Episode Listing

First Season

Encounter at Farpoint

The newly commissioned U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 D and its crew must race against time to solve the mystery of the Farpoint Station and escape certain execution by the alien superbeing "Q".

Naked Now, The

The last message from a federation starship seems to indicate that its crew blew the hatch on the ship voluntarily killing every crew member. Upon inspection it is revealed that the ships crew were intoxicated. Soon the crew of the Enterprise is experiencing the same alcohol-like intoxication. Dr. Beverley battles to find an antidote before the crew lose their sanity and kill themselves.

Code of Honor

Tasha Yar is kidnapped by a ruler of a planet that the Enterprise is contacting. This kidnapping is a custom of great honour on the planet and the only way for Tasha to escape is to duel his wife to the death.

Last Outpost, The

The Enterprise encounters for the first time the Ferengi, a race known for its traders. The Enterprise and the Ferengi ship are being held by a power emitting from a nearby planet. This planet is known to be the last outpost of a once glorious empire. On the surface the crew encounter the guardian of this outpost.

Where No One Has Gone Before

The Enterprise is visited upon by a Starfleet scientist and his mysterious sidekick who intend to improve the efficiency of the warp drive. The Enterprise is then shot millions of light years across the universe to a place where your very thoughts become a reality.

Lonely Among Us

When passing through a strange energy cloud -while transporting an alien delegation to a peace summit- the Enterprise accidentally scoops up an energy being who then enters the body of several crew members killing one of them in the process and then finds home with Capt. Picard. In the process of solving the murder of the crewman , Data gets to know Sherlock Holmes.

Justice

The Enterprise is in orbit of a strange planet. All of the inhabitants are extremely happy and make love on the drop of a hat. But when playing with the children of the planet Wesley accidentally trashes a flower bed and is sentenced to death. According to the prime directive Picard is not allowed to interfere , and a strange spaceship from another dimension is protecting the planet and will not allow Picard to break his own laws.

Battle, The

Three Ferengis visit the Enterprise, and they bare a gift to "The Hero of Maxima" i.e. Picard. The gift is Picard's former ship of command, the USS Stargazer. But then Picard starts to have reoccurring nightmares about his last hours on the Stargazer before she was abandoned. But these nightmares are the doings of a mad Ferengi who is out to revenge for his brothers death.

Hide & Q

Q's back, and this time he's concentrating on Cmdr. Riker. Responding to a distress call the Enterprise is en route when the bridge crew of the enterprise is snatched away leaving Picard alone on the bridge. Q plays a few games with the crew before he tries to convince Riker into becoming a member of the Q Continuum due to the Q's sudden "interest" in humans and gives him the power of the Q and returns him to the Enterprise.

Big Goodbye, The

Picard is preparing to greet an insectoid race known as Jaradans. To relieve the stress of his preparations, Picard enters the Holodeck as a 1940s hard boiled detective named Dixon Hill. Data and Dr. Crusher then join him accompanied by a literary historian. But when a long-range scan from the Jaradans glitches the holodeck program the game becomes deadly.

Haven

At planet Haven, Picard and his crew meet up with Lwaxana Troi, Deanna´s mother, who blusters aboard insisting that Deanna should stand by an old vow and marry a friend of the Troi family, much to imzadi Riker's confusion.

Datalore

The Enterprise returns to Data's "home" Omicron Theta. The away team finds the lab of the reclusive Dr. Noonian Soong, a renegade Earth scientist who originally built a "twin" of Data's named Lore. Over time, the crew learns that Lore was disassembled at the demand of the colonists for being "too perfect." Lore is reassembled but soon the reason for the androids original disassembly becomes clear.

Angel One

Searching for survivors from a freighter that's been missing for seven ears, the Enterprise visits the matriarchal planet Angel I and gets a frosty reception from its female leader. Riker especially seems out of place as Yar and Troi handle the diplomacy, but he finds a more personal way to gain leader Beata's trust.

11001001

The Enterprise is upgrading the ship's computer facilities - a task that will be performed by the Bynars. They are a race grown so dependent upon computers that they work in pairs and communicate directly in binary language. Riker tries out a new holodeck program for a New Orleans jazz bar where he meets Minuet, a sultry brunette and the most realistic character a holodeck ever created.

Too Short a Season

A hostage situation on Mordan IV brings the Enterprise and Admiral Mark Jameson to negotiate a peace. But suddenly the wheelchair-bound Admiral doesn't seem so wheelchair-bound any more and he seems to be getting younger.

When the Bough Breaks

The Enterprise stumbles across the planet Aldea a world completely cloaked from outsiders by a powerful force-shield. But the find is no accident: the seemingly friendly Aldeans kidnap seven youngsters, including Wesley, from the ship to perpetuate their race.

Home Soil

The Enterprise is asked to check up on a remote terraforming station on Velara III. But during the crisis, an engineer is mysteriously killed when the laser drill in the hydraulics room goes berserk. Minutes later, Data narrowly avoids the same fate. As he and La Forge check it out, they discover what come to be called a microbrain.

Coming of Age

As Wesley prepares to beam down to Relva VII to take his long awaited entrance exam to Starfleet Academy, Picard's old friend, Admiral Quinn, beams up for surprise business that he won't explain: a tough interrogation of the Captain's senior officers.

Heart of Glory

The Enterprise finds a battered Talarian freighter and three klingons aboard. They express their hatred of the UFP-Klingon Alliance to Worf and appeal to him to listen to his heart and give up his life with the humans.

Arsenal of Freedom, The

The Enterprise is sent to the planet Minos search for the missing USS Drake. The famed world of arms merchants hail the ship with a commercial for weapons, but surprisingly the sensors show no sentient life on the planet. And whatever killed the entire population of this planet is now threatening the Enterprise.

Symbiosis

The Enterprise picks up a confusing distress call from a disabled freighter. Four passengers are beamed away in time. The survivors are from two neighbouring worlds, Brekka and Ornara, and the cargo is felicium, a drug grown only on Brekka, which cures a two hundred year old Ornara plague. The two haggard Ornarans demand the shipment but the Brekkians insist the deal's off.

