Game TNG Episode Pitch Game

[Mojochi]

"To Turn The Other Cheek"
Lwaxana has returned to the Enterprise for an ambassadorial soiree hosted by the flagship. With her comes the illustrious return of Mr. Homn, who Lwaxana has forgiven for his "obscene" thoughts. In fact, he is not attending as her man servant at all. He's her date! Because as it turns out he is now her latest fiancée!

It seems however, that she'd not been exaggerating her claims about Homn, & now that he isn't a servant, we begin to realize he's a rather crude fellow, who seems something of a drunkard, though you wouldn't know it to look at him.

Lwaxana admits her attraction to him is primarily because he's an absolute beast in the bed, which we begin to notice, when he begins making advances to a number of the women aboard... including a mortified Deanna.

Being that Data is the only person aboard who Homn is intimidated by, he's roped into a ruse to rid everyone of the boarish Mr. Homn, once & for all

Next episode: All's Good In Love & War

 

[Oddish]

"All's Good in Love and War"

The Enterprise is struck by a mysterious telepathic matrix which recreates an ancient love triangle, and causes most of the unattached adult females onboard to fall madly in love with Captain Picard. So he spends the entire episode dodging amorous women, who are also battling each other (insults, gossip, backstabbing), culminating in a huge catfight in Ten Forward.

Next one: "Bureaucratic Nightmare"

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

"Bureaucratic Nightmare"
An away team is sent to capture some Ferengis who are in possession of a stolen artifact that once belonged to an ancient race known for their diplomacy. It is said to be a symbol of understanding between different cultures. When the away team locates their quarry, one of the Ferengis attempts to use the device as a weapon, causing it to activate a simulation in which Starfleet is run like a business and the Enterprise-D is a branch office. Meanwhile, the real USS Enterprise-D and its remaining crew are in the middle of the paperwork season and everyone's trying to catch up.

Next episode: "The Only Way"

 

[Mojochi]

"The Only Way"
While in 10-Forward with Deanna & Geordi, Data expresses regrets over having recently deactivated his brother Lore, telling them of his endless study to understand Lore's gross behavioral problems that he's tracked to Lore's own emotional programming, which was not too dissimilarly flawed from his daughter Lal's.

He struggles with the ethics of whether he should use Lal & her research to further pursue a remedy for his brother, when a communique from a nearby medical starbase comes in for him, relaying the message that his mother, again going by the name Juliana O'Donnell, is "Dying".

While at the starbase, it's clear everyone including her has learned of her true android nature. While speaking to her from her sickbay bed, she is despondent over the realization. Data confesses his existing awareness and hopes that she can forgive him for choosing to let her live out her life as she had been. She does eventually forgive him, but refuses to accept his offer to try altering her programming to extend her life, noting that Juliana O'Donnell has died already, and that she'd know no other way to live.

She then tells Data she loves him, to which Data responds that he wishes he could feel it with her. Her response that she'll feel it for the both of them strikes Data with the realization that her emotional programming, the best Soong ever designed, is just the research aid he needs to pursue corrections for Lal. He convinces her to aid him before she dies, in saving his daughter, and she agrees.

Proving incapable of helping Data design a new emotional matrix for Lal on their own, the still dying Juliana offers to donate her own, so that it can be used for Lal. The transfer of her emotional matrix into a new android is successful, and with the loss of Juliana, Lal 2.0 come online. The final scene of the episode is Lore being awakened to Data telling him there may be a chance for him after all.

Next Episode: Beyond the Pale

 

[Orac]

Beyond the Pale

Riker is lunging on Data's console when Data accidentally punches Riker in the nuts. Riker is rushed to sickbay unconscious.

This is the setup for a Season 4 clip show. The rest of the episode continues the same as Shades of Grey but with scenes from season 3 and 4 and Dr Crusher in the framing sickbay scenes.

