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"Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987) More at IMDbPro »

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Year: 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Encounter at Farpoint

26 September 1987
On the maiden mission of a new Enterprise, the God-like being known as Q challenges the crew to discover the secret of a mysterious base in a truly intelligent & civilized fashion.

Season 1, Episode 2: The Naked Now

3 October 1987
The crew of the Enterprise is infected with a virus that causes them to behave as though they were intoxicated.

Season 1, Episode 3: Code of Honor

10 October 1987
When the leader of an alien culture takes a romantic interest in Lt. Yar, he claims her for his own, to the dismay of his own wife, who, in turn, challenges Tasha in a fight to the death.

Season 1, Episode 4: The Last Outpost

17 October 1987
The Enterprise encounters a race known as the Ferengi, a race believed to be more pirates, than traders. But, in the course of pursuit, all power is lost in the ship, just as the alien ship comes to bear. But surprising results await upon contacting the other ship.

Season 1, Episode 5: Where No One Has Gone Before

24 October 1987
The Enterprise is ordered to undergo a series of tests that will propel the ship at unfathomable speed, but Riker has misgivings surrounding the equations and theories presented by the arrogant designer, and someone, most unexpected, is the only one who puts his finger on the assistant as the one behind the whole scheme of things.

Season 1, Episode 6: Lonely Among Us

31 October 1987
As the Enterprise provides transportation to two delegate parties who are constantly at odds with each other, the ship is invaded by something that jumps from computer terminal to crew members and back, again, unknown to the crew, even the ones being invaded.

Season 1, Episode 7: Justice

7 November 1987
After dropping off some colonists in a system near by, The crew visits a world of beautiful, healthy & tanned human looking people who seem to have a peaceful & loving lifestyle. They know no crime, war or hardship. They seem to have everything. They also have a Death Penalty for breaking any infraction of the Rules. They also have a secret.

Season 1, Episode 8: The Battle

14 November 1987
After waiting for a response to their hails for three days, Picard finds that the Ferengi have discovered the "Stargazer," an old ship that he once commanded. The Ferengi are only too willing to turn over the ship to the Federation, but, unknown to Picard, have installed a piece of equipment that induces severe headaches in Picard.

Season 1, Episode 9: Hide and Q

21 November 1987
The Enterprise encounters Q again, and he tempts Riker by endowing him with the powers of the Q.

Season 1, Episode 10: Haven

28 November 1987
While on a mission to a planet called Haven, Counselor Troi meets her husband to be, a marriage arranged by her father years before, as the Enterprise encounters a ship far deadlier than any combat could provide.

Season 1, Episode 11: The Big Goodbye

9 January 1988
Captain Picard and some of his crew are caught in a deadly trap in the holodeck as the result of a ship-wide scan from an alien race.

Season 1, Episode 12: Datalore

16 January 1988
The Enterprise visits the planet where Data was created and discovers another android like him, but when he's assembled, he's not EXACTLY like him.

Season 1, Episode 13: Angel One

23 January 1988
Riker, Troi, Data and Yar beam down to a planet ruled by a matriarchal government in the hopes of locating a missing freighter crew.

Season 1, Episode 14: 11001001

30 January 1988
The Enterprise docks at a starbase for repairs where it is commandeered by a race of technologically-linked aliens intent on using the vessel for their own purposes.

Season 1, Episode 15: Too Short a Season

6 February 1988
The Enterprise transports an elderly Starfleet Admiral to negotiate a hostage crisis. When the Admiral takes a de-aging drug, he endangers both his life and the mission.

Season 1, Episode 16: When the Bough Breaks

13 February 1988
A planet that was able to cloak itself for thousands of years suddenly reveals itself, with its inhabitants proposing peace. But, after initial negotiations, children of the Enterprise are kidnapped due to the impotence of the inhabitants.

Season 1, Episode 17: Home Soil

20 February 1988
On Velara III, Geordi and Data discover a microscopic life form responsible for the death of an engineer stationed on the base.

Season 1, Episode 18: Coming of Age

12 March 1988
Picard finds himself facing a strenuous test of his loyalty to Starfleet, one which the other members of the crew are struggling to cope with, whilst Wesley faces an equally challenging entrance exam at Starfleet Academy.

Season 1, Episode 19: Heart of Glory

19 March 1988
The Enterprise searches for answers as to why 3 Klingon warriors were the only survivors aboard a freighter just inside the neutral zone that was attacked by what seemed to be Ferengi ship.

Season 1, Episode 20: The Arsenal of Freedom

9 April 1988
The Enterprise encounters a planet long dead, but technical equipment still functions for the purpose of selling off its arsenal, along with self sufficiency.

