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- The Enterprise runs into a mysterious energy field of a type that it
has encountered several times before.
- The Enterprise goes to check up on a remote outpost of scientists, who
are all perfectly all right.
- The Enterprise comes across a Garden-of-Eden-like planet called
Paradise, where everyone is happy all the time. However, everything is
soon revealed to be exactly as it seems.
- The crew of the Enterprise discover a totally new lifeform, which
later turns out to be a rather well-known old lifeform, wearing a silly
hat.
- The crew of the Enterprise are struck by a strange alien plague, for
which the cure is found in the well-stocked sick-bay.
- An enigmatic being composed of pure energy attempts to interface to
the Enterprise's computer, only to find out that it has forgotten to bring
the right leads.
- A power surge on the Bridge is rapidly and correctly diagnosed as a
faulty capacitor by the highly-trained and competent engineering staff.
- A power surge on the Bridge is fails to electrocute the user of a
computer panel, due to a highly sophisticated 24th century surge
protection feature called a 'fuse'.
- The Enterprise ferries an alien VIP from one place to another without
serious incident.
- The Enterprise is captured by a vastly superior alien intelligence
which does not put them on trial.
- The Enterprise separates as soon as there is any danger.
- The Enterprise gets involved in an enigmatic, sting, and dangerous
situation, and there are no pesky aliens they can blame it on in the end.
- The Enterprise is captured by a vastly inferior alien intelligence
which they easily pacify by offering it some sweeties.
- The Enterprise is involved in a bizarre time-warp phenomenon, which is
in some way unconnected with the 20th century.
- Somebody takes out a shuttle and it doesn't explode or crash.
- A major Starfleet emergency breaks out near the Enterprise, but
fortunately some other ships in the area are able to deal with it to
everyone's satisfaction.
- The shields on the Enterprise stay up during a battle.
- The Enterprise visits the Klingon Home World on a bright, sunny, day
- An attempt at undermining the Klingon-Federation alliance is
discovered without anyone noting that such an attempt, if successful,
"would represent a fundamental shift of power throughout the quadrant."
- A major character spends the entire episode in the Holodeck without a
single malfunction trapping him/her there.
- Picard hears the door chime and doesn't bother to say "Come."
- Picard doesn't answer a suggestion with "Make it so"!
- Picard walks up to the replicator and says, "Coke on ice."
- Counselor Troi states something other than the blindingly obvious.
- Mood rings come back in style, jeopardizing Counselor Troi's position.
- Worf and Troi finally decide to get married, only to have Kate Pulaski
show up and disrupt the wedding by shouting, "Did he read you love
poetry?! Did he serve you poisonous tea?! He's MINE!"
- When Worf tells the bride officers that something is entering visual
range no one says "On screen."
- Worf actually gives another vessel more than 2 seconds to respond to
one of the Enterprise's hails.
- Worf kills Wesley by mistake in the holodeck, (pity this wasn't done
in the episode Cause and Effect, then we could have seen it 5 times without rewinding the
tape).
- Wesley Crusher gets beaten up by his classmates for being a smarty
pants, and consequently has a go at making some friends of his own age for
a change.
- Wesley saves the ship, the Federation, and the Universe as we know it,
and EVERYONE is grateful
- The warp engines start playing up a bit, but seem to sort themselves
out after a while without any intervention from boy genius Wesley Crusher.
- Wesley Crusher tries to upgrade the warp drive and they work better
than ever.
- Beverly Crusher manages to go through a whole episode without having a
hot flush and getting breathless every time Picard is in the room.
- Guinan forgets herself, and breaks into a stand up comedy routine.
- Data falls in love with the replicator.
- Kirk (or Riker) falls in love with a woman on a planet he visits, and
isn't tragically separated from her at the end of the episode.
- The Captain has to make a difficult decision about a less advanced
people which is made a great deal easier by the Starfleet Prime Directive.
- An unknown ensign beams down as part of an away team and lives to tell
the tale.
- Spock or Data is fired from his high-ranking position for not being
able to understand the most basic nuances of about one in three sentences
that anyone says to him.
- Kirk's hair remaining consistent for more that 1 consecutive episode.
- Kirk gets into a fistfight and doesn't rip his shirt. (Or even, Kirk
DOESN'T get into a fistfight...)
- Kirk doesn't end up kissing the troubled guest-female before she
doesn't sacrifice herself for him.
