“Where Silence Has Lease”
“Where Silence Has Lease” The Enterprise is trapped in a void. Suddenly the sister ship U.S.S. Yamato appears, but it’s only an illusion. The whole scenario is part of a plan of an alien named Nagilum, who wants to study human reactions to death. When Nagilum announces that it will kill half of the crew in deadly experiments, Picard orders the self-destruction. Just before the ship explodes, Nagilum interferes and says it has learned enough just by watching the crew’s preparations to die and releases the ship. summary by Ex-Astris-Scientia
Woohooa! What a wonderful episode!
Uhm… okay, I know it’s nothing new under the sun. TOS has done aliens experimenting with humanity to death. Nevertheless, it was TNG that I saw first, remember? Secondly, the visual side. I’ve always been fascinated by that concept while I was readinf sci-fi. How an alien being might be fascinated by our live. Guinea pigs, yeah, but show it nicely, please. My own humble attempt at this kind of plot can be found here.