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 ³                A Complete Episode Guide   from 1987 to 1992                ³
 ³                           written by Earl Green                            ³
 ³       with lotsa help from Joe Siegler, Robert Heyman and Dave Ewing       ³
 ³       covering "Encounter at Farpoint" through "Birthright" part one       ³
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   This is a nearly complete episode guide to six seasons of "Star Trek: The
Next Generation," a science-fiction television series created by the creator of
the original "Star Trek," Gene Roddenberry.  This is a guide of information and
it makes no attempt to be subjective in dealing with the episodes' quality.

   The series has seen aliens from Classic "Trek" and has, on some occasions,
re-examined situations from the original television series and movies.  But, for
the most part, "Star Trek: The Next Generation" has focused on its own time
frame with a variety of races and species that were either never mentioned in
the original show but are known by the current characters to have existed a
century ago in the days of Captain Kirk and crew, or races that have been
contacted only after the original series' time-frame, which, at the time of this
writing, extends to the film "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country," with
rumors of a "Star Trek VII" always present.

   Developments since the original series were not covered until after "The Next
Generation" was established commercially.  But the initial developments are
numerous and obvious: the size and capability and speed of Federation starships
- most notably, of course, the Galaxy-class Enterprise - have increased many
times.  Hardware, such as phasers, tricorders and communicators, has been
condensed in size but multiplied in usefulness and power.  Medicine also has
taken enormous leaps forward, including the ability to revive dead patients,
providing their cause of death was not severe (though according to Dr. Crusher
in "Man of the People," the patient must be revived within 30 minutes of dying).
The Klingon Empire, former enemies of the United Federation of Planets, have now
formed an alliance with the Federation, paving the way for the only Klingon
officer currently known to be serving in Starfleet, the Enterprise's Lieutenant
Worf.

   The Klingon Empire's alliance with the Federation has been covered in many
episodes, including "Heart of Glory," "A Matter of Honor," "Loud as a Whisper,"
"Sins of the Father" and others.  In "Hide And Q," Q implies that the rigid
Klingon code of honor allowed the Federation to defeat them.  Also, it is known
that Sarek of Vulcan and Riva participated in some manner of negotiations, and
that diplomatic relations with the Empire are sometimes stretched to the
limits, as seen in "Sins of the Father," "Heart of Glory" and "A Matter of
Honor," all three of which contribute to the general feeling that the Klingons
are very suspicious of the Federation and of the alliance.  It is mentioned in
"Aquiel" that Klingons have not raided a Federation installation in seven years
- which places the last Klingon attack on the Federation at just a year before
the Enterprise began her voyages.  In "Redemption," a conspiracy threatened to
splinter the Klingon-Federation detente and ally the Klingons to the Romulans.
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   The Romulans, re-introduced at the end of the first season, have posed an
increasing threat to the Enterprise crew and, indeed, the Federation: one
appearance in the first season, another in the second (although the Romulan
warbird class vessel appeared twice as an illusion in other episodes), three
times in the third season, three times in the fourth (and another appearance as
an illusion in "Future Imperfect"), and four times in season five, including the
two-part "Unification."  As has already been noted in Classic Trek, the physical
similarities of the Romulans to Vulcans cannot be overlooked, leading to the
obvious conclusion that they share some common ancestry (more information on the
results of this similarity below).  Their space technology has increased as
exponentially as the Federation's, resulting in the spectacular and beautiful
Romulan warbird, as big as or bigger than the Enterprise herself.
   In the fourth season, a new threat is introduced - the implications of an
alliance between the Klingon and Romulan Empires.  Klingon collaborators, such
as Duras and J'Ddan, state clearly that they feel an alliance with the peaceful
Federation is watering down their warrior instinct and softening their society.
J'Ddan claims that an alliance with the Romulans would change that, resulting
in a powerful new force to be feared - particularly by the Federation.  Upon
the Enterprise's return to the Klingon Homeworld, Picard finds, in the midst of
his duties as the neutral arbiter of the succession of power of the Klingon
Empire, that this collaboration is being engineered by the family of the late
Duras and a Romulan commander named Sela, the daughter of the deceased former
Enterprise security chief, Tasha Yar.  Captain Picard, with the backing of
Starfleet, forces their plans out into the open, but Sela, loyal only to the
Romulan Empire, still prepares for further strikes against the Federation.
   In season five's two-part episode "Unification," it is revealed that Spock
- the original Enterprise's first officer, now valued advisor and Federation
ambassador - has made an unauthorized trip to the home planet of the Romulans.
Spock is found promoting peace between Romulus and Vulcan. Unfortunately, the
underground following of idealistic Romulans he acquires does not represent the
wishes of the Romulan government, and he almost becomes a pawn in a Romulan
gambit to conquer and enslave the Vulcan race.  Even though he escapes with the
help of Picard and Data, Spock remains on Romulus, hoping to enlighten enough
Romulans that may someday revolt against their totalitarian government and seek
a peaceful union with the Federation.  Spock is still mentioned as being alive
and well in sixth season's "Face of the Enemy," when his name is brought up in
the course of an elaborate and intricate defection scheme.  In that same story,
many revelations are made: reunification sympathizers or peace sympathizers are
more widespread than the glimpse of isolated idealism seen in "Unification,"
even to the point that there are sympathizers in the Romulan military.  The
Romulan intelligence, known as the Tal Shiar, is a KGB-like organization which
has been known to execute Romulans suspected of simply disagreeing with their
government; even among the military, the Tal Shiar is feared.  Among all
Romulans who are not "in the loop," the Tal Shiar is quietly resented, both for
its unreasonable and unethical use of power, and for its members' executive
perks.
   The Romulans were also encountered when a smaller ship (a previously unseen
design that appeared to be a cross between the 23rd century Bird of Prey seen
in the original series segment "Balance of Terror" and the Romulan scout
shuttle seen in "The Defector") was adrift far from home, having experienced an
onboard explosion while testing a new development in cloaking technology.  The
Romulans' new device changed the molecular phase of matter, allowing objects
and people to not only be invisible, but - for lack of a better term - "in a
different plane" than normal matter.  (It was mentioned that the Klingons had
briefly flirted with this technology, but abandoned it soon afterward.)  Such a
phase shift could allow entire ships to harmlessly hide inside planets and to
be unaffected by normal weapons (unless, of course, said weapons fire
originated from a similarly-phased vessel!).  People were also phased,
including Geordi La Forge and Ensign Ro, who were unable to communicate their
status to the rest of the Enterprise crew, who thought the two were dead ("The
Next Phase").  A phased Romulan - complete with a phased disruptor capable of
affecting Ro and Geordi - was dispatched to kill them before they could manage
to thwart a Romulan plan to blow up the Enterprise.  Phased agents cannot do
anything to normal physical surroundings, but they would make excellent spies -
and the fact that the Romulans have achieved this is an incredible threat to
Federation security.  But since the attempt to phase an entire ship failed in
"The Next Phase," it is safe to assume that the breakthrough of rendering whole
vessels completely invisible and invincible is still a long way off for the
Romulans.
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   The vicious, greedy Ferengi travel about in streamlined vessels, attempting
to accumulate goods, territory and profits.  Their ships are equipped with
weaponry and defenses, but it is assumed that most of the interior of a Ferengi
vessel is designed to carry whatever loot they capture during their travels.
Other bits and pieces of information on the Ferengi include the fact that, when
forced to surrender, a Ferengi captain, or Daimon, is required to hand his
second officer over to whatever power defeated the Ferengi, at which point they
can do whatever they want with the Ferengi officer in question!  The Ferengi
deal in most anything they can, including ships ("Unification II," "Rascals").
Also, as revealed in "Rascals," some Ferengi operate outside the regulations of
their government in hopes of accumulating even more profit than they could under
what few rules the Ferengi must have...or, at least they claim to.  Ferengi
women have never been seen onscreen for good reason - in Ferengi society, women
are not permitted to wear clothes or work alongside the males.  This was
revealed when members of a Ferengi landing party were shocked to see Tasha Yar
wearing a Starfleet uniform and acting as chief of security in "The Last
Outpost."  In the fourth season's "Menage a Troi," when Daimon Tog - considered
by his fellow Ferengi to be a pervert for finding human females attractive -
kidnapped Riker, Counselor Troi and Lwaxana Troi, the captured women were
transported to Tog's cabin without their clothes.  According to one Ferengi in
"Rascals," Ferengi offspring are not taken on space voyages for their own
protection.  However, just how safe they are is probably relative; in the "A Man
Alone" installment of "Deep Space Nine," Nog's father reveals that Ferengi teach
their young in a work-study environment where, if they survive and make a
profit, they obviously know their stuff and they're ready to take on commercial
activity full-time.  Knowing the exploitative practices of the Ferengi, even
among themselves, it's doubtful that the Ferengi have child labor laws, so their
young may also serve as cheap labor while they're "learning."  In "Encounter at
Farpoint," it was also hinted that the Ferengi practice cannibalism, though
whether that practice refers to other Ferengi or, perhaps, captured members of
other races was never made clear.  The possibility of cannibalism has not been
mentioned since, so it may merely be a product of the early first season that
later story editors, gourmet chefs, writers and producers have chosen to ignore.
When the producers say that there is no cannibalism among the Ferengi, they mean
that there is a certain amount!
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   Another race which has made a mark on the crew of the new Enterprise has
only been encountered twice in force, but those two encounters left the
impression that the Borg are indestructible.  A collective bio-mechanical race
of beings who augment their organic bodies with cybernetic implants at birth,
the Borg travel around and beyond the outskirts of Federation space in colossal
cube-shaped vessels which, inside and out, are layered with technologies
wrested from the grips of civilizations which have fallen victim to the Borg's
might.  The Borg, not seen until "Q Who" in the latter half of the second
season, were hinted at in "The Neutral Zone" as the Romulans and Federation
officers assessed the catastrophic damage to their Neutral Zone border
outposts.  The Borg, according to Guinan, raped her home world for its
technological resources and raw materials and scattered her people - who have
yet to be identified - across the galaxy.  In their second appearance in the
season finale of the third season and the premiere episode of the fourth
season, the Borg had since placed a value on organic life, in particular, the
member races of the Federation.  In seeking to find a race of "drones" to
service its race of mobile "workers," the Borg kidnapped Captain Picard and
converted him, both physically and mentally, into their "queen bee."  Picard
was rescued by the Enterprise crew and restored to his full health, and the
Borg ship attempting to subjugate Earth was destroyed.  Although it seemed to
be almost a certainty that the Borg would return for another attempt, no trace
of them was heard again until "I, Borg" late in the fifth season, in which a
downed Borg scout ship (not actually seen, but presumably a smaller cubical
vessel) was detected by the Enterprise, and an adolescent male Borg was the
only survivor.  Dubbed "Hugh," this lone Borg was taken aboard the Enterprise,
and Picard initially planned to send him back to the Borg collective with an
unsolvable problem programmed into his brain, which would confuse the Borg
into self-destruction.  But when the crew managed to restore some semblance of
self-awareness and vestiges of Hugh's emotions resurfaced, Picard decided to
send Hugh back to the Borg collective unharmed, hoping that the individuality
within Hugh's mind would be downloaded into the Borg hive-mind and become
widespread, collapsing Borg society into anarchy.  Hugh was retrieved by the
Borg, but so far no further news exists of whether his reintroduction into the
Borg collective had any effect.
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   Introduced in the fourth season's "The Wounded," the Cardassian Union was
once at war with the Federation, a war which apparently was in progress in one
form or another through the third season of "Next Generation," since their debut
episode "The Wounded" says that a treaty had only finally been reached a year
and a half earlier than the incident involving the USS Phoenix.  The Cardassians
are vicious adversaries.  Captain Picard stated that, during his command of the
Stargazer, he once actually had to escape from Cardassian attackers.  Chief O'
Brien also experienced the murderous mentality of the Cardassians during the
same long conflict when he served on the starship Rutledge with Captain Maxwell,
a starship captain whose entire family was murdered by Cardassians.  It has also
been said that debates over the Federation's position against the Cardassians
created a rift between two of Vulcan's most famous representatives, Sarek and
Spock.  On the trivial side, Starfleet Captain Edward Jellico was later said to
have been one of the key players in the Cardassian treaty.
   In "The Wounded," Captain Maxwell, now commanding the Phoenix, attacks
several Cardassian ships, which the Cardassians claimed were scientific supply
vessels.  Maxwell - and later, Picard - realize that the Cardassian traffic was
very likely a clandestine attempt to prepare for another strike on the
Federation.  While Picard had to remain neutral and capture Maxwell for his
actions, he warned Cardassian Gul Macet that the Federation would monitor border
activity more closely in the future.  In the fifth season's "Ensign Ro," the
Cardassians actually had a Federation cohort, Admiral Kennelly, who almost
assisted them in doing away with the nomadic remnants of the Bajora, whom the
Cardassians had evicted from their own territory who were now fighting back in a
nearly insignificant spree of terrorist attacks.
   In that same segment, Ensign Ro recounts to Picard the tale of how, when she
was seven years old, she was forced to watch her father tortured to death by
Cardassians.  Picard later gains first-hand knowledge of the savagery of the
Cardassians in the two-part "Chain of Command" story in the sixth season.
Ousted from command of the Enterprise by order of Starfleet to lead a covert
mission to Celtris III, Picard's mission was ostensibly to gather intelligence
on the possibility of Cardassian development of metagenic weapons which would
genetically destroy entire ecosystems and leave developed planets uninhabited
for Cardassian conquerors.  Captured by Gul Madred, Picard was subjected to a
variety of physical and psychological torture technicques, among them truth
serums, dehydration, and surgical implants connected to remote control devices
that allow the interrogator to inflict pain at varying intensity.  In "Chain of
Command," mention is also made of the Seldonis IV Convention, an agreement which
Picard mentions as expressly forbidding the torture of prisoners of war, and the
Solatis Convention, which apparently covers some of the same ground since Riker
tries to cite it to Gul Lemec in an attempt to recover the captured Picard (and
which the Cardassians neatly and cunningly sidestepp by rationalizing that,
since the Federation would not admit that Picard's mission to Celtris III was
undertaken by direct order, Picard's actions were not part of a formal action by
the Federation against Cardassia, therefore they could do what they wish with
the prisoner).  The Seldonis IV and Solatis Conventions may be part of the
Federation-Cardassian armistice.
   Little is known of the structure of the Cardassian Militia, except for the
ranks "Gul" (apparently analogous to captain) and "Glinn" (a lieutenant rank of
some sort).  Gul Madred mentions that the Cardassians, long before their contact
with the Federation, were cultured, peaceful, spiritual people, though poverty
led the Cardassian government to believe that the only escape from their
society's plight was to stir up the people in a violent exodus from their home
world to conquer other planets and other societies - some of which were once,
like the Cardassians, cultured, peaceful and spiritual people - and all of which
were reduced to poverty and slavery, much like the now-comfortable Cardassians
once endured under their own elitist dictatorship.  Slave laborers constructed
the Cardassian Union's fleet, luxurious accomodations on the worlds conquered by
the Cardassians, and enormous space stations such as Deep Space Nine over Bajor.
At the beginning of "Chain of Command" part I, the Cardassians are mentioned as
having recently withdrawn from the Bajoran sector, leaving Deep Space 9 open for
Starfleet takeover as the Federation begins trying to assist the Bajora in
rebuilding their society.  And with the discovery of the wormhome near Bajor,
the Cardassians are understandably interested in trying to regain their foothold
in that area of space.
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   An interesting, if incidental, addition to the roster of "Next Generation"
aliens was the appearance of a Cytherian in the fourth season episode "The Nth
Degree."  The Cytherian appeared on the bridge through something not unlike a
hologram of just a bearded head.  A Cytherian probe had altered the mind of
engineering specialist Barclay and given him the knowledge to take the crew to
the center of the galaxy - where, in "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier," Captain
Kirk and the crew of the NCC-1701-A encountered a similar projection of a far
less benevolent being intent on taking over the Enterprise and traveling back to
Federation space in the guise of God.  No one has said for certain wether the
godlike being in "Star Trek V" could have been another Cytherian or not, but the
possibility is intriguing and would be another link of continuity between the
two generations of "Star Trek."
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Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart):
   A native of France on Earth, Picard had an illustrious Starfleet service
record even before his mission on the Enterprise.  Having led the USS Stargazer
on a 22-year exploration mission, Picard has mentioned various events of that
ship's voyage, including a trip to Chalna and having once retreated from a
Cardassian warship, but he was forced to abandon the Stargazer after it was
damaged in a Ferengi ambush.  Picard devised what Starfleet Academy cadets
later knew as "the Picard Maneuver" and destroyed the Ferengi vessel (the angry
father of the Ferengi ship's DaiMon later tried to avenge him in "The Battle")
but had to leave the Stargazer behind, for which he was court-martialed.  These
events, said to have occurred nine years before his tour on the Enterprise,
have probably been completely forgotten by now with his many successes since.
   Much of Picard's youth has been discussed, chiefly his impetuosity when he
was a teenager at school (as mentioned by his older brother Robert in "Family")
and in Starfleet Academy.  When at a recreation facility, Ensign Picard, then a
21-year old fresh out of the Academy (this story is recounted in "Samaritan 
Snare," and finally seen in sixth season's "Tapestry"), started a brawl with
three Nausicaan ruffians.  With two fellow cadets, Picard put up a surprisingly 
good fight against the aliens, who were twice as big as any of the Starfleet 
officerss, but Picard wound up being stabbed through the back.  Rushed to a 
medical facility, Picard required an artificial heart since his original heart 
was damaged beyond recovery.  (Q once gave Picard a chance to change that event 
in history, but after seeing how life would have been for him had he always 
taken it one very cautious step at a time, Picard decided to restore his 
personal history and instigate the fight after all.)  Picard also told Wesley
Crusher, on at least one occasion, that he learned his most valuable lessons at
Starfleet Academy from Boothby - the Academy groundskeeper.  Little is known
what lesson Picard learned, but on a later visit to Earth and the Academy ("The
First Duty"), it was apparent that Boothby had once forced Picard to reveal a
hidden truth about something, as Picard later had to convince Wesley to do (see
Wes's profile for more information on the incident in question).  What is also
known is that he left Earth for his first tour of duty without saying goodbye to
his girlfriend Janice, who later married scientist Paul Manheim ("We'll Always
Have Paris").  Picard's parents were named Maurice and Evette, and he often
credits his Aunt Adele with an impressive number of household cures.  (Maurice
and Evette Picard have both been glimpsed in illusions, in "Tapestry" and "Where
No One Has Gone Before," respectively.)
   Picard's voyages on the Enterprise haven't been free of problems either.  As
early as the first season, Admiral Quinn and Lt. Commander Remmick investigated
the Enterprise thoroughly, checking to make sure that Picard had not been taken
over by an alien conspiracy.  Quinn and Remmick themselves later fell victim to
the same conspiracy, and though Remmick was killed in the course of stopping
the aliens from taking over Starfleet, Quinn was saved.  The conspirators also
killed Captain Walker Keel, a close friend of Picard for many years who had
also known Jack Crusher.  Of course, later encounters included Picard's capture
by the Borg, which few stories since "The Best Of Both Worlds" have mentioned,
although the Borg's use of his knowledge of Starfleet enabled them to destroy a
blockade of 39 Starfleet vessels, killing 11,000 people.  Among those dead were
all but one member of the crew of the USS Saratoga.  The survivor, Commander
Benjamin Sisko, lost his wife in the battle and then held Picard personally
responsible for the outcome of the Borg attack (as seen in "Emissary," the first
episode of "Deep Space Nine").
   Picard's role as the arbiter of succession of the Klingon Empire was decided
for him by the dying Klingon leader K'mpec, and Picard carried out his duty to
install the new leader of the Empire in "Redemption."  Picard has had the
distinction of meeting Vulcan's Ambassador Sarek, who mind-melded with the
captain to stabilize Sarek in time for vital negotiations.  Picard also met
Sarek's son Spock in "Unification," in an attempt to find out why Spock had
traveled to Romulus.
   When an alien probe was sighted and locked on to the Enterprise ("The Inner
Light"), transmissions from that probe rendered Picard unconscious.  In the
space of less than half an hour, Picard lived, in his mind, 40 or more years in
the life of an astronomer, Kamin, of Kataan, a planet whose civilization would
die out in a few decades when the sun in their system went nova.  In actuality,
Kataan's parent star had gone nova, erasing all traces of Kamin's civilization
over one thousand years before the Enterprise's discovery of the probe.  Though
he realized he was still actually Jean-Luc Picard of the starship Enterprise,
Kamin adjusted and lived - with his wife and children - into old age, at which
point the truth was revealed to him: the probe surrounds its target's mind with
a complete simulation of life on Kataan, in the hopes that the recipient of the
probe's "message" will, in turn, tell others of the history, the life and the
eventual death of the planet.  Also found aboard the probe was the flute owned
by the real Kamin - which Picard could remember how to play after he awake from
spending decades in Kamin's life in twenty-odd minutes.
   On a recent occasion, Captain Picard was abruptly relieved of command of the
Enterprise and replaced by Captail Edward Jellico for a special mission (sixth
season's two-part "Chain of Command").  Picard led an undercover team consisting
of Worf and Dr. Crusher deep into Cardassian space, but he alone was captured by
Cardassians.  Tortured repeatedly in their attempt to extract information
concerning the strategic defenses of a Federation planet about which he knew
nothing, Picard suffered some psychological damage and brainwashing which,
presumably, he overcame with the assistance of Counselor Troi upon his return to
the Enterprise.
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Commander William T. Riker (Jonathan Frakes):
   The first thing Riker said after redocking the two separated sections of the
Enterprise in "Encounter at Farpoint" was his announcement to Picard that he
considered the captain's life too valuable to risk on away team missions and
that he would lead the Enterprise's landing parties on dangerous missions.
Knowing of Picard's stubborn streak concerning authority, some probably
expected the captain and Riker - or, as Picard calls him, "Number One" - to be
at odds before they even got the Enterprise underway, but Riker has proven to
be as stubborn as Picard, and as much of an asset to the ship as any captain
could hope to have.
   Born in Alaska, Riker grew up with his father (Will's mother died while he
was a baby) and left home to sign up with Starfleet Academy in his teens due to
a very strained relationship with his father.  Moving quickly through the
Academy and into Starfleet, Riker became known as a cunning strategist and not
one to back down from anything.  Also at some point, he became involved
romantically with a Betazoid psychology student, one Deanna Troi, and although
that relationship also eventually ended, they maintain a close friendship now
that both are serving on the Enterprise.
   Riker's strategic mind has salvaged numerous situations: while investigating
a possible alien conspiracy in the highest ranks of Starfleet, only a bluff by
Riker saved Picard and revealed the truth ("Conspiracy").  Riker also saved a
group of Enterprise crewmembers aboard the USS Hathaway by hiding an ace up his
sleeve and secretly ordering his crew to repair the warp drive ("Peak
Performance").  Perhaps most noteworthy of all, when Picard was kidnapped and
assimilated by the Borg, Riker assumed command of the Enterprise, followed the
Borg ship to Earth even after it had dispatched 39 starships effortlessly, and
once there, the crew stopped the Borg at the last possible moment from
conquering the Federation.  Although promoted to captain of the Enterprise on
that occasion, Riker chose to aquiesce to Picard and remain on board as first
officer once the captain had recovered.  Although Starfleet considers him to be
prime command material, Riker shows no signs at this time of wishing to vacate
the first officer's seat on the Enterprise.  He was relieved of duty - under
protest - during Captain Jellico's brief tenure as the Enterprise's commanding
officer ("Chain of Command"), but was restored to full rank and duty upon
Picard's return.
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Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton):
   Geordi was born without optic nerves, the son of a famous scientist (his
father) and a Starfleet commander (his mother).  His parents' varying duties
often seperated the family, and Geordi shipped out with one or the other of his
parents, but seldom both.  Sometime after he turned eight years old, Geordi was
given an answer to his blindness, a prosthetic device called a VISOR which
allows Geordi to see the entire range of human sight and the rest of the
electromagnetic spectrum.  This ability, completely overlooked in some cases
("Disaster," where Doctor Crusher pointed out to Geordi that a wall in the ship
was heating up which he apparently had not noticed), has also gotten Geordi out
of some tight scrapes ("The Enemy," to name just one).  But when captured by
the Romulans, Geordi was brainwashed and his VISOR was used to relay
instructions to him in an attempt to use him to assassinate a Klingon governor
and make it look like a Federation operation.  The plot was stopped barely in
time, and it's safe to assume that Geordi's VISOR was repaired so he wouldn't
become a Romulan puppet again, and perhaps it was even completely foolproofed.
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Lieutenant Worf (Michael Dorn):
   Born in the Klingon Empire after or near the time the Federation and the
Empire finally reached an agreement, Worf is the son of Mogh, a well-known
warrior in his day.  Separated at birth from his younger brother Kurn - now a
respected fighter in his own right, but remaining with his fellow Klingons -
Worf traveled with his parents to the Khitomer.  A Romulan attack destroyed the
outpost on Khitomer because the father of Duras, a Klingon traitor who would
later press charges against Worf's family ("Sins of the Father" and several
other episodes) lowered the defenses.  Worf returned to the Klingon planet to
challenge the accusation, but found the High Council to be involved in the
cover-up of the truth and had to accept discommendation, admitting fear of the
Council's judgment (had his challenge been failed, which it would have been had
Worf not withdrawn, it would have cost him his life) and the removal of his
honor in the eyes of all other Klingons.
   Worf later discovered that an earlier encounter with his former half-human,
half-Klingon lover, K'ehleyr (in "The Emissary" and "Reunion"), had resulted in
a child, Alexander.  In a desperate attempt to cover his past actions when
K'ehleyr discovered the truth about Worf's discommendation, Duras murdered her.
In a rage, Worf made an unauthorized visit to Duras and killed him in cold
blood.  Worf then sent Alexander to Earth to live with Sergei and Helena
Rozhenko, the humans who had rescued Worf from Khitomer and raised him as their
own child on Earth (although in "Heart of Glory," Worf says he grew up on a
farming colony called Gault; perhaps he spent time on both.)  Helena visited
Worf on the Enterprise a year and a half later, bringing Alexander back with
her.  Experiencing difficulties growing up and discovering the concepts of
honor, honesty and loyalty, Alexander initially caused some minor problems on
the Enterprise once he was enrolled in the ship's school.  Worf decided that
Alexander would have to be sent off to a Klingon school, but then offered the
boy the chance to stay with him and prove himself by overcoming the even
greater challenge of growing up with humans around him.  Alexander acccepted,
and remains on the Enterprise with Worf.  Worf later was paralyzed in an
accident on the ship, but a new process developed by Dr. Russell ("Ethics")
allowed him to regain control of his muscles.
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Doctor Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden):
   Dr. Crusher's intermittent tenure on the Enterprise has given her the chance
to treat some unusual cases, ranging from removing Borg implants from Captain
Picard to being one of the first Federation medics ever to treat a Romulan
patient ("The Enemy" and "The Defector"), watching the unique evolution of the
mutating John Doe ("Transfigurations"), being trapped in a warp bubble
("Remember Me"), helping to deliver a giant spaceborne creature's young
("Galaxy's Child"), discovering that a visitng ambassador with whom she was in
love was actually a parasite inside a humanoid host body ("The Host"), helping
experimental physician Dr. Russell replace Worf's injured spinal cord, being
the first to notice that the Enterprise was caught in a time loop ("Cause and
Effect"), restoring an adolescent Borg drone to full health ("I, Borg"), and
many other unique opportunities.  She also tagged alone with Picard and Worf on
a top-secret mission into Cardassian space, her function to determine whether or
not the Cardassians were readying biological weapons.  Further interesting cases
undoubtedly lie ahead for the good doctor!
   Another important duty of Beverly's, until recently, was looking after her
son Wesley.  Although he seemed to be a nuisance at first, Wes displayed an
amazing ability with the Enterprise's technology and was soon given an honorary
rank.  Crusher's husband, Jack, lost his life while serving as Picard's first
officer on the USS Stargazer.  No specifics have been given on that incident,
but it was stated by Wesley ("Coming of Age") that Jack's death was the result
of Picard making a command decision to save another officer instead of Crusher
during some sort of crisis.  (Jack did appear in Beverly's "nightmare" sequence
in "Violations," as the doctor recalled a younger Picard accompanying her to
the morgue.  Jack's body seemed intact except for a very large scar or welt
across his forehead; the rest of the corpse was not shown.)  Picard was
initially disturbed by the prospect of Beverly and her son both coming aboard,
but all parties seem to have overcome that trepidation over the years.
   Very little of Dr. Crusher's background is known, aside from the fact that
Jack Crusher was introduced to her by Walker Keel (a friend of Picard's from
Starfleet Academy), and that Jack proposed to her before she even graduated
from medical school.  Further back than that in her history, Beverly was - most
likely as a child - part of a colony on Alveda III, which Picard referred to as
a tragedy ("The Arsenal of Freedom").  When medical supplies at the failed
colony (exactly what happened there has never been specified) were exhausted,
young Beverly was taught how to treat injuries with the native roots and herbs
by her grandmother, who was also a member of the colony.  Unless Beverly's
background is explored further, it would be reasonable to assume that she
became interested in medicine at that early age.  Exobotany continues to be at
least a hobby of hers ("Clues," "Cause and Effect").  She once dyed her hair
brunette as a teenager, and claims she "couldn't change it back fast enough."
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Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis):
   The half-human, half-Betazoid Troi is usually quiet, but that doesn't mean
that she hasn't got some important bit of information to impart.  Her empathic
ability (full Betazoids can read thoughts and send them; Deanna can only read
emotions) is useful in most situations, but not all of them.  While Troi can
detect deceit or discomfort, her abilities don't tell her the whole story.  If
someone can focus their mind enough - as was the case with Ardra in "Devil's
Due" - or if they have an unusual cranial structure, such as the Ferengi, Troi
has to rely on external cues as much as the next person.
   Among Troi's more notable achievements are helping Ambassador Riva of
Ramatus continue a peace negotiation between warring parties on a distant world
even after the deaf mediator's translators had been killed by the combatants
("Loud as a Whisper") revealing a hidden plot to hand the exclusive rights to a
wormhole over to the Ferengi ("The Price"), easing Picard's relations with
former Betazoid mental patient Tam Elbrun en route to a first-contact mission
("Tin Man"), helping Picard recover from his ordeal with the Borg ("Family"),
and discovering the answer to a cryptic alien message just before the crew
would have been driven insane ("Night Terrors").  Although she was a victim of
"mental rape" by a Ulean visitor, Jev (who entered his victims' thoughts and
dreams, taking the place of someone the victim is remembering - in Deanna's
case, Jev took the place of Riker), Troi managed to detect Jev's actions even
after Jev carefully and almost successfully diverted the blame toward his own
father.  Troi actually died on one occasion, when her mind was used by
Ambassador Alkar as a receptacle for his negative thoughts and feelings while
the visiting dignitary negotiated a peace between two warring nations.  The
link, established by a ritual Alkar claimed to be a funeral meditation in memory
of his mother, who died on the Enteprise during their visit, remained as long as
the "receptacle" lived.  The recipient of Alkar's darker side, in the meantime,
ages phenomenally (hence Alkar's "mother" - actually a previous receptacle who
ran out of room for his dark side and died).  Troi had to be allowed to die for
a short time so Alkar would attempt to create a link with another companion, but
when she was revived in sick bay, her awakening coincided with the moment of
transference, and the negative feelings Alkar had been relegating to his victims
washed back into his mind, killing him.  Troi was restored to her natural
appearance with no ill effects.
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Lieutenant Commander Data (Brent Spiner):
   Although one of two androids successfully constructed by Dr. Noonian Soong,
a rogue cyberneticist who took refuge among colonists on Omicron Theta to
continue his research in secrecy, Data is the only android ever to serve in
Starfleet.  Data has proven to be a vital member of the Enterprise crew from
the start, and has been saving the crew's lives since the second episode of the
entire series - indeed, had Data been transferred to another ship or destroyed
at any point, the Enterprise would have almost certainly succumbed to some kind
of enemy threat or natural disaster about five episodes later!
   Data's existence as an android has brought mistrust from humans ("Angel One,"
"Redemption II," "Silicon Avatar" and others), and his computerized nature also
means that he can be deactivated or even taken over by anyone with the proper
skills ("The Schizoid Man," "Contagion," "Brothers," "The Game," "Conundrum" and
"Power Play," just to name a few).  But his agility, strength and inability to
fall victim to many techniques used to render organic beings unconscious or
disoriented has also allowed Data to save the Enterprise (as in "The Naked Now"
and "Night Terrors"), entire planets ("The Ensigns of Command") and even the
entire Federation and civilization as we know it ("The Best of Both Worlds").
(In a very early draft, the Borg in "The Best of Both Worlds" were to have taken
Data as well as Picard - but fortunately for the Federation and civilization as
we know it, the story was revised.)  It is interesting to notice, however, that
even Data was not immune to being kidnapped and experimented upon by aliens and
recalling none of the incident ("Schisms").
   Two of the most potentially intriguing facets of Data's character have been
examined several times over the series' run: his rights as a machine-being and
his inability to feel or even successfully emulate human emotions.  "The
Measure of a Man," "The Schizoid Man" and "The Offspring" focused on whether
living organic beings' rights take precedence over those of an android, while
such stories as "The Most Toys" and "Legacy" showed humans with malicious
intent taking advantage of Data's inability to feel anger or mistrust (although
he appears to have learned to analyze situations more extensively by the time
Sela tries to take advantage of the same traits in "Redemption II").  A few
other shows, such as "Data's Day," show a more light-hearted side to Data's
unique outlook on his surroundings.  As noted before, surviving some of the
perils of the galaxy would have been impossible for the Enterprise were Data not
on board.
   Data's head - badly damaged - was found on Earth in caverns beneath
Starfleet Academy in San Francisco during an archaeological dig, along with
other items, including a pocketwatch and a Colt pistol.  All of those artifacts
had been buried there since the late 1800s, though no trace of Data's body
could be found.  Also discovered in the excavation were traces of alien
organisms that Geordi traced back to a distant planet.  The Enterprise visited
the planet, and in the course of investigating invisible life-forms there who
had apparently constructed a gateway through time, Data was sucked back into
19th-century San Francisco, where he immediately began trying to continue his
investigation of probable alien interference in human history.  It turned out
that an encounter with the aliens resulted in an energy surge which blew his
head off, while the away team from the Enterprise that followed him into the
past took his body back to the future with them and reconnected the head,
repaired, with his body, restoring him to full function.
                                                                   revised 11-92

