Teenage human-augment-hybrid Dal R'El (Brett Grey) overcomes significant challenges and emotional upheaval in Star Trek: Prodigy's season 1 finale. Risking his life, Dal manually launches the USS Protostar's self-destruct to save Starfleet ships.
Ensign Beckett Mariner (Tawny Newsome), Captain Carol Freeman's daughter, hears Freeman gets promoted in the season 2 finale of Star Trek: Lower Decks. Upper deckers are uncomfortable and resentful because Freeman's senior officers loathe the news.
This enlightening Star Trek: Discovery, season four episode covers Captain Saru's personal goal. Saru rescues the Khi'eth, a crashed spacecraft in the radioactive Verubin nebula, and encounters sensitive Kelpian survivor Su'Kal.
When Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) searches for a powerful weapon, she meets Cleveland Booker (David Ajala) at a casino, where Booker abruptly ends their romance to steal the isolynium.
Over two terrific Star Trek: Voyager episodes, "Year of Hell" gives viewers a true look at Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew). A character study and narrative of obsession, loyalty, and time conflict, the episode is psychologically enlightening.
Captain Benjamin Sisko (Avery Brooks) explores the darkest sides of character, probity, and war in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's "In The Pale Moonlight." To win their loyalty, Sisko manipulates the volatile Romulans into joining the Federation-Dominion War.
The Romulan ship assaulting Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner) and Kirk argue intellectually. Kirk must secure Federation bases in the Neutral Zone since the Federation is ready to fight the Romulan Empire.