1:[2,#B],5:[2,#I],70:[1,#I],92:[2,#I],105:[1,#I],131:[1,#I],143:[7,#I]@1“Justice” (TNG)@2Stardate 41255.6. U.S.S. Enterprise -D personnel, on shore leave at planet Rubicun III, accidentally violate local laws. Acting Ensign Wesley Crusher commits an apparently minor transgression, but local authorities impose a death sentence for the act in accordance with planetary law. Attempts to negotiate a release for Crusher are unsuccessful because of the presence of a powerful noncorporeal spaceborne entity which the Edo worship as their god. Enterprise -D captain Picard violates the Prime Directive of noninterference by violating local laws to secure Crusher’s release.
• Ferengi vessel contacts U.S.S. Enterprise -D and requests a meeting in the Xendi Sabu star system. Enterprise -D waits at rendezvous point for three days, the Ferengi offering no response other than a signal to “stand by.” In an apparently unrelated development, Enterprise -D captain Picard suffers from an unusually painful series of headaches.
Three days prior to “The Battle” (TNG).
~1:[3,#B],23:[1,#I],34:[2,#I],41:[1,#I],65:[1,#I],108:[1,#I],127:[2,#I],135:[2,#I],141:[5,#I],175:[9,#I],185:[1,#I],191:[2,#I],209:[6,#I],240:[2,#I],243:[7,#I]@1“The Battle” (TNG)@2Stardate 41723.9. Ferengi DaiMon Bok, aboard a Ferengi ship at the Xendi Sabu rendezvous site, offers a gift to Enterprise -D captain Picard: The hulk of Picard’s former command, the U.S.S. Stargazer. Examination of records aboard the Stargazer reveals apparently damning evidence suggesting Picard had attacked a Ferengi spacecraft some nine years ago in “The Battle of Maxia” in which the Stargazer was believed destroyed. The gift is found to be an elaborate ploy by Bok to gain revenge on Picard for the latter’s involvement in the Battle of Maxia, during which Bok’s son was killed. Bok is also discovered to have falsified the Stargazer records and to have attempted to injure Picard through the use of a Ferengi mind control device.
• U.S.S. Enterprise -D tows the hulk of the U.S.S. Stargazer to Xendi Starbase 9.
Just after “The Battle” (TNG).
• DaiMon Bok is relieved of command, charged by Ferengi authorities with being unstable and dangerous. He is confined to Rog Prison and stripped of his title as daimon.
“Bloodlines” (TNG). After the events in “The Battle” (TNG).
• Enterprise -D counselor Deanna Troi departs U.S.S. Enterprise -D on a shuttlecraft at Starbase G-6 for a visit to her home planet of Betazed.
Prior to “Hide and Q” (TNG).
• An explosion at the Federation mining colony on planet Sigma III injures 504 persons. An urgent call for medical assistance is transmitted to the U.S.S. Enterprise -D.
Just prior to “Hide and Q” (TNG).
~1:[4,#B],7:[2,#I],97:[9,#I]@1“Hide and Q” (TNG)@2Stardate 41590.5. U.S.S. Enterprise -D en route to rescue mission at Sigma III mining colony is interrupted by the reappearance of the entity known as “Q.” The rescue mission is largely successful, although at least one life is lost at the colony.
• Starfleet Command receives a transmission from Karnas, a leader on planet Mordan IV, reporting that terrorists have seized hostages including Federation Ambassador Hawkins. Karnas urgently requests the assistance of Starfleet Admiral Mark Jameson, noting a terrorist threat to kill the hostages if Jameson does not intervene in six days.
Two days prior to “Too Short a Season” (TNG).
~1:[5,#B],8:[1,#I],135:[2,#I],143:[7,#I]@1“Too Short a Season” (TNG)@2Stardate 41309.5. Enterprise -D at planet Persephone V to pick up Admiral Mark Jameson and his wife, Anne, for transport to planet Mordan IV to negotiate the release of Federation hostages. Upon arrival at Mordan IV, Jameson reveals that his celebrated negotiations (which led to release of other Federation hostages by Karnas some 45 years ago) was in fact a weapons-for-hostages deal that resulted in a bloody civil war. This conflict ended only five years ago, and it is learned that Karnas has staged the entire hostage crisis as a means of exacting retribution on Jameson for his role in exacerbating the war. Jameson, suffering from the effects of a youth drug obtained on planet Cerebus III, dies at Mordan IV after convincing Karnas to release the hostages.
