“If Footmen Tire You”: The Enterprise attends an urgent conference on the potential threats posed by a species that is experiencing rapid cultural and technological change without any apparent interference on any outsider's part. Feeling that her concerns are not being taken seriously, the conference's lead sociologist traps members of the Enterprise's delegation and other attendees in a simulation projecting the species' predicted advances in the next 25 years. Can they make it out alive?
(BTW, it's a quote from Jeremiah 12:5, "If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?"
I chose to imagine a story where the question is "you think it's hard now? what if you have to deal with something even worse?"
Next episode: "Pandora"