2) “The Drumhead” – Star Trek: The Next Generation
People come to Star Trek trial episodes for the speeches, and this gives us one of Picard’s finest, when the captain finds himself on trial for treason after Starfleet Admiral Norah Satie boards the Enterprise on an investigation that gets quickly and increasingly conspiratorial. It’s a great, tense episode, but really, you are here to watch Patrick Stewart sit in a chair and quietly act the socks off of everyone around him.
