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Game TNG Episode Pitch Game

I'll let it pass, though technically TNG ended in 1994 and ENT began in 2001, because you could substitute some other warrior culture and it's still a good episode idea.
 
"Midnight": The crew of Enterprise-D head to the planet Graudwa II to repair the damage caused to the planet by a Starfleet research team whose experiments blotted out the planet's primary from the sky forty years ago. What they find is a society that has adapted to the darkness and fears the light, to the point that they will kill to preserve the status quo. Should some mistakes remain as they are? Meanwhile, Wesley is assigned to the night shift, and learns that his supervisor is encouraging crewmembers under her to cut corners.

Next episode: "Sweet to the Soul" https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs 16:24&version=KJV
 
Sweet to the Soul

During another visit to the Enterprise, Lwaxana Troi confesses to Deanna that she's contracted a degenerative brain disease. In order to spare Dr. Crusher's team the time necessary to work out a cure, Dr. Selar offers to mind meld with the Betazoid ambassador, to aid her mind from suffering permanent damage.

However, the ongoing side effect of sharing minds with the overly passionate elder Troi, is that Selar begins developing romantic feelings, for of all people... Mr. Data, who again faces the development of another crew member expressing interest in him. While hesitant at first, because Selar might not be acting 100% as herself, by the end, once she & Lwaxana have been returned to normal, she confesses to Data that she was always interested in him, and this event only caused her to pursue it more proactively, resulting in them having a 1st date in Ten Forward

Next Episode:
Only The Bold To Go
 
"Only The Bold To Go" - While preparing to go on his first mission, Kinmal, a young Panobian cadet in the Panob space program, takes courage from a lost log recorded by Wesley Crusher that the cadet found on a data chip which was in a collection of junk he purchased from a scrap trader. The log tells a story of the Enterprise-D's away mission to Emvok III in pursuit of a creature that stalks its prey using mimicry, camouflage, and terror.

Next episode: "Evensong"
 
Evensong

The Enterprise-D conducts a study on a nebula in the currently uninhabited Trion system, but strange, curiously regular beams of electromagnetic particles interfere with their scans. They investigate further, and learn that the particles originate from a device somewhere inside the nebula. The device, on closer inspection, seems to be a decrepit, pre-warp space probe, designed to emit these particles constantly, with seemingly no purpose. Meanwhile, Data participates in a concert given by members of the crew, and wonders at the unifying power of music.

Picard uses his knowledge of archeology and the ship's sensors to analyse the beacon, and comes to the conclusion that the beacon is millions of years old, while Data enlists Troi's help in discovering what, exactly, it is about music that brings people together. Geordi and Data believe that the electromagnetic particles were intended as a form of communication, but due to the ion interference in the nebula, they're unable to decode its message. But with no other civilization present in this system, who placed this probe here, and why?

They discover that the probe was deployed by a long-dead alien race who used to live in the Trion system, in an attempt to find and communicate with any life that might be out there with them in the universe. The ancient race must've been one of the earliest species to develop into a sophisticated society and achieve spaceflight, but unfortunately, due to this fact, they were too early to find another species with the ability to detect or reply to their message. Instead, they died out without ever meeting another species like them, but their probe continued broadcasting their message, and their search to find another, similar soul in the universe lived on.

Picard has a Moment™ and gives a speech about the importance of discovery and scientific exploration. The ship catalogues the find, and sends a report back to Starfleet. They leave the probe as it is, calling out to the rest of the universe.

Next episode: Precipice
 
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