Ensign Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton, 1st through early 4th season):
   Wesley, who first joined the Enterprise crew along with his mother at the
age of fifteen, is the son of Dr. Beverly Crusher and the late Jack Crusher,
Picard's first officer on the USS Stargazer until a still unspecified command
decision on Picard's part led Jack Crusher to his death, which occurred while
Wes was still a very young child.  Displaying a remarkable talent with warp
engines, computers, and many other items, Wes quickly endeared himself to the
crew - and, in other cases, proved to be a nuisance.  Seeing how much damage
could be done by Wesley if he was out to make mischief ("The Naked Now"),
Picard probably decided to ensure the teenager was on his side by making him
an Acting Ensign ("Where No One Has Gone Before") after Wesley assisted and
supported the alien Traveler whom no one else seemed to trust when a he
accidentally sent the Enterprise to the edge of the universe while distracted
by Wesley's intuitive knowledge of the ship's workings.
   Some fans and viewers complained that Wes saved the Enterprise too often in
the first season, which led to his transfer to the helm of the ship in the
second season although his mother had been reassigned to Starfleet Medical for
a year.  Wesley got Dr. Crusher's permission to remain on the Enterprise.  She
returned in the third season opener "Evolution," precisely at the same time a
school experiment of Wesley's nearly caused the crew to abort a one-of-a-kind
scientific mission and could have even gone on to destroy the ship, although he
was not reprimanded for this at all - indeed, he created an entire new race of
intelligent, microscopic beings from tiny robots intended for medical use.  He
was finally admitted to Starfleet Academy ("Final Mission") and it was stated
that he had a lot of catching up to do, although he would receive credit for
his service on the Enterprise.  Actually, Wesley had either given up or missed
earlier opportunities to go to the Academy in "Coming of Age" and "Menage a
Troi."  He returned - on vacation from the Academy - in the fifth season story
"The Game," in which he failed to save the ship...but was able to reactivate
Data, who saved the ship just in time.  Wesley was later seen at the Academy on
Earth in a later season five episode, "First Duty," recovering from an accident
in-flight during a practice maneuver with the Academy's elite flight group, the
Nova Squadron.  Squadron leader, upper classman Nicholas Locarno, had planned
on the team executing a fancy but extremely risky stunt maneuver during the
Academy's commencement ceremonies to impress fellow cadets and Starfleet's top
brass alike, but the attempted stunt resulted in the destruction of Nova
Squadron's five space-planes and the death of one cadet, a friend of Wesley's.
Wes almost followed Locarno, lying all the way through an Academy investigation
into the accident, but Picard convinced him to tell the truth.  Pressured by
Locarno and the other cadets to continue with the cover-up (which would have
resulted only in an official reprimand on each cadet's record), Wes revealed
the truth.  Wesley's credits for his entire first year at the Academy were
revoked, but Locarno proved he wasn't entirely indecent by taking most of the
responsibility for the accident and for the other cadets' behavior.  Locarno
was expelled, but Wes, with something less of the squeaky clean reputation he
once had and with his flight priveleges revoked, continues his training at
Starfleet Academy.
                                                                    revised 5-92

Lieutenant Tasha Yar (Denise Crosby, 1st season only):
   Born on Turkana IV, a human colony whose government collapsed under the
weight of overgrown urban gangs, Tasha Yar had to learn to defend herself at an
early age.  She occasionally mentioned avoiding the planet's rampant drug abuse
and rape gangs, and eventually her parents were killed in gang battles, leaving
Tasha to look after her younger sister Ishara.  When a chance to leave Turkana
IV presented itself, Tasha left, but Ishara decided to stay and become a member
of one of the planet's cadres.  Picard first saw Tasha when she led a rescue
team from another ship through a minefield, and while selecting the crew for
the Enterprise's maiden voyage, Picard requested her to be assigned as chief of
security.  Tasha served aboard the Enterprise ably until the crew's encounter
with the entity known as Armus on Vagra II.  Armus killed Tasha simply to show
the crew that he could kill one of them at his leisure, and the damage was too
severe for Dr. Crusher to resuscitate her.  Worf was appointed chief of security
and Tasha now remains only in the crew's memories.
   In the third season's "Yesterday's Enterprise," however, the emergence of
the Enterprise NCC-1701-C - thought to be lost 23 years before the 1701-D's
mission began - from a rift in time caused the present Enterprise to enter a
parallel timeline in which the Federation was at war with the Klingons and
Tasha Yar was still alive, well, and serving on the Enterprise.  When the time
came for the Enterprise C to return to the rift, restoring the Enterprise D to
her regular timeline, Tasha, after being told by Guinan that she had, in fact,
died a meaningless death on Vagra II, transferred to the Enterprise-C and
returned with that crew to the past.  The Enterprise-C was captured by Romulans
and the crew was to be killed, but a Romulan commander took a liking to Tasha
and allowed her fellow crewmembers to live in exchange for her agreeing to
marry him.  The "alternate" Tasha also had a daughter, Sela, by the Romulan.
When Sela was five years old, Tasha took her and tried to escape, but Sela
cried out and Tasha was captured and executed.  Sela, having now gained a high
rank in the Romulan Empire, was presumably told many stories about the crew of
the Enterprise by Tasha, as she once captured Geordi and used a brainwashing
technique perfectly suited to him because of his VISOR implants ("The Mind's
Eye"), accurately predicted Picard's return to intervene in the Klingon civil
war ("Redemption"), and anticipated that Data would not be suspicious of
Romulan activity ("Redemption" part two), although Data surprised everyone by
not taking the bait.
   Probably the most famous reminder of Tasha is her seduction of Data in "The
Naked Now."  Although she told him "it never happened" after the intoxicant
that put her in an amorous mood was eliminated, Data later said that he and
Tasha spent further time together ("Legacy"), and the android also keeps a
holographic portrait of Tasha ("The Measure of a Man," "The Most Toys").
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Guinan (Whoopi Goldberg):
   Guinan's point of origin may never be identified in "Next Generation" lore.
All that is known of her is that she is hundreds of years old (a younger Guinan
is encountered in the late 19th century by Data and the crew in "Time's Arrow"),
and has senses and abilities beyond human understanding (and possibly beyond our
comprehension as well).
   In the "Next Generation" Writers' Guide, it is stated that Guinan is a member
of a species whose people, by telepathy, empathy, or some other means, encourage
others to speak the truth to them.  Picard's first meeting with Guinan (which,
incidentally, was not the first time Guinan met Picard) occurred during his 22
year mission aboard the Stargazer, at which time he was intrigued by her and her
people.  (This, however, contradicts Guinan's telling Wesley Crusher, in "The
Child," that she never met Picard until she boarded the Enterprise.  She may
simply have been trying to forestall awkward questions, though it seems unusual
that Guinan would lie to any of the crew, particularly the impressionable young
Wesley.)  Picard obviously had some means of keeping in touch with her, because
sometime after "The Neutral Zone" and before "The Child," when the new
Ten-Forward lounge facility was installed on the Enterprise, he used his pull at
Starfleet Command to bring Guinan aboard (not as a member of Stafleet, however)
to oversee Ten-Forward.
   Guinan's first meeting with Picard, on the other hand, took place in 19th
century San Francisco, where she was masquerading as a philanthropic socialite
in order to observe humans, which fascinated her.  Picard, Riker, Dr. Crusher,
Geordi, and Data had traveled back to the 1890s to recover Data, who had also
been dragged into the past through a time warp.  She first met them at this
point, and asked Data, on their first meeting, if he had been sent by her father
to watch or retrieve her.  In addition to her father, Guinan has mentioned an
uncle of hers, Turcum, whom her mother considered dangerously weird.  As it
happens, Turcum happened to be the only member of Guinan's family to possess any
sense of humor whatsoever.  In "Evolution," Guinan states that she has had many
husbands (and the implication seems to be there that she's had multiple husbands
at the same time), along with many children.  There seems to be an implication,
in "Rascals," the Guinan's father is still alive, since she says he is 700 years
old - not speaking in the past tense, as she usually does when she talks about
others of her species.
   Other facts known about Guinan: she has a long history with two of the
Enterprise crew's most dreaded adversaries, Q and the Borg.  Apparently, she
knows Q on a personal basis, but the relationship is not friendly.  Q insists,
every time he encounters Guinan, that she is a troublemaker who is concealing
her true identity, though Picard seems to pay little attention to such charges
because the same description seems to fit Q.  On one occasion, in "Q Who," Q
offered to dispose of Guinan, who then raised her hands in a curious gesture, as
if to ward off Q's powers, and the two seemed deadlocked for that moment.  What
Guinan was actually doing is not known, but it is notable that she is apparently
the only person on the Enterprise who could oppose Q in any way, or, for that
matter, be considered a threat by him.  Guinan's past concerning the Borg is
tragic; the cyber-augmented aliens swarmed over her home world, assimilating or
destroying most of her people and forcing the survivors to escape to wherever
they could, wandering nomadically.  No other members of Guinan's endangered race
have ever been encountered.
   Another fascinating trait of Guinan's is her ability to instinctively know
the flow of time itself.  During the alternate timeline in "Yesterday's
Enteprise," Guinan, though she had been changed along with everybody else when
the Enterprise-C emerged from a time distortion and changed history, could
somehow tell that the events occurring at that time were not "correct," or at
least did not match up with history as she had known it.  She insisted that the
war with the Klingons should have ended long ago, and she also dropped many
hints that Tasha Yar wasn't meant to be alive at that point in history.  Picard,
even in the alternate timeline, heeded Guinan's advice and sent the Enterprise-C
back into its rightful place in history with Tasha Yar on board, restoring the
universe to its original state.  None of the crew remembered these events until
"Redemption II," when Tasha's half-Romulan daughter Sela surprised Picard by
ordering him not to interfere with events at the Romulan-Klingon border.  Guinan
was again able to tell that Sela was a product of the version of history in
which the Enterprise-C had returned to fight Romulans over two decades before
with Tasha Yar on board.  Another interesting note about "Yesterday's
Enterprise" is the fact that, when she first saw the temporal rift from which
the Enterprise-C emerged, she seemed to at least recognize the nature of the
phenomenon.
   Guinan is on good terms with just about anyone who walks into Ten Forward
(with the possible exception of Q), and sometimes seems to do more counseling
than Troi (in fact, when Troi lost her empathy in "The Loss," Guinan hinted that
she was putting herself up for Troi's job).  Members of the crew will often turn
to Guinan when they need advice but don't necessarily want to go "on the record"
by seeking Troi's professional help.  Guinan is older and probably much wiser
than any of her shipmates will ever be, but she is never condescending to them -
sometimes a welcome change for the crew of the Enterprise when dealing with
beings with great abilities.
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Ensign Ro Laren (Michelle Forbes):
   A native of Bajor, Ro Laren never followed Starfleet regulations too easily.
Early in her Starfleet career (as documented in her debut episode "Ensign Ro"),
Ro was involved in an incident which has not been specified during her tour on
the starship Wellington.  Whatever orders Ro failed to follow on Garon II at the
time, it cost the Wellington eight crew members and Ro was court-martialed and
imprisoned for her actions (or lack of them).  Starfleet Admiral Kennelly later
bailed her out for a secret mission to escort Bajoran leaders to a summit with
Cardassian diplomats to resolve a long standing three-way dispute between the
Bajora, who held a grudge against the Federation for not assisting when the
Cardassians drove the Bajora out of their native territory decades earlier.
Upon her assignment to the Enterprise, Ro soon discovered that Kennelly was
actually trying to draw the Bajora into the Cardassians' line of fire to
eliminate them.  With the aid of Guinan, Ro told Picard what her actual orders
were, and the Bajoran leaders were saved by a plan formulated by Picard and Ro.
Kennelly was exposed and court-martialed, and Ro decided to remain on the
Enterprise instead of returning to prison.  Her abrasive nature occasionally
causes personality clashes with other members of the ship's crew - particularly
Commander Riker, who initially considered her presence on the ship to be a
disgrace (though an alien attack erased the crew's memories in "Conundrum" and
Riker and Ro were seen to be attracted to one another).
   Ro's past with the Cardassians keeps her suspicious of them whenever she
encounters them.  When she was only seven, Ro was forced to watch Cardassians
torture her father to death.  The Cardassians and Bajora have been mortal
enemies since the Cardassians overran Bajor and other worlds colonized by the
Bajora, enslaving the people and bleeding the planets dry of their natural
resources.  The remaining Bajora are nomadic and impoverished, and certainly
not able to wage anything like a full-scale war with the Cardassians.  In
"Ensign Ro," it was also implied that the problem of Bajoran/Cardassian
relations presents decisions the Federation seems to be procrastinating.
Whether to risk the already uneasy peace with the Cardassians to defend the
rights of the Bajora, or to simply try to turn away when the Cardassians take
another swipe at the Bajora, is apparently a decision the Federation isn't ready
to make, but a Starfleet team manning Deep Space 9 near Bajor may be enough of a
presence to deter Cardassian interference, and may eventually lead to admission
of the Bajora into the Federation.
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01      ENCOUNTER AT FARPOINT
        written by Gene Roddenberry and D.C. Fontana
        directed by Corey Allen
        music by Dennis McCarthy  (GNP Crescendo cassette, LP & CD # GNPD 8012)
        theme music by Alexander Courage & Jerry Goldsmith, arranged by McCarthy
  Stardate 41153.7:  The new USS Enterprise, en route to pick up its final crew
    members and investigate a mysterious space station, is confronted by a
    godlike entity known as Q who puts Picard, Counselor Troi, Data and security
    chief Yar on trial for the crimes of all humanity in the past, a challenge
    Picard grudgingly agrees to meet.
  Season 1 Regular Cast:  Patrick Stewart (Captain Jean-Luc Picard), Jonathan
    Frakes (Commander William Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Geordi La Forge),
    Denise Crosby (Lt. Tasha Yar), Michael Dorn (Lt. Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr.
    Beverly Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Deanna Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt.
    Commander Data), Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher)
  Guest Cast:  John de Lancie (Q), Michael Bell (Groppler Zorn), Colm Meaney
    (Battle Bridge Conn), Cary-Hiroyuki (Mandarin Baliff), Timothy Dang (Main
    Bridge Security), David Erskine (Bandi Shopkeeper), Evelyn Guererro (Young
    Female Ensign), Chuck Hicks (Military Officer), Jimmy Ortega (Torres),
    DeForest Kelley (Admiral McCoy)

