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I watch 2 episodes of Star Trek from 2 different series, and write about them.

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  • “Shaka, when the walls fell”: Arena (Original Series) vs. Darmok (TNG)
  • “Sipping jippers on a beach somewhere”: I, Mudd (Original Series) vs. The Escape Artist (Short Treks)
  • “Starfleet is better with you in it”: Lower Decks (TNG) vs. Second Contact (Lower Decks)
  • “Do we need a mutiny today to prove who we are?”: Equinox, Parts 1 & 2 (Voyager) vs. The War Without, The War Within & Will You Take My Hand? (Discovery)
  • “Flame the dark true salt”: Babel (Deep Space 9) vs. An Obol for Charon (Discovery)
  • “A hundred quatloos on the newcomers”: The Gamesters of Triskelion (Original Series) vs. Tsunkatse (Voyager)

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“The dream dreams the dreamer”: Birthright, Part 1 (TNG) vs. Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy (VOY)

Data learns to dream, and the Doctor learns to daydream.

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“A little ship that took a little trip”: The Terratin Incident (TAS) vs. One Little Ship (DS9)

Honey, I Shrunk the Crew of the Enterprise (and a Runabout)

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“It is you who are not real, sir”: The Big Goodbye (TNG) vs. Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang (DS9)

An early episode of The Next Generation starts a Trek tradition of holodeck malfunctions, while a late-series episode of Deep Space 9 lets the crew use the holodeck exactly as its designers probably intended: to pull holographic casino heists.

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“I Love Lucy is on tonight”: Little Green Men (DS9) vs. Carbon Creek (ENT)

We see Earth through the eyes of 3 Ferengi in the 40s, and 3 Vulcans in the 50s.

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“I’m a doctor, not an historian”: The Trouble with Tribbles (TOS) vs. Trials and Tribble-ations (DS9)

The Original Series gives us a comedic classic, and Deep Space Nine pays tribble-ute with a comedic classic of its own.

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“You people certainly have interesting problems”: Tomorrow is Yesterday (TOS) vs Future’s End (VOY)

Kirk and Janeway try to preserve the timeline – more or less – when they’re each thrown back to the 20th century.

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