Next episode: Forbidden Fruit

 

[Qonundrum]

Forbidden Fruit

The crew are ordered to go back on the Edo planet to study long-term results of their contamination. They find, among other things, everyone is wearing underwear with multiple layers of clothing over that, as well as having to take daily medications. This time, they get Ensign Blondell K. McBeigey to blend in with the locals to find out just what had happened (the crew brought with them a new strain of bacteria that's difficult to treat and everyone keeps angrily spitting the name "Riker" for some reason...) Meanwhile, the multidimensional spaceship thing has also taken notice and kidnap the crew to "assist" in experiments to find a cure...

NEXT EPISODE (of Staaaaaaaaaaaar Trek The Next Generation): Every Seven Years

 

[Qonundrum]

(Quick question: I'm seeing posts longer than one paragraph - is that rule from the TOS equivalent the same here? It is kinda fun having a little more space to play with to flesh out some plotting... )

 

[Orac]

Every Seven Years

Riker must return to Risa because of a promise made 7 years ago to a lady of the night but Picard won't let him because he's already used all his annual leave. Hilarity ensues as Riker tries to fake illnesses and injuries to get more time off.

In the unnecessary B Plot Geordi stages an intervention when Barclay's obsession with an Antique Collectable Card Game gets out of hand.

Next Episode: Klingon Bastards I Have Met

 

[Oddish]

Klingon Bastards I Have Met

Worf's brother and Riker's exchange partner Kurn shows up, announcing a post-exchange tradition: the two officers make a pilgrimage to assorted Klingon dives around Quo'nos. See Riker guzzle blood wine, participate in violent games, engage in even more violent Klingon sex-capades, and tell stories with Kurn about Klingon bastards they have met. He finally returns to the Enterprise blind drunk and pukes all over Picard's ready room. Picard sends him to the brig and tells Data to cover as first officer for a few days... and get this mess cleaned up.

Next episode: Down to a Sunless Sea

 

[Mojochi]

Down To A Sunless Sea

On an away mission landed at the shore of a desolate planet, Data & Geordi's shuttle is struck & destroyed by lightning and while they go about survival protocols, they come across a stranded Bashir & O'Brien, who were on leave from DS9 for a couple days & crash landed there. In the awful conditions that they can only survive by improvising a heating device in a cave, using tricorders & tech from Data himself, they go about salvaging enough parts from both shuttles to create a sea worthy vessel that can sail them out to the only spot on the planet clear enough to get transported out by the Enterprise... In the middle of the ocean.

Next episode: "Turn That Frown Upside-down"

 

[Qonundrum]

"Turn That Frown Upside-down"

All around the ship, bizarre situations that the audience hopefully thinks are funny take place. It turns out there's a practical joker aboard the ship in this bottle-episode. Geordi reconfigures the sensors and they find out it's Commander Data doing all this. How does Data have emotions? Why does he think this is funny? Is Lore up to something, again? Might Joe Piscopo returning, or is it Q, pulling the latest subversive stunt to get Picard to learn something this week, on Staaaaaaaaar Trek The Next Generation?

Next Episode: "Borg at the Morgue" (bonus points of the Borg at the morgue starts playing a Korg and eating a Porg... oh wait, that's a crossover, you didn't read that just now )

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

1) Your episode must be something that could have appeared on TNG when it originally aired (think late 80s/early 90s TV).

As for the length, please try to keep it to one paragraph if you can.

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Borgue: The Enterprise-D discovers an alien cryo-storage facility filled with the bodies of dead Borg archived for research. The facility is curated by a woman who is attempting to revive her dead sister, also in cryo-stasis, with Borg technology. She and Data find a kinship due to Lal's untimely demise.

Next episode: "With All Due Respect"

 

[at Quark's]

With All Due Respect:

When investigating a conflict of interests with an alien species, Picard learns that the man who initially negotiated a peace agreement with said species was a good deal more complicated and 'grey' than he knew him to be, and not entirely devoid of self-interests. This man was one of Picard's own mentors, a man he's held in the highest esteem, almost revered even, for decades. Will he confront his old mentor, now at a highly advanced age and frail, with what he's learned or will he let his veneration for the man hush things up?