Season 1, Episode 21: Symbiosis

16 April 1988
The Enterprise encounters two neighboring cultures, one suffering from a plague, the other marketing a cure, and learn that nothing is as simple as it seems.

Season 1, Episode 22: Skin of Evil

23 April 1988
While en route back to the Enterprise, the shuttle craft carrying Counselor Troi loses power and gets caught in a planet's gravity well, where, with the pilot severely injured, she encounters the real reason why she's stranded on the planet: a large pool of oil, able to assume many forms and capable of great power, and sentient, but very evil in nature.

Season 1, Episode 23: We'll Always Have Paris

30 April 1988
The crew of the Enterprise races against time, itself, when a scientist experiments with time, and claims to have opened a window into another dimension, which must be closed. And Picard races against his past, as the scientist's wife turns out to be an old flame that almost turned him away from Starfleet.

Season 1, Episode 24: Conspiracy

7 May 1988
After diverting to a secret meeting with an old friend and some of Starfleet's finest commanders, Picard finds the Horatio blown to bits just hours after the meeting and he returns the Enterprise to Earth looking for answers.

Season 1, Episode 25: The Neutral Zone

14 May 1988
"Days of Yesteryear" would be a more appropriate title, as Data finds an old ship in space that's been there for years, with 3 people who've been frozen for over 400 years. Meanwhile, Starfleet sends the Enterprise to the edge of the Romulan neutral zone, where star bases and their personnel have disappeared after decades of no contact between the Federation and the Romulans.

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: The Child

19 November 1988
Deanna is impregnated by a unknown alien life-form, and Dr. Katherine Pulaski joins the Enterprise as the ship's new Chief Medical Officer.

Season 2, Episode 2: Where Silence Has Lease

26 November 1988
The Enterprise encounters a mysterious void in space and when they move in closer to investigate further, it envelops them and they can't get out.

Season 2, Episode 3: Elementary, Dear Data

3 December 1988
An attempt to provide Data with a challenging Sherlock Holmes holodeck RPG scenario backfires when its Prof. Moriarty character accidentally becomes self-aware.

Season 2, Episode 4: The Outrageous Okona

10 December 1988
The Enterprise rescues the captain of a broken-down freighter, only to become involved in a dispute between feuding worlds--each demanding custody of their guest. Data seeks help from Guinan in understanding humor.

Season 2, Episode 5: Loud as a Whisper

7 January 1989
The crew ferries a deaf mediator to Solais V to negotiate an end to a civil war.

Season 2, Episode 6: The Schizoid Man

21 January 1989
The Enterprise respond to a request for medical assistance from Dr. Ira Graves, considered by many to be the greatest living mind in the universe. Graves didn't want any help and the Enterprise was summoned by his assistant Kareen. He is a crotchety old man who doesn't really like people but is now in the terminal stages of his illness. He taught Data's creator, Dr. Soong, everything he knows and describes himself as the android's grandfather. Knowing that the end is near, he transfers all of his knowledge and intellect into Data. As a result, Data begins to act differently and becomes a cause of concern to Picard and others.

Season 2, Episode 7: Unnatural Selection

28 January 1989
The Enterprise is en route to Star Station India when receive a distress signal from the USS Lantree, a Federation supply ship. When they arrive, they find everyone aboard the Lantree dying of what seems to be old age. They proceed to the Lantree's last port of call, the Darwin genetic research facility on Gagarin IV only to find that they too are suffering from rapid aging. Picard and Dr. Pulaski clash when she brings aboard one of the children from the station and in order to complete her examination, takes him aboard a shuttle craft in order to isolate him from the Enterprise crew. She is soon infected however and seems doomed to die of old age but Picard may have a solution.

Season 2, Episode 8: A Matter of Honor

4 February 1989
When the Federation promotes an officer exchange program, Commander Riker decides to accept an assignment aboard a Klingon war ship. As the first Federation officer to serve aboard a Klingon vessel, Riker has to gain the trust of his new shipmates and particularly that of his irascible captain. As part of the same exchange program, the Enterprise welcomes aboard Ensign Mendon from a culture that is forever seeking to improve operational efficiency. When he discovers a bacteria attacking the integrity of the ship's hull, he searches for a solution on his own rather than reporting it. When the same bacteria affects the Klingon ship, its Captain believes the Enterprise is responsible and orders an attack.

Season 2, Episode 9: The Measure of a Man

11 February 1989
When 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.

Season 2, Episode 10: The Dauphin

18 February 1989
Ens. Wesley Crusher suffers from the pangs of first love when the Enterprise is tasked to transport a young woman, Salia, back to her home where she is to become the leader of her people. Traveling with her is her guardian and teacher, Anya, who is more that just a bit overprotective. Wesley very much wants to be with her - and her likewise with him - but there are few opportunities and Anya continually interferes. Guinan and others provide him with advice. When Salia reveals her true self to him, he re-evaluates his feelings.

