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[FederationHistorian]

"King of the Hill" - Picard and Worf must deal with a nomadic people that live near the edge of Klingon space, who routinely camp out on an habitable moon sensitive to the Klingon Empire. The nomadic people refuse to adapt their routine, and are put to the test when a Bird-of-Prey arrives and threats to open fire, on orders from the Klingon High Council. Meanwhile after a couple of successful dates, Geordi is planning to go out with Sonya Gomez a third time, and asks his friends for ideas for a truly original date on the Enterprise.

Next episode - “Threats of Expulsion”

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

“Threats of Expulsion” - Picard delivers an ultimatum to a Federation world that refuses to reign in its criminal element; cease hostilities against the Starfleet contingent there or be kicked out. Meanwhile, Riker's date is just getting close to him so that he'll use his influence to keep her sister from being kicked out of the Academy.

Next episode: "Close To The Vest"

 

[FederationHistorian]

"Close To The Vest" - Riker and Troi keep a secret from Picard - Lwaxana is coming to live on the Enterprise permanently. When Geordi, Worf, Guinan and Beverly are brought int the fold, it leaves Pciard and Data to inquire why the crew as suddenly become so secretive. Meanwhile, an enlisted crewmember is secretly communication with a Ferengi Daimon and his crew, to help them commandeer the Enterprise.

Next episode - “Living Off Campus”

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

“Living Off Campus” - Data is offered a teaching position at a prestigious institution, only to find that he would be the object of study, rather than the teacher. Geordi can't fathom why he is still interested. Meanwhile, while attending a lecture for Starfleet Academy cadets, Deanna attracts the attention of a much younger man.

Next episode: "The Driven Snow" (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/be-as-pure-as-the-driven-snow)

 

[FederationHistorian]

"The Driven Snow" - Picard, Riker and Troi are present for a ceremony honoring a prospective administrator for an outpost recently granted Federation membership. The honoree is seen as a moral compass, and held up as an example to the entire outpost. When his peers, annoyed at his self-confidence and his squeaky-clean image, starts finding ways to shame and embarrass him with round the clock rumors and half-truths, it leads to his reputation and image to be damaged across the outpost. Troi has to get through to him that what has occurred will not be forever and that he will come back from it.

Next episode - “This Love Is Silent” (a T.S. Eliot quote)

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

“This Love Is Silent” - Enterprise delivers plants to a botanical garden on a terraformed planet. The head gardener is a man who had a crush on Deanna in her teenage years, but never got up the nerve to say anything. He reveals that he created the garden for her. Seeing Will Riker's attentiveness, he becomes jealous and sics the carnivorous plants on him, then grafts Deanna to a plant so she cannot leave. Meanwhile, Geordi and Data discuss the idea of guilty pleasures, with Data wondering why it would embarrass someone to like something.

Next episode: "Bit and Bridle"

 

[FederationHistorian]

"Bit and Bridle" - The Enterprise visits the Melkotian planet, as it seeks to join the Federation. After receiving no response to their hails. Picard sends an away team. After an away team finds a series of Old West settlements and no Melkots present, Picard and the rest of the senior staff set out to look for the Melkots. They ride the horses present on the planet’s surface in their search. Meanwhile, Riker takes a runabout to search the rest of the system to figure out what happened to the Melkots and comes across secret negotiations involving the Ferengi, the Cardassians and the Romulans.

Next episode - “Fifteen Minutes of Fame”

 

[at Quark's]

Next episode - “Fifteen Minutes of Fame”

The Enterprise gets a bad rep in Federation press repeatedly and ultimately, an inquiry hearing is made. The source turns out to be a junior crew member that is posting updates on Startube, Fedgram and FleetToc that prove incredibly popular. Billions are drawn to read the updates with hasthags such as #Badmiral, #DevolvingCrew, #AnotherHolodeckAccident and #IsThomasRikerTheOriginal?

The climax of the episode is Picard giving a brilliant speech about how free sharing information is important and one of the foundations of the Federation, but that free information doesn't equate to sensationalist information that doesn't tell the whole story, and that nuance is essential.

(then again, this perhaps doesn't qualify as an episode that could have been written in the late 80's/early 90's, does it ? )

Next episode:
The Enterprise Heritage

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

The Enterprise Heritage - A new crewmember is assigned to the Enterprise-D with a family heritage of serving on Enterprise. She is the last member of her family left in Starfleet, and feels the need to make an impact on the ship, but may wind up putting the ship in peril when she attracts the attention of an alien entity during an experiment. Meanwhile, Geordi is tasked with choosing an item for the Enterprise museum that encapsulates the spirit of the ship.

Next episode: "Hypothesis"

 

[Tiran O'Saurus]

"Hypothesis"- A scientist comes aboard the Enterprise to test a new kind of hypospray. It works perfectly, and the scientist is hailed as a genius. The Enterprise intends on leaving the nebula they were in during the testing, but is then told the Cardassians have developed a powerful new weapon on a planet in the nebula. The away team gets captured investigating, and the interrogator gets ready to torture them in a transporter-proof interrogation room. However, Chief O'Brien invents a new way to use a transporter and rescues the away team. The Cardassians chase after the fleeing Enterprise as the chase leaves the nebula. They fire their powerful weapon, but it does almost nothing to the Enterprise, only injuring one crewman. They try to use the new hypospray on him, but it also fails. Our heroes realize the nebula had the power to make all hypothesises -like O'Brien's transporter technique- become true, and leave with neither the Federation nor the Union gaining new technology.