02      THE NAKED NOW
        teleplay by J. Michael Bingham
        story by John D.F. Black and J. Michael Bingham
        directed by Paul Lynch
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 41209.5:  An Away Team, after visiting a ship whose crew apparently
    committed mass suicide, unwittingly brings a virus aboard the Enterprise -
    infecting the crew with a madness that puts the thought of their duties well
    out of mind - while a nearby star collapses, hurling a chunk of stellar
    material straight toward the Enterprise.
  Guest Stars:  Brooke Bundy (Chief Engineer McDougal), Benjamin W.S. Lum (Jim
    Shimoda), Michael Rider (Transporter Chief), David Renan (Conn), Skip
    Stellrecht (Engineering Crewman), Kenny Koch (Kissing Crewman)

03      CODE OF HONOR
        written by Katharyn Powers and Michael Baron
        directed by Russ Mayberry
        music by Fred Steiner
  Stardate 41235.23:  Picard must bargain with a primitive culture for the
    antidote to a plague which is wreaking havoc on a Federation world but is
    unprepared to deal with what seems like terrorism when the leader of the
    aliens kidnaps Tasha and refuses to give her or the vaccine up.
  Guest Stars:  Jessie Lawrence Ferguson (Lutan), Karole Selmon (Yareena), James
    Louis Watkins (Hagon), Michael Rider (Transporter Chief)

04      THE LAST OUTPOST
        teleplay by Herbert Wright
        story by Richard Krzemein
        directed by Richard Colla
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 41386.4:  In the Enterprise's - and the Federation's - first close
    brush with the Ferengi, Picard learns the nature of the hostile race while
    Riker grapples with an ancient survivor of a bygone empire and a treacherous
    Ferengi landing party.  Meanwhile, the Enterprise and its Ferengi
    counterpart are stranded in orbit, losing power.
  Guest Stars:  Armin Shimerman (Letek), Jake Dengel (Mordoc), Tracey Walter
    (Kayron), Darryl Henriques (Portal), Mike Gomez (DaiMon Tarr)

05      WHERE NO ONE HAS GONE BEFORE
        written by Diane Duane and Michael Reeves
        directed by Rob Bowman
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 41263.1:  The Enterprise is ordered to participate in engine
    modification tests conducted by the arrogant Kosinski and his mysterious
    companion, the Traveler, but only when the ship is stranded in a dimension
    where thoughts become reality does the crew realize that Kosinski's
    experiments were not actually under his control.
       The Traveler appears to help the Enterprise crew out of another tight
    situation in the fourth season episode "Remember Me."
  Guest Stars:  Stanley Kamel (Kosinski), Eric Menyuk (The Traveler), Herta Ware
    (Picard's Mother), Biff Yeager (Chief Engineer Argyle), Charles Dayton
    (Crewmember), Victoria Dillard (Ballerina)

06      LONELY AMONG US
        teleplay by D.C. Fontana
        story by Michael Halperin
        directed by Cliff Bole
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 41249.3:  The crew of the Enterprise is faced with more threats than
    they realize while transporting two parties of rival alien races to a peace
    summit which they seem too busy trying to kill each other to prepare for,
    but the greater danger lies in a consciousness which, after being swept into
    the sensor arrays of the ship, is trying to escape the ship to return to its
    home.  In its final attempt, it beams off the Enterprise, taking Picard with
    it.
  Guest Cast:  John Durbin (Antican Delegate), Colm Meaney (Security Guard),
    Kavi Raz (Singh)

07      JUSTICE
        teleplay by Worley Thorne
        story by John D.F. Black and Worley Thorne
        directed by James L. Conway
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 41255.6:  While visiting the lush paradise world of the Edo
    civilization, Picard is faced with a temperamental being which is acting as
    a god to the Edo - which it claims are its "children" - and must tamper with
    paradise to rescue Wesley, who, after breaking a law the Away Team was not
    made aware of, is sentenced to be executed.  If Picard breaks the prime
    directive to rescue Wesley, he may put the Enterprise at the mercy of the
    judgment of the Edo's orbiting "god."
  Guest Cast:  Brenda Bakke (Rivan), Jay Louden (Liator), Josh Clark (Conn),
    David Q. Combs (First Mediator), Richard Lavin (Second Mediator), Judith
    Jones (Girl), Eric Matthew (First Edo Boy), Brad Zerbst (Medical
    Technician), David Michael Graves (Second Edo Boy)

08      THE BATTLE
        teleplay by Herbert Wright
        story by Larry Forrester
        directed by Rob Bowman
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 41723.9:  Captain Picard confronts his own past when the Ferengi
    present him with the USS Stargazer, which he and his crew had been forced to
    abandon under his command nine years ago after barely survivng a raid by a
    Ferengi vessel - but little does he realize that his old ship is only one
    piece of a puzzle that the Ferengi DaiMon is using as a tool of revenge...
  Guest Cast:  Frank Corsentino (DaiMon Bok), Doug Warhit (Kazago), Robert
    Towers (Rata)

09      HIDE AND Q
        teleplay by C.J. Holland (Maurice Hurley) and Gene Roddenberry
        story by C.J. Holland (Maurice Hurley)
        directed by Cliff Bole
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 41590.5:  Q returns, this time to tempt Commander Riker with the
    taste of godlike powers, through trials in which Riker's crew are forced to
    play a game whose rules change with Q's mood, and then Riker's willpower is
    tested when Picard orders him to avoid using the power of Q.
       Maurice Hurley used a pen-name on this script, claiming Gene Roddenberry
    had changed the original story so much that it bore no resemblance to its
    original draft.
  Guest Cast:  John de Lancie (Q), Elaine Nalee (Female Survivor), William A.
    Wallace (Wesley Crusher, age 25)

10      HAVEN
        teleplay by Tracy Torme'
        story by Tracy Torme' and Lan O'Kun
        directed by Richard Compton
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 41294.5:  Counselor Troi receives a premature wedding present from
    her mother and the Miller family, who, in Troi's childhood, had promised
    their children to one another.  Lwaxana Troi, the disoriented Millers, and
    their mysterious son Wyatt beam aboard, preparing for a wedding that is
    destined to be interrupted by a shipload of interstellar lepers approaching
    the planet Haven.
  Guest Cast:  Majel Barrett (Lwaxana Troi), Rob Knepper (Wyatt Miller), Nan
    Martin (Mrs. Miller), Robert Ellenstein (Mr. Miller), Carel Struycken (Mr.
    Homn), Anna Katarina (Valeda), Raye Birk (Wrenn), Danitza Kingsley (Ariana),
    Michael Rider (Transporter Chief), Armin Shimerman (The Box)

11      THE BIG GOODBYE
        written by Tracy Torme'
        directed by Joseph L. Scanlan
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 41997.7:  During a holodeck holiday in the fictitious world of Dixon
    Hill, Captain Picard, Data, Doctor Crusher and ship's historian Whalen
    become trapped in a murder mystery where their chances of being murdered are
    very real, while impatient aliens threaten the ship when its captain is
    unavailable for scheduled diplomatic negotiations...
  Guest Cast:  Lawrence Tierney (Cyrus Redblock), Harvey Jason (Leech), William
    Boyett (Bell), David Selburg (Whalen), Gary Armagnal (McNary), Mike Genovese
    (Desk Sergeant), Dick Miller (Vendor), Carolyn Allport (Jessica Bradley),
    Rhonda Aldrich (Madeline), Erik Cord (Thug)

12      DATALORE
        teleplay by Robert Lewin and Gene Roddenberry
        story by Robert Lewin and Maurice Hurley
        directed by Rob Bowman
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 41242.2:  Data visits his home planet and discovers that his creator
    also constructed - and, for some unknown reason, disassembled - a "twin
    brother" of the android: Lore.  The crew welcomes Lore with open arms, but
    they soon discover that the greed Data lacks as a human emotion is indeed
    possessed by Lore.
       Lore makes a return appearance in the fourth season in "Brothers," while
    the Crystalline Entity that threatened Data's planet and the Enterprise
    strikes again in "Silicon Avatar" in the fifth season.
  Guest Cast:  Brent Spiner (Lore), Biff Yeager (Chief Engineer Argyle)

13      ANGEL ONE
        written by Patrick Barry
        directed by Michael Rhodes
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 41636.9:  The Enterprise arrives at Angel One, a planet which ceded
    from the Federation which is now controlled by a council composed entirely
    of women.  Troi must act as an ambassador while the crew searches for
    shipwreck survivors who are determined to remain on Angel One - despite the
    wishes of some of the planet's leaders, but with the approval of others.
  Guest Cast:  Karen Montgomery (Beata), Sam Hennings (Ramsey), Patricia
    McPherson (Ariel), Leonard John Crofoot (Trent)

14      11001001
        written by Maurice Hurley and Robert Lewin
        directed by Paul Lynch
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 41365.9:  The Enterprise, while docked at a Starbase for minor
    refits, is hijacked by the Bynars, whose home star has gone nova, rendering
    their computerized planet inoperative.  They have stored the contents of
    their race memory in the ship's computer in the hopes that Riker and Picard
    - being stalled in the holodeck by the beautiful woman of Riker's dreams -
    can reactivate their home.
       In the holodeck-generated jazz band scenes, Jonathan Frakes put his real
    trombone skills to use.  Elements of this episode resurface in "Future
    Imperfect" in the fourth season.
  Guest Cast:  Carolyn McCormick (Minuet), Gene Dynarski (Commander Quinteros),
    Katy Boyer (Zero One), Alexandra Johnson (One Zero), Iva Lane (Zero Zero),
    Kelli Ann McNally (One One), Jack Sheldon (Piano Player), Abdul Salaam El
    Razzac (Bass Player), Ron Brown (Drummer)

15      TOO SHORT A SEASON
        teleplay by Michael Michaelian and D.C. Fontana
        story by Michael Michaelian
        directed by Rob Bowman
        music by George Romanis
  Stardate 41309.5:  Admiral Mark Jameson, requested by Governor Karnas of the
    "beseiged" planet Mordan IV, is being transported to a planet he started a
    war on forty years ago.  Picard finds that the elderly Admiral has overdosed
    on an illicit alien youth drug, anticipating that he will need to be
    youthful and vigorous to combat terrorists.  But he doesn't expect the side
    effects of the substances, which only appear once Jameson has already gotten
    Picard and his away team into deep trouble.
  Guest Cast:  Clayton Rohner (Admiral Jameson), Marsha Hunt (Anne Jameson),
    Michael Pataki (Karnas)

16      WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS
        written by Hannah Louise Shearer
        directed by Kim Manners
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 41509.1:  Wesley and the most intelligent children of the Enterprise
    are kidnapped by the powerful Aldeans, aliens of lore who have the power to
    cloak their planet from view but do not realize that the energy powering
    their miraculous world is responsible for the sterility of their race.  At
    the insistence of Dr. Crusher and other parents of the other kidnapped
    children, Picard tries to negotiate with the Aldeans, which only angers
    them.
  Guest Cast:  Jerry Hardin (Radue), Brenda Strong (Rashella), Jandi Swanson
    (Duana), Paul Lambert (Rellien), Ivy Bethune (Katie), Dierk Torsek (Dr.
    Bernard), Michele Marsh (Leda), Dan Mason (Accolan), Philip N. Waller (Harry
    Bernard), Connie Danese (Toya), Jessica Bova (Alexandra), Vanessa Bova
    (Alexandra)

17      HOME SOIL
        teleplay by Robert Sabaroff
        story by Karl Guers, Ralph Sanchez and Robert Sabaroff
        directed by Corey Allen
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 41463.9:  The Enterprise arrives to check up on a terraforming
    station, where the researchers and the visiting Away Team are unaware that
    the unseen killer in their midst is an intelligence whose existence is
    threatened by the changes to be effected on the planet.
  Guest Cast:  Walter Gotell (Mandl), Elizabeth Lindsey (Louisa Kim), Gerard
    Pendergrast (Bjorn Bensen), Mario Roccuzzo (Arthur Malencon), Carolyne Barry
    (Female Engineer)

18      COMING OF AGE
        written by Sandy Fries
        directed by Michael Vejar
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 41416.2:  Wesley is faced with a challenging test of his intelligence
    as he auditions to be a Starfleet cadet, but hedoes not realize that the
    psychological exam he is to receive is the more grueling barrier.  Aboard
    the Enterprise, the Captain is investigated by a pair of Starfleet officers
    who seem to have one thing on their minds: finding some fault in Picard's
    logs with which to begin a court-martial to take him out of the command
    chair, suspecting Picard is part of a conspiracy within the ranks of
    Starfleet.
       This is the first episode to show one of the new Enterprise's shuttles
    in action.  Ward Costello and Robert Schenkkan (also a Pulitzer Prize
    winning playwright) appear in "Conspiracy" later in the first season.
  Guest Cast:  Ward Costello (Admiral Quinn), Robert Schenkkan (Commander
    Remmick), John Putch (Mordock), Robert Ito (TAC Officer Chang), Stephen
    Gregory (Jake Kurland), Tasia Valenza (T'Shanik), Estee Chandler (Oliana
    Mirren), Brendan McKane (Technician #1), Wyatt Knight (Technician #2),
    Daniel Riordan (Rondon)

19      HEART OF GLORY
        teleplay by Maurice Hurley
        story by Maurice Hurley, Herbert Wright and D.C. Fontana
        directed by Rob Bowman
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 41503.7:  Worf's loyalties are tested to the limits as renegade
    Klingons who at first seem to be refugees of an unjust system of law are
    rescued from a doomed freighter by the Enterprise.  But the survivors soon
    turn out to terrorists who favor a return to the Klingon ways of old and see
    the Enterprise as the ideal weapon with which to begin a new reign of
    terror.
  Guest Cast:  Vaughn Armstrong (Korris), Charles H. Hyman (Konmel), David
    Froman (K'Nera), Robert Bauer (Kunivas), Brad Zerbst (Nurse), Dennis
    Madalone (Ramos)

20      THE ARSENAL OF FREEDOM
        teleplay by Richard Manning and Hans Beimler
        story by Maurice Hurley and Robert Lewin
        directed by Les Landau
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 41798.2:  An Away Team consisting of Riker, Data and Yar runs
    headlong into danger when Riker is put in suspended animation by an
    intelligent robot weapon which proved to be too powerful for its creators -
    and it looks as if it may eliminate the away team, joined by Picard and Dr.
    Crusher, while its counterpart attacks the Enterprise, where Geordi fears
    his experience may not be enough to help the crew survive.
  Guest Cast:  Vincent Schiavelli (Salesman), Macro Rodriguez (Captain Rice),
    Vyto Ruginis (Logan), Julia Nickson (Ensign Tsu), George De La Pena (Lt.
    Solis)

21      SYMBIOSIS
        teleplay by Robert Lewin, Richard Manning and Hans Beimler
        story by Robert Lewin
        directed by Win Phelps
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate not given:  The Enterprise beams four passengers of a freighter
    aboard just before their vessel explodes in a planet's atmosphere, but the
    two pairs of survivors can't agree on who gets a barrel of felicium, an
    "elixir" which Dr. Crusher soon recognizes to be a narcotic - but the
    manufacturers of the drug soon see an opportunity to exploit their
    dependents by entangling Picard and Dr. Crusher in the prime directive.
  Guest Cast:  Judson Scott (Sobi), Merritt Butrick (T'Jon), Richard Lineback
    (Romas), Kimberly Farr (Langor), Kenneth Tigar (Margan)

22      SKIN OF EVIL
        teleplay by Joseph Stefano and Hannah Louise Shearer
        story by Joseph Stefano
        directed by Joseph L. Scanlan
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 41601.3:  The Enterprise rushes to rescue a shuttlecraft carrying
    Troi, and the Away Team discovers that Armus, an evil entity, is preventing
    them from saving Troi and the shuttle pilot.  To make sure that its point is
    clear, Armus kills Tasha Yar and torments Troi and the rest of the crew.
       Denise Crosby officially leaves the regular cast with this episode -
    though she will appear later in the series, but not always as Tasha.
  Guest Cast:  Mart McChesney (Armus), Ron Gans (voice of Armus), Walker Boone
    (Leyland T. Lynch), Brad Zerbst (Nurse), Raymond Forchion (Ben Prieto)

23      WE'LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS
        written by Deborah Dean Davis and Hannah Louise Shearer
        directed by Robert Becker
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 41697.9:  Picard and the crew investigate the source of distortions
    in time that are being felt across the galaxy and discover the ailing
    temporal scientist Dr. Manheim's experiments have malfunctioned, sending his
    consciousness into an alternate dimension and leaving his body to die in Dr.
    Crusher's sick bay, while his wife turns out to be the girl Picard left
    behind to join Starfleet.
  Guest Cast:  Michelle Phillips (Janice Manheim), Rod Loomis (Dr. Paul
    Manheim), Isabel Lorca (Gabrielle), Dan Kern (Lt. Dean), Jean-Paul Vignon
    (Edourd), Kelly Ashmore (Francine), Lance Spellerberg (Transporter Chief)

24      CONSPIRACY
        teleplay by Tracy Torme'
        story by Robert Sabaroff
        directed by Cliff Bole
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 41775.5:  Picard is taken into the confidence of his good friend
    Captain Walker Keel, who warns that Starfleet is slowly being taken over by
    a conspiracy that plans to use the resources of Starfleet for conquest.
    After the shocking destruction of Keel's ship and a series of grisly
    discoveries about the High Admirals of Starfleet, Picard learns that Earth
    is the home of the queen of an alien swarm...
  Guest Cast:  Henry Darrow (Admiral Savaar), Ward Costello (Admiral Quinn),
    Robert Schenkkan (Commander Remmick), Ray Reinhardt (Admiral Aaron),
    Jonathan Farwell (Captain Walker Keel), Michael Berryman (Captain Rixx),
    Ursaline Bryant (Captain Tryla Scott)

25      THE NEUTRAL ZONE
        television story and teleplay by Maurice Hurley
        from a story by Deborah McIntyre and Mona Clee
        directed by James L. Conway
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 41986.0:  Data, curious about three cryogenically frozen earth
    people from the 20th century found in a derelict preservation satellite,
    brings them back to the ship and Dr. Crusher revives them.  Meanwhile,
    Picard and Riker must be prepared to negotiate or fight as the Romulans
    return to the borders of the neutral zone - and the 20th century visitors
    only complicate matters.
       Although not actually seen in this episode, the Borg are later said to
    have caused the destruction of the Federation and Romulan outposts.
  Guest Cast:  Marc Alaimo (Subcommander Tebok), Anthony James (Subcommander
    Thei), Leon Rippy (L.Q. "Sonny" Clemonds), Gracie Harrison (Claire Raymond),
    Peter Mark Richman (Ralph Offenhouse)


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       (season delayed and shortened due to 1988 Writers' Guild Strike)

26      THE CHILD
        written by Jaron Summers & Jon Povill and Maurice Hurley
        directed by Rob Bowman
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 42073.1:  Counselor Troi, impregnated by an alien entity, gives birth
    to a child whose mind is not that of a child but of an alien wishing to
    discover the variety of human experience.  Meanwhile, the ship's newly
    promoted chief engineer, Geordi, and newcomer Doctor Katherine Pulaski are
    faced with the possibility of a fatal shipwide epidemic...
       This story was originally conceived in the mid 1970s as an episode of the
    aborted "Star Trek II" series which was to have been a new series with the
    original crew of the Enterprise.  It is also notable for being the first
    appearance of Guinan.
  Season 2 Regular Cast:  Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard), Jonathan Frakes
    (Commander Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Geordi La Forge), Michael Dorn (Lt.
    Worf), Marina Sirtis (Counselor Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data),
    Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher)
  Guest Cast:  Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski), Seymour Cassel (Lt. Commander Hester
    Dealt), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), R.J. Williams (Ian), Colm Meaney
    (Transporter Chief), Dawn Arnemann (Miss Gladstone), Zachary Benjamin (Young
    Ian), Dore Keller (Crewman)

27      WHERE SILENCE HAS LEASE
        written by Jack B. Sowards
        directed by Winrich Kolbe
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 42193.6:  Picard is confronted by an invincible alien intelligence
    who can alter the crew's very perceptions of reality, and is horrified to
    learn that the entity plans on using half of the humans on board as lab
    animals to determine how many ways humans can die, so the captain, after
    exhausting all the options, sets for self-destruct.
  Guest Cast:  Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski), Earl Boen (Nagilum), Charles
    Douglass (Ensign Haskell), Colm Meaney (Transporter Chief)

28      ELEMENTARY, DEAR DATA
        written by Brian Alan Lane
        directed by Rob Bowman
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 42286.3:  Doctor Pulaski bets Geordi that Data would be overwhelmed
    if confronted with an intricate Holmesesque mystery he has not yet read or
    experienced, and when the chief engineer and Data put this to the test, a
    too-perfect holodeck program almost ensures that not only will Data be
    beaten, but the Enterprise may be commandeered by Professor Moriarty.
       Professor Moriarty returns to the holodeck in sixth season's "Ship in a
    Bottle."
  Guest Cast:  Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski), Daniel Davis (Professor Moriarty),
    Alan Shearman (Inspector Lestrade), Biff Manard (Ruffian), Diz White
    (Prostitute), Anne Elizabeth Ramsay (Assistant Engineer Clancy), Richard
    Merson (Pie Man)

29      THE OUTRAGEOUS OKONA
        teleplay by Burton Armus
        story by Les Menchen, Lance Dickson and David Landsberg
        directed by Robert Becker
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 42402.7:  A nonchalant space rogue is welcomed aboard the Enterprise
    by Picard and the crew, but the pleasantries of his visit are cut short by
    two representatives of rival worlds demanding Okona's life for crimes he
    claims not to have committed - yet he does know who the guilty parties are
    and it's up to him to unite the aggressors.
  Guest Cast:  William O. Campbell (Okona), Douglas Rowe (Debin), Albert
    Stratton (Kushell), Rosalind Ingledew (Yanar), Kieran Mulroney (Benzan), Joe
    Piscopo (The Comic), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Teri Hatcher (Transporter
    Chief)