Skin of Evil

Troi and her shuttle pilot are pulled off course. They crash on Vagra II, the home of the sadistic being Armus, created from the cast-off sins of his race and then abandoned. Then, acting out of sheer malice, the black oozing form of goo tortures Riker, taunts La Forge and Data - and kills Yar.

We'll Always Have Paris

While the ship is travelling to Sarona VII, a bizarre time loop distortion causes a literal déjà vu effect on the Enterprise. Soon after the ship receives a distress signal from Dr. Paul Manheim's science outpost. There Picard meets Dr. Manheim and his wife Jenice who used to be an old flame of Picard's but he stood her up in Paris to ship out with Starfleet twenty-two years before.

Conspiracy

Picard is disturbed when his old friend Walker Keel summons him to a secret meeting with two other captains on a deserted planetoid, but he warily agrees. The subject? The trio's suspicion, much like Admiral Quinn´s on Relva VII, that a conspiracy is spreading within Starfleet. Picard is sceptical until Keel's ship explodes.

Neutral Zone, The

As the Enterprise awaits Picard's return from a special briefing, Data can't resist investigating a three-hundred-year old capsule that floats by. Three humans are found frozen inside the capsule. They are the only survivors of the fad of cryogenic preservation for the terminally ill. Picard's return brings news of disappearing outpost along the Romulan Neutral Zone.

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Second Season

Child, The

Troi stuns the crew by announcing she's pregnant. What she describes as a glowing white light impregnated her during sleep. According to new chief medical officer Kate Pulaski, the fetus will grow full term in just thirty-six hours.

Where Silence Has Lease

En route to the Morgana System, the Enterprise suddenly finds itself inside a black void without form or dimension -a void that is unending and inescapable, no matter which direction the ship turns (it is not space). Finally the presence behind the void appears: Nagilum, an entity who wants to study humans' reaction to death.

Elementary Dear Data

La Forge persuades Sherlock Homes fan Data to use the extra time playing the role of the detective on the holodeck, with the engineer as Watson. But Holmes's original cases are no challenge to Data's memory, so Dr. Pulaski -who has yet to accept the android as anything more than a machine- challenges him to solve a new, computer generated case.

Outrageous Okona

Near the twin Maden planets, the Enterprise picks up young trader Thaduin Okona while helping him repair his small craft. The roguish charmer quickly makes friends, especially among the female crew members. Intrigued by Okona's wisecracks, Data tries to further his understanding of humor. Meanwhile people from all over are demanding that the Enterprise hands Okona over for his crimes.

Schiziod Man, The

Dr. Ira Graves ,who was Dr. Noonian Soongs mentor, is dying of a terminal illness when the Enterprise answers his young female aide's call for help on their secluded research world. Data becomes close to Graves, leading the genius to reveal his last breakthrough: a device capable of transferring a human personality into a computer. After Graves dies Data begins to act irrationally.

Loud as a Whisper

To help settle a civil war, the Enterprise is sent to retrieve the great Ramatisian mediator Riva. The crew is surprised to learn, though, that Riva and his ruling family were born deaf and use a three-member telepathic chorus to communicate.

Unnatural Selection

Answering a distress call from the USS Lantree the Enterprise finds by visual scans that the supply ship's entire crew has died of old age.

Matter of Honor, A

In a new exchange program, Riker becomes the first Starfleet officer to serve aboard a Klingon vessel. He throws himself into the job, taking a crash course in Klingon culture and cuisine from Worf.

Measure of a Man, The

Data's rights as a sentient being are questioned when Commander Bruce Maddox, a cyberneticist, wants to disassemble the android to make duplicates for Starfleet. When Maddox seems uncertain of his ability to reassemble Data, the Enterprise second officer refuses to submit to his experiment and resign from Starfleet. But Maddoz gets a ruling that the android is Starfleet property. Picard challenges the ruling and a trial follows.

Dauphin, The

A diplomatic mission provides the setting for Wesley's first romance when the ship must ferry home a princess and her overprotective guard.

Contagion

Crossing the Neutral Zone to answer an SOS from the USS Yamato, the Enterprise arrives in time to see widespread computer malfunction destroy its sister ship. When log tapes from the Yamato reveal that its captain had tracked the mythical planet Iconia to this location. Picard decides that discovering the secrets of the Iconian civilisation would be worth risking an encounter with the Romulans. But soon the Enterprise finds itself also plagued by computer malfunctions.

Royale, The

Puzzled by the recovery of a chunk of a twenty-first-century Earth spacecraft, Worf, Data and Riker beam down into the middle of the lone structure they find on the nearest uninhabited planet. After passing through a revolving door seen in an otherwise black void, they cannot escape from what appears to be a resort casino named the Hotel Royale.

Timed Squared

In a bizarre turn of events, Picard is confronted by his own double from six hours into the future, out of phase and disoriented after being recovered from a shuttlecraft that has recorded the Enterprise's destruction in a vast energy whirlpool.

Icarus Factor, The

When Riker is offered command of his own ship, the Enterprise heads for Starbase Montgomery to meet with the civilian strategist who will brief him on the assignment. That strategist turns out to be his father, Kule, whom Riker hasn't seen in fifteen years. Time has not softened the first officer's hostility toward the older man, and he summarily rejects his father's efforts at reconciliation. For some reason Worf seems to be growing unnaturally tense.

Pen Pals

While risking violation of the Prime Directive Data befriends a small girl who is situated on a planet that is in risk of being destroyed.

Q Who?

On the edge of UFP space, the Enterprise encounters its old nemesis, the superbeing Q, whose anger at being refused a crew post leads him to hurl the ship into unknown space. There, they encounter a new threat - The Borg.

Samaritan Snare

As Wesley prepares to take more Academy test at Starbase 515, Picard suddenly elects to join him for the long shuttle ride after a heated argument with Pulaski. Aboard Enterprise, Riker underestimate the slow-witted Pakleds, who kidnap La Forge after number one allows Geordi to beam over to give the obese scavengers a hand with their ship.

