross-Trek special appearances including Tim Russ on TNG and Patrick Stewart on DS9! Ironic Tim Russ gets Vulcan neck pinched by Picard! 😂

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TOS (8ET): Mudd’s Women
TNG (9ET): Starship Mine
DS9 (10 ET): Emissary, Part 1
VOY (11 ET): Revulsion
ENT (midnight): Marauders

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Tim Russ’s character getting the Vulcan neck pinch by Picard

Until #StarTrekTNG's "Redemption II", when the familiar versions of the Star Trek III/VI Klingon disruptor pistol was first seen, the various versions of the "death sting" disruptor (introdued in "Star Trek: The Motion Picture") appeared on #TNG, as can be seen in these screenshots.