A lot of people don't realise that Trek works best when it's capital Weird. "oh we found yet another humanoid species that built a culture on one very specific contended aspect of human nature, let our heroes resolve it" are dime a dozen.

Then you have Masks, or PIC S2, which are cheesy, a bit all over the place, very much Alice in the looking glass episodes... and they bring out some of the best acting, the most enjoyable lore, and so on.