• Starship Enterprise -D goes to planet Isis III.
Just after “Too Short a Season” (TNG).
~1:[4,#B],7:[2,#I],37:[1,#I],65:[2,#I],77:[5,#I]@1“The Big Goodbye” (TNG)@2Stardate 41997.7. U.S.S. Enterprise -D assigned to make diplomatic contact with the reclusive race known as the Jarada. The mission is somewhat delayed when a holodeck malfunction traps Captain Picard and other Enterprise -D personnel in an ongoing simulation program. The contact is ultimately successful in large part because of Captain Picard’s precise enunciation of a formal Jaradan greeting.
• U.S.S. Enterprise -D completes an assignment in the Omicron Theta star system.
Just prior to “Datalore” (TNG).
~1:[2,#B],5:[2,#I],97:[1,#I],129:[1,#I],164:[11,#I],179:[2,#I],196:[5,#I],202:[2,#I],210:[1,#I],219:[1,#I],232:[6,#I]@1“Datalore” (TNG)@2Stardate 41242.4. U.S.S. Enterprise -D, at Omicron Theta system, takes side trip to planet where Lieutenant Commander Data was discovered. Investigation reveals remains of a Federation colony, apparently destroyed and all inhabitants killed by a powerful spaceborne Crystalline Entity of unknown origin.
Also discovered is the preserved but abandoned underground laboratory of famed cyberneticist Dr. Noonien Soong. Dr. Soong, long assumed dead, is believed to be the designer of the android Data. Among the equipment in the facility are sufficient components to assemble a second android, nearly identical to Data. Upon return to the Enterprise -D, these components are assembled, then activated. The resulting android, known as Lore, is structurally identical to Data, but with dramatically differing personality programming. This android exhibits aberrant behavior, threatening the Enterprise -D, and is eventually transported into space, where it is presumed destroyed.
• Though unknown at the time, Lore drifts in space for two years and is eventually rescued by a passing Pakled ship.
“Brothers” (TNG). Lore described his adventures to Data and Dr. Soong.
• Twelve students from U.S.S. Enterprise -D participate in Quazulu field trip, accidentally bringing a respiratory virus back to the ship.
Prior to “Angel One” (TNG).
• U.S.S. Enterprise -D investigates disappearance of Federation freighter Odin, missing for seven years. The wreckage of the Odin is found with three escape pods missing, suggesting the possibility of survivors.
Just prior to “Angel One” (TNG).
~1:[3,#B],12:[1,#I],23:[1,#I],55:[1,#I],90:[2,#I],100:[1,#I],102:[2,#I],124:[2,#I],132:[4,#I],137:[2,#I],158:[4,#I]@1“Angel One” (TNG)@2Stardate 41636.9. Investigation of probable flight path of Odin escape pods leads to planet Angel I. Survivors of the Odin are found to be alive on the planet’s surface, having integrated themselves into the society. Local authorities request removal of survivors on the grounds they are interfering with planetary authority, but Enterprise -D captain Picard rules that the survivors have become a legitimate part of the social system and are thus immune to Prime Directive constraints.
Romulan spacecraft are detected near a Federation border post. The U.S.S. Berlin is dispatched to investigate. Upon completion of the Odin investigation, U.S.S. Enterprise -D sets course for Romulan Neutral Zone, although no direct contact with the Romulans is made at this time.
• Starship Enterprise -D, at Omicron Pascal, is delayed for a week, making it late for a scheduled layover at Starbase 74.
Prior to “11001001” (TNG).