Up the Long Ladder

Stellar flares are about to destroy the Bringloidi home world when the Enterprise rescues the colony, populated by a simple but lively people long ago forgotten except for fragmentary post-holocaust records. The Bringloidi bring along their livestock and set up a camp on a cargo bay.

Manhunt

While picking up Antedian delegates on a diplomatic escort duty, the Enterprise is graced once again by Troi's mother, Lwaxana, who checks aboard this time with full ambassadorial status as a delegate. She even joins Picard in a Dixon Hill mystery.

Emissary

Sent to assist the Enterprise in stopping a pre-alliance Klingon sleeper ship that could awake to prey upon helpless UFP worlds is a special envoy from the Klingon Empire - a half human, half Klingon female name K'Ehleyr. K'Ehleyr', whose advice is to destroy the ship is rejected by Picard, turns out to be a former lover of Worf's.

Peak Performances

To prepare for the Borg threat, Picard asks for a master Zakdorn strategist to oversee a battle simulation he will wage against Riker, who will command the revived derelict USS Hathaway. Strategist Sirna Kolrami, who predicts that Riker has no chance, is also a champion at the game Strategema. His shockingly easy defeat of Data leaves Pulaski and others fuming at the tactician's arrogance.

Shades of Grey

A painful thorn in the leg snagged during a planetary survey turn deadly for Riker when it is found to carry an organism that attacks his central nervous system. A limp "clip show" finale to the season, "Shades of Grey" is probably the weakest Trek script ever written for either generation.

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Third Season

Ensigns of Command

The reclusive Sheliak Corporate breaks its 111 year silence with the Federation to demand that Tau Cygna V, ceded to it by treaty, be cleared of a human settlement within three days. Data is sent to announce the evacuation to the settlers. But he runs up against a stubborn leader who shrugs off the unseen Sheliak's threat and won't budge despite his people's growing qualms.

Evolution

What starts out as a science project in genetics for Wes almost dooms not only scientist Paul Stubb's lifelong project but the ship itself.

Survivors

Answering a distress call from Delta Rana IV, the Enterprise arrives to find the planet ravaged and its 11.000 colonists dead, except for two elderly botanists, Rishon Uxbridge and her unfriendly husband, Kevin. The two say they don't know why they were spared death, but they refuse to be evacuated. Then the massive ship that levelled the planet reappears.

Who Watches the Watchers?

A failing reactor at a hidden cultural observers post on Mintaka III draws the Enterprise to that world to render assistance. Before the starship arrives, however, the reactor explodes causing their duck blind screen to fail. But one of the natives witnesses all of this and soon starts to believe that their old god-legends were true after all and their Overseer is in fact The Picard.

Bonding, The

A routine mission to explore the ruins of the Koinonian civilisation ends in tragedy when a bomb left over from that people's long war explodes, killing ship's archaeologist Marla Asher. Now Picard and Troi must comfort her twelve-year-old son who has already lost his father. This becomes increasingly difficult when the boy's mother reappears and transforms the Aster's cabin into their old home back on Earth.

Booby Trap

The crew see a seldom revealed side of Picard as the captain gleefully leads an away team to explore an ancient Promellian battle cruiser. But the mystery behind the ship's fate becomes all to clear when the Enterprise crew members realise they are being trapped by the same energy draining device that snared the Promellians.

Enemy, The

Answering a distress call from the border world Galorndon Core, an Enterprise away team finds a crashed Romulan craft and an injured survivor. La Forge loses contact with the rest of the away team and can't be located due to the planet's severe electrical storms. And he is soon taken hostage by a Romulan on the surface. And to improve matters a Warbird shows up demanding the return of its officers.

Price, The

Troi falls for the charismatic Devinoni Ral a soft-spoken yet determined negotiator who comes aboard the Enterprise to bid on an apparently stable wormhole found near Barzan II.

Vengeance Factor, The

The Enterprise traces an attack on a Federation science outpost back to the Gatherers, a thieving band of renegades who split off from their society a hundred years ago. The captain decides to bring an end to the raids by healing the split between the two groups.

Defector, The

While fleeing his own people across the Neutral Zone in a small scout, a low level Romulan tactical clerk asks for asylum, bringing with him shocking news: The Romulans plan to retake that buffer area after almost two hundred years. Can Picard trust the defector?

Hunted, The

The Enterprise is relaying reports to back up Angosi III's application to join the Federation when it stumbles across an ugly skeleton in the planet's closet: the treatment of its war veterans.

High Ground, The

While helping victims of a terrorist bomb blast on non-aligned Rutia IV, Dr. Crusher is taken hostage by one of the terrorists, Kyril Finn. Finn is fighting for the independence of his people, the Ansata. This show, interestingly enough, was and is banned in Ireland due to its delicate subject matter and was shown severely cut on English satellite channels. And for the first time you can actually see the normally stoic captain belt a terrorist on the bridge.

Deja Q

As if Picard didn't have enough headaches trying to keep Bre'el IV's moon from crashing into the planet, Q shows up, claiming to be powerless. The alien says he's been evicted by the Q Continuum for his past mischief.

Matter of Perspective, A

A routine stop at a science station is anything but that when the wife of the lone researcher accuses Riker of having murdered her husband, who was killed in an explosion seconds after the first officer's departure.

Yesterday's Enterprise

A living ghost from the past, The Enterprise C emerges from a temporal rift. In "real" history, that ship answered a Klingon outpost's distress call, paving the way for the current union of the Federation and the Klingon Empire. The ship having missed its appointment with destiny creates an alternate time line in which Tasha Yar is still alive and the Klingon-UFP peace never occurred.

Offspring, The

Data sparks another legal row over the status of androids when he innocently sets out to further his creator's work. He builds a "child" whom he names Lal.

Sins of the Father

The Enterprise receives a Klingon exchange officer on board who turns out to be the younger brother Worf never knew he had. The officer, Kurn, tells Worf their family name is about to be shamed: their dead father, Mogh, has been branded the traitor behind the Romulan attack at Khitomer that killed thousands and left Worf and Kurn orphans. Worf challenges this accusation at the risk of his life.

