I really want episodic story-telling too. I want an episode where they go to a planet that exists in three time periods simultaneously, and Picard helps a widow come to the terms with the fact that her son is also the 38 eight year old fascist stormtrooper who burned down her farm, but eventually becomes the repentant seventy year old resistence leader who dies helping to overthrow the authoritarian regime. Plus a B-plot where Rios and Agnes get married in the past because they don't think it's legal but it turns out it is!