#TNG S03E03, "The Survivors". Lieutenant Commander Troi hears Padam Padam for the first time.

#TNG S03E04, "Who watches the watchers". This is good Star Trek. Characters wrestling with a moral dilemma and doing their best to act with integrity.

#TNG S03E05, "The Bonding". One of the things I really appreciate about revisiting Next Gen is that the show is willing to talk about grief and loss with an earnest heart.

#TNG S03E06, "Booby Trap". Lieutenant Commander La Forge makes out with a deepfake of the Enterprise's propulsion designer.

#TNG S03E07, "The Enemy". Romulans are dicks.

#TNG S03E08, "The Price". Everyone wants the Barzan's hole, but the hole plays hard to get. Riker is a model of poly ethics.

#TNG S03E09, "The Vengeance Factor". Riker hooks up with a submissive bioweapon.

#TNG S03E10, "The Defector". Possibly the coolest VFX sequence so far, with the D'deridexen looking positively nimble in motion.

#TNG S03E11, "The Hunted". Lieutenant Commander Data loses a game of peek-a-boo.

#TNG S03E12, "The High Ground". For a spacefaring civilization, Starfleet officers spend a lot of time in caves.

#TNG S03E13, "Deja Q". I refuse to believe that Q is heterosexual.

#TNG S03E14, "A Matter of Perspective". Data leaves a series of devastating comments on Picard's DeviantArt portfolio. The crew participate in a retelling of Rashomon, staged at The Sharper Image.

#TNG S03E15, "Yesterday's Enterprise". The Enterprise is taken over by rogue lighting designers. Tasha Yar reappears with an unstoppably powerful haircut.

#TNG S03E16. Data and Troi team up to enforce the gender binary.

#TNG S03E17, "Sins of the Father". Worf unexpectedly falls prey to Daddy Issues.

#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.

9/20: Join us in watching trek episodes playing on the H&I network, using the hashtag #AllStarTrek and group @startrek. Watch along on the H&I network or stream along!

Young Ro and Guinan jumping on the bed is very cute. Right…. Please note H&I is listing Badda Bing Badda Bang.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please reach out to me or @lxskllr my partner in Trek! 😀

TOS (8ET): Requiem for Methuselah
TNG (9ET): Rascals
DS9 (10 ET): Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges*
VOY (11 ET): Favorite Son
ENT (midnight): Detained

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A young Guinan and young Ro looking down a corridor

Scotty still has a little spunk in him.

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Scotty and Bones are probably the most beloved characters in Trek (although they’re all awesome in my opinion).

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9/15: Join us in watching trek episodes playing on the H&I network, using the hashtag #AllStarTrek and group @startrek. Join along on the H&I network or stream along!

For those joining the alternate SNW watch party, that starts at 10:00 PM Eastern! I can’t join tonight because it’s my kiddo’s 15th birthday! 😭 Where has all the time gone?!

If you have any questions or suggestions, please reach out to me or @lxskllr my partner in Trek! 😀

TOS (8ET): Let That Be Your Last Battlefield
TNG (9ET): Man of the People
DS9 (10 ET): The Emperor’s New Cloak
VOY (11 ET): Blood Fever
ENT (midnight): Fusion

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