My dad watched TOS with me when it first aired, but I was too young to remember it. My first recollection is watching it in syndication. I went on to read my dad's many books, especially the Star Trek Concordance and the James Blish adaptations.

I've since discovered "Banned from Argo" (YouTube, Wikipedia).

I love this! Now you need to do an analysis like this one on Star Trek and the Bechdel-Wallace test!

I realize you’re not trying to predict quality, just personal enjoyability, but I do wonder how it relates to quality.

I actually think it might be slightly more predictive of the quality of a show overall than of individual episodes. But both ST:TOS and ST:TNG have many great captain-centric episodes that I’m not sure if it is predictive of episode quality particularly.

I think I'd suggest a planet-of-the-week episode. From TOS, "This Side of Paradise" or "A Taste of Armageddon." From TNG, maybe "Who Watches the Watchers" or "Up the Long Ladder."

I hang out at my local game store once a week. I've timed the following playlist to fit the commute!

• Status Report
• How Would That Feel
• I’m Ready
• I’m the X
• We are One
• Subspace End Credit Medley

I felt like Freeman included Rutherford because his “gee whiz! lookee there!” naïveté added to her misdirection.

I'm slowly and tediously working my way through ST:TNG season 1.

TOS “The Empath”