S1: Episode 22: Riker's Boob Gets Electrocuted; Just Say "No" To Space Drugs!

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Ok guys, you're in for a treat, Dave did this week's episode description as he doesn't remember this one that well:
This week the Prime Directive is suddenly a thing again as the Enterprise sets out to study a super cool star with a weirdly changing magnetic whatevers. The ship gets all friggin' bluey on them because no one thought powerful magnetic fields could harm computers and electrical systems. We then meet some other space freighter crew who actually make the Enterprise crew look real competent by comparison.

But it turns out the other space freighter crew were actually doing a drug deal! And this was a deal between the good farming people of Pawnee and the nicely dressed but evil people Eagleton! The planet names are different but this is basically the situation. Also, these people (spoiler) happen to be kind of like electric eels. Which is way cool! But we only get to see it briefly. Like twice.

There’s a lot in this one! While Riker is barely in this one, he does manage to get his left nipple electrocuted. Tasha, as always, is kicking ass and waiting for everyone to catch up. Picard decides this is one of the weeks where he will follow the Prime (Selective) Directive. Wes gets told that “Drugs are bad…m’kay”. And Crusher, in her first real act of medicining, is able to distinguish a plague from people high on narcotics (tepid applause).

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