Picking the seven “best” Picard episodes feels like a Kobayashi Maru scenario, but the chapters on this list are the ones that fans often return to because they reveal who Picard is at his core.

Until the slew of recent critical darlings like the light-hearted "Star Trek: Strange New Worlds" and the fun, animated "Star Trek: Lower Decks," many people were happy to boldly go to a place where ...