30      LOUD AS A WHISPER
        written by Jacqueline Zambrano
        directed by Larry Shaw
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 42477.2:  The Enterprise is forbidden to interfere in negotiations to
    be conducted by their passenger, the deaf, mute mediator Riva, who seems
    more interested in Counselor Troi than in seriously bringing two warring
    factions together.  It is only when his Greek-like Chorus, a vital element
    in his task since they translate his thoughts into speech, is destroyed by a
    trigger-happy alien that Riva truly worries about the task he must
    accomplish.
  Guest Cast:  Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski), Marnie Mosiman, Thomas Oglesby, Leo
    Damian (The Chorus), Howie Seago (Riva), Colm Meaney (Transporter Chief),
    Richard Lavin (Warrior #1), Chip Heller (Warrior #2), John Garrett
    (Lieutenant)

31      THE SCHIZOID MAN
        teleplay by Tracy Torme'
        story by Richard Manning and Hans Beimler
        directed by Les Landau
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 42437.5:  An Enterprise away team answers a distress signal from the
    habitat of one Dr. Ira Graves, who has been stricken with a terminal illness
    that could strike at any time.  As he has been working for some time on a
    way to transfer his memories and personality into a computer, he naturally
    sees Data as the perfect alpha test model.
  Guest Cast:  Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski), W. Morgan Sheppard (Dr. Ira
    Graves), Suzie Plakson (Lt. Selar), Barbara Alyn Woods (Kareen Brianon)

32      UNNATURAL SELECTION
        written by John Mason and Mike Gray
        directed by Paul Lynch
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 42494.8:  The Enterprise crew discover the disabled USS Lantree
    adrift in deep space - adrift because the crew has been inflicted with a
    disease which induces rapid aging and death!  Doctor Pulaski personally
    involves herself in the search for a cure at a doomed genetic research base
    and becomes the most recent victim of the disease.
       This is the first episode in which the Transporter Chief played by Colm
    Meaney is given a name: O' Brien.
  Guest Cast:  Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski), Patricia Smith (Dr. Sara Kingsley),
    Colm Meaney (Transporter Chief O' Brien), J. Patrick McNamara (Captain
    Taggert), Scott Trost (Ensign)

33      A MATTER OF HONOR
        teleplay by Burton Armus
        story by Wanda M. Haight, Gregory Amos and Burton Armus
        directed by Rob Bowman
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 42506.5:  Riker becomes the first Federation officer ever to serve on
    board a Klingon vessel which is slowly warping toward its destruction - and
    the negligence of a Benzite "exchange student" on the Enterprise is
    responsible for arousing the ruthless Klingon captain's suspicions,
    provoking a savage attack on the Enterprise...
  Guest Cast:  Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski), John Putch (Ensign Mendon),
    Christopher Collins (Captain Kargan), Brian Thompson (Lt. Klag), Colm Meaney
    (Chief O' Brien), Peter Parros (Tactics Officer), Laura Drake (Vemka)

34      THE MEASURE OF A MAN
        written by Melinda M. Snodgrass
        directed by Robert Scheerer
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 42523.7:  When Data refuses to participate in a Starfleet scientist's
    android experiments where he will serve not only as a blueprint but as a
    guinea pig and spare part supply, he is put on trial and Picard wrangles
    with the premise that Data is not a free agent but the property of Starfleet
    - and Captain Louvois assigns Riker to prosecute.
  Guest Cast:  Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski), Amanda McBroom (Captain Phillipa
    Louvois), Clyde Kusatsu (Admiral Nakamura), Brian Brophy (Commander Bruce
    Maddox), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Colm Meaney (Chief O' Brien)

35      THE DAUPHIN
        written by Scott Rubenstein and Leonard Mlodinow
        directed by Rob Bowman
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 42568.8:  Wesley is attracted to an alien princess whose is
    accompanied on the Enterprise by a severe governess as they journey to a
    world where they will become the new leaders of her civilization, and
    despite the warnings from the less-than-human governess, Wesley also finds
    out that the princess has some surprises in store for him as well.
  Guest Cast: Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski), Paddi Edwards (Anya), Jamie Hubbard
    (Salia), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Colm Meaney (Chief O' Brien), Peter
    Neptune (Aron), Madchen Amick (Teenage Girl), Cindy Sorenson (Furry Animal),
    Jennifer Barlow (Ensign Gibson)

36      CONTAGION
        written by Steve Gerber and Beth Woods
        directed by Joseph L. Scanlan
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 42609.1:  After witnessing the tragic destruction of the Galaxy class
    starship Yamato in the Neutral Zone, Picard follows Yamato Captain Donald
    Varley's haunch that the planet Iconia contains the valuable remnants of a
    now extinct but technologically advanced civilization, leaving Riker on the
    malfunctioning Enterprise to deal with a Romulan warship.
  Guest Cast:  Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski), Thalmus Rasulala (Captain Donald
    Varley), Carolyn Seymour (Subcommander Taris), Dana Sparks (Tactics
    Officer), Colm Meaney (Chief O' Brien), Folkert Schmidt (Doctor)

37      THE ROYALE
        written by Keith Mills (Tracy Torme')
        directed by Cliff Bole
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 42625.4:  Riker, Worf and Data transport to the surface of what
    should be a poison-shrouded world after finding debris of a NASA space
    vessel, and discover a structure containing a reproduction of the literary
    Hotel and Casino Royale, and their only help is from the book itself as they
    read their lines - and between their lines.
  Guest Cast:  Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski), Sam Anderson (The Assistant
    Manager), Jill Jacobson (Vanessa), Leo Garcia (The Bellboy), Noble
    Willingham (Texas), Colm Meaney (Chief O' Brien), Gregory Beecroft ("Mickey
    D")

38      TIME SQUARED
        teleplay by Burton Armus
        story by Kurt Michael Bensmiller
        directed by Joseph L. Scanlan
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 42679.2:  Picard is left beside himself when the Enterprise
    encounters a future incarnation of himself in a battered Enterprise
    shuttlecraft, containing visual and captain's logs describing the
    destruction of the ship and its crew, except for Picard, by an "energy
    vortex," and according to the logs, the encounter is only six hours away.
       This episode introduces the smaller shuttle, a "shuttlepod," which the
    show's Writers' Technical Manual describes as "a small two-person craft
    about the size of a Hyundai."
  Guest Cast:  Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski), Colm Meaney (Chief O' Brien)

39      THE ICARUS FACTOR
        teleplay by David Assael and Robert L. McCullough
        story by David Assael
        directed by Robert Iscove
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 42686.4:  Riker, offered a command of his own patrolling a hazardous
    area of deep space, is also offered advice and a long-overdue retraction of
    old hostilities from his father, but the impetuous first officer refuses all
    of this in an attempt to maintain an image of independence in the eyes of
    his crewmates and his father.
       "Entertainment Tonight" co-anchor John Tesh plays one of the hologram
    Klingons in this episode.
  Guest Cast:  Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski), Colm Meaney (Chief O' Brien),
    Mitchell Ryan (Kyle Riker), Lance Spellerbeg (Ensign Herbert)

40      PEN PALS
        teleplay by Melinda M. Snodgrass
        story by Hannah Louise Shearer
        directed by Winrich Kolbe
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 42695.3:  While on an extended research patrol through a star cluster
    whose planets' geologic activity rips them apart from inside, Data on the
    Enterprise makes contact with a primitive being on one of these planets
    which is now in immediate danger and has to plead with the prime directive-
    conscious Picard to help his newfound friend.
  Guest Cast:  Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski), Nicholas Cascone (Ensign Davies),
    Nikki Cox (Sarjenka), Ann H. Gillespie (Ensign Hildebrant), Colm Meaney
    (Chief O' Brien), Whitney Rydbeck (Ensign Alans)

41      Q WHO
        written by Maurice Hurley
        directed by Rob Bowman
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 42761.3:  Q returns once more to the Enterprise to plead his case to
    Picard for a position as a crewman on the ship after being expelled from the
    Q Continuum.  When refused, the godlike alien propels the Enterprise
    thousands of light years to prove to Picard that some threats are too much
    for humanity, and the Borg is one of these threats...
       This episode is the first to show the Borg, a race first mentioned
    (though not by name) in "The Neutral Zone".  According to writer/producer
    Maurice Hurley, the Borg were originally intended to be insects instead of
    cyborgs.
  Guest Cast:  John de Lancie (Q), Lycia Naff (Ensign Gomez), Colm Meaney
    (Chief O' Brien), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan)

42      SAMARITAN SNARE
        written by Robert L. McCullough
        directed by Les Landau
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 42779.1:  Riker and the crew attempt to rescue Geordi from a slow
    witted crew of Pakleds who claim to need the chief engineer's technical
    expertise, while the captain, who is at a medical research base receiving a
    heart transplant, is about to die in the hands of a surgeon not possessed of
    Dr. Pulaski's skill.
  Guest Cast:  Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski), Christopher Collins (Grebnedlog),
    Leslie Morris (Reginod), Daniel Benzali (Chief Surgeon), Lycia Naff (Ensign
    Gomez), Tzi Ma (Biomolecular Physiologist)

43      UP THE LONG LADDER
        written by Melinda M. Snodgrass
        directed by Winrich Kolbe
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 42823.2:  Signals arrive from two colonies in a distant star system,
    one of which is found by the Enterprise crew to be a motley collection of
    "primitives," and the other, a group of clones whose gene pool is fading.
    The clones need fresh genes from the crew and are willing to use force to
    ensure their survive.
  Guest Cast:  Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski), Barrie Ingham (Danilo O' Dell), Jon
    de Vries (Wilson Granger/Victor Granger), Rosalyn Landor (Brenna O' Dell),
    Colm Meaney (Chief O' Brien)

44      MANHUNT
        written by Terry Devereaux (Tracy Torme')
        directed by Rob Bowman
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 42859.2:  The Enterprise crew welcomes some fishlike Antedian
    delegates to a peace summit and, on short notice, Troi's bothersome mother.
    Mrs. Troi, now in a phase of increased sexual activity, has come to the
    Enterprise to "visit" Picard, which meets with disapproval from Counselor
    Troi and amusement from Riker - while the captain hides in the holodeck
    generated world of Dixon Hill once more.
       Tracy Torme' used a pseudonym for this episode and "The Royale," having
    since stated this his original scripts for both episodes were rewritten
    against his wishes.
  Guest Cast:  Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski), Majel Barrett (Lwaxana Troi),
    Robert Costanzo (Slade Bender), Carel Struycken (Mr. Homn), Rod Arrants
    (Rex), Colm Meaney (Chief O' Brien), Robert O' Reilly (Client), Rhonda
    Aldrich (Madeline), Mick Fleetwood (Antedian Delegate), Wren T. Brown
    (Transport Pilot)

45      THE EMISSARY
        television story & teleplay by Richard Manning and Hans Beimler
        based on an unpublished story by Thomas H. Calder
        directed by Cliff Bole
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 42901.3:  The Enterprise becomes the temporary home of a priority-one
    emissary from the Federation who has been sent to deal with a dire emergency
    - a crew of 23rd century Klingons in suspended animation is about to be
    awakened by their ship's "alarm clock" to wage war against the former
    enemies of the Klingons - the Federation.
  Guest Cast:  Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski), Suzie Plakson (K'Ehleyr), Lance le
    Gault (Captain K'Temoc), Georgann Johnson (Admiral Gromek), Colm Meaney
    (Chief O' Brien), Anne Elizabeth Ramsey (Ensign Clancy), Dietrich Bader
    (Tactics Officer)

46      PEAK PERFORMANCE
        written by David Kemper
        directed by Robert Scheerer
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 42923.4:  The Enterprise undertakes Federation-mandated wargames, as
    Zacdorn tactical observer Sima Kolrami observes and, more often, pesters
    the crew.  Picard is pitted against Riker in a maneuver that is harmless
    until a Ferengi attack puts the crew of the Enterprise and the Hathaway,
    Riker's vessel in a no-win situation - which Riker has the key to.
  Guest Cast:  Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski), Roy Brocksmith (Sirna Kolrami),
    Armin Shimerman (DaiMon Bractor), David L. Lander (Ferengi First Officer),
    Leslie Neale (Ensign Nagel), Glenn Morshower (Ensign Burke)

47      SHADES OF GRAY
        teleplay by Maurice Hurley, Richard Manning & Hans Beimler
        story by Maurice Hurley
        directed by Rob Bowman
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 42976.1:  While exploring a new planet with Geordi, Riker is stung
    by an alien thorn whose poison creeps up his spine toward his brain.
    Pulaski brings him back to the ship and tries to trigger emotional
    responses to destroy the poison by forcing the first officer to remember
    his past adventures.
  Guest Cast:  Diana Muldaur (Dr. Pulaski), Colm Meaney (Chief O' Brien)


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48      EVOLUTION
        teleplay by Michael Piller
        story by Michael Piller and Michael Wagner
        directed by Winrich Kolbe
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 43125.8:  While the crew of the Enterprise races against the clock
    to launch a space probe for a critical experiment, a culture of experimental
    microbe-machines accidentally released by Wesley threatens to render the
    Enterprise uninhabitable.
  Season 3 Regular Cast:  Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard), Jonathan Frakes
    (Commander Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge), Michael
    Dorn (Lt. Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor
    Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher)
  Guest Cast:  Ken Jenkins (Dr. Paul Stubbs), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Mary
    McCusker (Nurse), Randal Patrick (Crewman #1)

49      THE ENSIGNS OF COMMAND
        written by Melinda M. Snodgrass
        directed by Cliff Bole
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate not given:  Data attempts to convince the stubborn leader of an
    endangered colony that his people must evacuate the planet or face certain
    extinction at the hands of a race of ruthless aliens also seeking a planet
    to colonize.
  Guest Cast:  Eileen Seeley (Ard'rian MacKenzie), Granger Hines (Gosheven),
    Mark L. Taylor (Haritath), Richard Allen (Kentor), Colm Meaney (Chief O'
    Brien), Mart McChesney (Sheliak)

50      THE SURVIVORS
        written by Michael Wagner
        directed by Les Landau
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 43142.4:  Captain Picard unravels one horrifying mystery after
    another while trying to persuade two people who are apparently the only
    survivors of an obliterated population of eleven thousand that their
    assailants have returned.
  Guest Cast:  John Anderson (Kevin Uxbridge), Anne Haney (Rishon Uxbridge)

51      WHO WATCHES THE WATCHERS?
        written by Richard Manning and Hans Beimler
        directed by Robert Wiemer
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 43173.5:  A hidden outpost on a distant planet where Starfleet
    anthropologists are observing a primitve race of Vulcan-like beings is
    revealed after a mechanical malfunction, polluting the primitives' religious
    and ethical beliefs and causing one of them to identify Picard with God.
  Guest Cast:  Kathryn Leigh Scott (Nuria), Ray Wise (Liko), James Greene (Dr.
    Barron), Pamela Segall (Oji), John McLiam (Fento), James McIntire (Hali),
    Lois Hall (Dr. Warren)

52      THE BONDING
        written by Ronald D. Moore
        directed by Winrich Kolbe
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 43198.7:  Worf's conscience struggles with a fatality under his
    command as a deceased crew member's young son confronts an alien life form
    that attempts to take on the physical and psychological characteristics of
    his mother.
  Guest Cast:  Susan Powell (Marla Aster), Gabriel Damon (Jeremy Aster), Colm
    Meaney (Chief O' Brien)

53      BOOBY TRAP
        teleplay by Ron Roman, Michael Piller and Richard Danus
        story by Michael Wagner and Ron Roman
        directed by Gabrielle Beaumont
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 43205.6:  After taking the Enterprise into a mysterious asteroid belt
    to examine the only known relic of a long-dead race, Picard discovers that
    the asteroid belt is actually a lethal snare and assigns La Forge the
    impossible task of finding a way out before it's too late.  Geordi turns to
    the holodeck for a simulation of one of the Enterprise's original designers
    to help him brainstorm an escape route.
  Guest Cast:  Susan Gibney (Dr. Leah Brahms), Colm Meaney (Chief O' Brien),
    Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Albert Hall (Galek Dar), Julie Warner (Christy)

54      THE ENEMY
        written by David Kemper and Michael Piller
        directed by David Carson
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 43349.2:  Trapped without the aid of his VISOR on a perpetually
    stormy planet, Geordi is aided and abetted in his attempts to send a
    distress signal to the Enterprise by a shipwrecked Romulan, as Picard tries
    to wring the truth out of a secretive Romulan commander en route to
    Federation space.
  Guest Cast:  John Snyder (Bochra), Andreas Katsulas (Commander Tomalok), Colm
    Meaney (Chief O' Brien), Steve Rankin (Patahk)

55      THE PRICE
        written by Hannah Louise Shearer
        directed by Robert Scheerer
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 43385.6:  Federation, Ferengi and third party delegates vie for
    control of a unique "wormhole" allowing instantaneous travel across reaches
    of uncharted space, and Troi makes discoveries both interesting and
    dangerous regarding one of the negotiators as the Ferengi plot to
    double-cross all and gain control of the wormhole.
  Guest Cast:  Matt McCoy (Devinoni Ral), Elizabeth Hoffman (Premier Bhavani),
    Castulo Guerra (Mendoza), Scott Thomson (DaiMon Goss), Dan Shor (Dr.
    Arridor), Kevin Peter Hall (Leyor), Colm Meaney (Chief O' Brien)

56      THE VENGEANCE FACTOR
        written by Sam Rolfe
        directed by Timothy Bond
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 43421.9:  Riker as a man of conscience and Picard as a diplomat run
    up against an age-old wall of mafia-likee blood feuding, almost certain to
    ruin the first negotiations between a clan of vicious pirates and a race of
    civilized if haughty beings in centuries.  Riker ends up with the most
    difficult decision of all...
  Guest Cast:  Lisa Wilcox (Yuta), Joey Aresco (Brull), Nancy Parsons (Sovereign
    Marouk), Stephen Lee (Chorgan), Marc Lawrence (Volnath), Elkanah J. Burns
    (Temarek)

57      THE DEFECTOR
        written by Ronald D. Moore
        directed by Robert Scheerer
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 43462.5:  A legendary Romulan strategist/warrior assumes a new
    identity and races to warn the Federation of a massive Romulan invasion in
    the near future, but his attempts are thwarted by the crew's prejudice and
    suspicions, not to mention the Romulans themselves, eager to do away with
    both the defector and the Enterprise.
  Guest Cast:  James Slovan (Setal/Admiral Jarok), Andreas Katsulas (Commander
    Tomalok), John Hancock (Starfleet Admiral), S.A. Templeman (Holodeck "John
    Bates"), Patrick Stewart (Holodeck "Michael Williams")

58      THE HUNTED
        written by Robin Bernheim
        directed by Cliff Bole
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 43489.2:  The Enterprise, sworn by Federation treaty to defend the
    inhabitants of a once war-torn world, is faced with a destructive challenge
    in the form of a biologically altered war veteran whose mind allows no mercy
    in the face of danger, but all he and his fellow soldiers want is their home
    and their freedom.
  Guest Cast:  Jeff McCarthy (Roga Danar), James Cromwell (Prime Minister
    Nayrok), Colm Meaney (Chief O' Brien), J. Michael Flynn (Zayner), Andrew
    Bicknell (Wagnor)

59      THE HIGH GROUND
        written by Melinda M. Snodgrass
        directed by Gabrielle Beaumont
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 43510.7:  While tending to innocent bystanders injured in the
    explosion of a terrorist bomb, Dr. Crusher is taken hostage by a ruthless
    freedom fighter who is blind to the fate of his rebellion and refuses to
    hear any argument from the Starfleet officers or the local law enforcers
    that his way of "liberating" his people may not be just.
       On BBC-TV, formerly England's only broadcast source for "Next
    Generation," this episode was banned due to fear its allegory to Irish
    Republican Army terrorism is too controversial (and then there's that bit
    about the Irish Reunification in the 21st century in which terrorism was a
    key element).
  Guest Cast:  Kerrie Keane (Devos), Richard Cox (Finn), Marc Buckland (Waiter),
    Fred G. Smith (Policeman), Christopher Pettiet (Boy)

60      DEJA Q
        written by Richard Danus
        directed by Les Landau
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 43539.1:  Q returns once again to the starship Enterprise, but this
    time his immortality and his powers have been rescinded by the members of
    the Q Continuum, and he must help the crew contend with an asteroid that
    threatens to devastate an entire civilization, while the Calamarain, aliens
    who have been chastised by Q in the past seek revenge on the ex-immortal.
  Guest Cast:  John de Lancie (Q), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Richard Cansino
    (Dr. Garin), Betty Muramoto (Scientist), Corbin Bernsen (Q 2)

61      A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE
        written by Ed Zuckerman
        directed by Cliff Bole
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 43610.4:  Commander Riker is accused of murder after the apparent
    sabotage and destruction of a science station, and the evidence seems almost
    certain to doom the First Officer's career, but Picard and Troi gamble on
    using the Holodeck to recreate testimonies from all the surviving parties
    and discover that the prosecution's case can be viewed from any number of
    entirely different points of view.
  Guest Cast:  Craig Richard Nelson (Chief Investigator Krag), Gina Hecht (Mrs.
    Apgar), Mark Margolis (Dr. Apgar), Colm Meaney (Chief O' Brien), Juli Donald
    (Tayna)

62      YESTERDAY'S ENTERPRISE
        teleplay by Ira Steven Behr, Richard Manning, Hans Beimler
                and Ronald D. Moore
        from a story by Trent Christopher Ganino and Eric A. Stillwell
        directed by David Carson
        music by Dennis McCarthy  (Crescendo GNP cassette & CD # GNPD 8031)
  Stardate 43625.2:  The derelict Enterprise NCC-1701-C, thought destroyed 24
    years ago, emerges through a temporal rift, rewriting history for the crew
    of the Galaxy class Enterprise: the Federation is losing a war to the
    Klingons, Tasha Yar is still alive and fighting - and the crew of
    "yesterday's" Enterprise must return to their own past to restore the
    timelines.  And only Guinan can tell that anything seems out of place...
       The events in this story have vast repercussions on the "past" and future
    of the Federation and the Romulan Empire, as witnessed in the fourth season
    story "Redemption" and its fifth season successor "Redemption II."  Dennis
    McCarthy's score for "Yesterday's Enterprise" was nominated for an Emmy in
    1990 - the episode's award-winning sound mix, impressive though it is in
    other areas, doesn't really do the music justice.
  Guest Cast:  Denise Crosby (Lt. Tasha Yar), Christopher McDonald (Lt. Richard
    Castillo), Tricia O' Neil (Captain Garrett), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan)

63      THE OFFSPRING
        written by Rene Echeverria
        directed by Jonathan Frakes
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 43657.0:  Data is inspired by a cybernetics conference he has
    attended and, after spending extensive off-duty time in his lab, announces
    that he has created Lal, an android "daughter" - which does not please the
    captain at first, but when Starfleet Admiral Haftell arrives with the
    intention of taking Lal off the Enterprise, Data's child experiences an
    irreversible malfunction: emotion!
  Guest Cast:  Hallie Todd (Lal), Nicolas Coster (Admiral Haftell), Whoopi
    Goldberg (Guinan), Judyann Elder (Lt. Ballard), Diana Moser, Hayne Bayle,
    Maria Leone, James G. Becker (Ten Forward Crew), Leonard John Crofoot
    ("generic" Lal)

64      SINS OF THE FATHER
        teleplay by Ronald D. Moore and W. Reed Moran
        based on a teleplay by Drew Deighan
        directed by Les Landau
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 43685.2:  The Enterprise receives a Klingon first officer on the
    Federation exchange program, Commander Kurn, who tests Worf's nerve and
    turns out to be the security chief's brother, seperated from Worf at birth.
    Worf learns that their father has been indicted on charges of betraying the
    Khitomer Outpost - which is where he died.  The execution will be carried
    out on Worf's family name, and he returns to the First City of the Klingon
    Empire and discovers the true traitor, but also finds that even Klingons
    can be totally dishonest and dishonorable, and after Kurn and Captain Picard
    become the targets of assassins, Worf pays for a crime his father did not
    commit with his own honor.
       The storyline in this episode is expanded in the fourth season segments
    "Reunion" and "Redemption," and the fifth season's "Redemption II."
  Guest Cast:  Charles Cooper (K'mpec), Tony Todd (Commander Kurn), Patrick
    Massett (Duras), Thelma Lee (Kahlest), Teddy Davis (Transporter Technician)

