I want to re-watch Trek, but am looking for organize my watch-throughs thematically. I just can´t handle 24-episode seasons. 1
I’m interested to see how TNG handles societal conflict within the framework of externally-mediated diplomacy (a Trek staple), aka negotiations. I’m not looking for EVERY episode with diplomacy in it, just the ones where two or more parties are being mediated by a third party. Episodes with only two parties (First contact stories if it is only Star Fleet and the other civ) do not belong on the list.
The episodes don´t necessarily have to be “formal negotiations,” either. I remember an episode where Ryker negotiated for the rights of males on a planet rather capably using only his winning smile, hairy chest, an ever-abiding curiosity about foreign cultures. Since there were three parties (males, females, and Ryker)², it would go on the list.
Legal disputes handled authoritatively by a court of law (Measure of a Man) would also not be on this list.
Thank you so much!
Footnotes:
- If anyone has a central clearing house for Trek playlists (or their favorite selective playlist) please let me know what it is.
- Actually four parties, if you include the shipwrecked alpha chads.
Symbiosis: The crew must mediate between a planet of addicts and another planet of dealers.
Loud as a Whisper: The crew are ferrying a famous mediator to a warzone, but after his aides are killed the crew must step in.
The Vengeance Factor: The crew must mediate between the queen of a planet and a group of rebels who left the planet 100 years ago
The Price: The crew host negotiations for control of a wormhole
The Outrageous Okona: The crew rescue a charming rogue, but two angry fathers show up looking for him.
Too Short a Season: The crew deals with the ramifications of a badly botched diplomatic negotiation that was handled decades earlier by the guest-starring badmiral.
- Obviously Darmok.
- Also, the Chase. - The crew find hidden code in DNA across multiple planets, end up having to cooperate with Klingons, Romulans and Cardassians to unlock it.
Obviously Darmok.
Idk if it fits in, since it’s between the Feds and the Tamarians.
Banger if an ep, really dials in Picard’s motivation
Do you want to exchange good or cultural artifacts? I want at them archeological artifacts!
Now that you mention it, I would love to have tags for the episodes including negotiation and other elements.
I hope you get a constructive answer.
Oh, yeah, there probably is a Trek database somewhere doing this, no?
This has some good things tagged as sources in the article