- Scotty doesn't mention the laws of physics
- Spock isn't the only crew member not affected by new weapon/attack by
alien race/etc.!! due to his "darn green blood" or "bizarre Vulcan
physiology" and thus he cannot save the day.
- The episode ends without Bones & Kirk laughing at Spock's inability to
understand the joke, and he doesn't raise his eyebrow.
- The number "47" isn't mentioned in
an
entire episode.
- Some of the crew visits the holodeck, and it works properly.
- The Captain has to make a difficult decision about a less advanced
people and decides to blow it off and go fishing.
- Commander Riker and Geordi decide to pull a practical joke on Wesley
and beam him into the women's gymnasium shower room.
- The Enterprise goes to visit a remote outpost of scientists, and gets
hopelessly lost in the wrong star system.
- The crew of the Next Generation sit around for an entire episode and
watch reruns of the original Star Trek.
- Data gets too close to a hair-dryer and spends an entire episode
walking around flashing a well known Vulcan hand sign and saying "live
long and prosper".
- The Enterprise crew is captured by a vastly superior alien
intelligence which puts them in a galactic cubby hole and forgets about
them.
- The Enterprise successfully ferries an alien VIP from one place to
another without his luggage.
- An enigmatic being composed of pure energy attempts to interface to
the Enterprise's computer, only to be destroyed because it is the wrong
polarity.
- A power surge on the Bridge is rapidly and correctly diagnosed as a
faulty capacitor by the highly-trained and competent engineering staff.
The part however has not been available for 200 years.
- Over a period of two months, the entire crew of the Enterprise become
infected with genital warts.
- The Enterprise encounters a vastly inferior alien intelligence, which
they spend an entire episode belittling and embarrassing.
- The Enterprise breaks down in deep space and has to be towed back to a
star base by a garbage scow.
- Guinan reveals that on her home planet, all she ever did was work at a
McDonalds.
- The Enterprise develops a bad case of 'space rust' and spends most of
an episode at dry-dock with painters wondering how to get the paint to dry
in outer space.
- Captain Picard walks off the job for most of an episode in a dispute
over vacation and medical benefits.
- Dr. Crusher receives a letter lost in the mail for 15 years from her
late husband telling her he has been having an affair and is leaving her.
- The warp engines start acting up a bit, and Geordi gets blown to bits
when he drops his visor in an engine while fixing it.
- Wesley Crusher goes on a weekend jaunt with 'The Traveler' and comes
back 40 years older.
- Counselor Troi tells Worf that he really is an evil rotten person deep
inside.
- Data falls in love with a woman on a planet he visits, and stays
behind to get married and raise a family.
- Scotty anticipates the situation and has everything working at peak
performance before it is needed.
- While walking down a corridor, one of the crew remarks, "I think we're
lost. These corridors all look the same."
- The Enterprise decides to leave a dangerous sector before there are
signs of danger.
- Picard visits the sickbay and requests the cure for baldness.
- After meeting the hostile inhabitants of a planet, the Away-Team's
phasers are more then adequate for their defense.
- A redshirt sneaks down a deserted corridor, turns a corner, and
suddenly has a surprise birthday party.
- A redshirt manages to avoid the thrown knife, phaser shot, arrow, or
whatever.
- McCoy says, "On second thought, maybe I'm a carpenter and NOT a doctor
after all."
- The deflector shields hold through the duration of the battle.
- Kirk meets a woman whom he's known for years but never had sex with.
- Sulu and Chekov get to do something interesting.
- Kirk says, "Uhura, I'm frightened."
- Picard or Kirk gets Court-martialed for violating the Prime Directive.
- A Klingon says to a companion, "Hey, I like you."
- Harry Mudd manages to turn a healthy profit selling something legal.
- An android race turns out to be completely friendly and not
threatening or menacing in any way.
- Some patient of McCoy's who's NOT a central character lives.
- Riker manages to avoid seeming like a William Shatner clone.
- The crew of the original Enterprise disperse, Sulu gets his own ship,
and nobody suffers major emotional trauma.
- A major character dies and isn't resurrected.
- A mysterious, giant, and threatening object is on a direct course for
some world other than Earth.
- Artificial intelligence and android technology make human exploration
of the galaxy obsolete.
- McCoy says, "He'll live, Jim."
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