My 30 Favourite Star Trek: The Next Generation Episodes
My favourite 30 episodes of The Next Generation, ranked in order of how much I like or love them.
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- 1987–199445mTV-PG9.4 (8.3K)TV EpisodeDirectorPeter LauritsonStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonPicard awakes to find himself living in a small village where he is a well-known member of the community who is suffering from a delusion of being a starship captain.
- 1987–199446mTV-PG9.2 (6.1K)TV EpisodeDirectorDavid CarsonStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe Enterprise C enters the Enterprise D's time and space continuum, where they find Picard and crew in a constant state of war with the Klingons, and only Guinan knows it.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG9.3 (5.8K)TV EpisodeDirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonResponding to a distress call on one of the Federation's outer-most colonies, the Enterprise arrives...only to find a big hole in the ground where the town used to be, and discovers the Borg are behind the attack.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG9.2 (5.5K)TV EpisodeDirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonHaving absorbed Captain Picard and his knowledge, the Borg head for Earth, leaving Riker and the Enterprise desperate for an unanticipated way to defeat them.
- 1987–199446mTV-PG9.1 (6.3K)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert ScheererStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhen Data resigns his commission rather than be dismantled for examination by an inadequately skilled scientist, a formal hearing is convened to determine whether Data is considered property without rights or is a sentient being.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonQ tries to prove that Picard needs him as part of their crew by hurling the Enterprise 7,000 light years away where they encounter the Borg for the first time.
- DirectorWinrich KolbeStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonPicard must learn to communicate with a race that speaks in metaphor under a difficult set of circumstances.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG8.9 (4K)TV EpisodeDirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhile the humorless Captain Jellico leads the effort to prevent a Cardassian invasion, Picard is captured and tortured by a ruthless interrogator in an attempt to break him.
- 1987–199446mTV-PG8.9 (4.8K)TV EpisodeDirectorJonathan FrakesStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe Enterprise gets caught in a time loop which always has one result: total destruction of the ship, itself.
- 1987–19941h 45mTV-PG9.1 (9.3K)TV EpisodeDirectorWinrich KolbeStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonCapt. Picard finds himself shifting continually into the past, future and present and must use that to discover a threat to humanity's existence.
- DirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhen Captain Picard's artificial heart fails, he is offered the rare opportunity to go back in time and set right the mistake that led to his demise.
- DirectorRobert LedermanStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe Enterprise finds a lone Borg drone, separated from the collective, and brings him aboard. The drone begins to reassert his individuality, but his presence causes differing levels of fear and sympathy from various crew members.
- DirectorRobert WiemerStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonOn his return from a bat'leth competition in the Klingon Empire, Worf finds himself shifting realities where events and details are in a constant state of flux and only he is aware of the changes.
- DirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonMuch to Picard's displeasure, Q reappears on the Enterprise, claiming to have been ejected from the Q Continuum, and therefore, lost his powers.
- DirectorGabrielle BeaumontStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonA mission of the Enterprise is seen through the eyes of some junior officers who are up for promotions, as questions of duty and honor arise among some of them, such as a Bajoran whom Worf has designated to be promoted to operations.
- DirectorJonathan FrakesStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonAfter returning from a cybernetics conference to the Enterprise, Data creates his own "child," much to the chagrin of his captain, and without regards to the ramifications with Starfleet.
- DirectorRobert ScheererStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhen a Romulan officer defects to the Federation with a warning of a impending invasion, Capt. Picard struggles to decide if he is to be believed.
- DirectorAlexander SingerStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe Enterprise stumbles upon a Dyson sphere, with a ship crashed on the outer surface. An away team finds some systems still powered up and the chief engineer from the old Enterprise, Montgomery Scott, locked in the transporter cycle.
- DirectorLeVar BurtonStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonRiker finds out his former commander from the starship Pegasus has orders that entail more than what is revealed to Picard, who thinks the Enterprise is en route to recover the lost ship. And Riker is ordered to secrecy.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG8.3 (3.7K)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert ScheererStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonPicard is replaced as captain of the Enterprise so he, Lt. Worf and Dr. Crusher go on a top-secret mission into Cardassian space. Meanwhile, his replacement, Captain Jellico, meets his new command with some resistance from the crew.
- DirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonCaptain Picard and his archaeological curiosity are called upon by scientists from Earth when they find evidence to support beliefs that aliens had visited Earth in the late 1800s.
- DirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonBoth Captain Picard and Lt. Worf must decide where their priorities lie as the Klingon Empire descends into a bitter civil war.
- DirectorJonathan FrakesStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonA retired admiral boards the Enterprise in an effort to determine the actions aboard the ship surrounding an act of sabotage and possible treason.
- DirectorJonathan FrakesStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhen the leader of the Klingon High Council dies, Picard finds himself in the middle of the struggle for the now-vacant position. Meanwhile, Worf reunites with a past love, only to find he now has a son.
- DirectorDavid CarsonStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonAs Worf fights in the Klingon Civil War, Captain Picard and his crew must stop the Romulans from helping their pawns achieve victory.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG8.2 (3.8K)TV EpisodeDirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonA Klingon commander comes aboard the Enterprise in an officer exchange program initiated by Starfleet, much to the chagrin of the crew.
- DirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonEffects of passing through a wormhole give the Enterprise crew a sense that they were unconscious for more than the thirty seconds they've been led to believe.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG8.2 (3.7K)TV EpisodeDirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonCaptain Picard and crew follow Data back to the late 1800s to get him back, only to find the suspected alien visitors killing people of that time.
- 1987–199446mTV-PG8.3 (3.5K)TV EpisodeDirectorDavid CarsonStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonA transporter malfunction, combined with a Romulan ship under stress and a damaged cloaking device, creates the illusion that Ensign Ro and Geordi are dead, but Geordi doesn't believe it to be so, and he acts accordingly.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG8.3 (3.5K)TV EpisodeDirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonOn Romulus, Picard finds Spock, as well as an underground peace movement, a double agent, a bold ulterior motive against the Federation, and a familiar adversary.