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Part two : Star Trek : The Next Generation episodes that moved me.

I was at a Next Generation site a day or so ago, and saw what fans there had voted as their favorites.... and found most of the fan voted favs. were mostly action oriented. Sure, I like action Trek episodes too, and maybe it is my age showing, but I like episodes that are character driven with plenty of dialogue and character development.


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Some of my personal favs that were missing in the list of fan favorites:

The Emmisary : We meet Worf's love interest, Keh'lar, for the first time. We see a totally different, loving, sensitive side to Worf. He may not be human, but he can love. I remember what I thought to myself when I first saw this episode:

"Worf in love? I didn't know he could do that!"


The Samaritan Snare :

Geordi is sent onboard a Pakled ship to make repairs. The Pakleds are a very child - like, under - developed race, who are so impatient for technological advancement that they steal it rather than wait.

What moves me in this episode is not just that Geordi is in big trouble and has to think his was out of a really tough dilemma, but it is also that Captain Picard needs to have his artificial heart replaced. He is not good with children, and makes the many hour journey with 16 year old Wesley Crusher, who is going to the same place as Picard is having thje procedure done, only Wesley is going there for Starfleet testing. The two have an interesting dialogue enroute.

It is rumored that Roddenbury planned to show in an episode that Wesley is the love child of Picard and Dr. Crusher. He died before this could be followed up. Writres soon forgot about or buried the idea. I would have liked to have seen this be revealed and put into an episode.

To Thine Own's Self :

Data is stranded on a backwards alien planet. He has lost his memory due to a shuttle malfunction. He unwittingly brings radioactive material to a medieval type town, and befriends a little girl and her father.

Data must find a cure for radioactive poisoning before the very people whom he has befriended die from it. Upon succeeding, and then subsequently being deactivated by the angry, frightened townspeople, the Enterprise crew send Riker and Dr. Crusher to the planet to find him, and learn that he had had an adventure, and became very special to a little girl. Very cute...

And, meanwhile, Counselor Troi had to wrestle with taking her Command test..and making a difficult choice... to be able to order a crewman to their death in order to save the ship and crew.

A lot of good character development in these three gems. Dialogue was spot on, too.