Next episode: Neither Poverty Nor Riches

(Sourced From the Bible, Proverbs 30: 8 ''Give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me: Lest I be full, and deny thee, and say, Who is the Lord? or lest I be poor, and steal, and take the name of my God in vain." )

 

[Mojochi]

Neither Poverty Nor Riches

After the events of Descent pts 1 & 2, Data struggles with & seeks advice/counseling from his mates, over now possessing the emotion chip that Dr. Soong made for him, that he retrieved from Lore, and whether he wants to use it at all, given how terrible his few experiences with emotions have been.

In a B plot, Geordi too has a hard reality to face, from the same incident, in that Lore had been experimenting with his VISOR for ill purposes, which makes it the 2nd time the tech has been commandeered, to the crew's possible endangerment. He once again considers optical implants as an alternative, even though he's still unimpressed with the sacrifices they pose to his vision. He & Data propose an exciting possibility of using Data's own eyes as a possible starting point for developing their own human eye implant, that would merge all available technologies.

Next Episode: Lest We Lose Our Edens

(Robert Browning - "Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve & I)

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Lest We Lose Our Edens - After re-encountering her when the Enterprise-D arrests her, William Riker learns that his first love as a cadet (pre-Deanna) was using him for intelligence gathering. He begins to question everything about their relationship, which ended abruptly when she "transferred". Meanwhile, Keiko O'Brien's young botany student assistant develops a crush on her.

Next episode: "Floodgates"

 

[Mojochi]

Floodgates

The Enterprise encounters a planet whose inhabitants all have such highly pronounced telepathic abilities that the entire population is deliberately medicated to suppress them. While there, the entire Enterprise crew also begin exhibiting heightened telepathic abilities, alarming the planet leaders, who insist they also be medically suppressed. Because of the chaos it's causing, Dr. Crusher begrudgingly agrees that it's the best course of action, but Counsellor Troi refuses to have her abilities suppressed, which escalates a diplomatic crisis.

The science team determines that the crew's emerging telepathy originates from exposure to a specific type of radiation emanating from the planet's single moon. They devise a specialized baryon sweep aimed at the moon, from their deflector dish, that eradicates the radiation, & with it, the crew's telepathy, as well as the entire planet population's (Save for Deanna's normal empathy)

Next Episode: "The Last Enterprise"

 

[Rmac]

The Last Enterprise

Troi and La Forge are the subject of a hearing after the Enterprise is seemingly destroyed and they are the only two survivors. The hearing turns hostile when Troi insists she received a vision from the crew. Geordi is the only person to believe her and begins working on figuring out what could be happening.
He deduces that the Enterprise was dislodged in time by quantum tunnel and that they will remain lost unless they act quickly. They are forced to steal a shuttle in order to save the ship.

Next Episode: Road to Damascus

 

[Mojochi]

Road To Damascus
Ensign Ro is confronted by a rather sketchy person from her past, who brings back some dark parts of her own youth, and puts her in an uncomfortable position. Picard advises her, offering up some of his own wild youth history as a guide for her to learn from. He helps her make a right decision to her dilemma, & in the end she makes the choice to leave the Enterprise for a spell, to undertake advanced tactical training, at Picard's referral.

Next Episode: Cult of Personality

 

[Oddish]

Ok, "Cult of Personality". This one replaces "Thine Own Self".

Deanna loses her memory and is lost on a primitive planet where the natives are awed by her mental abilities and her very personable nature, and want to make her their leader over her strenuous objections. She is able to discern who is poisoning the city for his own gain, but he rallies an angry mob against her, who chase her into the woods. The Enterprise is able to beam her up unseen.

Meanwhile, Data hears that the second officer of a smaller ship than the Enterprise holds commander rank, and decides to take the test for it. He faces the whole "kill a holographic crewman" test, has difficulty with it because he has an inherent belief that if any person is going to go in harm's way, it should be him. A conversation with Geordi helps him figure out the solution, and when Deanna returns, he informs her that she can call him "sir".

Next title: Data Crunching