65      ALLEGIANCE
        written by Richard Manning and Hans Beimler
        directed by Winrich Kolbe
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 43714.1:  Captain Picard is kidnapped and deposited in a "laboratory
    maze" with three other captives - one of whom is actually an observer for
    the captors in disguise - while a replica of Picard begins to wreak havoc
    with the crew of the Enterprise, leaving Riker no choice but mutiny.
  Guest Cast:  Stephen Markle (Thol), Reiner Schone (Esoqq), Jocelyn O' Brien
    (Metina Haro), Jerry Rector (Maropa), Jeff Rector (Maropa)

66      CAPTAIN'S HOLIDAY
        written by Ira Steven Behr
        directed by Chip Chalmers
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 43745.2:  Captain Picard, after returning from tiring diplomatic
    duties, is pressed into taking a vacation on Risa by most of the bridge
    crew.  Once on peaceful Risa, Picard is tangled up in a plan by 27th century
    aliens to retrieve a weapon that has made its way back in time to the 24th
    century, and plots by an unscrupulous Ferengi trader and a mysterious woman
    to gain that weapon for their own purposes.
       Vash returns to haunt Picard again in the fourth season's story "Qpid,"
    and appears in "Deep Space Nine"'s first season episode "Q-Less."
  Guest Cast:  Jennifer Hetrick (Vash), Karen Landry (Azhure), Michael Champion
    (Baratus), Max Grodenchik (Sovak), Deirdre Imershein (Joval)

67      TIN MAN
        written by Robert Bischoff and David Putman Bailey
        directed by Robert Scheerer
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 43779.3:  The Enterprise is called on to transport first-contact
    specialist Tam Elbrun - a full Betazoid and one-time mental patient - to
    Beta Strongren to make initial contact with an alien life form representing
    the last of its species, but things go disastrously wrong when Romulan
    attackers show up, and Tam Elbrun decides to stay behind to remain in
    contact with the creature.
  Guest Cast:  Harry Groener (Tam Elbrun), Michael Cavanaugh (Captain Robert
    DeSoto), Peter Vogt (Romulan Captain), Colm Meaney (Chief O' Brien)

68      HOLLOW PURSUITS
        written by Sally Caves (Sarah Higley)
        directed by Cliff Bole
        music by Dennis McCarthy  (Crescendo GNP cassette & CD # GNPD 8031)
  Stardate 43807.4:  Engineering Lieutenant Reginald Barclay, a new member of
    Geordi's staff, shirks his duties in favor of spending time on the holodeck,
    where he has constructed intricate programs simulating members of the bridge
    crew as he sees them: Picard, Data and Geordi as the Three Musketeers, Dr.
    Crusher as a sort of fair maiden with Wesley as an asinine blueberry
    pie-eating Blue Boy - and Counselor Troi as a seductive goddess.  When the
    real crew learns of Barclay's holo-addiction, all hell breaks loose.
       Barclay returns in fourth season's "The Nth Degree," and again in the
    sixth season stories "Realm of Fear" and "Ship in a Bottle."
  Guest Cast:  Dwight Schultz (Lt. Barclay), Charley Lang (Lt. Duffy), Colm
    Meaney (Chief O' Brien), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan)

69      THE MOST TOYS
        written by Shari Goodhartz
        directed by Timothy Bond
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 43872.2:  Data is kidnapped by a greedy collector of one-of-a-kind
    items and species who considers the android a prize for his collection and
    fools the crew of the Enterprise into thinking that Data has been killed in
    a freak shuttle accident.  Data then squares off in a grueling psychological
    battle with his captor and almost tastes vengeance for the first time as a
    woman who attempts to help Data escape is killed in cold blood by the
    unscrupulous hoarder.
  Guest Cast:  Saul Rubinek (Kivas Fajo), Nehemiah Persoff (Toff), Jane Daly
    (Varria), Colm Meaney (Chief O' Brien)

70      SAREK
        television story and teleplay by Peter S. Beagle
        from an unpublished story by Marc Cushman & Jake Jacobs
        directed by Les Landau
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 43917.4:  Famed Vulcan Ambassador Sarek, father of Spock, beams
    aboard the Enterprise to be transported to his final diplomatic duty.  But
    he is suffering the initial symptoms of a mind-deteriorating Vulcan disease
    and his Vulcan telepathic skills inadvertantly project violent, irrational
    impulses in the crew's minds.  Picard decides to risk a mind-meld to
    stabilize Sarek for the negotiations, but the captain risks his own sanity.
       Sarek reappears - for the final time - in "Unification I" in the fifth
    season.
  Guest Cast:  Mark Lenard (Ambassador Sarek), Joanna Miles (Perrin), William
    Denis (Kiv Mendrossen), Rocco Sisto (Sakkath), Colm Meaney (Chief O' Brien),
    John H. Francis (Science Crewman)

71      MENAGE A TROI
        written by Fred Bronson and Susan Sackett
        directed by Robert Legato
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 43930.7:  Lwaxana Troi visits her daughter at the same time a trade
    conference is taking place.  Ferengi DaiMon Tog decides that Mrs. Troi is
    the woman for him, and he kidnaps her along with Deanna and Riker.  On the
    Enterprise, Wesley forgoes an opportunity to travel to the Academy to help
    locate the Ferengi ship and recover Riker, Deanna and Mrs. Troi.  Picard
    rewards Wesley by promoting him from an acting ensign to a real Starfleet
    ensign.
  Guest Cast:  Majel Barrett (Lwaxana Troi), Frank Corsentino (DaiMon Tog),
    Ethan Phillips (Dr. Farek), Peter Slutsker (Nibor), Rudolph Willrich
    (Reittan Grax), Carel Struycken (Mr. Homn)

72      TRANSFIGURATIONS
        written by Rene Echevarria
        directed by Tom Benko
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 43957.2:  The Enterprise crew rescues the injured lone survivor of a
    shipwrecked escape pod who has lost his memory and all traces of his
    identity.  As the survivor, dubbed "John Doe" by the crew, recovers, he
    develops a rapport with Doctor Crusher and the rest of the crew, but his
    recovery almost seems too miraculous and it is discovered that not only is
    John Doe recuperating with incredible speed, but he is mutating as well.
    But his presence on the Enterprise is seen by all as a benefit; the
    Crushers grow close to Doe, Geordi grows close to another Enterprise crew
    member, and all seems well with the exception of Doe's occasional mutative
    side effects until Sunad - obviously of the same race as Doe - arrives to
    take Doe, who he claims to be a dangerous criminal, prisoner.  But it is
    soon revealed that John Doe is an outcast from his own society because he
    has been exiled by the normal elements of his people who fear his impending
    mutation into a higher life form.  When Sunad boards the Enterprise to take
    Doe, Doe completes his mutation and, forgiving his persecutors, sends Sunad
    back to his ship unharmed and departs from the Enterprise by himself.
  Guest Cast:  Mark LaMura (John Doe), Charles Dennis (Sunad), Julie Warner
    (Christy), Colm Meaney (Chief O' Brien), Patti Tippo (Nurse Temple)

73      THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS
        written by Michael Piller
        directed by Cliff Bole
        music by Ron Jones        (Crescendo GNP cassette & CD # GNPD 8026)
  Stardate 43989.1:  Lt. Commander Shelby, a tactical advisor from Starfleet
    with her eye on promotion to a first officer - perhaps of the Enterprise -
    joins the crew as they investigate the latest planet victimized by the Borg.
    After another Federation planet is attacked, the Enterprise sets off in
    pursuit of the Borg.  During the flight, Riker learns of Shelby's
    impetuousity and the possibility that he himself is long overdue to command
    a starship of his own.  The Borg intercepts the Enterprise and does critical
    damage, and the Enterprise enters a nebula to evade capture.  When some
    repairs are made, the Enterprise tries to escape but is captured by the
    Borg.  They board the Enterprise, kidnap Captain Picard, and warp toward
    Earth.  The Enterprise follows the Borg through Federation space until
    Geordi can't keep the warp engines up to speed.  Shelby leads an away team
    to the Borg vessel where she, Worf, Data and Dr. Crusher sabotage the Borg's
    internal power network.  They are attacked and hold off their attackers
    until the Borg adapt to generate their own shields against the crew's hand
    phasers.
       And Captain Picard is found - no longer human, modified into a Borg.  The
    away team returns to the Enterprise, leaving Riker with a momentous decision
    - he must use a variation of the Enterprise's deflectors to disrupt the Borg
    and possibly kill Picard.
  Guest Cast:  Elizabeth Dennehy (Lt. Commander Shelby), George Murdock (Admiral
    Hanson), Colm Meaney (Chief O' Brien), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan)


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74      THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS - part II
        written by Michael Piller
        directed by Cliff Bole
        music by Ron Jones        (Crescendo GNP cassette & CD # GNPD 8026)
  Stardate 44001.4:  The main deflector dish has no effect on the Borg because,
    having assimilated Picard and converted him into their spokesman, Locutus,
    the Borg know now every strategy and contingency that Picard had been
    informed of before his kidnapping.  Riker is promoted to Captain by Admiral
    Hanson, who then leads a fleet of 40 starships to Wolf 359 to confront the
    Borg, but the fleet's efforts are in vain - every starship is annihilated.
    Riker orders a cunning attack consisting of awkward strategies that Picard
    would never have carried out or expected, and an away team kidnaps Locutus
    and returns him to the Enterprise.  Data then links up to Locutus to access
    the Borg communication network, and every approach he takes to disarm the
    Borg down fails until the Borg arrive at Earth to begin their domination of
    the Federation.  Data triggers the Borg regeneration process, putting every
    Borg to "sleep," but this also triggers the self-destruction of the Borg
    ship.  Picard is freed from the Borg, Shelby returns to Starfleet to rebuild
    the fleet, and Riker remains on the Enterprise to continue serving as first
    officer.  However, staring out the window of his ready room, Picard's face
    indicates that all is not well...
       Of course, it was not even thought of at the time of this episode's
    production, but one of the very few survivors of the Borg attack at Wolf 359
    later turns up in his own series:  Commander Sisko of "Deep Space Nine," the
    premiere episode of which features scenes of the battle between the Borg and
    the Federation that was mentioned in this episode.
  Season 4 Regular Cast:  Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard), Jonathan Frakes
    (Commander Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge), Michael
    Dorn (Lt. Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor
    Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data), Wil Wheaton (Ensign Wesley
    Crusher)
  Guest Cast:  Elizabeth Dennehy (Lt. Commander Shelby), George Murdock (Admiral
    Hanson), Colm Meaney (O' Brien), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Todd Merrill
    (Gleason)

75      FAMILY
        written by Ronald D. Moore
        based in part on a premise by Susanne Lambdin and Bryan Stewart
        directed by Les Landau
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 44012.3:  In drydock at Earth Station McKinley, the Enterprise is
    undergoing extensive repairs while the crew, most notably Captain Picard,
    recover from the Borg invasion attempt.  Picard returns to France for a less
    than warm welcome from his brother Robert, while Worf's human foster parents
    beam aboard, concerned about Worf's feelings since his dishonor from the
    Klingon Empire.
  Guest Cast:  Jeremy Kemp (Robert Picard), Samantha Eggar (Marie Picard),
    Theodore Bikel (Sergey Rozhenko), Georgia Brown (Helena Rozhenko), Dennis
    Creaghan (Louis), Colm Meaney (O' Brien), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), David
    Tristan Birkin (Rene Picard), Doug Wert (Jack Crusher)

76      BROTHERS
        written by Rick Berman
        directed by Rob Bowman
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 44085.7:  While rushing a young boy to a Starbase medical facility
    after his older brother played a cruel practical joke on him, the Enterprise
    is suddenly diverted from her course and headed for an unknown,
    out-of-the-way planet.  What no one realizes until it's too late is that
    Data is responsible for this, having been taken over by a homing signal that
    leads him to his creator, Dr. Soong, who had been thought dead for many
    years.  Data has been called home to be given an upgrade - emotions - but
    the unexpected arrival of his jealous android "brother" Lore at Soong's
    hiding place puts Data's upgrade and his creator in jeopardy...
  Guest Cast:  Brent Spiner (Dr. Noonian Soong), Cory Danziger (Jake Potts),
    Colm Meaney (O' Brien), Adam Ryen (Willie Potts), James Lashly (Ensign
    Kopf), Brent Spiner (Lore)

77      SUDDENLY HUMAN
        teleplay by John Whelpley and Jeri Taylor
        story by Ralph Phillips
        directed by Gabrielle Beaumont
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 44143.7:  Finding a Talarian training vessel in deep space, the
    Enterprise crew discover that one of the ship's crew is actually a human
    teenager.  Dr. Crusher's examinations reveal that he has been injured in the
    past as well - and it's likely that these came about on purpose.  When the
    boy's Talarian foster father appears to reclaim him, Picard is left with a
    choice - either return the boy to a society whose people may have abused
    him, or face the possibility of starting a war.
  Guest Cast:  Sherman Howard (Endar), Chad Allen (Jono), Barbara Townsend
    (Admiral Rossa)

78      REMEMBER ME
        written by Lee Sheldon
        directed by Cliff Bole
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 44161.2:  Dr. Crusher's old friend, Dr. Dalen Quaice, is leaving his
    former home on a sStarbase to retire after the recent death of his wife.  He
    mentions his slowly deteriorating memory, a thought which remains on Dr.
    Crusher's mind when she visits engineering to watch Wesley finish a warp
    field experiment.  But when the Enterprise becomes ready to leave the
    starbase, Wes hastily finishes his experiment, but his mother completely
    disappears.  She, however, is on the Enterprise - so she thinks - and she
    helplessly watches the entire crew disappear one by one.  She is, in fact,
    inside a warp bubble, and the real crew on the real Enterprise must enlist
    the help of the mysterious alien known as the Traveler to pull Dr. Crusher
    back into reality before her warp bubble shrinks into nothingness.
       Originally considered as a shipboard B-plot for the episode "Family,"
    this story was given its own episode so as not to distract attention from
    the earlier episode's central theme.
  Guest Cast:  Eric Menyuk (The Traveler), Bill Erwin (Dr. Dalen Quaice), Colm
    Meaney (O' Brien)

79      LEGACY
        written by Joe Menosky
        directed by Robert Scheerer
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 44215.2:  Rushing into dangerous territory on Turkana III, a planet
    whose government once warned that any Federation personnel would die if they
    visited there again, the Enterprise is looking for an escape pod containing
    two men who left a critically damaged vessel.  The pod has landed on Turkana
    III, requiring an away team to visit.  They find two "cadres" - urban gangs
    so large they have replaced the government and now conduct their street
    fighting on a warlike scale - one of which is willing to help find the
    Federation shipwreck survivors.  The Enterprise's liason to the cadre is the
    younger sister of the late Tasha Yar, and no one knows whether or not to
    trust her.
  Guest Cast:  Beth Toussaint (Ishara Yar), Don Mirault (Hayne), Colm Meaney
    (O' Brien), Vladimir Velasco (Tan Tsu), Christopher Michael (Man #1)

80      REUNION
        teleplay by Thomas Perry & Jo Perry and Ronald D. Moore & Brannon Braga
        story by Drew Deighan and Thomas Perry & Jo Perry
        directed by Jonathan Frakes
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 44246.3:  The Enterprise is intercepted in deep space by a Klingon
    battlecruiser occupied by K'mpec, leader of the High Council of the Klingon
    Empire.  With him is K'ehleyr, Worf's former lover, who has visited the
    Enterprise before.  This time she acts as Picard's aide in a role K'mpec has
    chosen for him - the neutral arbiter to oversee the handover of the dying
    K'mpec's powerful position to one of two contenders: Duras, whose cover-up
    of his father's actions cost Worf his honor; or Gowron, a Klingon "outsider"
    about whom little is known.  But sabotage, including the assassination of
    K'mpec, begins to point toward evidence of Romulan involvement...and Worf
    must deal with the possibility that his son (by K'ehleyr) may lose his honor
    if Worf reveals his relationship to him.
       Alexander, Worf's son, returns to the Enterprise to stay in the fifth
    season episode "New Ground."
  Guest Cast:  Suzie Plakson (K'ehleyr), Robert O' Reilly (Gowron), Patrick
    Massett (Duras), Charles Cooper (K'mpec), Jon Steuer (Alexander), Michael
    Rider (Security Guard), April Grace (Transporter Technician), Basil Wallace
    (Klingon Guard #1), Mirron E. Willis (Klingon Guard #2)

81      FUTURE IMPERFECT
        written by J. Larry Carroll & David Bennett Carren
        directed by Les Landau
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 44286.5:  While investigating suspicious energy readings on Alpha
    Onias III - a planet that would be ideal for a secret Romulan base - Riker,
    Geordi and Worf are overcome by toxic gases.  Geordi and Worf, however, are
    rescued via transporter, while the Enterprise loses all trace of Riker.
       Riker awakens in the sick bay of the Enterprise, told by an older Dr.
    Crusher that sixteen years have passed since that event, and that a virus he
    contracted on the mission to Alpha Onias III recently became active, causing
    him to lose all memory back to that event.  He is now the ship's Captain,
    Data is First Officer, and Picard - now an Admiral - is completing the final
    arrangements for the signing of a peace treaty between the Romulans and the
    Federation, and Riker has a teenage son as well.  But glaring mistakes soon
    point out to Riker that this scenario is not, in fact, happening, and that
    it's all a nearly perfect simulation.  But the question remains - who's
    behind it, the Romulans...or someone else?
  Guest Cast:  Andreas Katsulas (Commander Tomalok), Chris Demetral ("Jean-Luc
    Riker"/"Ethan"), Carolyn McCormick (Minuet), Patti Yasutake (Nurse), Todd
    Merrill (Gleason), April Grace (Transporter Chief Hubbell), George O'
    Hanlon, Jr. (Transporter Chief), Dana Tjowander (Barash)

82      FINAL MISSION
        teleplay by Kacey Arnold-Ince and Jeri Taylor
        story by Kacey Arnold-Ince
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 44307.3:  Picard reveals that Wesley has been accepted into Starfleet
    Academy.  Wes's final assignment on the Enterprise is to accompany Picard on
    a trip with an independent miner, Captain Dirgo, to settle a dispute between
    mining colonies.  En route, Dirgo's battered shuttle breaks down, forcing
    them to land on a desert world - but help is nowhere near because the
    Enterprise is attempting to move an abandoned freighter whose highly
    radioactive contents threaten the Enterprise and a nearby planet.
       With this episode, Wil Wheaton officially leaves the regular cast.
  Guest Cast:  Nick Tate (Dirgo), Kim Hamilton (Songi), Mary Kohnert (Ensign
    Allenby)

83      THE LOSS
        teleplay by Hilary J. Bader and Alan J. Bader & Vanessa Greene
        story by Hilary J. Bader
        directed by Chip Chalmers
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 44356.9:  Shortly after counseling crewmember Janet Brooks over the
    loss of her husband, Troi begins to experience severe pain, and at the same
    time, the Enterprise is suddenly unable to go to warp speed.  Data and
    Geordi determine that they're caught in a field of steadily moving two
    dimensional particles that seem to be alive, while Troi realizes that she's
    lost her empathic sense.  When it is discovered that the entities are
    heading toward a black-hole-like cosmic string and carrying the Enterprise
    with them to destruction, Picard relies on Troi for an answer, although she
    has lost confidence in herself.
  Guest Cast:  Kim Braden (Janet Brooks), Mary Kohnert (Ensign Allenby), Whoopi
    Goldberg (Guinan)

84      DATA'S DAY
        teleplay by Harold Apter and Ronald D. Moore
        story by Harold Apter
        directed by Robert Wiemer
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 44390.1:  Data records his observations of an average day in the
    Enterprise to be relayed to Dr. Bruce Maddox, a Federaton cyberneticist who
    once expressed an interest in disassembling Data to learn about how the
    android works, but now is content to let Data reveal that for himself.  But
    as the day progresses, from the nervous, soon-to-be-married couple of Chief
    O' Brien and Keiko to the transport of a secretive Vulcan ambassador to the
    Neutral Zone, Data finds out that this isn't going to be an ordinary day...
       Dr. Bruce Maddox, mentioned throughout this episode, appears in the
    second season episode "Measure of a Man."  This episode also introduced
    Data's cat, Spot, who would appear again later in the fourth and sixth
    seasons.
  Guest Cast:  Rosalind Chao (Keiko Ishikawa), Colm Meaney (O' Brien), Sierra
    Pecheur (Ambassador T'Pel/Subcommander Selok), Alan Scarfe (Admiral Mendak),
    Shelly Desai (V'Sal), April Grace (Transporter Technician), and Spot

85      THE WOUNDED
        teleplay by Jeri Taylor
        story by Stuart Charno & Sara Charno and Cy Chermak
        directed by Chip Chalmers
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 44429.6:  Captain Maxwell of the U.S.S. Phoenix has severed contact
    with Starfleet and the Phoenix has been raiding the vessels of Cardassians,
    a race once at war with the Federation but now peaceful under an uneasy
    treaty.  Picard discovers that Captain Maxwell believes he has good reason
    to continue these attacks.
       This episode introduces the Cardassians, who would later be seen in
    "Ensign Ro" and "Chain of Command," along with being important figures in
    the history of "Deep Space Nine."
  Guest Cast:  Bob Gunton (Captain Ben Maxwell), Rosalind Chao (Keiko), Marc
    Alaimo (Gul Macet), Colm Meaney (O' Brien), Marco Rodriguez (Glinn Telle),
    Time Winters (Glinn Daro), John Hancock (Admiral Henry)

86      DEVIL'S DUE
        teleplay by Philip Lazebnik
        story by Philip Lazebnik and William Douglas Lansford
        directed by Tom Benko
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 44474.5:  The Enterprise arrives at Ventax III to retrieve a
    Federation anthropological team, only to discover that the planet is in a
    state of chaos and the team has been taken hostage by the Ventaxians, who
    believe their peaceful way of life is about to end with the "second coming"
    of Ardra - the devil.  But when Ardra takes a dangerously personal interest
    in Picard, he must quickly find some way to discredit her.
  Guest Cast:  Marta Dubois (Ardra), Paul Lambert (Dr. Clark), Marcelo Tubert
    (Acost Jared), Thad Lamey (Devil Monster), Tom Magee (Klingon Monster)

87      CLUES
        teleplay by Bruce D. Arthurs and Joe Menosky
        story by Bruce D. Arthurs
        directed by Les Landau
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 44502.7:  The Enterprise is on a routine mission, giving everyone a
    chance to relax, when an investigation of an unknown class-M planet sends
    the Enterprise through a wormhole that appears without warning and renders
    everyone but Data unconscious.  But as the rest of the crew investigates
    what happened, they begin the discover that someone's keeping secrets from
    everyone...and that someone happens to be Data.
  Guest Cast:  Colm Meaney (O' Brien), Pamela Winslow (Ensign McKnight), Rhonda
    Aldrich (Madeline), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Patti Yasutake (Nurse), Thomas
    Knickerbocker (Gunman)