~1:[2,#B],5:[2,#I],44:[1,#I],53:[1,#I],112:[78,#I],191:[11,#I],203:[2,#I],213:[5,#I],219:[2,#I],228:[5,#I]@1“11001001” (TNG)@2Stardate 41365.9. U.S.S. Enterprise -D at Starbase 74, orbiting Tarsas III for scheduled maintenance layover. Service and upgrades are performed by a special team from planet Bynaus. While in dock, a malfunction is reported, threatening a potentially catastrophic failure of the Enterprise -D’s antimatter containment fields. As a result, all Enterprise -D personnel are evacuated, and the ship is removed from the starbase. The incident is later learned to have been engineered by the Bynars in an effort to appropriate the ship for use in restarting their home planet’s main computer system in the Beta Magellan system. The Bynar planetary computer had been damaged when Beta Magellan went supernova.
Editors’ Note: At one point during the first season, “11001001” (TNG) was slated to be produced before the episode “The Big Goodbye” (TNG). Had the episodes been filmed and aired in that order, the modification by the Bynars to the holodeck in “11001001” (TNG) would have served to explain what happened to Captain Picard when his favorite Dixon Hill simulation malfunctioned. This episode marks the first reference to the game “parrises squares” when Tasha, Worf, and two other Enterprise -D personnel are off to challenge a team from the starbase.
• U.S.S. Enterprise -D has an appointment at planet Pelleus V.
Two days after “11001001” (TNG).
• U.S.S. Enterprise -D begins mapping assignment at Pleiades cluster.
Prior to “Home Soil” (TNG).
~1:[3,#B],6:[2,#I],36:[1,#I],92:[1,#I],125:[2,#I],139:[4,#I],187:[27,#I]@1“Home Soil” (TNG)@2Stardate 41463.9. U.S.S. Enterprise -D mapping assignment at Pleiades cluster is interrupted by a Federation request to investigate a loss of communication with the Federation terraforming team on planet Velara III. The Enterprise -D away team discovers that terraforming activity had been inadvertently disrupting a life- form indigenous to Velara III. This inorganic life-form exists in the narrow electrically conductive zone above the planet’s water table, and was threatened by the terraforming process. The life-form is discovered to be intelligent when it responds by seizing control of the Enterprise -D computer. The crew believes that project director Mandl was aware of the intelligent nature of the Velara life-forms and that he authorized the continuation of the terraforming despite that knowledge.
• U.S.S. Enterprise -D evacuates Velara III terraforming station personnel and returns them to starbase.
After “Home Soil” (TNG).
• Benzan of the planet Straleb, and Yanar of the planet Atlec, begin a romantic relationship. Benzan gives Yanar the Jewel of Thesia, a Straleb national treasure, as a nuptial gift, this despite the fact that their respective parents are unaware of the relationship.
“The Outrageous Okona” (TNG). Okona said the two had been seeing each other for about six months prior to the episode, although the exact date is conjecture.
~1:[5,#B],8:[2,#I],50:[1,#I],90:[1,#I],103:[1,#I],160:[30,#I]@1“When the Bough Breaks” (TNG)@2Stardate 41509.1. U.S.S. Enterprise -D discovers the mythical planet of Aldea, which had been shielded from visibility in the Epsilon Mynos system. The planet’s inhabitants, found to be a technologically advanced society of artisans, use their sophisticated transporter technology to abduct several children of Enterprise -D crew members. This is discovered to be an effort by the Aldeans to reestablish their race, rendered infertile due to radiation exposure caused by damage to their ozone layer.
Although diplomatic efforts to secure the freedom of the Enterprise -D children are initially unsuccessful, the Aldeans eventually agree to their release. Enterprise -D personnel assist with the dismantling of the Aldean shielding system and perform a reseeding of the Aldean ozone layer, a move expected to reverse the sterility of the Aldean people.
• Jadzia, a young woman on planet Trill, enters the Trill initiate program, working toward her goal of becoming a host for a Trill symbiont.
“Equilibrium” (DS9). Dax said she’d spent three years as an initiate, and “Dax” (DS9) established that Curzon Dax had died (and therefore Jadzia Dax was Joined) two years before 2369.
