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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Brown Jenkin" data-source="post: 4782368" data-attributes="member: 2572">Lets see what kind of episodes there where that were more about exploring humanity than action, for example TOS hadWhere No Man Has Gone Before: A look at what happens when someone is given absolute powerThe Enemy Within: Looks at the multiple sides of an individualMudd's Women: What is beautyMiri: What is civilization and what happens without it.Dagger of the Mind: Whats acceptable punishment for criminals, and what makes us humanThe Menagerie: When is it ok to disobey orders and for what reasons.Balance of Terror: How far people will go in war.Shore Leave: How our preconceptions effect our own reality.This is just the first half of season one. I will agree that TNG picked up where TOS left off, but TOS and Roddenberry were all about exploring humanity as was TNG. TOS just had to layer that message under more common tropes in order for the networks to show it at all. While it may seem trivial to us, the Kirk/Uhura kiss in Plato's Stepchildren was the first Interracial kiss on TV and quite scandalous at the time and would never have been allowed except for the cloaking it had in Sci-Fi. While Let that Be Your Last Battlefield dealt with the American race relations  and the folly of prejudice.</blockquote>