“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.

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

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

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

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

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

It’s first contact with new life, from the new life’s point of view.

The crew of the Enterprise go where they should never have gone in the first place … and so do the writers of Voyager.