Season 2, Episode 11: Contagion

18 March 1989
Picard and the Enterprise respond to a distress call from its sister ship the USS Yamato. It has been facing a number of serious technical glitches and they lost 18 crew members when the containment field on a shuttle failed. Before the Enterprise can assist however, the Yamato is destroyed with all lives lost. The explosion is apparently the result of a failure in their matter/anti-matter pods but Picard suspects it may have something to do with a relic the Yamato's captain obtained on an archaeological dig on a nearby planet. They are in the Neutral Zone and are being shadowed by a Romulan ship but Picard, an amateur archaeologist, leads an away team to the planet to see what is causing the problem. When the Enterprise's shields inexplicably activate, they have no means to beam the away team back on board.

Season 2, Episode 12: The Royale

25 March 1989
When the Enterprise is advised by a passing Klingon vessel that there is strange debris in orbit around a nearby planet, they investigate only to find a piece of a NASA spacecraft emblazoned with the US flag. The planet below has severe weather and an unbreathable atmosphere except for one small area that appears to be inhabitable by humans. Riker, Data and Worf beam down to the surface only to find a single revolving door leading them to the casino floor in the Hotel Royale. They soon find that they are trapped there and cannot exit. As they explore the hotel, they find the remains of a human, dead for several centuries. They also find his diary and a cheap pulp fiction novel that seems to be the story taking place in the hotel itself.

Season 2, Episode 13: Time Squared

1 April 1989
Deep in space, the Enterprise comes across a Federation shuttle craft that is floating in space and without much power but which does exhibit the life signs of one human aboard. They bring the craft aboard only to find that it is one of their own shuttle craft and to their amazement find a duplicate, but unconscious, Captain Picard aboard. Data and Geordi Laforge manage to restore power and determine that the craft actually comes from 6 hours into the future and the shuttle's log reveals that the Enterprise will be destroyed. As the Enterprise enters a dangerous vortex and the events in the recovered shuttle's log seem to be coming true, Picard and the crew must find a way to break the time-warp cycle they seem to be in.

Season 2, Episode 14: The Icarus Factor

22 April 1989
Riker's delight at being offered a command of the USS Aries turns to frustration when the man sent to prepare him for his mission is his estranged father; Worf's behavior leads Wesley to delve into Klingon tradition.

Season 2, Episode 15: Pen Pals

29 April 1989
On arriving at a newly identified planetary group, the crew finds that the entire system is unstable. As the person in charge of Wesley Crusher's training and education, Commander Riker wants to put him in charge of the planetary mineral survey, the results of which should explain why the system has become so unstable. He has to command a team for the first time, all of whom are older than himself. Data meanwhile has a pen pal of sorts when he establishes radio contact with Sarjenka, a young girl from a nearby planet. They exchange information for several weeks when Data finally realizes that Sarjenka's world isn't aware of extra-terrestrial life and as a result, he has broken the Prime Directive.

Season 2, Episode 16: Q Who?

6 May 1989
Q 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.

Season 2, Episode 17: Samaritan Snare

13 May 1989
With Picard away for routine surgery, the Enterprise responds to an apparent distress call from a Pakled vessel.

Season 2, Episode 18: Up the Long Ladder

20 May 1989
When Starfleet receives an Earth-like distress signal from deep in space, the Enterprise is sent to investigate. Picard suspects the Earthlings in question may have originated with SS Mariposa that that carried a group of Utopians hundreds of years before. He is intrigued at the odd mix of equipment they carry. When they arrive, they realize that solar flares from the planet's sun will kill them and the Captain orders the colonists removed to the Enterprise for their safety. When the refugees mention there is another group from which they've separated for hundreds of years, the ship travels to the Mariposa colony which is made up entirely of clones of the original inhabitants. Meanwhile, Worf collapses at his station on the bridge and Dr. Pulaski tries to diagnose what may be wrong with him. He's less than pleased when she tells him that he has the Klingon version of the measles.

Season 2, Episode 19: Manhunt

17 June 1989
The Enterprise is transporting delegates to a diplomatic conference dealing with Federation membership. Counselor Troi is more than just a bit embarrassed when her mother Lwaxanna, as outrageous as ever, arrives on board the Enterprise. She is the official Ambassador from Betazed but that isn't the only reason she is there. She is going through 'The Phase', a time in her life when her sexual drive increases fourfold. She's clearly got her eyes on the Captain who decides to take refuge on the holodeck as private detective Dixon Hill. With him away, she announces that Commander Riker is her next target and he soon joins the Captain on the holodeck. She tracks them down but her sudden interest in a holodeck character serves to rescue the Captain and his First Officer.

