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Originally Posted by Reaves
Yeah TNG did get a little 'technical' although I do remember a few episodes from the original series where a similar thing happened.
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Are you mad? The ones that cover the human condition best are easily the original and TNG. I can think of piles of 'human condition' stories in TNG. If anything the one that took on 'tech' too much was Voyager. I saw a show where the producers said so, that they did it on purpose. If you listen to the script the number of 'transvayleon fluctuations in the high EM band' stuff is just excessive next to TNG or DS9.
My favourite TNG epi is the one where Picard has his mind taken control of by an alien probe and he lives the life of another man from a long dead civilization in less than an hour. Another one is about him meeting and getting taken to a planet by that race that speak in metaphors and he tells the story of Gilgamesh and bonds with the man. Or when Picard gets tortured and the psychology of it comes out. Or Sarek is losing his mind and uses Picard as a mental crutch to complete a diplomatic mission but as a result Picard has to suffer the burden of Sarek's wild emotions. Then theres the non-stop story of Data's search for humanity.
Thats ALOT of human condition stuff off the top of my head. DS9 was the one that focused more on persistent storyline but still did human condition stuff. Voyager did some too but was most hevy on the technical jargon. Sometimes it made me embarassed to watch when they explained how simple it was in weird invented terms.
You want believable science justifications watch Stargate SG-1. They actually use existing string theory for most of their stuff.