My Favorite Star Trek: The Next Generation Episodes
by arsenal_emil_valencia | created - 14 Feb 2022 | updated - 1 month ago | PublicI began watching at season 3, finished it, went through a couple of other Star Trek shows and then came back for season 1 & 2. Boy was that a good idea. I don't know how far I would've gotten if I started at season 1. They really frontloaded the season with complete shit. Already knowing the characters really helped with going through it.
These are my personal favorites, not a list of the best or most essential episodes.
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1.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Datalore
(1988)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
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.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby
Votes: 4,167
2.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Where Silence Has Lease
(1988)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
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.
Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,693
Top 10
3.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Measure of a Man
(1989)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
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.
Director: Robert Scheerer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 6,229
4.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Who Watches the Watchers
(1989)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A proto-Vulcan culture worships Captain Picard and prepares to offer Counselor Troi as a sacrifice.
Director: Robert Wiemer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 4,375
5.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Booby Trap
(1989)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Enterprise triggers an ancient yet effective trap left by an extinct race, with a perfectly preserved derelict ship serving as cheese for Picard.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,575
Top 5
6.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Enemy
(1989)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
La Forge gets left behind on a storm-plagued planet when the rest of his team encounters a Romulan warrior.
Director: David Carson | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,586
7.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Captain's Holiday
(1990)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
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.
Director: Chip Chalmers | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,594
8.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Best of Both Worlds: Part 1
(1990)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
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.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 5,791
9.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Best of Both Worlds: Part 2
(1990)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Having absorbed Captain Picard and his knowledge, the Borg head for Earth, leaving Riker and the Enterprise desperate for an unanticipated way to defeat them.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 5,423
10.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Brothers
(1990)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After an accident aboard the Enterprise leaves one of its children in grave danger, Data commandeers the Enterprise, driven to take the ship to an unknown origin, where an interesting figure awaits.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,609
Top 10
11.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Future Imperfect
(1990)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Riker awakens sixteen years after an away mission where he contracted a disease which destroyed his memory back to the point of infection - or so he's told.
Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,633
Top 10
12.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Data's Day
(1991)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Data tries to comprehend the complex emotions between O'Brien and Keiko, who are about to be married.
Director: Robert Wiemer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,818
13.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Wounded
(1991)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
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.
Director: Chip Chalmers | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,614
14.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Clues
(1991)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
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.
Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,834
Top 5
15.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
First Contact
(1991)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Disguised as an alien prior to First Contact, Will's life becomes imperiled when incurred injuries reveal his foreign internal structure to a xenophobic alien population.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,726
16.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Qpid
(1991)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Aiming to get out of Jean-Luc's debt, Q forces Capt. Picard and his officers to live out the Legend of Robin Hood - with a past acquaintance as Maid Marian.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,417
Top 5
17.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Disaster
(1991)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Collision with a quantum filament leaves Troi in charge of a damaged and endangered Enterprise with emergency bulkheads cutting off sections of the ship.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,601
Top 5
18.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Game
(1991)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Wesley Crusher returns to the Enterprise on vacation from the Academy only to discover a mysterious alien game infiltrating and controlling the crew.
Director: Corey Allen | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,548
19.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Conundrum
(1992)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When an approaching alien ship wipes their memory, the crew struggles to put back together what happened.
Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,585
20.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Cause and Effect
(1992)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Enterprise gets caught in a time loop which always has one result: total destruction of the ship, itself.
Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 4,758
21.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Perfect Mate
(1992)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Ferengi machinations unleash a diplomatic gift aboard the Enterprise - the rare, empathic perfect mate, ready to bond with any male around her.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,356
22.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Next Phase
(1992)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A 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.
Director: David Carson | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,458
23.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Ship in a Bottle
(1993)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Lt. Barclay mistakenly awakes Moriarty in the forgotten holodeck program, who then makes his demands clear and unforgettable.
Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,654
This is my favorite episode of TNG. I love everything about it. It has twists and turns and you're never quite sure where it's going at any given moment. Professor Moriarty is a fun antagonist. I also love that Barclay is in this episode, but it's not a Barclay episode. It's something I wish happened more during the show.
24.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Face of the Enemy
(1993)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Deanna awakes to find herself altered to look like a Romulan, immediately unaware she's involved in a cat-and-mouse game as a member of their intelligence agency.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,237
Top 10
25.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Starship Mine
(1993)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When the Enterprise puts in to space dock for an energy sweep of the ship which is lethal to humans, Picard gets trapped on board with technicians who are not what they appear to be.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,257
26.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Chase
(1993)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The crew of the Enterprise must race against various rival powers to uncover an archaeological secret that explains the predominance of humanoid life forms in the galaxy.
Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,430
27.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Timescape
(1993)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Aboard a shuttlecraft and en route back to the Enterprise, Picard, LaForge, Data, and Troi find themselves trapped in a time trap of some sort, where the Enterprise is being taken over by ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Nimoy | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,384
Top 10
28.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Parallels
(1993)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
On 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.
Director: Robert Wiemer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,840
29.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Pegasus
(1994)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Riker 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.
Director: LeVar Burton | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,416
30.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Lower Decks
(1994)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A 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.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 4,154
31.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Thine Own Self
(1994)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Data is sent to follow a probe that has drifted off course and crashed on a primitive planet, only to crash on the planet himself, with no memory of any event prior to crashing on the planet's surface.
Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,048
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