Allegiance

Picard is kidnapped and replaced with a double whose actions test the loyalty of the Enterprise crew. Meanwhile, the real captain is trapped with three other hostages in a bizarre cell and must devote his time not only to escaping but to keeping the peace among his cell mates.

Captain's Holiday

The crew needles Picard into taking a much needed rest, but the galaxy's most reluctant vacationer soon finds himself in the middle of an adventure the likes of which he'd never get into aboard ship. This episode features the captain's new interest, Vash, a brash, striking woman whom the captain falls for.

Tin Man

The Enterprise takes on board a Betazoid first-contact specialist, Tam Elbrun, to establish relations with a creature known as Tin Man, an alien life form resembling an organic spaceship. This seems like a straightforward task, except that the Romulans also wish to contact Tin Man, and have sent two warbirds to carry out that assignment.

Hollow Pursuits

Geordi experiences problems with one of his engineers, Reg Barclay, a nervous, shy officer, who retreats to the holodeck when he can't handle real life. There Geordi discovers a host of holodeck fantasy programs ranging from the seduction of Deanna Troi to the casting of La Forge, Data and Picard as Three Musketeers.

Most Toys, The

Data is presumed lost by a shocked crew who watch his shuttlepod blow up while returning from dealer Kivas Fajo's ship. Saddened, his shipmates go on to their mission, little knowing that Fajo staged the disaster so he could add Data to his prized galaxy-wide collection of stolen one-of-a-kind artifacts.

Sarek

Renowned Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan is about to oversee the completion of his career's crowning achievement: the establishment of relations between the Federation and the Legaran. But while being ferried to the meeting site aboard the Enterprise, Sarek weeps during a Mozart convert. The Vulcan has developed Bendii syndrome a disease that can erode and aged Vulcan's emotional control.

Menage a Troi

Picard and Betazoid officials have their doubts about allowing Ferengi to take part in a biannual Betazed trade conference. And so understandably, because as Riker and Troi are being interrupted by Lwaxana -who wants to nag her daughter about settling down- they are all kidnapped by a pesky love struck DaiMon Tog who wants to use Lwaxana's telepathic skills for profit and to make her his mate.

Transfigurations

A severely injured humanoid , known as John Doe because of his amnesia is found in the wreckage of an escape pod. As he recovers, John Doe is racked by fits of pain marked by a glowing energy burst within him. He also demonstrates incredible healing powers, but after having attempted to steal a shuttle craft he tells Picard he knows he is a threat to the crew and asks to leave.

Best of Both Worlds, The

The destruction of a colony tells the Federation that the deadly Borg have arrived. Soon enough the creatures appear, their immediate target being Captain Picard himself, and then the entire Federation, starting with Earth.

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Fourth Season

Best of Both Worlds, The - Part II

Having recruited Captain Picard and made him one of their one, the Borg are on course for Earth. A hastily assembled fleet of starships is ready to do combat. The final confrontation with the unstoppable Borg is imminent.

Family

With the Enterprise in dry dock for repairs after the Borg attack, Picard, full of doubts about himself and his abilities, beams down to Earth to visit his family's French vineyards. Meanwhile, Worf's receives a visit from his foster parents and Wes gets to know his father.

Brothers

Data inexplicably malfunctions and isolates himself on the bridge and changes course. It turns out that Data has been automatically and unknowingly "called home" to the lab world of his reclusive creator, Dr. Noonian Soong.

Suddenly Human

The Enterprise discovers a failed Talarian craft adrift with five unconscious teenage boys, one of them human. Raised a Talarian and known as Jono, the human checks out as Jeremiah Rossa, kidnapped a decade earlier when his parent were killed and his colony attacked by Talarians.

Remember Me

After welcoming her mentor, Dr. Quaice, Dr. Crusher visits her son in the engineering department. Wesley is working on a warp field experiment. As Beverly watches, the project aborts in a brief flash of light. The moment is forgotten until, one by one, Quaice, her staff, and even the senior bridge officers begin to disappear and no one seems to know anything about the vanished.

Legacy

The Enterprise attempts to rescue two Federation engineers lost on the late Tasha Yar's planet, Turkana IV. There they are surprised to discover her sister, Ishara, involved with one of two warring factions.

Reunion

Ambassador K'Ehleyr beams aboard the Enterprise with two pieces of shocking news: Klingon leader K'mpec has been poisoned, and the young boy with her is her and Worf's son. K'mpec want Picard to help him perform the ritual selecting of a new leader and to discover who has poisoned him.

Future Imperfect

After having passed out during a mission to Alpha Onias III, Riker awakens to an unbelievable scene: sixteen years have passed. He's now captain of the Enterprise and a widower with a teenage son.

Final Mission

Wesley has finally been accepted into Starfleet Academy, but before he leaves, he is to accompany Captain Picard on one last mission.

Loss, The

The Enterprise finds it cannot resume course after stopping to check out what appeared to be images in its path. At the same moment, Troi, discovers her empathic powers have completely disappeared.

Data's Day

Data's understanding of human behaviour is put to the test when his friend Keiko Ishikawa gets cold feet on the eve of her wedding to O'Brien and calls off the ceremony. The episode really follows into life on the Enterprise and in particular an ordinary day in Data's life, hence the title.

Wounded, The

Picard is shocked to learn a renegade Federation starship under the command of Captain Benjamin Maxwell is destroying Cardassian ships, threatening the fragile peace that the Federation and the Cardassian Empire have achieved after years of skirmishes.

Devil's Due

An emergency transmission from a Federation science station sends the Enterprise to Ventax II, where Picard and crew discover a peaceful but meek people about to hand over their world to a woman who claims she is the planet's devil Ardra.

Clues

As the Enterprise is on its way to investigate a mysterious planet, a wormhole suddenly appears in the ship's path, knocking the crew unconscious. As they begin to come to, Data, who is immune to the wormhole's effects, tells them only thirty seconds have passed. But son evidence mounts that the crew was out for much longer.