88      FIRST CONTACT
        teleplay by Dennis Russell Bailey, David Bischoff, Joe Menosky, Ronald
                    D. Moore and Michael Piller
        story by Marc Scott Zicree
        directed by Cliff Bole
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate not given:  Riker, having undergone facial surgery to look like a
    Malcorian and beamed down to Malcor III to coordinate other surgically
    disguised cultural observers from Starfleet, is injured in a riot and taken
    to a hospital, where his true nature is slowly deduced by Malcorian doctors
    while Riker remains out of touch with the Enterprise.  Picard and Troi try
    to find open-minded individuals among that planet's leaders and scientific
    minds, but discover that, like on late 20th century Earth, such people are
    few and far between...
  Guest Cast:  George Coe (Chancellor Durken), Carolyn Seymour (Mirasta Yale),
    George Hearn (Berel), Michael Ensign (Krola), Steven Anderson (Nilrem),
    Sachi Parker (Nurse), Bebe Neuwirth (Lanel)

89      GALAXY'S CHILD
        teleplay by Maurice Hurley
        story by Thomas Kartozian
        directed by Winrich Kolbe
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 44313.0:  Geordi is delighted to welcome Dr. Leah Brahms aboard the
    Enterprise, having already gotten to know her - so he thinks - through a
    friendly holographic simulation in a crisis situation in the past.  But the
    real Dr. Brahms is nothing like her holodeck alter-ego.  Meanwhile, the
    Enterprise inadvertantly destroys a free-floating space creature and helps
    to deliver its newborn child, but the child thinks the Enterprise is its
    mother and attaches itself to the hull to "nurse" energy from the power
    reserves - and Geordi and Dr. Brahms are left to find the solution to this
    problem...if they can cooperate with each other.
  Guest Cast:  Susan Gibney (Dr. Leah Brahms), Lanei Chapman (Ensign Rager),
    Jana Marie Hupp (Ensign Poppin), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), April Grace
    (Transporter Technician)

90      NIGHT TERRORS
        teleplay by Pamela Douglas and Jeri Taylor
        story by Shari Goodhartz
        directed by Les Landau
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 44631.2:  The missing starship Brittain is found by the Enterprise,
    but Riker and an away team find that the entire crew of the Brittain went
    berserk and murdered one another, leaving a single survivor - a Betazoid
    who can't speak and whose telepathic "ramblings" to Troi are puzzling.  When
    the Enterprise is immobilized by a dangerous natural phenomenon, no one
    suspects that the survivor's riddles may have some meaning, and members of
    the crew begin hallucinating slowly edging toward the same kind of madness
    that drove the Brittain's crew to kill themselves...
  Guest Cast:  Rosalind Chao (Keiko), John Vickery (Andrus Hagan), Duke
    Moosekian (Lt. Gillespie), Craig Hurley (Ensign), Brian Tochi (Ensign Lin),
    Lanei Chapman (Ensign Rager), Colm Meaney (O' Brien), Whoopi Goldberg
    (Guinan), Deborah Taylor (Captain Zaheva)

91      IDENTITY CRISIS
        teleplay by Brannon Braga
        based on a story by Timothy de Hass
        directed by Winrich Kolbe
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 44664.5:  Starfleet officers who were on an away team five years ago
    investigating a mysterious migration of previous explorers to the planet
    Tarchannen 3 are beginning to mutate into alien life forms and migrate to
    the planet themselves.  Among them are Lt. Commander Leitjen, visiting the
    Enterprise, and Geordi La Forge.  While Dr. Crusher keeps Leitjen in sick
    bay when her mutation begins, Geordi's mutation goes unchecked and, more
    alien than human, he beams to the surface to join the other members of the
    away team, who have fully mutated.
  Guest Cast:  Maryann Plunkett (Suzanna Leitjen), Patti Yasutake (Nurse), Amick
    Byram (Lt. Hickman), Dennis Madalone (Transporter Technician), Mona Grudt
    (Ensign Graham)

92      THE NTH DEGREE
        written by Joe Menosky
        directed by Robert Legato
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 44704.2:  Shortly after very nervously performing a scene from
    "Cyrano de Bergerac" with Dr. Crusher, Lt. Barclay is assigned to accompany
    Geordi on a close examination, via shuttle, of an alien probe that has
    impeded the functioning of a subspace telescope array.  But after being
    scanned, the probe somehow singles Barclay out to receive a massive mental
    "upgrade," doing away with the lieutenant's legendary reclusiveness and
    shyness, and replacing those traits of his personality with knowledge and
    learning abilities beyond human experience...and arrogance.
  Guest Cast:  Dwight Schultz (Lt. Barclay), Jim Norton (Holodeck "Einstein"),
    Kay E. Kuter (Cytherian), Saxon Trainor (Lt. Larson), Page Leong (Ensign
    Anaya), David Coburn (Ensign Brower)

93      QPID
        teleplay by Ira Steven Behr
        story by Randee Russell and Ira Steven Behr
        directed by Cliff Bole
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 44741.9:  Picard is readying a speech on the subject of the planet
    Tagus 3, whose archaelogical digs are off-limits to outsiders, to be
    delivered to a group of distinguished archaeologists, and is surprised to
    find that Vash, a very fondly remembered acquaintance from his visit to
    Risa, is present as well, no doubt to fulfill her nefarious urge to go
    treasure-seeking.  She and Picard seem to be able to agree on nothing, which
    catches the attention of Q, who, to force Picard to admit that he does
    indeed love Vash, sends the crew, Vash, and even himself, into Sherwood
    Forest.  Picard, of course, becomes Robin Hood, his crew become Robin's
    merry men, Q becomes Guy of Gisbourne, and Vash, naturally, is the damsel
    in distress...a role she doesn't play willingly, or, indeed, correctly!
       Clive Revill, the Sheriff of Nottingham in this story, also has another
    well-known science fiction saga in his resume: he provided the voice (and a
    shimmering but not well-defined form) of the Galactic Emperor in "The Empire
    Strikes Back" in 1980 (Ian McDiarmid took that role over in "Return of the
    Jedi" in 1983 when the Emperor finally made a personal appearance in the
    "Star Wars" saga).
  Guest Cast:  Jennifer Hetrick (Vash), Clive Revill (Sheriff of Nottingham),
    John de Lancie (Q), Joi Staton (Servant)

94      THE DRUMHEAD
        written by Jeri Taylor
        directed by Jonathan Frakes
        music by Ron Jones
  Stardate 44769.2:  After an apparent sabotage of the Enterprise's warp drive
    committed by Klingon exchange officer J'Ddan, Starfleet sends Admiral Nora
    Satie out of retirement to investigate the possibility of a Klingon faction
    cooperating with Romulans.  But Satie goes beyond that, accusing a shy
    junior crewman of Romulan collaboration and even accusing Captain Picard of
    aiding Romulans and the Borg.
       This episode begins a build-up to the season finale dealing with a
    possible Romulan-Klingon alliance.  It was also the last episode of "The
    Next Generation" to be scored by composer Ron Jones, who was fired by the
    producers for consistently disregarding instructions which Jones said were
    cramping his musical style.
  Guest Cast:  Jean Simmons (Admiral Satie), Bruce French (Sabin Genestra),
    Spencer Garrett (Simon Tarses), Henry Woronicz (J'Ddan), Earl Billings
    (Admiral Thomas Henry), Ann Shea (Nellen)

95      HALF A LIFE
        teleplay by Peter Allan Fields
        story by Ted Roberts and Peter Allan Fields
        directed by Les Landau
        music by Dennis McCarthy  (nominated for Best Score Emmy, 1991)
  Stardate 44805.3:  Kalon scientist Dr. Timicin has beamed aboard the
    Enterprise to travel to a star much like his planet's own sun to conduct
    tests of a modified photon torpedo that could reduce the level of solar
    activity - something that needs to be done within decades, or Kalon II's sun
    will explode, eradicating his people.  When the test fails, Timicin
    continues, but he is due back on Kalon II so he may carry out the Resolution
    - a traditional Kalon ceremony in which one ends one's life by painless
    suicide at sixty.  Lwaxana Troi, also visiting the Enterprise, tries to
    convince Timicin to continue living, although his request for asylum from
    his people could result in war.
  Guest Cast:  David Odgen Stiers (Timicin), Majel Barrett (Lwaxana Troi),
    Michelle Forbes (Dara), Terrence E. McNally (Science Minister B'Tardat),
    Colm Meaney (O' Brien), Carel Struycken (Mr. Homn)

96      THE HOST
        written by Michel Horvat
        directed by Marvin V. Rush
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 44821.3:  Ambassador Odan is being transported to the Peliar Zel
    system to attempt eleventh-hour mediation between civilizations on two
    moons.  One society's new power source may mean long-term pollution and
    deterioration of the other society's world.  Odan intends to settle the
    dispute, and on the two week trip he and Dr. Crusher have fallen in love.
    But when a faction of radicals attacks the shuttlecraft Odan has insisted
    upon taking to the surface of one of the moons - he refuses to use the
    transporter - Odan is severely injured and is forced to reveal that he is,
    in fact, an alien parasite within a humanoid host body.  When his people
    cannot send another host in time to save the parasite's life, and a
    countdown to war begins on the two moons, Riker risks his own life to serve
    as a temporary host.
  Guest Cast:  Franc Luz (Odan), Barbara Tarbuck (Governor Trion), Nicole
    Orth-Pallavicini (Kareel), William Newman (Lathal Trose), Patti Yasutake
    (Nurse Ogawa), Robert Harper (Lathal Bine)

97      THE MIND'S EYE
        teleplay by Rene Echevarria
        story by Ken Schafer and Rene Echevarria
        directed by David Livingston
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 44885.5:  En route to an artificial intelligence conference on Risa,
    Geordi, alone in a shuttlepod, is kidnapped by Romulans, who send a "copy"
    of him to Risa.  Under the supervision of a female Romulan who remains in
    shadows at all times, Geordi is tortured and brainwashed to obey, without
    question, instructions transmitted on a certain wavelength to his VISOR.
    When he returns to the Enterprise - with "memories" of his trip implanted
    into his mind - Picard deals with a belligerent Klingon colony governor who
    accuses the Federation of assisting a rebel political faction.  In fact,
    however, there is another Klingon responsible for this, and he is relaying
    Romulan instructions to Geordi, who may unwittingly become an assassin...
  Guest Cast:  Larry Dobkin (Ambassador Kell), John Fleck (Taibak), Colm Meaney
    (O' Brien), Edward Wiley (Governor Vagh), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice),
    Denise Crosby (Sela)

98      IN THEORY
        written by Joe Menosky and Ronald D. Moore
        directed by Patrick Stewart
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 44932.3:  During the Enterprise's investigation of a dark-matter
    nebula, Lt. Jenna D'Sora, recently having broken up with a longtime
    boyfriend, becomes attached to Data, who at first protests that he has no
    human feelings, and then attempts to emulate emotions.  In the meantime,
    the density of the matter in the nebula pulls off an astonishing
    disappearing act - making an entire class-M planet fade from existence.  And
    whatever caused that is in the path of the Enterprise.
  Guest Cast:  Michele Scarabelli (Lt. Jenna D'Sora), Rosalind Chao (Keiko),
    Colm Meaney (O' Brien), Pamela Winslow (Ensign McKnight), Whoopi Goldberg
    (Guinan), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice), and Spot

99      REDEMPTION
        written by Ronald D. Moore
        directed by Cliff Bole
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 44995.3:  The Enterprise is summoned to the Klingon homeworld so
    Picard may fulfill his final duty as arbiter of the succession of power
    there.  Gowron intercepts the Enterprise before it arrives, warning Picard
    that Klingon civil war is brewing.
       Gowron, about to take control of the empire, is challenged by Lursa and
    B'etor, the sisters of Duras, who offer his son Toral as an alternative
    candidate for the throne.  Picard, attempting to remain completely neutral
    in order to avoid accusations that the Federation is taking a hand in
    Klingon politics, denies Toral's challenge.  Those who would the family of
    Duras attack Gowron's ship as he and Worf discuss the redemption of Worf's
    family honor.  Worf's brother, Kurn, who now leads four squadrons of Klingon
    ships, saves Gowron from the attackers, but the victory is only temporary.
    With the revelation that Kurn is also a member of Worf's family, Gowron
    returns Worf's honor to him.
       Gowron then requests Federation assistance from Picard, who refuses,
    citing the recent attack as strictly internal Klingon matters to be dealt
    with only by the Empire, without Federation interference.  Worf requests a
    leave of absence to stay temporarily on Gowron's ship.  When Picard denies
    permission to do this, Worf resigns from Starfleet and leaves anyway.
       After Worf departs, the Enterprise leaves the Klingon homeworld to avoid
    any further involvement.  But on the Klingon planet, in the quarters of
    Lursa and B'etor, a Romulan officer in the shadows steps forth and predicts
    that Picard may return because "humans have a way of showing up when you
    least expect them."  And this is very true, for the words come from a woman
    who bears a very strong resemblance to Tasha Yar...in Romulan uniform.
  Guest Cast:  Robert O' Reilly (Gowron), Tony Todd (Captain Kurn), Barbara
    March (Lursa), Gwynyth Walsh (B'etor), Ben Slack (K'Tal), Nicholas Kepros
    (Movar), J.D. Cullum (Toral), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Tom Ormeny (Klingon
    First Officer), Clifton Jones (Helmsman), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice),
    Denise Crosby (Sela)


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100     REDEMPTION II
        written by Ronald D. Moore
        directed by David Carson
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 45020.4:  War erupts between the forces of Gowron and those of the
    family of Duras.  The forces of Duras are winning even after Gowron's fleets
    destroy all of their possible supply bases.
       Picard plans to take starships the Klingon/Romulan border to act as a
    blockade against Romulan aid to the Duras followers.  Various Enterprise
    officers are assigned to other ships, most notably Data as captain of the
    starship Sutherland, whose first officer, Hobson, objects to serving under
    an android commander.
       Commander Sela, half-human, half-Romulan daughter of Tasha Yar, demands
    that the Federation leave the border.  Guinan reveals that Sela is the
    product of the Tasha Yar who was sent to the Enterprise-C by Picard.
       Gowron launches a surprise attack on their enemies.  Lursa and B'etor
    send a plea for aid.  Sela tries to slip past the Sutherland, but Data foils
    the plan and the Romulans are revealed and forced to retreat, leaving Lursa
    and B'etor helpless.  They escape and abandon Toral, leaving him to Gowron.
    Gowron offers Worf a chance to slay Toral, but Worf chooses not to judge
    Toral by his father's actions and rejoins the crew of the Enterprise.
       As later noted when they unexpectedly arrived at Deep Space Nine, the
    Duras sisters are listed by the Klingon government as renegades, but still
    remain at large with at least one ship of their own, trying to raise capital
    for a second grab at the throne of the Klingon Empire.
  Season 5 Regular Cast:  Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard), Jonathan Frakes
    (Commander Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge), Michael
    Dorn (Lt. Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor
    Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data)
  Guest Cast:  Denise Crosby (Sela), Tony Todd (Kurn), Barbara March (Lursa),
    Gwynyth Walsh (B'etor), J.D. Cullum (Toral), Robert O' Reilly (Gowron),
    Michael G. Hagerty (Captain Larg), Fran Bennett (Admiral Shonti), Nicholas
    Kepros (Movar), Colm Meaney (O' Brien), Timothy Carhart (Lt. Commander
    Hobson), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Jordan Lund (Kulge), Stephen James Carver
    (Helmsman), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

101     DARMOK
        teleplay by Joe Menosky
        story by Philip Lazebnik and Joe Menosky
        directed by Winrich Kolbe
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 45047.2:  The Enterprise and a Tamarian ship rendezvous at El-Adrel
    IV and Tamarian Captain Dathon opens communications.  The Tamarians speak
    incomprehensibly, using English words laced with names from their culture.
    After the contact fails, Dathon and his first officer argue over Dathon's
    statement, "Darmok and Jelad at Tenagra."  Dathon vanishes, and Picard is
    kidnapped via transporter.  Both are beamed to the planet, where Dathon
    attempts to communicate again.  Picard deciphers the language, finding that
    it is based on Tamarian folklore and metaphors.  "Darmok and Jelad at
    Tenagra" refers to two heroes who traveled separately to a distant island,
    defeated a mighty beast, and left together.  El-Adrel is home to such a
    creature, and Dathon hopes that the Tamarians and the Federation can begin
    a friendship by likewise defeating a common enemy.  When the beast attacks,
    Picard is immobilized by an attempt to rescue him through interference
    projected from the Tamarian ship, while Dathon is mortally wounded.  Picard
    can now negotiate in the Tamarian language - if he survives the creature's
    next attack.
  Guest Cast:  Paul Winfield (Captain Dathon), Richard Allen (Tamarian First
    Officer), Colm Meaney (O' Brien), Ashley Judd (Ensign Lefler), Majel Barrett
    (Computer Voice)

102     ENSIGN RO
        teleplay by Michael Piller
        story by Rick Berman and Michael Piller
        directed by Les Landau
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 45076.3:  Admiral Kennelly assigns the Enterprise to help resolve
    tensions with the Bajora, an isolated, once-advanced race whose territory
    was long ago taken by the Cardassians.  Since then, the Bajora have carried
    out terrorist attacks on the Cardassians, and now, according to Kennelly,
    the Bajora have traveled outside their own system and attacked a Federation
    outpost.  The Enterprise is to contact the Bajoran terrorist leader Orta and
    offer serious discussions after years of sympathetic talk and no action.
    Ensign Ro Laren, herself a Bajoran - recently court-martialed but pulled out
    of prison by Kennelly - is assigned to the Enterprise.  Ro is an abrasive
    officer who does not want to be on the ship or the mission.  She does,
    however, tell Picard to contact Keeve, leader of a Bajoran colony that has
    no technology and isn't even able to adequately feed or clothe its own
    people.  On another planet, Picard contacts Orta - after being abducted by
    Orta's guards - and discovers that the Bajora do not have the resources to
    attack anything beyond their own system.  Ro then reveals to Picard that
    Kennelly is aware of this, and that she and the Enterprise are being used by
    the Cardassians to quietly get rid of the Bajora "threat" by escorting them
    straight into the Cardassians' line of fire.
       Much of this episode's background on the Bajoran/Cardassian relationship
    forms the basis of "Deep Space Nine."  A more detailed account of Bajoran
    and Cardassian history can be found in the "Deep Space Nine" LogBook.
  Guest Cast:  Michelle Forbes (Ensign Ro), Cliff Potts (Admiral Kennelly),
    Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Scott Marlowe (Keeve Falor), Frank Collison (Gul
    Dolak), Jeffrey Hayenga (Orta), Harley Venton (Transporter Technician), Ken
    Thorley (Mr. Mot), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

103     SILICON AVATAR
        teleplay by Jeri Taylor
        story by Lawrence V. Conley
        directed by Cliff Bole
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 45122.3:  Riker, Crusher and Data visit a new colony site when the
    Crystalline Entity that wiped out all life on Data's home world appears
    unexpectedly and attacks, forcing the colonists and visitors underground.
    The Enterprise returns and finds that the planet has been left barren.  The
    colonists are rescued, and the crew, joined by Dr. Marr, investigates the
    damage.  Marr, whose son was killed by the Entity long ago, believes that
    Data, like his "brother," is aiding the Entity.  During the investigation,
    Marr is convinced that Data is not responsible for the attack and finds that
    his memories of his home include memories of the colonists who died there.
    She asks him to recite some of her son's diary and decides she must avenge
    her son, but Picard wishes to try communicating with the Entity.
  Guest Cast:  Ellen Geer (Dr. Marr), Susan Diol (Carmen)

104     DISASTER
        teleplay by Ronald D. Moore
        story by Ron Jarvis and Philip A. Scorza
        directed by Gabrielle Beaumont
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 45156.1:  On a routine day, Picard takes the three winners of the
    ship's school science fair on a tour.  Beverly pesters Geordi, who is
    checking fuel tanks in a shuttlebay, to audition for a play; Riker, Data,
    Worf, and a pregnant Keiko relax in Ten Forward, and O' Brien and Troi
    perform bridge duties.  When an undetectable object collides with the ship,
    emergency systems isolate everyone where they are.  Picard is injured and
    must rely on the scared children; Riker orders Data to risk his life to
    reach engineering; Worf must deliver Keiko's baby when she goes into labor;
    Geordi and Beverly are caught between a fire and several tanks of unstable
    fuel; and Troi is trapped on the bridge with a minimal crew and Ensign Ro is
    all too ready to point out the worst case scenario: unless the ship's
    antimatter supply is stabilized, the Enterprise could be destroyed.
  Guest Cast:  Rosalind Chao (Keiko), Colm Meaney (O' Brien), Michelle Forbes
    (Ensign Ro), Erika Flores (Marissa), John Christian Graas (Jay Gordon), Max
    Supera (Patterson), Cameron Arnett (Ensign Mandel), Jana Marie Hupp (Ensign
    Monroe)

105     THE GAME
        teleplay by Brannon Braga
        story by Susan Sackett & Fred Bronson and Brannon Braga
        directed by Corey Allen
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 45208.2:  Wesley Crusher, on vacation from Starfleet Academy, visits
    the Enterprise.  During Wesley's visit, an holographic game Riker picked up
    on a visit to Risa begins to circulate around the ship, making every member
    of the crew who plays it an addict.  Suddenly, Data - the only being who is
    immune to the game's addictive "rewards" - is mysteriously shut off.  With
    the bridge crew and everyone else falling victim to the game, Wes discovers
    how the game works and becomes a hunted fugitive on the ship.
  Guest Cast:  Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher), Ashley Judd (Ensign Lefler),
    Katherine Moffatt (Etana), Colm Meaney (O' Brien), Patti Yasutake (Nurse),
    Diane M. Hurley (Woman), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

106     UNIFICATION I
        teleplay by Jeri Taylor
        story by Rick Berman and Michael Piller
        directed by Les Landau
        music by Dennis McCarthy  (Crescendo GNP cassette & CD # GNPD 8031)
  Stardate 45233.1:  One of the Federation's most valued advisors, Spock, has
    been seen on Romulus.  Picard is assigned to go to Romulus undercover and
    find out if Spock has defected from the Federation.  The Enterprise goes to
    Vulcan, where Picard visits Sarek, and Riker investigates the recovered
    wreckage of a Vulcan ship.  Sarek, near death, suggests that Spock may have
    gone to visit Pardek, a Romulan peace advocate Spock met at the Khitomer
    peace conference decades ago.
       The next stop is the Klingon planet, where Picard borrows a cloaked ship
    to cross the Neutral Zone.  Picard and Data, equipped with disguises, head
    for Romulus.  Federation shipyard operator Dakachen assists Riker in the
    wreckage investigation.  They find an unidentified ship receiving supplies
    from the shipyard without authorization.  The ship fires at the Enterprise,
    which fires back at minimum power - yet the other vessel explodes.
       Data and Picard, having just received news of Sarek's death, beam to
    Romulus and find Pardek, but before they can follow him, guards stop them
    and lead them to Pardek...and they discover that Spock is indeed alive and
    well on Romulus.
  Guest Cast:  Leonard Nimoy (Spock), Mark Lenard (Sarek), Joanna Miles
    (Perrin), Stephen Root (Neral), Graham Jarvis (Dokachen), Malachi Throne
    (Pardek), Norman Large (Captain K'vada), Daniel Roebuck (Jaron), Erick Avari
    (B'ijik), Karen Hensel (Admiral Brackett), Mimi Cozzens (Soup Woman), Majel
    Barrett (Computer Voice)

