The Great Man Stumbles

The Great Man Stumbles is a crossover fan-fiction, a remix of the classic M*A*S*H episode 'Fallen Idol', changed out to the characters and locations of Star Trek : The Next Generation, set inbetween the second and third seasons. It is written by Rob Morris

Picard undergoes a crisis of confidence when Wesley is badly injured during a very routine beamdown to a planet whose newly-minted UFP citizens seem to embody every last bad trait imaginable. As he struggles with this, Riker and Pulaski grow impatient, and the future romance of two characters takes shape when they find common ground in Earth's history.