First Contact

A first contact mission on the planet Malcoria III goes awry when Commander Riker (in native disguise) is injured and taken to a native hospital. There, Malcorian doctors soon uncover his true identity. To prevent worldwide panic, Picard and Troi beam down to meet with the astonished planet's leader.

Galaxy's Child

La Forge's joy at finally meeting Dr. Leah Brahms, the Galaxy class engine designer, whose holodeck image he once fell in love with, turns to ashes when she finally comes aboard the Enterprise. The real Dr. Brahms is cold and highly critical of the field changes Geordi has made to her ship. Meanwhile, the discovery of a new alien life-form ends in tragedy when the creature is accidentally killed, but soon the crew realise that the entity was pregnant.

Night Terrors

The Enterprise finds the starship Brattain, missing for several weeks, adrift in space. The entire crew save the ship's Betazoid counsellor, is dead.

Identity Crisis

La Forge is disturbed to hear from former shipmate Susanna Leitjen that they are the only two members remaining from an away team sent to Trachannen III five years ago. The others are disappearing and apparently headed for the planet, initially investigated after a small colony disappeared there without a trace. On the surface, three shuttles but no life signs are found.

Nth Degree, The

An energy surge from a probe knocks out La Forge and Lieutenant Barclay, who have been sent to study it from a shuttle. When they come to, both officers seem to be fine, but Barclay soon begins making leaps of insight and showing abilities he never had before. A scan of the lieutenant's brain tissue reveals an underlying physiological reason for his new abilities: He is rapidly evolving into the most advanced human ever seen.

Qpid

Picard is nervous enough while preparing his speech for the Federation Archaeology Council. Then in quick order he's visited by Vash and then by the pesky superbeing Q. Q decided to return the favor Picard did him a year ago by getting the stubborn lovers, Picard and Vash, to admit their feelings for each other, in a special simulation of Sherwood Forest with Picard as none other than Robin Hood.

Drumhead, The

An explosion in the Enterprise's dilithium chamber begins a trail of intrigue that leads Worf to suspect a Klingon exchange officer. Noted investigator Admiral Norah Satie comes to help conduct a probe of the incident. And what began as a simple investigation turns into a witch hunt.

Half a Life

Picard is nervous when Troi's mother returns for a visit. But this time Lwaxana has set her sights on Dr. Timicin, a quiet scientist who's abroad to test stellar ignition theories that may enable him to save his world's dying star. He is crushed when is experiment fails because he is nearly sixty, the age of the ritual resolution: a ritual suicide to save children the burden of their parent's aging.

Host, The

Dr. Crusher falls in love with Odan, a Trill mediator en route to settle a bitter dispute. But while shuttling down to the surface he is mortally wounded by a marauding ship, in surgery Beverly is shocked to find a parasite living inside him. Her surprise is compounded when she learns that Odan himself is the parasite occupying the host body in a joint symbiotic arrangement the Trill have used for generations.

Mind's Eye, The

En route to a vacation and seminar on Risa, La Forge is kidnapped by Romulans as part of a complex plot to split the Federation-Klingon alliance.

In Theory

Data takes one more step on the road to understanding humanity when a shipmate, Jeanna D'Sora, begins to view him as more then a friend.

Redemption

In his role as Arbiter of Succession, Picard return to the Klingon homeworld to oversee Gowron's installation as emperor. The captain also urges Worf to confront Gowron over his family's discommendation. En route, the starship is intercepted by a Klingon vessel bearing Gowron who informs Picard that a Klingon civil war is immediate. And Worf resigns his commission to fight in the war.

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Fifth Season

Redemption - Part II

Worf fighting along Gowron against the Duras family begins to suspect Romulan involvement in the conflict when Duras's faction remains strong despite the loss of most of its weaponry to raids. Picard advocates exposing Romulan support of the rebellious clan.

Darmok

The Enterprise tries for the eight time in a century to contact the Children of Tama, a peaceful, well-intentioned advanced race whose language is indecipherable. When the two races fail again in their attempt to understand each other, the Tamarians beam Picard and their own captain to a rugged planet nearby. The Tamarian ship blocks all attempts by the Enterprise crew to beam up Captain Picard.

Ensign Ro

After Bajoran extremists attack a Federation colony, Ensign Ro, a troubled young Starfleet officer, comes on board the Enterprise. Admiral Kennelly has pardoned Ro, who is also Bajoran, hoping she can help persuade the militant Bajoran leader Orta to call of the raids and agree to resettlement.

Silicon Avatar

Riker and an away team are helping a group of colonists survey their new home when they are suddenly attacked by an old nemesis: the Crystalline Entity.

Disaster

Star Trek: The Next Generation meets Earthquake in this highly enjoyable episode were Worf finds himself delivering a baby, Data gets electrocuted, Picards plays daddy to three children and Troi in command of the ship.

Game, The

During his first visit back aboard since entering the Academy, Wesley Crusher falls for a young engineering ensign, Robin Lefler, while the rest of the crew seem to be brainwashed by a new interactive game that is worn over the eyes and rewards the player with a pleasurable sensation.

Unification I

Picard is shocked to learn that the legendary Vulcan scientist and ambassador, Spock, appears to have defected to the Romulan Empire. Picard heads for Romulus to find out the truth.

Unification II

Having found Spock on Romulus, Picard must perform the uncomfortable task of telling the ambassador his father has died. Spock the reveals he is indeed undertaking an unauthorised mission to pursue the reunification of the Vulcan and Romulan people.

A Matter of Time

While trying to reverse the nuclear winter-type effects caused by a crashed asteroid on Penthara IV, the Enterprise is visited by a time-travelling historian from twenty-sixth-century Earth, Berlingoff Rasmussen.

New Ground

On the eve of testing the Soliton Wave, a historic new drive system, Worf receives an unexpected visit from his foster mother, Helena Rozhenko, and his son, Alexander. To Worf's surprise Helena Tells him that he must take custody of his son for the boy's own good.

Hero Worship

Data finds a lone survivor among the wreckage of the Vico, a boy named Timothy, who tells his rescuer an alien vessel destroyed the ship. The evidence soon indicates otherwise. Timothy, meanwhile, is so impressed by Data that he takes to mimicking the android.

