After over a year of watching, I have finally finished all 26 episodes of all 7 seasons of Star Trek: The Next Generation. One of the reasons I followed the show for so long is because I felt like I learned something from every episode. The plot of each hour-long episode is typically formulated around a symbolic moral and is usually summarized at the end by Captain Jean-Luc Picard . Some of the themes addressed include: racism, bigotry, global awareness, slavery, pursuit of leisure time, career vs. family, friendship, moral courage, and respect of contradictory beliefs. However, sub-lessons are also taught throughout the episodes. These lessons are often expressed in simple, one-liners. For example, when Data, the Enterprise's Android Commander, discovers his first emotion [anger] he doesn't want to try to replicate it because he believes that it would make him a "bad person". The ship's counselor, Diana Troy, explains to Data that "feelings aren...