107     UNIFICATION II
        teleplay by Michael Piller
        story by Rick Berman and Michael Piller
        directed by Cliff Bole
        music by Dennis McCarthy  (Crescendo GNP cassette & CD # GNPD 8031)
  Stardate 45245.8:  Spock is promoting the idea of reunification of Romulus and
    Vulcan.  Pardek gains Spock an audience with the Proconsul, Neral, who says
    he will endorse reunification.  Picard is skeptical, to the annoyance of
    Spock, who thinks Picard's impression of him has been colored by Sarek.
    Neral is plotting with Sela to invade Vulcan with stolen Vulcan ships in the
    guise of a peace envoy and escorts.
       Riker gets the truth about the vessel destroyed in the shipyard out of
    the Ferengi accomplice of the ship's pilot.  An intact Vulcan ship was to be
    delivered to the Neutral Zone border to Romulans for the invasion fleet.
       Picard, Spock and Data are taken prisoner when betrayed by Pardek.  Sela
    prepares a hologram of Spock to read a statement about the peaceful mission
    of the Romulans.  When Sela leaves to see the ships off, Data and Spock
    program the hologram to warn the Federation.  The Enterprise intercepts the
    ships, but a Romulan Warbird destroys the Vulcan ships instead of allowing
    any evidence to remain of the invasion plot.
       Picard, Data and Spock escape, and rejoin Spock's Romulan followers in a
    new hiding place.  Spock insists on staying so that he may continue to
    influence opinions on Romulus, even if only on a small scale; Spock's 
    movement is acknowledged as surviving alive and well in the sixth season
    episode "Face of the Enemy."
  Guest Cast:  Leonard Nimoy (Spock), Denise Crosby (Sela), Stephen Root
    (Neral), Malachi Throne (Pardek), Norman Large (Captain K'vada), Daniel
    Roebuck (Jaron), William Bastiani (Omag), Susan Fallender (Shalote), Vidal
    Peterson (D'Tan), Harriet Leider (Amarie)

108     A MATTER OF TIME
        written by Rick Berman
        directed by Paul Lynch
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 45349.1:  While rushing to aid a planet whose atmosphere has been
    damaged by an asteroid collision, the Enterprise is visited by Rasmussen,
    ostensibly a 26th century historian who has traveled in time to observe the
    crew's activities.  Refusing to answer any questions about the future,
    Rasmussen watches while attempts to salvage the planet almost worsen its
    condition.  When Picard must make a decision that could destroy everyone on
    the planet or save them, he asks Rasmussen to tell him what history says
    about the outcome of the Enterprise's mission - but the time traveler
    carefully avoids answering...and Picard wonders if Rasmussen is really
    protecting history, or if he even knows anything about the future at all.
  Guest Cast:  Matt Frewer (Professor Rasmussen), Stefan Gierasch (Dr. Moseley),
    Sheila Franklin (Ensign), Shay Garner (Scientist)

109     NEW GROUND
        teleplay by Grant Rosenberg
        story by Sara Charno & Stuart Charno
        directed by Robert Scheerer
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 45376.3:  The Enterprise is participating in a test of a new method
    of propulsion that would render warp engines obsolete by generating a wave
    that a starship would "ride" like a surfboard.  While preparing for the
    test, Worf receives a message from Helena that she and Worf's son have come
    to visit.  When they beam aboard, Alexander believes that he is staying on
    the Enterprise, and Helena tells Worf that Alexander has been disobedient
    and even untruthful, which is proven when, after enrolling in the ship's
    school, he steals a model on a field trip.  Picard orders part of the ship
    to be evacuated after a freak accident with the propulsion experiment, but
    he and Worf discover that Alexander, once again in defiance of Worf's
    instructions, has gone to that section of the ship.
  Guest Cast:  Georgia Brown (Helena Rozhenko), Brian Bonsall (Alexander),
    Richard McGonagle (Dr. Ja'Dar), Jennifer Edwards (Mrs. Kyle), Sheila
    Franklin (Ensign), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

110     HERO WORSHIP
        teleplay by Joe Menosky
        story by Hilary J. Bader
        directed by Patrick Stewart
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 45397.3:  Investigating the disappearance of the USS Vico, the
    Enterprise crew finds that the missing vessel has been heavily damaged and
    is adrift inside a dark matter cluster.  A single survivor, young Timothy,
    is rescued by Data, and is the only means of finding out what happened since
    the logs of the disaster were also damaged.  Timothy tries to emulate Data's
    lack of emotions in order to overcome his own confused feelings, but stops
    short of telling the truth about what happened - which is what Picard needs
    to know as the Enterprise follows the Vico's fateful course.
  Guest Cast:  Joshua Harris (Timothy), Harley Venton (Transporter Chief),
    Sheila Franklin (Ensign), Steven Einspahr (Teacher)

111     VIOLATIONS
        teleplay by Pamela Gray & Jeri Taylor
        story by Shari Goodhartz & T. Michael Gray and Pamela Gray
        directed by Robert Weimer
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 45429.3:  A party of telepathic Ullians is visiting the Enterprise,
    ready to share their unique gift of probing into the mind and recovering
    lost memories.  During their visit, Troi reminisces about an earlier
    encounter with Riker, and then her memory is invaded by an image of one of
    the Ullians.  Dr. Crusher finds Troi in a coma, and she and Riker are the
    next to have their memories invaded.  Data and Geordi try to track down the
    mystery ailment that has rendered key officers comatose - and discover that
    there may be no disease involved and one of the Ullians could be behind the
    telepathic intrusions.
  Guest Cast:  Rosalind Chao (Keiko), Ben Lemon (Jev), David Sage (Tarmin), Rick
    Fitts (Dr. Martin), Eve Brenner (Inad), Doug Wert (Jack Crusher), Craig
    Benton (Crewman Davis), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

112     THE MASTERPIECE SOCIETY
        teleplay by Adam Belanoff and Michael Piller
        story by James Kahn and Adam Belanoff
        directed by Winrich Kolbe
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 45470.1:  Following a piece of star debris on its way through areas
    of unexplored space, the Enterprise crew discovers a colony of genetically
    engineered humans on Moab IV, a planet which will be devastated by the
    stellar fragment's close pass.  Although his advisor Martin is hostile to
    the idea of introducing strangers to the perfectly balanced society, Conor,
    the colony's leader, allows an Enterprise awat team to visit Moab IV.  Troi
    and Conor enter a relationship, while engineer Hannah Bates works alongside
    Geordi to strive for an impossible discovery - moving the massive chunk of
    star debris without evacuating - and thus imbalancing - the colony.  Even
    after using an technological offshoot of Geordi's VISOR to release Moab IV
    from its death sentence, the Enterprise crew discovers that it may have now
    endangered the colony even worse by revealing a different way of life to the
    inhabitants.
  Guest Cast:  John Snyder (Aaron Conor), Dey Young (Hannah Bates), Ron Canada
    (Martin Benbeck), Sheila Franklin (Ensign)

113     CONUNDRUM
        teleplay by Barry M. Schkolnick
        story by Paul Schiffer
        directed by Les Landau
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 45494.2:  Investigating a possible indication of intelligent life in
    a distant area, the Enterprise is scanned by an unknown spacecraft.  The
    crew's memories of who they are and everyone else around them, as well as
    specific computer files containing the crew records, are erased, although
    everyone still remembers their Starfleet skills, although others react
    differently without any knowledge of who they once were or what they did:
    Worf assumes command of the ship, while Riker and Ensign Ro are attracted
    to one another in a way neither would normally admit.  Geordi eventually
    recovers the computer's crew manifest containing names, ranks and duties,
    identifying Commander Kieran MacDuff - who mysteriously appeared as soon as
    the crew's memories were damaged - as first officer.  The computer finally
    divulges the basics of the Enterprise's current mission: to seek out and
    destroy the main base of the Lysian Alliance, with whom, according to the
    records, the Federation has been at war for many years.  Although some
    members of the crew begin to question their orders as well as the unusualy
    selective damage done to their memories and the computer, Commander MacDuff
    insists that the ship press on the attack.
  Guest Cast:  Erich Anderson (Commander MacDuff), Michelle Forbes (Ensign Ro),
    Liz Vassey (Kristin), Erick Weiss (Crewman), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

114     POWER PLAY
        teleplay by Rene Balcer and Herbert J. Wright & Brannon Braga
        story by Paul Ruben and Maurice Hurley
        directed by David Livingston
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 45571.2:  Investigating a 200-year-old Starfleet distress signal
    emanating from a planet which happens to be the last known location of the
    starship Essex, the Enterprise sends a shuttle through the planet's stormy
    atmosphere.  The shuttle, with Riker, Troi and Data on board, crash lands,
    resulting in Riker breaking an arm.  Chief O' Brien beams down with a device
    to boost the transporter signal so the away team can be rescued, but all
    four are struck by a lightning-like discharge and all but Riker are knocked
    out.  Riker operates the transporter booster and returns them to the
    Enterprise, where Troi, O' Brien and Data take over the ship under the
    influence of aliens from the planet.  They enter Ten Forward and take
    hostages, announcing that they are actually the spirits of the Essex crew.
    Demanding that their physical remains be recovered from the planet and
    returned to Earth, Troi - apparently taken over by the dead captain of the
    Essex - threatens to kill the hostages (including Keiko and her baby), and
    Picard's attempts to negotiate accomplish nothing, aside from convincing him
    that the terrorists are not who they claim to be.
  Guest Cast:  Rosalind Chao (Keiko), Colm Meaney (O' Brien), Michelle Forbes
    (Ensign Ro), Ryan Reid (Transporter Technician), Majel Barrett (Computer
    Voice)

115     ETHICS
        teleplay by Ronald D. Moore
        story by Sara Charno & Stuart Charno
        directed by Chip Chalmers
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate not given:  Critically injured by falling containers in a cargo bay,
    Worf is paralyzed from the waist down, and Dr. Crusher can offer little in
    the way of hopes for complete recovery.  The visiting Dr. Russell sees
    Worf's injury as a perfect chance to test her new device, which can - in
    theory - replicate entire organs after scanning the DNA of the original.
    Crusher disagrees, however, citing Russell's device as experimental at best,
    and refusing to allow Russell to operate.  When Worf - claiming that life as
    an invalid would be a dishonorable burden to he and his family - begins to
    try to enlist Riker's help in committing suicide, Crusher is forced to let
    Russell attempt to restore Worf's spinal cord - an operation that could
    easily end the Klingon's life, leaving many of the crew concerned for Worf
    as well as Alexander.
  Guest Cast:  Caroline Kava (Dr. Russell), Brian Bonsall (Alexander), Patti
    Yasutake (Nurse Ogawa)

116     THE OUTCAST
        written by Jeri Taylor
        directed by Robert Scheerer
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 45614.6:  Assisting the androgynous J'naii people in a search for a
    missing space shuttle, the Enterprise crew discovers a pocket of null space
    from which energy emissions cannot escape.  Riker and J'naii pilot Soren
    take an Enterprise shuttlecraft into the null zone to investigate, a trip on
    which Soren makes Riker uneasy by her unusual curiosity about human
    sexuality, and says that such practices among J'naii would be considered
    repugnant.  Preparing for another trip, Soren reveals to Riker that she is
    one of a group of outlaws among the J'naii who embrace the "ancient" genders
    of male and female.  After rescuing the J'naii shuttle crew and returning
    them safely, the Enterprise crew is invited to a celebration on the J'naii
    planet, during which Riker and Soren take their relationship a good deal
    further.  When the other J'naii discover this, Soren is taken into custody
    so her "deviance" can be "cured," and Riker decides that he must disobey the
    prime directive to rescue Soren from her own society.
  Guest Cast:  Melinda Culea (Soren), Callan White (Krite), Megan Cole (Noor)

117     CAUSE AND EFFECT
        written by Brannon Braga
        directed by Jonathan Frakes
        music by Dennis McCarthy
    ...and the engine core, after the warp engines take critical damage, is
    destablized.  Picard orders all hands to evacuate, and the Enterprise blasts
    herself to bits.
  Stardate 45652.1:  Investigating a previously unexplored area of space, the
    Enterprise crew expects nothing but the normal routine of the unknown.
    After Dr. Crusher makes a mysterious complaint about hearing voices in her
    quarters, a time disturbance is detected close to the ship.  After Picard
    orders Ro to distance the Enterprise from the phenomenon, all power is lost
    and a Federation starship emerges from the rift, colliding with the
    Enterprise, and the engine core, after the warp engines take critical
    damage, is destablized.  Picard orders all hands to evacuate, and the
    Enterprise blasts herself to bits.
       Investigating an unexplored area of space, the Enterprise crew expects
    nothing but the normal routine of the unknown.  Shortly after Dr. Crusher
    and Riker begin to notice that events are repeating themselves, Dr. Crusher
    complains about hearing voices in her quarters.  A time disturbance is
    detected close to the ship.  After Picard orders Ro to distance the
    Enterprise from the phenomenon, all power is lost and a Federation starship
    emerges from the rift, colliding with the Enterprise, and the engine core,
    after the warp engines take critical damage, is destablized.  Picard orders
    all hands to evacuate, and the Enterprise blasts herself to bits.
       Investigating an unexplored area of space, the Enterprise crew expects
    nothing but the normal routine of the unknown.  After Riker, Worf and Dr.
    Crusher notice that events are repeating, Crusher waits for and records the
    voices in her quarters at the same time Geordi's sensors detect an anomaly.
    Data analyzes the voices and reports that they are the voices of the crew.
    The Enterprise has entered a time loop in which all events that occurred
    since the ship's actual entry recur, and the "afterimages" of the events
    trapped in the loop allow the crew to know what is about to happen to them
    again.  Data plans to leave himself a "message" that he will receive in a
    "subconscious" way, but before he can get far with his idea, a disturbance
    is detected near the ship.  Picard orders Ro to distance the Enterprise
    from the phenomenon, and then all power is lost and the starship emerges
    from the rift, colliding with the Enterprise, and the engine core is
    destablized.  Picard orders evacuation as Data transmits his message to the
    Data in the next time loop, and the Enterprise blasts herself to bits.
       Dr. Crusher notices events repeating once more.  Data receives his own
    message just as Crusher once again records the voices in her quarters.  The
    time disturbance appears, and Picard hesitantly repeats his order to stand
    off from the rift.  The power drain occurs again, as does the emergence of
    the other ship.  Data suddenly changes the chain of events by taking a
    course of action the crew has rejected in every time loop up till now, and
    the collision is avoided.  The Enterprise has been caught in the time loop
    for nearly 18 days, but upon contacting the captain of the other ship, it
    is obvious that he and his crew have been repeating their collision with the
    Enterprise for over 70 years.
  Guest Cast:  Kelsey Grammer (Captain Bateston), Michelle Forbes (Ensign Ro),
    Patti Yasutake (Nurse Ogawa)

118     THE FIRST DUTY
        written by Ronald D. Moore and Naren Shankar
        directed by Paul Lynch
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 45703.9:  The Enterprise is heading back to Earth so Picard may
    deliver Starfleet Academy's commencement address, and the crew is also
    looking forward to an aerial stunt display performed in orbit over Saturn
    by Nova Squadron, the Academy's elite flight group, including Wes Crusher.
    As the Enterprise arrives, news reaches Picard and Dr. Crusher that Nova
    Squadron's five planes have collided during a practice maneuver, injuring
    four of the pilots and killing one of them.
       An inquiry is launched into the accident, and squadron leader Locarno -
    backed up by Wes and the other cadets - testifies that blame lies on Cadet
    Joshua Albert, who died.  Picard, while the investigation is underway, pays
    a visit to his old friend Boothby, the Academy gardener since Picard's days
    as a cadet.  Wise old Boothby, and later Picard himself, begin to wonder if
    perhaps the surviving cadets of Nova Squadron aren't simply diverting the
    responsibility for their own mistake.
  Guest Cast:  Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher), Jacqueline Brooks (Admiral Brand),
    Ray Walston (Boothby), Robert Duncan McNeill (Nicholas Locarno), Ed Lauter
    (Lt. Commander Albert), Richard Fancy (Captain Setalk), Walker Brandt
    (Hajar), Shannon Fill (Sito)

119     COST OF LIVING
        written by Peter Allan Fields
        directed by Winrich Kolbe
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate not given:  The Enterprise is on an urgent mission to destroy an
    asteroid on a collision course with an inhabited planet.  The asteroid is
    obliterated, but a metal-consuming substance riding the asteroid transfers
    to the hull of the Enterprise.  Later, Worf and Alexander argue in Troi's
    office about their latest father-son dispute over the family rules, and as
    if that experience isn't enough of a headache, Lwaxana Troi beams aboard on
    her way to get married to Campio, a member of another planet's royalty (and
    Mrs. Troi reluctantly admits she hasn't actually met him yet), and she
    begins to interfere with Worf's relationship with Alexander, trying to show
    the boy how to revel in rebelling against authority.  While Counselor Troi
    tells her mother not to intercede in Worf's family affairs, a problem is
    discovered with the ship's systems, caused by the metal "virus" (of which
    the crew is not yet aware).  Mrs. Troi later reveals to Alexander that she
    isn't entirely sure about her upcoming marriage to Campio (who beams aboard
    with an ever-present aide whose duty seems to be that of making sure all of
    Campio's actions are as neutral and inoffensive as possible).  The life
    support systems come under attack by the erosive substance, and when Picard
    orders the ship to warp to the nearest starbase, the engines are the next
    target of the virus, jeopardizing the Enterprise and everyone aboard.
  Guest Cast:  Majel Barrett (Lwaxana Troi), Brian Bonsall (Alexander), Tony Jay
    (Campio), Carel Struycken (Mr. Homn), David Oliver (Young Man), Albie
    Selznick (Juggler), Patrick Cronn (Erko), Tracy D'Arcy (Young Woman), George
    Ede (Poet), Christopher Halste (First Learner), Majel Barrett (Computer
    Voice)

120     THE PERFECT MATE
        teleplay by Gary Perconte and Michael Piller
        story by Rene Echevarria and Gary Perconte
        directed by Cliff Bole
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 45761.3:  After rescuing a party of stranded miners, the Enterprise
    continues its mission to take Ambassador Bre'em and his cargo - an unusual
    cocoon - to meet Alrik of Volt so that their two worlds can end centuries of
    conflict.  But when a Ferengi shuttlecraft is spotted in need of immediate
    help, Picard is forced to pick up the two Ferengi, who actually faked their
    emergency.  The nosy Ferengi damage Bre'em's cocoon, which melts away to
    reveal the lovely empath Kamala, who grabs the attention of every man in her
    sight, and initially thinks that Picard's authoritarian demeanor makes him
    her future mate.  Kamala is being transported as the property of Bre'em's
    government, and she is to be delivered - as a gift - to Alrik of Volt.  Dr.
    Crusher convinces Picard that the ambassador's treatment of Kamala as an
    object is inhumane, but the possible results of allowing Kamala free roam of
    the ship could be more risky than transporting her as cargo, since her very
    accurate empathic ability allows her to become the perfect mate for whomever
    she spends the most time with, whether that happens to be Riker, Worf, a
    group of unruly miners, Captain Picard...
  Guest Cast:  Famke Janssen (Kamala), Tim O' Connor (Ambassador Bre'em), Max
    Grodenchik (Par Linor), Mickey Cottrell (Alrik of Volt), Michael Snyder
    (Qol), David Paul Needles (Miner #1), Roger Rignack (Miner #2), Charles
    Gunning (Miner #3), April Grace (Transporter Officer), Majel Barrett
    (Computer Voice)

121     IMAGINARY FRIEND
        teleplay by Edithe Swensen and Brannon Braga
        story by Jean Louise Matthias & Ronald Wilkerson and Richard Fliegel
        directed by Gabrielle Beaumont
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 45852.1:  As the Enterprise begins an investigation of a nebula,
    Ensign Sutter and his young daughter Clara are in Troi's office, where Clara
    is talking about her imaginary friend Isabella.  Ensign Sutter, whose
    Starfleet career hasn't allowed him to stay in one place long enough for
    Clara to make any friends, is concerned that Clara's insistence on
    Isabella's existence is abnormal, but Troi doesn't think it is anything to
    worry about.  An energy form enters the Enterprise, it materializes just as
    Clara imagines Isabella looks like, and begins to have Clara show it around
    the ship.  Meanwhile, other energy-beings like "Isabella" begin to weave a
    web of strands around the ship to slow it down so they can feed off its
    power source.  The crew realizes that the only way to try to communicate
    with the energy-beings is by having Clara try to summon Isabella.
  Guest Cast:  Noley Thornton (Clara), Shay Astar (Isabella), Jeff Allin (Ensign
    Sutter), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Brian Bonsall (Alexander), Patti Yasutake
    (Nurse Ogawa), Sheila Franklin (Ensign)

122     I, BORG
        written by Rene Echevarria
        directed by Robert Lederman
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 45854.2:  The Enterprise is exploring a star system when a distress
    call is detected, and Riker leads an away team to investigate.  A single
    survivor is found amidst the wreckage of a scout ship, a young male Borg
    which is taken back to the Enterprise.  As Picard is faced with a reminder
    of his ordeal with the Borg and argues with Guinan about the logic of
    bringing the Borg aboard, Geordi tries to instill the ship's Borg guest with
    a sense of individuality, starting by nicknaming him "Hugh."  The crew is
    preparing a plan to send Hugh back with a computer virus that would unravel
    the Borg from the inside out, but some of the crew's conscience begins to
    disturb them.  Picard discovers that Geordi's benign attempts at
    communicating with Hugh could potentially have a far more devastating effect
    on the Borg collective society in the long run.
  Guest Cast:  Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Jonathan del Arco (Hugh the Borg)

123     THE NEXT PHASE
        written by Ronald D. Moore
        directed by David Carson
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate not given:  A small Romulan ship is stranded, its crew threatened by
    the imminent danger of an engine explosion.  An Enterprise away team beams
    aboard to assess the damage, but when Geordi and Ro try to return to the
    Enterprise with a piece of Romulan equipment, they are apparently lost in a
    transporter malfunction, and the rest of the crew assume they are dead.
    Geordi and Ro both awaken on the Enterprise, but they cannot be heard or
    seen by anyone else on the ship, and their bodies are able to simply pass
    through solid walls and doors due to their molecules being "phased."  While
    Ro attempts to come to terms with her apparent death, Geordi discovers that
    he and Ro are leaving a trail detectable by the ship's sensors.  The two try
    to alert the Enterprise crew of their predicament, and discover that the
    Romulans can intentionally phase themselves and are nearing the conclusion
    of a plan to destroy the Enterprise.
  Guest Cast:  Michelle Forbes (Ensign Ro), Thomas Kopache (Mirok), Susanna
    Thompson (Varel), Shelby Leverington (Brossmer), Brian Cousins (Parem),
    Kenneth Meseroll (Ensign McDowell)

124     THE INNER LIGHT
        teleplay by Morgan Gendel and Peter Allan Fields
        story by Morgan Gendel
        directed by Peter Lauritson
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 45944.1:  The Enterprise discovers an alien probe of unknown origin,
    which detects the Enterprise and sends a transmission.  Picard is knocked
    unconscious.  He "wakes up" as Kamin, an astronomer on the planet Kataan.
    As Kamin orients himself to life on this world with his wife Eline, he tries
    to make some attempts to locate the Enterprise, discovering in the process
    that Kataan faces imminent destruction from a sun about to go nova.  Kamin
    ages yars, has children with Eline, watches old friends die and tries to
    convince people that their days on the planet are numbered.  Meanwhile, on
    the Enterprise, where Picard has been unconscious for mere minutes, Riker is
    determined to break the probe's hold on Picard - but severing the link could
    kill Picard while he is still trapped in the mind of Kamin.
       Daniel Stewart, who plays the part of Kamin's son in this episode, is
    Patrick Stewart's real son.
  Guest Cast:  Margot Rose (Eline), Richard Riehle (Batai), Scott Jaeck
    (Administrator), Jennifer Nash (Meribor), Patti Yasutake (Nurse Ogawa),
    Daniel Stewart (Young Batai)

