“Attention, Bajoran workers”: The Arsenal of Freedom (TNG) vs. Civil Defense (DS9)

It’s just one problem after another, as the Enterprise gets the hard sell from a long-dead weapons salesman, and the crew of Deep Space Nine sets off an old Cardassian security system.

“Starfleet is better with you in it”: Lower Decks (TNG) vs. Second Contact (Lower Decks)

We get a taste of life on the lower decks of the Federation’s flagship, and we’re introduced to the crew of the Cerritos, which is far from a flagship.

“The kid’s had too much reality lately, if you ask me”: Hollow Pursuits (TNG) vs. It’s Only a Paper Moon (DS9)

Barclay and Nog use the holodeck the way most of us would, if we could: they spend too much time in it.

“Not all tests are announced”: Coming of Age (TNG) vs. Ask Not (Short Treks)

Picard and Pike appear to be in trouble, while Wesley Crusher and Thira Sidhu get the Kobayashi Maru treatment.

“I was driving starships while your great-grandfather was still in diapers”: Relics (TNG) vs. Flashback (Voyager)

Scotty finds himself in La Forge’s engine room on Picard’s Enterprise, while Janeway and Tuvok find themselves on Sulu’s Excelsior.

“You are the dreamer, and the dream”: The Inner Light (TNG) vs. Far Beyond the Stars (DS9)

Captain Picard and Captain Sisko each live out another person’s life, in two of the finest episodes in all of Star Trek.

“Resistance is not futile?”: I, Borg (TNG) vs. The Gift (Voyager)

Geordi makes a new friend, while Voyager gains a new crew member … and loses one.

“We too are machines, just machines of a different type”: The Measure of a Man (TNG) vs. Author, Author (Voyager)

Data’s rights as a person, and the Doctor’s rights as an author, are put on trial.

“We have engaged the Borg”: The Best of Both Worlds (TNG) vs. Scorpion (Voyager)

Captain Picard is forced to help the Borg, and Captain Janeway chooses to, as we meet Locutus of Borg and Seven of Nine.