1. The Enterprise runs into a mysterious energy field that it has encountered several times before.
2. The Enterprise goes to check up on a remote outpost of scientists, who are all perfectly all right.
3. The Enterprise comes across a Garden-of-Eden-like planet called Paradise, where everybody is happy all the time. However, everything is soon revealed to be exactly as it seems.
4. The crew of the Enterprise discovers a totally new lifeform, which later turns out to be a rather well-known old liferm, wearing a silly hat.
5. The crew of the Enterprise is struck by a strange alien plague, for which the cure is found well stocked in sick bay.
6. An enigmatic being composed of pure energy attempts to interface to the Enterprise's computer, only to find it has forgotten to bring the right leads.
7. A power surge on the bridge is rapidly diagnosed as a faulty capacitor by the highly-trained and competent engineering staff.
8. A power surge fails to electrocute the user of a control panel, due to a highly sophisticated 24th century surge protectios feature called a `fuse'.
9. The Enterprise ferries an alien VIP from one place to another without a serious incident.
10. The Enterprise is captured by a vastly superior alien intelligence which does not put them on trial.
11. The Enterprise seperates as soon as their is any danger.
12. The Enterprise gets in an enigmatic, strange, and dangerous situation, and there are no pesky aliens they can blame it on in the end.
13. The Enterprise is captured by a vastly inferior alien intelligence which they easily pacify by offering them some sweets.
14. The Enterprise is involved in a bizarre time-warp phenomenon, which is in some way unconnected with the 20th century.
15. Somebody takes out a shuttle and it doesn't explode or crash.
16. A major Starfleet emergency breaks out near the Enterprise, but fortunately some other ships in the area are able to deal with it to everyone's satisfaction.
17. The shields on the Enterprise stay up during a battle.
18. The Enterprise visits the Klingon Home World on a bright, sunny day.
19. An attempt at undermining the Klingon-Federation alliance is discovered without anyone noting that such an attempt, if sucessful, "would represent a fundamental shift of power throughout the quadrant."
20. A major character spends an entire episode in the Holodeck without a single malfunction trapping him/her there.
21. Picard hears the door chime and doesn't bother to say "Come."
22. Picard doesn't answer a suggestion with "Make it so!"
23. Picard walks up to the replicator and says, "Coke on ice."
24. Counsellor Troi states something other than the blindingly obvious.
25. Mood rings come back in style, jeopardizing Counsellor Troi's position.
26. Worf and Troi finally decide to get married, only to have Kate Pulaski show up and disrupt the wedding by shouting, "Did he read you love poetry?! Did he serve you poisonous tea?! He's MINE!"
27. When Worf tells the bridge officers that something is entering visual range, no one says "On screen."
28. Worf actually gives another vessel more than 2 seconds to respond to one of the Enterprise's hails.
29. Worf kills Wesley in the holodeck. (Pity this wasn't done in the Deja Vu episode. Then we could have seen it five times without rewinding the tape.)
30. Wesley Crsher gets beaten up by his classmates for being a smarmy git, and consequently has a go at making some friends of his own age for a change.
31. Wesley saves the ship, the Federation, and the Universe as we know it, and EVERYONE is grateful (including the Net).
32. The warp engines start playing up a bit, but seem to sort themselves out without any help from boy genius Wesley Crusher.
33. Wesley Crusher tries to upgrade the warp drive and it works better than ever.
34. Beverly Crusher manages to go through a whole episode without having a hot flush and getting breathless every time Picard is in the room.
35. Guinan forgets herself, and breaks into a stand-up comedy routine.
36. Data falls in love with the replicator.
37. Kirk (or Riker) falls in love with a woman on a planet he visits, and isn't tragically seperated from her at the end of the episode.
38. Kirk (or Riker) meets a woman the the first fifteen minutes of the episode that he DOESN'T fall in love with.
39. The Captain has to make a decision about a less-advanced people which is made a great deal easier by the Prime Directive.
40. An unknown ensign beams down as part of an away team and lives to tell the tale.
41. An away team beams down that is not composed entirely of flag officers.
42. Spock (or Data) is fired from his high-ranking position for not being able to understand the most basic nuances of every third sentence that anyone says to him.
43. Kirk's hair remains consisent for more than 1 consecutive episode.
44. Kirk gets into a fistfight and doesn't rip his shirt, (or even, Kirk DOESN'T get into a fistfight...)
45. Kirk doesn't end up kissing the troubled guest-female before she doesn't sacrifice herself to him.
46. Scotty doesn't mention the laws of physics.
47. Spock isn't the only member not affected by a new weapon/attack by an alien race/etc.. due to his "darn green blood" or "bizarre Vulcan physiology" and thus he can not save the day.
48. The episode ends with Bones and Kirk laughing at Spock's inability to understand the joke, and he doesn't raise his eyebrows.
49. Spock regards a serious problem with the ship as a serious problem, and not just "fascinating".
50. The episode ends with the lives of the crew of the Enterprise signifigantly changed by some disaster they were unable to avoid/avert/prevent/undo.
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