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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Ethics (1992)
Poor
Poor storyline. Poorly written and even more poorly directed. They try to build a suspense among characters that I just couldn't feel.
Worf loses the use of his legs in an accident and (what a surprise) Klingons kill themselves if they become disabled. So he has to choose between suicide and a radical new method to correct his situation by a really transparent new doctor aboard the ship. I couldn't feel any sorrow from Commander Ryker or most of the other characters involved. Worf dies - and then comes back to life in a thrilling (?) anti-climax. And the doctor was really scary not only to Dr. Crusher but to me too to have taken such a risk without sufficient evidence that her treatment would work. On the whole a disappointment.
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Masterpiece Society (1992)
Interesting
This is one of the more interesting episodes of Star Trek TNG. Again a (then) current controversial research was brought to light in this episode and its pros and cons were weighed carefully.
Enterprise tries to save a planet from imminent destruction by a fragment of a neutron star. In this planet people have been born by selective genetic engineering: blocking out genes with faults and disabilities and creating people for each vocation with the perfect set of traits for that particular vocation. While the team aboard Enterprise try to help this planet the rest of this episode deals with the possible disadvantages of such a genetically engineered society.
In this nobody spends any part of their time searching their souls for what they want to do and what they would be good at - since they are designed and born to fill a particular job (artist, doctor, engineer, diplomat etc.). However their technology has not advanced as much as the Federation has in spite of all this. Geordi makes an insightful remark about this saying may be necessity had been the mother of invention in the Federation's case. If you do not struggle with anything you will not be motivated to find something to fix it. Another ironical situation when the technology behind a blind man's visor helps save a planet where a blind man is not genetically accepted is interesting.