Next episode- "Qdunnit"

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

"Qdunnit" - Q visits Enterprise-D to warn them that as bad as he can be, a powerful nemesis of his is going to visit mayhem upon the ship. When the other Q arrives, he and Q clash, and he does things to the crew that even make Q upset. When this other Q is found to be dead and only Q could have killed him (who else could kill a powerful being like him?) Q is stripped of his powers and put under Q arrest and on trial. It's up to the crew of Enterprise-D to prove their Q's innocence. Meanwhile, the ship is en route to a starbase for shore leave and crew changes.

Next episode: "As Others See Us" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_a_Louse)

 

[FederationHistorian]

"As Others See Us" - The Enterprise is going at maximum warp to Evadne IV, after it is revealed that the bluegill parasites Picard and Riker encountered a few years ago has been encountered again. Picard game plan is completely upended when Nella Daren, on leave to visit family, is revealed to be one of the hosts of the bluegills. Meanwhile Riker and Beverly work on a non-violent solution to deal with the parasites, which is opposed by Worf, due to how Klingons resolved their bluegill parasites crisis a couple of centuries ago.

Next episode - “Hemispheres”

 

[Finn]

“Hemispheres”

The Enterprise detects two warp signatures coming from a star system, home to a pre-warp civilization, on way to pick up a runabout with Data and Geordi aboard. It's a world with two polar continents, one north and one south. Both of them were in a cold-war type technological race and both powers managed to break the warp barrier at the almost same time. The Enterprise's sensor cannot tell who did it first due to a nearby ion storm.

Both sides is demanding first contact after they picked up the D on their sensors, and threatening a world war if the other side gets the first contact. The D can't simply leave because they just picked up the debris of the runabout somewhere in the equatorial ocean.....

Next episode- "The Bard"

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

"The Bard" - A hostile race that opens fire on Enterprise-D when they come to the aid of a smaller craft under attack. As they enter that region of space, a mysterious figure clad in robes and brandishing a string instrument appears on the bridge. Whatever words he sings happen in the battle. Is he predicting or directing their fate? Meanwhile, Riker has a new administrative assistant who's difficult to get along with.

Next episode: "The Adjournment"

 

[FederationHistorian]

"The Adjournment" - Decades removed from a first contact with a very brilliant populace with a very promising future ahead of it during his days on the Stargazer, Picard - with the assistance of Data and Troi - has to investigate why in the aftermath an important legal case was thrown out, the Daystrom Institute has proceeded to engage in a reductivist campaign in regard to the planet and its people for the past couple of decades. As the Daystrom Institute’s campaign not only ignores both past and current accomplishments the planet’s populace have made in various fields of research, it outright stymies any progress the planet’s government can make in being a significant influential voice in the Federation. Meanwhile, Riker and Worf must follow up on allegations suggesting that Starfleet Intelligence has played a role in this reductivist campaign, and find out an old Academy friend of Beverly’s is one of the masterminds behind it. The crew basically hopes to compile enough information to submit to Admiral Henry in the hopes that he will end the reductivist campaign.

Next episode – “The Finite Cytherian”

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

“The Finite Cytherian” - Enterprise-D rescues three Cytherians who have been kidnapped by one of the races they summoned to their realm, just as the Enterprise-D had been previously. The kidnappees thank Picard and request asylum, as they will be put to death for venturing out of their realm, their fault or not. Starfleet orders Picard to hand them over for reasons, which he is loath to do. Meanwhile, Deanna has a secret admirer, and tries to determine who it is.

Next episode: "Cruel Elements"

 

[FederationHistorian]

"Cruel Elements" - When Troi is summoned to participate in a Romulan tribunal of Commander Toreth as a witness, she fears that she has been outed for her undercover mission on the IRW Khazara from years ago. To prevent a larger diplomatic crisis, Picard acquiesces and sends Troi. But instead of taking part in a tribunal, the Tal Shiar use mind probes on her - with an image of her father as the interrogator - to understand the state of Romulan forces based upon her experience onboard the Khazara, to understand if a massive purge of their military must takes place. Meanwhile, Sito Jaxa’s friends - Sam Lavelle, Alyssa Ogawa, Taurik, and Ben – gather the courage to ask Picard about Sito’s death and if it was punishment for trying to cover up her role in the death of a fellow cadet at the Academy.

Next episode – “Bull Run”

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

A twofer sequel. Nice.

 

[Finn]

“Bull Run”

The Enterprise visits the site of the first battle in the war where Klingons overthrew the Hur'Q...a planet called Bul'Run. Worf and Geordi stumbles into an strange Iconian portal that throws them far into the past where they encounter a pair of Hur'Q scientists. Worf struggles to accept the truth when they tell him that the "Warrior's Cry" was actually something they instilled some kind of honor code into their genome millennia ago (like what we saw in Voyager's Tattoo), but had long ago become corrupt and made Klingons more prone to violence in the event they rebelled against the Hur'Q.

Next Episode: "Encore"

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

"Encore": While searching an alien archive for clues as to the location of an ancient religious text, Geordi uses Data as a translation aide, and he becomes stuck in a loop on the music files, leading him to sing everything he says. Meanwhile, Guinan considers getting back together with an old flame who's passing through on his way to a new job.

Next episode: "Undercurrents"