I found my daughter was watching Star Trek The Next Generation on Netflix this morning [https://twitter.com/AndrewHolding/status/1249657290015363072?s=20].
It reminded me that one of the odd things about The Next Generation, compared to later series, was that while there were recurring themes. These were rarely plot arcs.
As a result, I made this an overly detailed graph of how The Next Generation stories map. It's completely subjective, especially Picard's stories. The choices reflect the episodes I enjoyed and remembered.
Link to the image https://raw.githubusercontent.com/andrewholding/PlotArcs/master/TNG%20plot%20arcs.png
Update 2020-05-07
I have now written some R code to generate these from a csv file and made one for The Original Series. I don't know it as well, and it lacks the ensemble cast of TNG but it's a bit of fun still.
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