Darmok: Like Troi's speech to Picard in "Ensigns of Command" about communication, but with an underlying story less interesting than tea and saucer
The Naked Now: Wesley build a repulsor beam and uses his dPhone to cut and paste Picard voice snippets, oh and there's a ripoff of a TOS plot in this one too
Cause & Effect: Has Geordi telling the audience umpteen times how Ensign Fletcher kept him from saying "I've fallen and can't get up" - for context, see that cheezy late-80s "Lifecall" commercial regarding Mrs Fletcher (or any of them, but the first started the trend...)
Manhunt: Mick Fleetwood spends half a day getting caked in fishy-looking make-up to say one line that took half a second to recite.
Code of Honor: Nobody on Ligon II thinks a woman can be chief of security, even if the episode shows a very formidable female foe - also given a similar name in case the audience is too stupid to notice the poor scripting everywhere else in the story
Transfigurations: TNG's attempt to revive TOS's tradition to have a character in tight sweatpants - with boring results.
True Q: Crusher is finally revealed to the whole audience, oh and Amanda is straight out of "The Wizard of Oz" via a gaggle of face-slapping in-jokes what with "Kansas", "tornado", "barking dog", and all...
Man of the People: Reusing the trope of characters rapidly aging is getting old
Relics: Bring in the old engineer from the old show and force him to spout our new treknobabble after treating him like a caricature
Shades of Gray: Clips shows worked great in sitcoms, so why not here? * Note: This was a last ditch effort to get 22 episodes out instead of 21 thanks to the writer's strike that already clobbered the show and what isn't a clip is generally fairly good and shows TNG can do excellent alien world horror
The Survivors: Wait, there's a plot here other than forcing Troi overreact to chintzy
earworm muzak?
We'll Always Have Paris: To ensure Picard will have a starting point for a long list of lovers too, we'll start by using stunt casting with one of
The Mamas and the Papas
The Measure of a Man: Picard meets another old fling, and there's some melodrama about Data too.
Identity Crisis: The only Trek episode involving people turning into salamanders that isn't a total chore
The Offspring: Decades ahead of its time, the new android's name says it all - "LOL"