Season 2, Episode 20: The Emissary

24 June 1989
The Enterprise is ordered to proceed to an emergency rendez-vous to collect a special envoy who is traveling from Starbase 153 to meet them. They are given no information about the nature of the emergency, just that they will be briefed by the emissary on arrival. She is K'Ehlyar, a Klingon who has been sent to deal with a Klingon ship, the T'Ong, that has been found in deep space with a crew in long term stasis. They pre-date the current peaceful co-existence Between the Federation and Klingon Empire and as far as they are concerned, the Klingon warriors aboard the T'Ong are still at war with the humans. Worf has a solution to dealing with with the warriors. Meanwhile, it appears that K'Ehlyer - who is half human - has a history and perhaps at one time a romance, with Lt. Worf.

Season 2, Episode 21: Peak Performance

8 July 1989
The crew of the Enterprise participates in war games.

Season 2, Episode 22: Shades of Gray

15 July 1989
Riker returns from an away team mission wounded and infected with microbes from the planet below. He is soon in a coma in sick bay, the microbes having fused itself to his sciatic nerve and impeding his normal functions. Dr. Pulaski cannot find a cure and although she can kill the microbes, it would also likely kill Riker. With only a hour or so before the spreading disease reaches his brain, Pulaski stimulates his neural impulses leading Riker to recall previous events aboard the Enterprise. The Doctor realizes that negative emotions are what will defeat the the body's invaders.

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Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: Evolution

23 September 1989
The Enterprise is carrying an eminent scientist, Dr. Paul Stubbs, to the site of a binary star where they are expecting a massive stellar explosion to occur in a few hours. He has been waiting many years for this to occur and has devoted his entire life to its study. The Enterprise however begins to suffer from a series of malfunctions, some minor but others far more serious. Meanwhile, Dr. Beverly Crusher has returned to the Enterprise after a year at Starfleet Medical. She's concerned however if her presence may be limiting son Wesley's development. Can a 17 year-old boy develop normally if his mother is always around him? Wesley may be responsible for all the problems on the ship when his experiment in nanotechnology escapes from the lab. Fearing that the attack on the ship might prevent him from completing his experiments, Stubbs takes matters into his own hands.

Season 3, Episode 2: The Ensigns of Command

30 September 1989
After a century of silence, the Enterprise receives a message from the Sheliac system informing them that they have discovered a human colony on a world in their sector. As they will be colonizing the planet themselves in four days time, the want the Enterprise to evacuate all humans from their territory. The planet in question is in a high radiation zone and no one can understand how any human could be living there. As Data is immune to the radiation he is sent to the planet to arrange for the inhabitants departure. Once there however, he finds there is a population of 15,000 and is informed they have no intention of leaving. While Picard must find a way to get the Sheliac more time, Data enlists the help of one of the locals in his attempt to convince them to leave.

Season 3, Episode 3: The Survivors

7 October 1989
The Enterprise responds to a distress call from Rana IV, a Federation colony that is under attack from an unknown alien ship. When they arrive, they find the entire surface of the planet destroyed, save for a single house and two occupants.

Season 3, Episode 4: Who Watches the Watchers

14 October 1989
A proto-Vulcan culture worships Captain Picard and prepares to offer Counselor Troi as a sacrifice.

Season 3, Episode 5: The Bonding

21 October 1989
A startling surprise awaits the crew of the Enterprise when a mission costs the life of a crew member, who left her son behind.

Season 3, Episode 6: Booby Trap

28 October 1989
The Enterprise picks up ancient radio signal code from the ruined planet Aurelius 9, remnant of the total war over 1,000 years ago between Mentaurs and Promelians which caused both races' extinction. They find a Promelian battle-cruiser still floats in an asteroid field, so Picard, Data and Lieutenant Worf beam inside, finding a message from the captain he alone takes blame for all casualties. Barely back on board, they learn the Enterprise is immobilized by an energy-draining radiation field, the very booby trap that killed the Promelian ship's crew, which will within hours destroy the deflector shields, after which casualties will be massive. While running urgent simulations of the Enterprise's engine abilities on the holodeck, Lieutenant Commander Geordi LaForge, who recently saw his meticulously prepared dream-date fall trough, finds himself unusually taken with a holographic simulacrum of the Dr. Leah Brahms, the Enterprise's engine designer. Data restores other bits from the wreck's captain's recordings, enough to guess how the energy-drain works, but the possible counter-move holds big risks, indeed makes it worse- is timing the key, as rapid as only a computer-simulated entity manages?

Season 3, Episode 7: The Enemy

4 November 1989
LaForge gets left behind on a storm-plagued planet when the rest of his team encounters a Romulan warrior.