Violations

The Enterprise takes aboard three Ullians, members of a race of telepathic historians who do their research by probing their subjects' long-forgotten memories. But soon members of the crew fall into unexplainable comas.

Masterpiece Society, The

While monitoring the progress of a neutron star's core fragment, the Enterprise crew is shocked to learn on an unknown human colony on Moab Iv, now threatened by the fragment - and even more surprised when the residents refuse to relocate. Their leader explains that the colony has been genetically planned and engineered to be the perfect society.

Conundrum

After being scanned by an unknown alien ship, Enterprise crew members discover both their own and their computer's memories have been selectively wiped out.

Power Play

Strange cloud envelops Troi, Data and O'Brien on an away mission. They then proceed with taking over ten forward and a few hostages (Keiko O'Brien among them) to try and force Picard into following their wishes.

Ethics

Neurospecialist Dr. Toby Russell comes aboard to help treat Word after an accident leaves the Klingon paralysed from the waist down. Worf feels he is dead already and asks Riker to help him commit ritual suicide to avoid being pitied.

Outcast, The

The J'naii, an androgynous race, ask the Enterprise for help in locating a missing shuttlecraft. Riker works with a J'naii shuttle pilot named Soren. The two become fast friends. Riker and Soren - who admits to have female tendencies, something that is totally outlawed in J'naii's society - are drawn towards each other.

Cause and Effect

The crew's regular poker game suddenly feels too familiar to Dr. Crusher, who experiences tense feelings of Déjà vu. Later, the Enterprise continuing to chart the Typhon Expanse, comes across another ship that comes out of no where and crashes into the Enterprise causing both to be destroyed... The crew's regular poker game suddenly feels to familiar to its players as they experience tense feelings of Déjà vu...

First Duty, The

En route to deliver the commencement address at Starfleet Academy, Picard learns that a horrifying accident has occurred. While rehearsing for the graduating ceremonies, a member of Wesley Crusher's five-person flight squadron has been killed.

Cost of Living

After the Enterprise helps destroy a rouge asteroid, Trois mother Lwaxana beams aboard and makes a surprise announcement: She is getting married-to a man she has never met!

Perfect Mate, The

Kriosian Ambassador Briam arrives aboard with a peace settling gift that is sealed in a box, kept off-limits to the crew. But after rescuing a couple of Ferengis who grow curious the gift is revealed to be a beautiful and exotic woman.

Imaginary Friend

Troi tries to assure an officer that the "imaginary friend" created by his little daughter, Clara is a normal reaction to a childhood of constant changes. But as the Enterprise prepares to explore the FGC-47 nebula, Clara's friend Isabella materializes.

I, Borg

While surveying a cluster of systems for colonisation, the Enterprise traces a distress signal to a small world, where they find crash debris and one survivor - a young Borg.

Next Phase, The

Picard offers aid to a wrecked Romulan science ship, but the rescue mission ends in tragedy when Ro and La Forge apparently die in a transporter accident.

Inner Light, The

While travelling between missions, the Enterprise encounters an unassuming-looking probe. It begins transmitting a nucleonic beam that manages to penetrate the shields and then lock directly onto Picard. The Captain collapses to the deck, unconscious.

Time's Arrow

An excavations under San Francisco reveals evidence of alien visitors in Earth's past and found among the artifacts is Data's head dating back from the late 1800's where it is presumed that Data will finally end is life. Shortly later the Enterprise travels to Devidia II, where Data falls into a vortex and awakens to finds himself located in 19th century San Francisco.

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Sixth Season

Time's Arrow - Part II

The Away Team returns to the 19th century to rescue Data and save Earth from the depredations of a strange alien life form from the planet Devida Two, which has travelled back in time to feed on mankind's neural energy. All working out fine until Mark Twain ends up in the 24th century.

Realm of Fear

Resident Enterprise milquetoast Barclay is attacked by a strange creature while transporting for the first time in his life, yes he's afraid of transporting. Neat first persons perspective effects while Barclay's being transported.

Man of the People

Lumerian Ambassador Alkar uses Counsellor Troi as the receptacle for his negative emotions while mediating a dispute and his earlier receptacle died. Troi soon finds her self flowing with these negative emotions becoming jumpy, loose and jealous of everything. Good performance by Marina Sirtis in an otherwise rather dull episode.

Relics

The Enterprise rescues Montgomery Scott suspended for 75 years in a transporter beam on board a doomed Federation transport ship. A man out of time, Scotty proves vital in saving the Enterprise, one last time, from destruction inside a Dyson's sphere.

Schisms

Geordi's experiments with a new scanning system result in members of the crew being abducted and experimented on in a distant realm of subspace by a strange alien species. Great character moments, which serve to light up this other wise eerie episode, include a teaser in which Data gives poetry reading while Riker struggles to stay awake.

True Q

A lively Q visit in which the omnipotent super being reveals that Enterprise inter Amanda is actually a Q, a plot that echoes first season's "Hide & Q". A heavy handed B-story involves the Tagrians facing environmental disaster.

Rascals

Picard, Guinan, Ensign Ro, Keiko are transformed into children during a freak shuttle/transporter accident. This show is against all odds a rather entertaining comedy episode, a B-story is the Ferengi take-over off the Enterprise. There is a great technobabble parody moment where Riker erroneously explains the Enterprise's operations to a befuddled Ferengi.

Fistful of Datas, A

When the Holodeck malfunctions, Worf, Alexander and Troi find themselves facing off against the spectre of many gunmen when duplicates of Data take over the computer-generated western. Great fun to watch Brent Spiner playing six different characters in the show and a there is also a rather nice western score by James Chattaway a NG vet.

Quality of Life

Scientist Dr. Farallon, the creator of a revolutionary method for mining using a solar particle fountain, invents an even more miraculous tool, the Exocomp, a computerised brain capable of learning-leading Data to the conclusion that the mechanical devices are a life form and struggles to convince others to recognise that.

