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Number / Name
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Why I liked it
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201 / 5:1
Redemption, part II
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Enemies who respect each other, drink together.
Can an android command a ship?
Time to work, time to play.
When not to obey an order.
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202 / 5:2
Darmok
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An extraordinary language.
Very interesting.
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203 / 5:3
Ensign Ro
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The very unpopular crewmember.
A people after years and years of war.
Tricks, tricks, tricks... Politics and war.
Giving someone with potential a chance.
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204 / 5:4
Silicon avatar
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Hating an enemy.
Burying the dead.
Murder.
Doing something for somebody else, not for one's own sake - doesn't work.
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205 / 5:5
Disaster
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A non-commander in command.
A non-child-person handling children in his own way.
An unlikely birth helper.
Everybody having to think and work alone.
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206 / 5:6
The game
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Addiction.
Take over by a hostile force.
The last sane one on board.
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208 / 5:7
Unification, part I
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Spock!
A traitor, defecting?
Facing senility.
Teasing a bureaucrat.
Our people playing by Klingon rules, and impersonating Romulans.
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207 / 5:8
Unification, part II
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Peace.
Spock meets Data!
Very charming bar musician.
Very interesting!
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209 / 5:9
A matter of time
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Time travel. With a twist.
Changing the past - our crews present.
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210 / 5:10
New ground
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Should a child be with the parents?
A lying child. A stealing child. A child suffering a loss.
Therapy.
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211 / 5:11
Hero worship
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A child suffering a loss. Reaching out to the android. Emulating the android.
(Which is emulating humans!)
Therapy.
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212 / 5:12
Violations
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Love. Excellent scene of Riken, with the comatose Troi.
Politely accusing.
Mental rape.
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213 / 5:13
The masterpiece society
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A world, closed off from everything else.
A perfect world, choosing only the best.
Ecology.
Only having those people, the society needs. Balance.
Nothing unexpected. Boring?
Life of principles?
Some qualities of life unacceptable.
A chance to leave the perfect society.
We grow through facing challenges.
Perfection is impossible.
Very intriguing.
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214 / 5:14
Conundrum
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Everybody has memory loss.
Rebuilding the chain of command, and the rest of the situation, letting the
not-forgotten personalities decide.
Our crew, suddenly at war.
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215 / 5:15
Power play
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Possession.
The unemotional android - angry.
The gentle empath - hard.
The family man - threatening his wife.
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216 / 5:16
Ethics
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The warrior loses his ability to walk. And now wants euthanasia.
Medical experimental science.
Grasping for straws.
Serious surgery. Death. Well...
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217 / 5:17
The outcast
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No gender.
The male lover and the genderless visitor.
When heterosexuality is the abnormal state!
Room for diversity.
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218 / 5:18
Cause and effect
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Fun with time travel. And precognition.
Almost perfect - except, why does a time loop take time?
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219 / 5:19
The first duty
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Mistakes.
Truth.
Loyalty.
The glory of extreme danger.
Disappointment.
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220 / 5:20
Cost of living
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Parents and children. And "grandparents".
Enjoying life.
Humor.
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221 / 5:21
The perfect mate
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An empath. Knowing what the nearest man wishes.
A woman as a gift. Being the perfect wife. Arranged marriage.
Co-dependency.
Studying the captain.
Forbidden love. Impossible love.
The perfect episode, except for the Ferengi.
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222 / 5:22
Imaginary friend
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Imaginary friends. (Surprise!) Friends.
Jealousy.
Grownups restrict children, for their own good.
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223 / 5:23
I, Borg
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Helping the enemy.
The enemy is a person.
An individual who has never known individuality.
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224 / 5:24
The next phase
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2 crew members die. Become ghosts. Accepting death? How to get in touch with
the "living".
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225 / 5:25
The inner light
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A chance at a very different life. The bachelor with a wife, and children.
Music.
A dying world, leaving something behind.
And then returning to the 1st life, years later!
A society I'd like to live in.
Very, very, very good. And so simple.
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226 / 5:26
Time's arrow, part I
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Time travel.
Facing one's own death. When expecting to live forever. Facing a friends death.
Our crew, in USA, 1900.
Humor.
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Anne McCaffrey