Season 3, Episode 8: The Price

11 November 1989
While the Enterprise hosts negotiations for control of a stable wormhole, Troi forms a personal relationship with an opposing negotiator, unaware of his true being.

Season 3, Episode 9: The Vengeance Factor

18 November 1989
The Enterprise pursues a race of "gatherers" who continue to raid Federation outposts, unaware of the dangers lurking among them.

Season 3, Episode 10: The Defector

30 December 1989
When 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.

Season 3, Episode 11: The Hunted

6 January 1990
Investigating a planet applying for membership into the Federation, the crew of the Enterprise finds a group of inhabitants who used to be soldiers, but now fight for their very existence.

Season 3, Episode 12: The High Ground

27 January 1990
While visiting a planet under civil war, Dr. Crusher is taken hostage by an opposing faction of the planet's ruling government.

Season 3, Episode 13: Déjà Q

3 February 1990
Much to Picard's displeasure, Q reappears on the Enterprise, claiming to have been ejected from the Q Continuum, and therefore, lost his powers.

Season 3, Episode 14: A Matter of Perspective

10 February 1990
The widow of respected scientist Dr. Nel Apgar accuses Riker of seducing her and killing her husband. Rather than turn Riker over for unfavorable trial, the Enterprise reconstructs the facts.

Season 3, Episode 15: Yesterday's Enterprise

17 February 1990
The 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.

Season 3, Episode 16: The Offspring

10 March 1990
After 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.

Season 3, Episode 17: Sins of the Father

17 March 1990
A Klingon commander boards the Enterprise in an officer exchange program initiated by Starfleet, much to the chagrin of the crew.

Season 3, Episode 18: Allegiance

24 March 1990
Picard is kidnapped and held with three different aliens and meanwhile replaced with a replica as impostor captain.

Season 3, Episode 19: Captain's Holiday

31 March 1990
After mediating a difficult trade agreement, Captain Picard is encouraged to take a much needed rest on a vacationing planet, where he's visited by a strange race from the future, in search of a dangerous weapon.

Season 3, Episode 20: Tin Man

21 April 1990
The Enterprise reaches out to an alien being, while dancing around with the Romulans, who want to attack it in an act of vengeance.

Season 3, Episode 21: Hollow Pursuits

28 April 1990
A shy member of the "Enterprise" crew becomes addicted to the holodeck, where relationships are easier there than in real life, when his knowledge is needed in engineering.

Season 3, Episode 22: The Most Toys

5 May 1990
When transporting a dangerous material to the Enterprise, Data is kidnapped and the crew is led to believe he is dead when the shuttlecraft he was piloting explodes enroute.

Season 3, Episode 23: Sarek

12 May 1990
Legendary Federation ambassador Sarek visits the Enterprise to conclude peace talks with a race called the Legarans. His arrival is accompanied with a rash of unusual emotional outbursts among the crew.

Season 3, Episode 24: Ménage à Troi

26 May 1990
When Deanna's mother spurns advances made by a Ferengi Daimon, he takes it upon himself to kidnap the two of them, along with Commander Riker and steal them away aboard his ship.

Season 3, Episode 25: Transfigurations

2 June 1990
The Enterprise finds a deserted planet where a ship has crashed, and, with it, the lone survivor with no memory, but extraordinary healing powers.

Season 3, Episode 26: The Best of Both Worlds: Part 1

16 June 1990
Responding 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.

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Season 4

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Season 4, Episode 1: The Best of Both Worlds: Part 2

22 September 1990
Commander Riker had no choice as acting captain but fire full force on the Borg starship, despite Picard being on board of it, altered to a Borg calling himself Locutus, both ships are damaged. Emergency repairs shouldn't take too long to make the appointment with Admiral J. P. Hanson, who announces Klingons coming to the rescue, but Picard seems lost forever: Riker is granted full command. Technology is adapted to render it unpredictable, such as randomized phaser settings. Hanson's communications are cut, the war must be going badly. To avoid musical chairs, Borg expert Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth Paula Shelby is acting XO. Locutus refuses to come to terms, separation and fire are engaged, including anti-matter spread. Data and Dorn beam into the Borg ship, overpower and get Locutus into a shuttle and beam aboard before it's shot down. If Crusher can awake Picard, he may now have decisive Borg info, but meanwhile declares himself Borg spokesman. While earth's own solar system is being invaded, Data finds out Borg mind coordination happens over frequencies; Crusher and Data try to access both man and machine, using a neuro-link to Data, still links aren't severed despite Picard reaching out, which teaches them the Borg cannot disconnect a member, Data hopes to reverse control...