Chain of Command I

When hostilities flare with the Cardassians, Picard is reassigned on a secret mission and Captain Edward Jellico is assigned to the Enterprise as its Captain. Jellico immediately takes a dislike to Riker and inspires loathing among most of the Enterprise.

Chain of Command II

Picard is captured during the covert mission established in part I. He is then brutally tortured by a Cardassian inquisitor, Gul Madred, while Captain Jellico attempts to ascertain the Cardassian's military strategy and manages to come up with a few good ones of his own.

Ship in a Bottle

A clever script laced with wry irony proves a wonderful sequel to second season's "Elementary Dear Data". In the show Sherlock Holmes arch enemy Moriarty reappears from storage and to everyone's surprise walks of the Holodeck.

Aquiel

Geordi falls for the prime suspect in a murder investigation, an opportunity for a real Geordi love story that ultimately disappoints, thanks to it gratuitous science fiction twist.

Face of the Enemy

In an atypical Star Trek adventure, Troi awakens aboard a Romulan Warbird and finds she has been transformed into Romulan officer, Major Rakal, a member of the feared security force Tal Shiar, responsible for helping the defection of several important Romulan dignitaries to the Federation. A terrific instalment that continues the story introduced in "Unification" and is helped by a tour de force performance by Marina Sirtis.

Tapestry

It's not such a wonderful life for Picard when Q gives him a chance to relieve his rambunctious youth to prevent being killed on an Away Team mission in one of the new TREK's finest instalments. One of the most compelling and well-realised stories ever told on TNG with magnificent performance from Stewart and Lancie.

Birthright - Part I

On a visit to Deep Space Nine, Worf learns that his father may still be alive in a Romulan prison camp while a power surge results in Data experiencing a mysterious vision. A two-parter that makes good use of the expanded format by telling a captivating, surreal Data story while also slowly laying the groundwork for Worf's quest.

Birthright - Part II

Worf attempts to instil a sense of heritage into the Klingons living in a Romulan prisoner-of-war camp while trying to execute an escape. Worf most also battle his own racial prejudice when he finds out that the Klingon Ba'El is also a Romulan

Starship Mine

During a routine Baryon particle elimination sweep on the Enterprise, terrorists attempt to steal trilithium from the ship's engines, leading Picard to play Bruce Willis as he single-handedly saves himself and the vessel during a rare Next Generation "run and jump" romp. The episode works best with it's comic moments including Data's testing of a small-talk program.

Lessons

A potentially mundane and maudlin hour in which Picard becomes romantically involved with the new chief of the onboard Stellar Science department, Nella Daren, avoids potential pitfalls thanks to some extraordinary character drama courtesy of uncredited story editor Rene Echevarria which broadens the character of Picard and provides the most satisfying romantic entanglement depicted on the show.

Chase, The

When Picard's mentor is killed the Captain pursues an archaeological quest for DNA fragments which lead the ship to a planet which has already attracted feuding Cardassians, Klingons and Romulans all in a search for the secret encoded within the DNA. A homage to "classic TREK", capturing the larger-than-life messages which typified the now classic voyages of the original starship Enterprise.

Frame of Mind

Beginning in the midst of an eerie and dissonant teaser, scripter Brannon Braga crafts a dark and brooding instalment in which Riker finds himself propelled between life aboard the Enterprise and as an inmate of an alien mental asylum. Good performance by Jonathan Frakes.

Suspicions

Beverley is relieved of duty after investigating what she believes is the murder of a Ferengi scientist who has created a metaphysic shield designed to take a shuttle through a star's corona.

Rightful Heir

While undergoing a spiritual crisis, Worf visits a Klingon monastery on Boreth where the image of the legendary Klingon warrior, Kehless appears to him, seeking to reclaim his position as leader of the Klingon empire.

Second Chances

A superb freshman directorial outing for LeVar Burton, with Jonathan Frakes in two roles, that of Commander Riker and Lieutenant Riker, a duplicate created in a freak transporter accident eight years before.

Timescape

The Enterprise appears to become trapped in time in mid-battle with a Romulan warbird, due to a strange temporal distortion in an entertaining scientific mystery which fizzles in its last two acts. The only mistake is to use the Romulans in this episode, they appear to be too nice.

Descent

It's all set-up and little payoff when the Borg return to menace the Federation as vicious, individualistic killing machines during which Data feels his first emotion, anger and subsequently pleasure, in killing one of the metamorphosed automatons. Full of great little moments but lacks the ominously fatalistic mood and searing interpersonal histrionics of its Borg predecessor. Data's personal dilemma is absorbing.

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Seventh Season

Descent, Part II

The concluding part of the season six cliff-hanger. Riker and Worf link up with Hugh's renegade Borg group in order to rescue Picard, Troi and Geordi from the evil Lore. With hundreds of personnel organized as planetary away teams, Dr Crusher is left in command of the Enterprise and must use all her skills to outwit a deadly Borg ship and rescue the remaining away teams.

Liaisons

As part of ta cultural exchange, Picard travels to the Lyaaran homeworld while the Enterprise plays host to a pair of rather unusual ambassadors - the hedonistic Loquel and the provocative Byleth. When Picard's shuttle crashes on a desolate planet, the apparently injured captain is nursed back to health by a mysterious woman.

Interface

Geordi is given "sight" via a virtual reality probe which is being used to explore the starship Rhamon, trapped within the thick atmosphere of a gas giant. Ahile resting from his ordeal, Geordi is informed by Picard that his mother, a starship commander, about a morial service on Vulcan. Geordi returns to work and is astonished when his mother appears aboard the Rhamon.

Gambit Part I, The

While searching for Captain Picard, who disappeared during an archaeological expedition, Riker is shocked by the news that his former captain was killed in a bar fight on Desika II. Investigating further, Riker is taken prisoner by mercenaries and finds that the captain is alive and posing as a smuggler, Galen, on their ship. Riker joins his Captain's masquerade, and betrays his former ship-mates on the Enterprise to win his new commander's trust.

Gambit Part II, The

While Acting Captain Data and his first officer Worf continue their search for the mercenaries, Picard joins forces with the Romulan Tallera, who is also hiding her true identity.