125     TIME'S ARROW
        teleplay by Joe Menosky and Michael Piller
        story by Joe Menosky
        directed by Les Landau
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 45959.1:  An excavation team on Earth summons the Enterprise to
    Earth, claiming to have found evidence of extraterrestrial visitors to the
    planet in the 19th century.  Picard and Data are shown an astonishing
    artifact unearthed near Starfleet Academy: the head of Data, although he -
    with his head intact - is still serving on the Enterprise.  As Data
    contemplates the news, Geordi traces a micro-organism discovered in
    fossilized form mear Data's head to the planet Davidia II.  The Enterprise
    heads for that world immediately, where an away team beams down without
    Data, who believes the others are overreacting to his impending fate.  Troi
    sense life on the planet, although no beings are visible.  Data, whose head
    contains a component that could allow him to see the invisible life forms,
    beams down and phases into the beings' plane, reporting many large humanoid
    beings and an alien of some sort.  Data is then snatched through time - to
    San Francisco in the late 1800s.  He immediately begins making preparations
    to continue the exploration he was conducting on Davidia II after winning
    big in a local poker game.  Elsewhere in the city, two humans - or at least
    aliens in the guise of humans - patrol the streets, finding a beggar and
    using a camouflaged device to steal the energy from his body, killing him.
       Meanwhile, Picard readies another away team when Guinan gives him cryptic
    advice, telling him he must join the away team.  Data, in the 19th century,
    discovers that Guinan is on Earth in the same time period, though centuries
    before she met any of the Enterprise crew.  Also present at the social
    function where Data finds Guinan is one Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark
    Twain, who overhears Data and Guinan discussing Data's real origins.  On
    Davidia II, the away team replicates Data's experiment and they see the same
    life forms.  Two beings arrive from an temporal rift, unloading more energy
    for their fellow aliens to feed on - energy taken from humans on Earth at
    the moment of death, according to Troi's empathic sense.  Picard, Riker,
    Troi, Geordi and Dr. Crusher enter the gateway, which closes behind them as
    they travel back in time to search for Data and find out why alien beings
    are interfering with human history.
  Guest Cast:  Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Jerry Hardin (Samuel Clemens), Michael
    Aron (Jack the Bellboy), Barry Kivel (Doorman), Ken Thorley (Seaman),
    Sheldon Peters Wolfchild (Indian), Jack Murdock (Beggar), Marc Alaimo
    (Gambler), Milt Tarver (Scientist), Michael Hungerford (Roughneck)


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126     TIME'S ARROW - part II
        teleplay by Jeri Taylor
        story by Joe Menosky
        directed by Les Landau
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 46001.3:  After Picard and the away team manage to find indigenous
    clothes and lodging, they begin a task which Data, separately, has pursued
    since arriving - attempting to track down the aliens.  They find a couple,
    disguised as a doctor and nurse, who have been stealing neural energy and
    escaping unnoticed, and the deaths then are attributed to a cholera epidemic
    of the period.  In the meantime, Data has enlisted the help of Guinan, but
    has run into some unwelcome curiosity from Samuel Clemens, who trails both
    Data and Guinan assuming that they've arrived from the future with evil
    intentions.  Picard's away team captures the key to the aliens' neural
    energy-gathering trips but the aliens themselves escape.  Picard's party is
    rescued from arrest by Data, who then introduces Guinan to Picard for the
    first time in her life.  They then travel to the cavern where Data's head
    will be discovered in the 24th century, followed by Clemens.  As Clemens
    pulls a gun on the travelers, the aliens return to retrieve their creature,
    but Data holds on to it, and one of the aliens escapes through a temporal
    rift.  The energy surge causes Data to explode, and the alien nurse is left
    behind, dying.  Riker, Crusher, Troi and Geordi return to the 24th century,
    taking Data's decapitated body with them - and again, they are followed by
    Clemens.  Picard remains to make sure Guinan is unharmed, while the crew, in
    the 24th century, tries to retrieve Picard, send Clemens back to his native
    time, and stop further alien intereference with Earth's past.
  Season 6 Regular Cast:  Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard), Jonathan Frakes
    (Commander Riker), LeVar Burton (Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge), Michael
    Dorn (Lt. Worf), Gates McFadden (Dr. Crusher), Marina Sirtis (Counselor
    Troi), Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data)
  Guest Cast:  Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Jerry Hardin (Samuel Clemens), Michael
    Aron (Jack the Bellboy), Alexander Enberg (Young Reporter), Van Epperson
    (Morgue Attendant), Pamela Kosh (Mrs. Carmichael), James Gleason (Dr.
    Appollinaire), Bill Cho Lee (Male Patient), William Boyett (Policeman), Mary
    Stein (Alien Nurse), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

127     REALM OF FEAR
        written by Brannon Braga
        directed by Cliff Bole
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 46041.1:  The Enterprise locates the missing starship Yosemite,
    adrift in a matter stream between binary stars.  A link between the two
    ships' transporters must be established so an away team can investigate the
    Yosemite, but Lt. Barclay, assigned to the away team, reveals his life-long
    fear of transporting.  Troi convinces him to overcome his fear long enough
    to beam over to the Yosemite.  Beaming back to the Enterprise later, Barclay
    is sure he sees some kind of creature in the transport beam approach and
    touch him.  Fearing he has contracted a psychosis caused by the transporter
    scrambling his brain, he becomes so preoccupied that Troi relieves him of
    duty while Geordi and Data begin reconstructing a mysteriously shattered
    sample container form the Yosemite, an experiment which reveals that there
    are indeed life forms in the matter stream.  And Barclay is exhibiting early
    symptoms of something that may have killed the Yosemite's crew.
  Guest Cast:  Dwight Schultz (Lt. Barclay), Colm Meaney (O' Brien), Patti
    Yasutake (Nurse Ogawa), Renata Scott (Admiral), Thomas Belgrey (Crewmember),
    Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

128     MAN OF THE PEOPLE
        written by Frank Abatemarco
        directed by Winrich Kolbe
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 46071.6:  A transport vessel carrying Ambassador Alkar and a women he
    introduces as his mother is attacked en route to mediation sessions between
    the warring societies of Reycag and Seronia.  Alkar's party transfers to the
    Enterprise, which will complete their journey.  On the way, Alkar befriends
    Troi, but this meets with intense hostility from his elderly companion.  The
    old woman suddenly dies soon afterward, and Alkar asks Troi to assist him in
    performing the funeral meditiation sacred to his race.  After performing the
    ceremony, Troi begins to feel unusually angry, jealous and amorous toward
    Alkar and others on board.  Dr. Crusher uncovers evidence that Troi's
    condition has been inflicted deliberately by Alkar, telepathically
    depositing his dark emotions in Troi, aging her body and destroying her
    mind, and the only release for Troi may be death.
  Guest Cast:  Chip Lucia (Ambassador Alkar), Patti Yasutake (Nurse Ogawa),
    George D. Wallace (Male Delegate), Lucy Boryer (Female Ensign), Susan French
    (Female Delegate), Rick Scarry (Admiral), Stephanie Erb (Sev Maelor), J.P.
    Hubbell (Ensign), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

129     RELICS
        written by Ronald D. Moore
        directed by Alexander Singer
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate not given:  While responding to a distress signal, the Enterprise
    encounters a Dyson sphere, a colossal artificial structure whose habitable
    interior surface is powered by a small star kept in the center of the
    sphere.  The source of the distress signal, a 75-year-old transport ship, is
    found crashed into the outside surface of the sphere.  An away team recovers
    a single survivor, who, when his ship crashed and no help was expected to
    arrive for quite some time, used an innovative last-ditch transporter
    modification to suspend himself.  The occupant turns out to be Captain
    Montogmery Scott, chief engineer of the original Enterprise.  Scotty is
    welcomed aboard the modern Enterprise, but soon finds that his skills and
    knowledge are of no use to Starfleet in the 24th century.  In an attempt to
    make the uneasy visitor from the past feel useful, Picard assigns Geordi to
    take Scotty to work on the systems of the crashed transport ship, but the
    Enterprise is then captured and taken into the interior of the Dyson sphere
    by unknown forces.  Scotty, left aboard the small, damaged ship with Geordi,
    may once again be the only hope for a starship called the Enterprise...
  Guest Cast:  James Doohan (Scotty), Lanei Chapman (Ensign Rager), Erick Weiss
    (Ensign Kane), Stacie Foster (Engineer Bartel), Ernie Mirich (Waiter), Majel
    Barrett (Computer Voice)

130     SCHISMS
        teleplay by Brannon Braga
        story by Jean Louise Matthias & Ronald Wilkerson
        directed by Robert Wiemer
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 46191.2:  After Riker's complaints of fatigue, Geordi's VISOR causing
    him problems, and Worf feeling unusually jumpy, it becomes apparent that an
    external influence is responsible.  Counselor Troi investigates and finds
    that several crew members have complained of similar symptoms stemming from
    unsettling dreams.  Gradually, using a holodeck recreation of the dream
    environment programmed by those suffering the unusual effects, a mysterious
    string of experiments conducted by aliens from within the physical domain of
    subspace is discovered.  As more incidents occur, with the crew powerless to
    stop them, the experiments become more deadly.  Riker, who has been
    frequently experimented upon by the aliens, volunteers to take part in an
    experiment of the crew's own to see if the instrusions can be halted.
  Guest Cast:  Lanei Chapman (Ensign Rager), Ken Thorley (Mr. Mot), Scott T.
    Trost (Lt. Shipley), Angelo McCabe (Crewman), Angelina Fiordellisi
    (Kaminer), John Nelson (Medical Technician), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

131     TRUE Q
        written by Rene Echevarria
        based upon material by Matthew Corey
        directed by Robert Scheerer
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 46192.3:  Student intern Amanda Rogers is transferred to the
    Enterprise to get a sample of Starfleet duty.  An accident occurs in
    engineering which almost forces Geordi to blow the warp core out of the
    ship, but Amanda astonishingly reverses the impending catastrophe.  Shortly
    afterward, Q arrives and informs the crew that Amanda is a fledgling Q whose
    powers, just emerging, are beginning to concern the Q Continuum.  The crew
    is left with no choice but to allow Q to tutor Amanda on matters of the
    responsibilities involved with possessing godlike powers, since, obviously,
    none of them have any knowledge on the subject.  But it gradually becomes
    apparent that Q, and his fellow occupants of the Continuum, may not have a
    benevolent fate in store for the confused Amanda.
  Guest Cast:  Olivia D'Abo (Amanda Rogers), John de Lancie (Q), ? (Orn Loat)

132     RASCALS
        teleplay by Allison Hock
        story by Ward Botsford & Diana Dru Botsford and Michael Piller
        directed by Adam Nimoy
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 46235.7:  A shuttlecraft bringing Picard, Guinan, Ensign Ro and Keiko
    collides with an energy disturbance, necessitating an emergency rescue via
    transporter.  But the energy field disrupts transport, and the passengers
    from the shuttle arrive as children, though their minds are unaffected.
    They find it difficult to adjust - Picard worries about his lack of command
    presence, Ro despises being relieved of duty, and O' Brien can't cope with
    Keiko's sudden reversion to youth.  Guinan, however, seems to be enjoying
    herself.  The ship continues on a course to respond to a distress call from
    a science team.  On arrival at the site, the Enterprise is attacked by two
    Klingon ships which have been taken over by Ferengi.  The Ferengi board the
    Enterprise and begin beaming the crew off to serve, along with the captured
    science team, as slave laborers.  The Ferengi refuse any compromise, but
    Captain Picard and the other "youngsters" may be able to salvage the
    situation.
  Guest Cast:  Colm Meaney (O' Brien), Rosalind Chao (Keiko), Michelle Forbes
    (Ensign Ro), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), David Tristan Birkin (young Picard),
    Megan Parlen (young Ro), Caroline Junko King (young Keiko), Isis J. Jones
    (young Guinan), Mike Gomez (DaiMon Lurin), Tracey Walter (Berik), Michael
    Snyder (Morta), Brian Bonsall (Alexander), Morgan Nagler (Kid #1), Hana
    Hatae (Molly O' Brien), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

133     A FISTFUL OF DATAS
        teleplay by Robert Hewitt Wolfe and Brannon Braga
        story by Robert Hewitt Wolfe
        directed by Patrick Stewart
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 46271.5:  A scheduled maintenance layover allows the crew to indulge
    in some leisure activities, much to the dismay of Worf, who, without any
    duties to use as an excuse, must oblige Alexander by joining him for a wild
    west adventure on the holodeck with Troi.  Meanwhile, Data and Geordi
    experience a malfunction during a test of Data's ability to interface with
    the ship's main computer, though they do not initially realize the extent of
    the malfunction.  Shipwide computer errors occur, ranging from Spot's cat
    food being dispensed from every food slot, to images of Data replacing
    Worf's holodeck nemesis and kidnapping Alexander to hold the boy for a
    ransom.  By the time Geordi begins effecting repairs, Worf is committed to a
    shootout with a holodeck villain who has Data's agility and precision.
  Guest Cast:  Brian Bonsall (Alexander), John Pyper-Ferguson (Eli Hollander),
    Joy Garrett (Annie), Jorge Cervera, Jr. (Bandito), Majel Barrett (Computer
    voice), and Spot

134     THE QUALITY OF LIFE
        written by Naren Shankar
        based upon material by L.J. Scott
        directed by Jonathan Frakes
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 46307.2:  The Enterprise arrives at Tyrus 7A to observe a new
    experimental method of mining, the particle fountain, which uses a stream of
    high-density particles to extract and lift planet-based ore from an orbiting
    station.  A malfunction occurs while Geordi is visiting the station, and Dr.
    Farallon, the ambitious head of the particle fountain project, introduces
    her other innovation, a small repair robot called an exo-comp, which is able
    to correct the problem almost instantly.  Later, while Data is visiting the
    station, another accident happens and Data notices an exo-comp exhibiting a
    will to survive.  Data hypothesizes that the exo-comps are living beings
    with their own intelligence, and possibly the beginnings of sentience.  But
    when he asked to prove that the exo-comps are alive, one of them appears to
    fail a test on the Enterprise, but has actually realized that it is being
    tested, and is therefore intelligent and alive, though Dr. Farallon refuses
    to acknowledge the exo-comps' status.  A crisis strands Picard and Geordi on
    the station, endangered by rising radiation levels, and Farallon proposes a
    solution which would amount to a suicide mission for the exo-comps.  When
    the crew prepares to implement the solution and save Picard and Geordi, Data
    stands in the way of the rescue operation to protect the exo-comps' rights.
  Guest Cast:  Ellen Bry (Dr. Farallon), J. Downing (Tyran Scientist), David
    Windsor (Transporter Chief Kelso), Majel Barrett (Computer voice)

135     CHAIN OF COMMAND - part I
        teleplay by Ronald D. Moore
        story by Frank Abatemarco
        directed by Robert Scheerer
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 46357.4:  Near the border of Cardassian space, Picard is unexpectedly
    reassigned by Starfleet.  There are indications that the Cardassians are
    mobilizing for war with the Federation.  Picard, Dr. Crusher and Worf get
    ready for a mission they can't speak about to anyone.  Captain Jellico, now
    in command of the Enterprise, doesn't score any points with the crew in his
    unusual demands that the ship be made combat ready.  En route to Celtris III
    Picard tells Worf and Dr. Crusher that the Cardassians may be perfecting a
    nearly invincible new form of biological warfare.  Meanwhile at the border,
    Jellico begins talks with Cardassian representatives which confuse them and
    the Enterprise's officers.  On Celtris III, Picard's team find themselves in
    a trap.  Crusher and a wounded Worf escape a Cardassian ambush, but Picard
    is captured and taken to Gul Madred, who has alarming foreknowledge of their
    attempt to gather intelligence.  And the interrogation of Picard begins...
       This episode makes reference to the Cardassians' withdrawal from the
    Bajoran sector - a key element in the background of "Deep Space Nine."
  Guest Cast:  Ronny Cox (Captain Jellico), Natalija Nogulich (Admiral Alina
    Nechayev), John Durbin (Gul Lemec), Lou Wagner (DaiMon Solok), David Warner
    (Gul Madred), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

136     CHAIN OF COMMAND - part II
        written by Frank Abatemarco
        directed by Les Landau
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 46360.8:  Cardassian representative Gul Lemec reveals to Jellico that
    Picard has been captured on Celtris III.  Under interrogation by Gul Madred,
    Picard is tortured in the Cardassians' attempt to find out more about the
    defenses of Minos Korva, a planet once sought by the Cardassians in their
    war with the Federation.  On the Enterprise, Jellico prepares for all-out
    war in the event of a collapse of diplomatic relations, but meets with open
    disapproval from Riker.  Jellico relieves Riker of his duties and continues
    to deny that Picard's mission was ordered by Starfleet, which disqualifies
    Picard from the terms of the Federation-Cardassian treaty concerning the
    treatment of prisoners of war.  Picard resists further torture but is pushed
    to the limits of his endurance while Gul Madred continues to question him
    about Minos Korva, of which Picard knows nothing.  Meanwhile, Jellico
    confronts the Cardassians and calls their bluff after discovering a flotilla
    of their warships hiding near Minos Korva.  He successfully demands a
    withdrawal and the release of Picard.  Returned to the Enterprise, Picard
    resumes command, but all is not normal after his experience at the hands of
    the Cardassians.
  Guest Cast:  David Warner (Gul Madred), Ronny Cox (Captain Jellico), John
    Durbin (Gul Lemec), Heather Lauren Olsen (Jil Orra), Majel Barrett (Computer
    Voice)

137     SHIP IN A BOTTLE
        written by Rene Echevarria
        directed by Alexander Singer
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate 46424.1:  As the Enterprise is en route to witness the collision of
    two gaseous planets, Data and Geordi visit the London of Sherlock Holmes,
    noticing small program anomalies.  Barclay checks the holodeck's programming
    and unwittingly reactivates a program which had been created and put into
    storage four years before when Moriarty, in another Holmes program, evolved
    into Data's ideal adversary.  Moriarty demands to talk to Picard.  Unknown
    to the crew, he has been alive and aware in the computer's memory the whole
    time, and he defies the laws of physics by stepping out of the holodeck and
    roaming the Enterprise.  Moriarty asks that a Countess with whom he fell in
    love in the course of another holodeck program be brought to life to
    accompany him, but Picard is reluctant, preferring instead to research just
    how Moriarty has achieved corporeal existence, and to determine whether or
    not the professor intends to continue his legendary criminal activities.  As
    it turns out, Moriarty is indeed planning on attempting a swindle of an
    immense scale - but Picard means to see that Moriarty's scheme is limited to
    the scale of the holodeck.
  Guest Cast:  Dwight Schultz (Lt. Barclay), Daniel Davis (Professor Moriarty),
    Clement Von Franckenstein (Gentleman), Stephanie Beacham (Countess), Majel
    Barrett (Computer Voice)

138     AQUIEL
        teleplay by Brannon Braga & Ronald D. Moore
        story by Jeri Taylor
        directed by Cliff Bole
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 46461.3:  The Enterprise crew begins an investigation when the crew
    of a Federation communications relay station near the Klingon border is
    discovered to be missing, and there are signs on the station that someone
    has been killed with a phaser set on high power.  Someone has taken the
    station's shuttle, and records of certain subspace transmissions have been
    taken.  In the course of the investigation, Geordi goes through the logs of
    Lt. Aquiel Uhnari, searching for clues about what happened on the station.
    There are signs that she had experienced personality conflicts with the
    station's senior officer and only other occupant, and her logs mention
    visits from a belligerent Klingon.  The Klingon is located by Picard, and
    the Klingons reveal that they have found Lt. Uhnari in the station's missing
    shuttle.  Geordi, who has come to "know" Aquiel through her logs, becomes
    personally involved in the investigation of the apparent murder of her
    superior officer on the station, but he has a hard time separating his
    responsibility to solving the mystery from his personal feelings.
  Guest Cast:  Renee Jones (Aquiel Uhnari), Wayne Grace (Governor Torak), Reg E.
    Cathey (Morag), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

139     FACE OF THE ENEMY
        teleplay by Naren Shankar
        story by Rene Echevarria
        directed by Gabrielle Beaumont
        music by Don Davis
  Stardate 46519.1:  Counselor Troi, waking up after being kidnapped from a
    neuro-psychology seminar, finds herself aboard a Romulan Warbird, posing as
    a member of Romulan intelligence to participate in a carefully plotted
    defection attempt by a Vice-Proconsul of the Romulan High Council.  With the
    clandestine guidance of a member of the Romulan crew, Troi plays her role
    convincingly.  In the meantime, a former human defector to Romulus returns
    to the Federation and arrives on the Enterprise with a message to Picard
    from Ambassador Spock, who remains in hiding on Romulus assisting defectors
    and dissidents.  The message sends an unwitting Picard to rendezvous with
    the ship carrying Troi and the defector, an encounter which forces Troi to
    make a split-second decision to either break with the intricate plans of the
    defection scheme, or to follow her Romulan confidant into what may be a
    trap.
  Guest Cast:  Scott MacDonald (N'Vek), Carolyn Seymour (Toreth), Barry Lynch
    (DeSeve), Robertson Dean (Pilot), Pamela Winslow (Ensign McKnight), Majel
    Barrett (Computer Voice)

140     TAPESTRY
        written by Ronald D. Moore
        directed by Les Landau
        music by Dennis McCarthy
  Stardate not given:  After a diplomatic meeting with aliens goes drastically
    wrong and ends in an exchange of fire, an away team is beamed into sick bay
    with a dying Picard.  As Dr. Crusher tries desperately to resuscitate
    Picard, a near-death vision begins in Picard's mind...or so he thinks, until
    Q is revealed to be behind it.  Q informs Picard that his artificial heart -
    which Picard gained after, as a newly-commissioned ensign 30 years before,
    he instigated a brawl with three huge Nausicaans and got stabbed through the
    heart - is the cause of his death in the present.  Q tempts Picard with the
    opportunity to change his personal history by depositing Picard's current
    consciousness in the body of Ensign Picard within a few days of his fateful
    encounter with the Nausicaans.  Picard must weigh the moral implications of
    changing the past to ensure his present survival against adhering to the 
    tragic dictates of his destiny.
  Guest Cast:  John de Lancie (Q), Ned Vaughn (Corey), J.C. Brandy (Marta),
    Clint Carmichael (Nausicaan #1), Rae Norman (Penny), Clive Church (Maurice
    Picard), Marcus Nash (Young Picard), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)

141     BIRTHRIGHT - part one
        written by Brannon Braga
        directed by Winrich Kolbe
        music by Jay Chattaway
  Stardate 46578.4:  The Enterprise visits Deep Space 9 to deliver supplies and
    personnel to assist the rebuilding of Bajor.  On the station's Promenade,
    Worf encounters an alien profiteer who claims to know the whereabouts of 
    Worf's father, allegedly still alive.  While Worf, troubled, ponders the 
    legitimacy of this news, Data and Geordi assist Dr. Bashir, visiting from 
    the station, in conducting an analysis of a piece of equipment discovered in 
    the gamma quadrant.  An accidental power overload shuts Data down 
    momentarily, yet he has a vision of a short walk through the corridors of 
    the Enterprise and a brief encounter with his creator, Dr. Soong.  Unsure of 
    how to interpret or proceed from this experience, Data seeks the advice of 
    many others, including Worf.  Still contemplating a possible journey to find 
    his father, Worf advises Data to pursue the search for his own "father" at 
    whatever the cost, while Worf himself finally resolves to embark on a 
    dangerous quest to a Romulan prison camp.  When he arrives, Worf finds not 
    only a familiar Klingon face, but many others, all of whom are secretive 
    about their internment until Worf is captured by Romulans.
  Guest Cast:  Siddig El Fadil (Dr. Bashir), James Cromwell (Shrek), Cristine
    Rose (Gi'ral), Jennifer Gatti (Ba'el), Richard Herd (L'Kor) and Spot

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