Season 4, Episode 2: Family

29 September 1990
After defeating the Borg, the crew of the Enterprise experiences shore leave in various ways. Captain Picard's return to his family's vineyard in France has some extraordinary repercussions following his time spent as a member of the Borg collective.

Season 4, Episode 3: Brothers

6 October 1990
After an accident aboard the Enterprise leaves one of its children in grave danger, Data commandeers the Enterprise, driven to take him to an unknown origin, where an interesting figures awaits.

Season 4, Episode 4: Suddenly Human

13 October 1990
On a rescue mission to an alien shipwrecked training mission, they discover one of its trainees to be a human.

Season 4, Episode 5: Remember Me

20 October 1990
Dr. Crusher's fear of losing loved ones becomes real when her worries create an alternate reality.

Season 4, Episode 6: Legacy

27 October 1990
The crew of the Enterprise enters into orbit around the home planet of their former crew-mate, Tasha Yar, where they encounter her sister.

Season 4, Episode 7: Reunion

3 November 1990
When the head of the Klingon high council passes on, Picard finds himself in the middle of the struggle for the now-vacant position. Meanwhile, Worf re-unites with a past love, only to find he now has a son.

Season 4, Episode 8: Future Imperfect

10 November 1990
Riker has to quit his birthday party during a so far uneventful patrol voyage at the Neutral Zone to head an away team when a Romulan secret base is found on a planet which was believed uninhabited. He awakes 16 years later, as widowed captain of the Enterprise, just cured after 9 years of viral amnesia, with a son Jean-Luc. Even Picard, now an admiral who came to conduct with Riker, given his forgotten dealing with them, historical peace negotiations with the Romulans, loses all authority over him when he finally finds his late wife's image on the strangely slow-responsive computer...

Season 4, Episode 9: Final Mission

17 November 1990
Before leaving for Starfleet Academy, Wesley Crusher accompanies Captain Picard on a dangerous mission.

Season 4, Episode 10: The Loss

29 December 1990
As an unknown force drags the Enterprise, Deanna Troi struggles with the loss of her powers.

Season 4, Episode 11: Data's Day

5 January 1991
Data tries to comprehend the complex emotions between O'Brien and Keiko, who are about to be married.

Season 4, Episode 12: The Wounded

26 January 1991
After being fired upon by a Cardassian vessel, Picard races against time to find out the facts behind the Cardassian commander's claim that the Federation attacked one of their outposts.

Season 4, Episode 13: Devil's Due

2 February 1991
While answering a distress call, Picard finds himself not sure of exactly who he is dealing with, but he's sure he's NOT dealing with the planet's version of The Devil, as she claims to be.

Season 4, Episode 14: Clues

9 February 1991
Effects 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.

Season 4, Episode 15: First Contact

16 February 1991
Commander William Riker has been on an acculturation mission under an alias for months on the Arkonian planet, surgically altered to appear like a local, but he gets badly wounded, beyond their medical skills because his internal organs are unknown to them. Captain Jean-Luc Picard decides to speed up his official diplomatic approach, formally the First Contact, and intercede on Riker's behalf, but they are told by a fascinated open-minded Atkonian scientist that her planet's culture is particularly xenophobic so they reject any alien being as being unequal to them. The Arkonian government keeps the matter secret but is internally divided: while the chancellor Durken is in favor of Riker's release without the people finding out and establishing friendly relations with the Federation, his powerful security minister Krola is prepared to go to any length to preserve their traditional way of life, so he finds Riker and fakes his own murder....

Season 4, Episode 16: Galaxy's Child

9 March 1991
While the Enterprise is in a star-base, Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge gets a very special visitor, brilliant engineering designer Dr. Leah Brahms, who he feels to know almost intimately as a 'hologram version' of herself with 'whom' he bonded. However the real Brahms proves icy and arrogantly unwilling to consider any of Gordi's empirical findings could conceivably stand against her theoretically impermeable truth. They take on the challenge to collaborate and learn to know each-other better, but when Gordi shows her his hologram version of her, Brahms feels almost pornographically 'abused', one prejudiced insult too many for him. Meanwhile Picard, his bridge officers and Dr. Crusher have a very different problem, a strange life form which approaches, but dies, however is found to have 'given birth' to a baby version inside its corps, which must be separated to stand a chance of survival and contact with the Federation. When that succeeds, 'junior' instinctively identifies the Enterprise as its mother, and locks on, draining energy trough the hull, which is only safely sustainable for a few hours; only after Gordi and Brahms join the bridge, its relevant normal mode of life in an asteroid field is revealed and the duo comes up with an idea...