Phantasm

Utilizing the dream program created for him by Dr. Soong, Data has been having nightmares which included Troi turned into a cake and Beverly Crusher sucking Riker's brains out with a straw! At Troi and Picard's urging and with Geordi's help, he links up with the holodeck and undergoes dream analysis with Sigmund Freud to discover the deadly reasoning behind his subconscious.

Dark Page

Lwaxana Troi joins the Enterprise to help a fully telepathic race, the Karhen, learn how to communicate aurally. The work is exhausting, however, and causes a mental breakdown. Deanna must probe her mother's mind to find out the family tradgedy her mother has kept hidden for years.

Attached

During negotiations with the planet Kesprytt's Kes society regarding membership to the Federation, Picard and Beverly Crusher are imprisoned by the Prytt and scheackled together telepathically through a device attached to their brain stems.

Force of Nature

The Enterprise finds small metal objects which emit strong verteron pulses crippling ship's system. Suddenly a small ship comes alongside and transports two Hekarian scientist into engineering. There the alien borther and sister use desperate mesasure to prove their theory that constant use of warp drive is damaging the fabric of the universe.

Inheritance

Data meets a women who claims to be Dr. Soong's wife and therefore Data's mother. But when she is badly injured working with Data, he accidentally discovers the secret of Soong's greatest achievement.

Parallels

When Worf returns from a bat'telh competition on Forgas III, he walks straight into a surprise birthday party. Suddenly, the Klingon is struck by a bout of dizziness, following which he finds that reality has been altered, and keeps altering.

Pegasus, The

The Enterprise is ordered to rendezvous with the Crazy Horse and Riker is reunite with his first captain - whom he dislikes. He tells Riker that the remains of the old ship, the USS Pegasus, destroyed by a warp core breach twelve years before, are about to be found by the Romulans.

Homeward

Worf's foster brother Nikolai Rozhenko, a Federation cultural liasion officer, causes problems when he violates the Prime Directive and becomes involved trying to save a doomed alien race on Boral 2.

Sub Rosa

Beverly Crusher returns to a terraformed colony to pay her respects at the funeral of her grandmother. However the planet and the ship are inexplicably gripped by storms - including fog on the Bridge! - and Beverly is seduced by a ghost lover which has haunted the female side of her family for over 800 years.

Lower Decks

Four ensigns aboard the Enterprise nervously wait to find out who will be promoted to Lieutenant. All are eager to please, but soon find themselves involved in a secret mission.

Thine Own Self

While on a mission to the backward planet Barkon Four to retrive radioactive material from a crashed probe, Data looses his memory and wanders into a village. But when the metal Data has sold to the blacksmith causes the villagers to fall ill, he finds himself in a race against time to perfect a cure and save himself from an angry lynch mob.

Masks

The Enterprise encounters a million year old structure which seems to be an information archive. Alien artifacts begin to appear and parts of the ship start remodelling themselves into a swamp and a temple. Picard's only explanation seems to come from Data who is now possessed by several different personalities.

Eye of the Beholder

The Enterprise crew are shocked when Lieutenant Kwan commits suicide. At the site of his death, Troi senses panic and fear and is unwittingly psychically linked to a series of events which led to murder eight years before.

Genesis

Dr. Crusher's treatment of Reg Barclay's flu leads to unexpected side effects when she accidentally creates a virus which attacks the crew's genit structure and the crew starts to deevolve.

Journey's End

The Enterprise is assigned to relocate a group of American Indians from a planet that is placed in Cardassian jurusdiction according to a newly signed peace treaty. The Indians, having found their homeland, refuse to leave. Meanwhile a troubled and argumentative Wesley Crusher returns on leave from the Academy, questioning whether he should continue his career in Starfleet.

Firstborn

Worf is excited that his son Alexander has reached the age for the First Rite of Ascension. However it becomes clear that the young Klingon has no interest in becoming a warrior. Worf enlists the help of mysterious Klingon K'Mtar to change Alexander's mind. Lursa and B'etor return and Quark makes an appearance.

Bloodlines

Picard receives a disturbing message from Daimon Bok (from 1st seasons The Battle) claiming that he plans to avenge his son's death by killing Picard's son, Jason Vigo.

Emergence

Series of unexplained malfunctions lead the crew to believe that the Enterprise is developing its own intelligence.

Preemptive Strike

Ro Larren return, this time as a lieutenant following secret training sessions with the Federation. Her mission is to infiltrate the Maquis.

All Good Things...

In the feature-lenght series finale, Picard finds himself travelling between the past, present and future while attempting to prevent the destruction of humanity.

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Episode Listing

Index:

First Season

Second Season

Third Season

Fourth Season

Fifth Season

Sixth Season

Seventh Season

First Season

Encounter at Farpoint

Naked Now, The

Code of Honor

Last Outpost, The

Where No One Has Gone Before

Lonely Among Us

Justice

Battle, The

Hide & Q

Big Goodbye, The

Haven

Datalore

Angel One

11001001

Too Short a Season

When the Bough Breaks

Home Soil

Coming of Age

Heart of Glory

Arsenal of Freedom, The

Symbiosis

Skin of Evil

We'll Always Have Paris

Conspiracy

Neutral Zone, The

Second Season

Child, The

Where Silence Has Lease

Elementary Dear Data

Outrageous Okona

Schiziod Man, The

Loud as a Whisper

Unnatural Selection

Matter of Honor, A

Measure of a Man, The

Dauphin, The

Contagion

Royale, The

Timed Squared

Icarus Factor, The

Pen Pals

Q Who?

Samaritan Snare

Up the Long Ladder

Manhunt

Emissary

Peak Performances

Shades of Grey

Third Season

Ensigns of Command

Evolution

Survivors

Who Watches the Watchers?

Bonding, The

Booby Trap

Enemy, The

Price, The

Vengeance Factor, The

Defector, The

Hunted, The

High Ground, The

Deja Q

Matter of Perspective, A

Yesterday's Enterprise

Offspring, The

Sins of the Father

Allegiance

Captain's Holiday

Tin Man

Hollow Pursuits