Star Trek: The Next Generation - 4x13 - Devil's Due

    The Enterprise helps out a civilization that is dealing with the reappearance of their equivalent of the devil, who is coming to collect on a 1,000-year-old contract which would enslave their population.  Despite her unusual powers, Picard doesn't buy it.
    This episode is a bit more campy than usual TNG is.  And there's a good reason for that - the script was re-purposed from a script written for Star Trek: Phase II, which would have starred the original series cast.  With this in mind, there are some passages that make much more sense - like the female lead trying to seduce Picard.  Yes, Picard is attractive, but not in the way she was playing it.
    Part of what sells the episode is actually the Klingon equivalent of the devil that appears.  It's brief, but seeing that costume and mask is very entertaining.
    We get to see Picard and the devil face off in an "arbitration" with Data acting as the judge.  (Perhaps Spock would have been the judge in the original?)
    This is a pleasing episode, but it doesn't work as well as other TNG episodes.  Maybe I've just gotten used to a little more science being used.

    Interestingly, one of the other TNG episodes that was adapted from a Phase II script was The Child, which opened the second season, and it's a really bad episode.  Not just that the episode centered on Troi, but it was campy, melodramatic, and it introduced Dr. Pulaski, who was a serious problem until they softened her later that season.