Season 4, Episode 17: Night Terrors

16 March 1991
The Enterprise has finally tracked the missing starship USS Britain. Counselor Deanna Troi senses trouble with the life on board and joins Riker's boarding party. The crew was slashed to death; the only survivor, Betazoid Counselor Andrus Hagan, is in shock. Doctor Beverly Crusher 's autopsy concludes 34 crewmen killed each other with phasers and other weapons, even bare hands; a tape recorded a paranoiac fear among them. While the Enterprise tows the Britain to the nearest star-base, its own crewmen starts sensing another presence and experiencing rising fear, plausibly working up to dangerous paranoia. The ship itself gets stuck in a rift in space; Data finds the Britain tried to escape from the same with a blast, the technicians have a hard time finding a better alternative, at Picard's request with (fear-immune android) Data temporarily in command. Meanwhile Dr. Crusher gets nightmarish hallucinations herself but concludes from a chemical imbalance that all the humans have stopped getting REM sleep and therefore dreams (only Betazoids Troi and the Betazoids survivor have nightmares), which is driving them insane, Worf is the first to nearly commit suicide. Then Troi finds her vision of eyes in the dark is identical to the surviving Betazoids Counselor Andrus Hagan, not a nightmare but a message from other unseen victims; she hopes to communicate with them by 'directed dreaming'...

Season 4, Episode 18: Identity Crisis

23 March 1991
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge and an old friend fight to defeat a parasite that is trying to transform them into another species.

Season 4, Episode 19: The Nth Degree

30 March 1991
When assigned to investigate an unknown probe, Lt. Barclay is electrocuted through a shuttlecraft's computer, where he receives an unexplainable boost of confidence and a vast increase in his knowledge.

Season 4, Episode 20: Qpid

20 April 1991
The Enterprise is at Tegus 3, to host the Federation archaeologists council's annual symposium, where Picard is to give the key-note lecture on its enigmatic ruins, now forbidden to outsiders. To his surprise he's visited by Vash, a flirtatious girl-friend, displeased to learn he never mentioned her to any crew-member, who is now on the council. Another visit gets the coldest welcome: almost almighty Q, who ridicules Picard's speech and decides to 'repay' saving his life and Continuum membership by transforming Picard and his accompanying crew-members during the speech into Robin Hood and his merry men, challenged to save maid Marian -Varsh- from execution ordered the next morning by Sir Guy Gisbourne, as Q declares as high sheriff. Picard engages in rescue from Nottingham castle, but soon finds his modern maid is no passive damsel in distress, even takes to the game far better than him...

Season 4, Episode 21: The Drumhead

27 April 1991
A retired admiral boards the Enterprise in an effort to determine the actions aboard the ship surrounding an act of sabotage and possible treason.

Season 4, Episode 22: Half a Life

4 May 1991
Counselor Troi's mother visits the Enterprise and becomes infatuated with a man whose culture forces him into a suicidal ritual called "The Resolution."

Season 4, Episode 23: The Host

11 May 1991
Dr. Crusher falls for someone who's not at all what she expects him to be.

Season 4, Episode 24: The Mind's Eye

25 May 1991
Geordi is brainwashed by the Romulans to assassinate a Klingon ambassador.

Season 4, Episode 25: In Theory

1 June 1991
When a female crew member is infatuated with Lieutenant Commander Data, he decides to give a romantic relationship a try. Also, the Enterprise finds itself having to maneuver through a dangerous nebula.

Season 4, Episode 26: Redemption

15 June 1991
Both Capt. Picard and Lt. Worf must decide where their priorities lie as the Klingon Empire descends into civil war.

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Season 5

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Season 5, Episode 1: Redemption II

21 September 1991
As Worf fights in the Klingon Civil War, Capt. Picard and his crew must stop the Romulans from helping their pawns win it.

Season 5, Episode 2: Darmok

28 September 1991
Picard must learn to communicate with a race that speaks in metaphor under a difficult set of circumstances.

Season 5, Episode 3: Ensign Ro

5 October 1991
Captain Picard foils a plot against the Bajorians with his new Bajorian officer, Ensign Ro.

Season 5, Episode 4: Silicon Avatar

12 October 1991
While Riker, Data, Crusher and various other crew enjoy a recreational day on an earth-like human colony, they are hit by an electrical storm but succeed in hiding safely in a cave they make collapse after Riker recognizes it's an attack of the feared crystalline entity. After their release, xenologist Dr. Kila Marr is brought in, who specializes in studying the creature which needs to destroy an entire community to feed on given its immense energy consumption. Picard forces her to take Data in the investigatory team, although she suspects he might be in league with it as his brother was, but comes to appreciate his objective scientific input and even takes a liking to him after learning he has and can evoke many memories of the victims of an earlier crystalline attack in which her son Remi perished. Despite a new crystalline attack destroying a space-ship, the crew decides to attempt communicating and works out to do so be graviton beam, in which experiment Dr. Marr takes part...

Season 5, Episode 5: Disaster

19 October 1991
While the Enterprise enjoys a rest, just when elementary school science prize winners Patterson Supera, Jay Gordon Graas and Marissa Flores visit the ship, it's reduced to impulse power by hitting a quantum filament, so people are trapped in different compartments and face various damage there needing attention. Gordie and Dr. Crusher have to deal with a corrosion threat by damage to the ship's skin, which starts a very toxic chemical reaction on the hole; Data and Riker face an electric field blocking their way which Data passes at the price of decapitation, and must be repaired on the spot; Worf is with pregnant Keiko O'Brien, who gets contractions, so he'll have to deliver; the wounded captain and the school children must climb to the power supply in the ship's core; Troi decides as highest in rank on the bridge, without technical expertise, not to give up on possible survivors in engineering despite the risk not closing it off causes for the whole ship...

Season 5, Episode 6: The Game

26 October 1991
Wesley Crusher returns to the Enterprise on vacation from the Academy only to discover a mysterious alien game infiltrating and controlling the crew.

Season 5, Episode 7: Unification I

2 November 1991
Picard and Data follow Spock into Romulan space on a dangerous mission.

Season 5, Episode 8: Unification II

9 November 1991
Picard is found on Romulus by senator Pardek, who brings him to ambassador Spock, who explains his secret 'cowboy diplomacy' is about the off chance of a Vulcan-Romulan reunification thanks to an old, recently significantly grown philosophically friendly Romulan underground party, which includes the rising new proconsul Neral, who claims the Romulan senate itself can no longer resist the people's outcry for peace, but is actually in league with Sela. Klingon captain K'Vada isn't amused when Data claims he may be able to crack the Romulan encryption log. Vulcan-human half-blood Spock and android Data exchange views on the virtues of emotional and cool logical qualities. Meanwhile commander Riker's Ferengi investigation for the stolen Vulcan ship continues, starting with the mundane wife of the smuggler who died while pursued and finds a Barolian ship was involved. Spock and Picard fear rightly it all ties together in a Romulan war plot...

Season 5, Episode 9: A Matter of Time

16 November 1991
Reaching Panthera IV after an asteroid wreaks havoc of catastrophic proportions, the Enterprise crew deals with trying to save the planet as well as deal with someone who claims to be a historian from the future.

Season 5, Episode 10: New Ground

4 January 1992
Geordi can barely curtail his enthusiasm at being able to test out a new theory of transportation, as Worf's mother boards the Enterprise with his son and news that Worf's Earthly parents can no longer care for him.

Season 5, Episode 11: Hero Worship

25 January 1992
Data rescues a boy, and in a way to repress his own pain, the boy begins to mimic Data's "personality"

Season 5, Episode 12: Violations

1 February 1992
Transporting three Ullian mind-probing historians, the Enterprise crew is stymied when some of its members fall into a coma. Deanna Troi, the first crew member to come through it, cannot recall anything surrounding the incident.

Season 5, Episode 13: The Masterpiece Society

8 February 1992
The Enterprise is on a mission to warn the human colony of an artificial paradisiac biosphere on planet Moab 4's southern colony of the approach of a massive stellar fragment, which will impact with seismic force causing a tectonic disaster. However its competent, considerate leader Aaron Conor refuses to evacuate, confident their biosphere can withstand earthquakes. He does allow a small Enterprise party to visit their society, which they believe far superior after eight generations of selective breeding which nearly eliminated the remaining human risk factors. Despite their rigid rule never to leave, scientist Hannah Bates is allowed to come aboard to work out a method to deflect the approaching fragment jointly with Geordi, who as blind man would not even have been born in their society, by a tractor beam and updates to the biosphere itself. Picard disapproves of genetic 'predisposition' on principle, Troi becomes platonic intimate with Conor, who would be prepared to accept her even as genetically inferior mate. The deflection works at the last second before energy would have been fatally overcharged: the colony is safe from impact, but Hannah reports fatal tectonic damage, which Geordi soon finds to be faked in order to get out of controlled life. She and others want asylum aboard, but the colony's delicate balance can't cope with such change. Conor, although in fact tempted himself, feels guilty and desperately tries to save the society...

Season 5, Episode 14: Conundrum

15 February 1992
When an approaching alien ship wipes their memory, the crew struggles to put back together what happened.

Season 5, Episode 15: Power Play

22 February 1992
A long-lost ship is found on a planet where cosmic storms prevented detection for 200 years. When a surface landing goes wrong, the away team is beamed back...with a few extra surprises.

Season 5, Episode 16: Ethics

29 February 1992
After an accident that leaves him no longer able to walk, Worf asks Riker to help him commit suicide.