~1:[4,#B],23:[2,#I],44:[1,#I],116:[1,#I],155:[2,#I],162:[6,#I]@1“Coming of Age” (TNG)@2Stardate 41416.2. Lieutenant Commander Dexter Remmick of the Starfleet inspector general’s office conducts a thorough investigation of the U.S.S. Enterprise -D while the ship is at the Relva VII Starfleet facility. Remmick’s assignment to uncover unspecified problems aboard the Enterprise -D is later explained to be a probe of Captain Picard by Admiral Gregory Quinn, a prelude to Picard’s being offered the job of commandant of Starfleet Academy. Quinn’s offer to Picard is coupled with a plea based on Quinn’s suspicions that problems exist within the structure of Starfleet itself. Picard declines the offer, citing his belief that he can better serve the interests of the Federation as captain of the Enterprise -D.
Acting Ensign Wesley Crusher undergoes Starfleet Academy entrance competition tests at Relva VII. Although Crusher fails to gain admission to the Academy, his score is sufficient to allow him to resubmit his application the following year.
• U.S.S. Enterprise -D travels to Algeron IV.
Just after “Coming of Age” (TNG).
~1:[4,#B],7:[2,#I],18:[1,#I],31:[1,#I],62:[1,#I]@1“Heart of Glory” (TNG)@2Stardate 41503.7. U.S.S. Enterprise -D responds to a distress call from the freighter Batris, a damaged Talarian freighter. Three survivors, Klingon warriors, are rescued from the Batris before it explodes, although one warrior dies shortly thereafter. Investigation identifies the survivors, Korris and Konmel, to be militants opposing the Klingon government. They attempt to seize control of the Enterprise -D, but are thwarted.
~1:[5,#B],8:[2,#I],20:[2,#I],46:[1,#I],66:[1,#I],84:[1,#I],93:[16,#I],111:[13,#I],125:[1,#I]@1“The Arsenal of Freedom” (TNG)@2Stardate 41798.2. U.S.S. Enterprise -D at Lorenze Cluster to investigate the disappearance of the U.S.S. Drake at planet Minos. Although the planet Minos had been inhabited in the past, recent probes indicated no intelligent life currently on the planet. Nevertheless, Enterprise -D personnel encounter technically sophisticated weapons systems that threaten both an away team on the planet’s surface, and the Enterprise -D itself. Further investigation indicates these weapons systems, still functional, were responsible for the destruction of the Drake, as well as for the entire Minosian culture.
Editors’ Note: Riker mentions to Tasha and Picard that he had been offered command of the U.S.S. Drake, apparently just prior to his accepting the job as executive officer on the Enterprise -D.
~1:[2,#B],8:[2,#I],34:[1,#I],41:[1,#I],51:[1,#I],66:[1,#I],90:[1,#I],167:[29,#I],210:[7,#I]@1“Symbiosis” (TNG)@2(No stardate given in episode.) U.S.S. Enterprise -D responds to a distress call while studying solar flares at the Delos system. The distress call is found to have originated from the Sanction, a disabled Ornaran interplanetary freighter. Although Enterprise -D personnel are unable to save the freighter, the Sanction’s cargo and part of its crew are successfully rescued. It is learned that the Sanction had been transporting medical supplies of felicium from planet Brekka to Ornara in order to keep a 200-year-old plague in check.
Investigation by Enterprise -D personnel reveals the medication to be a narcotic substance, no longer necessary for medical reasons. Representatives of Brekka request Federation assistance to insure delivery of these medical supplies, but Captain Picard rules that Prime Directive considerations prohibit Federation intervention. Prime Directive considerations further prevent Picard from revealing to the inhabitants of planet Ornara the exploitive nature of their dealings with Brekka for the addictive medication, but Picard believes the Ornarans will learn this for themselves.
Editors’ Note: “Symbiosis” (TNG) was filmed after “Skin of Evil” (TNG), but is listed first because Tasha Yar, killed in the latter episode, is shown as being alive here.
• Ship’s counselor Deanna Troi attends a psychology conference in the Zed Lapis sector.
Just prior to “Skin of Evil” (TNG).
~1:[4,#B],22:[1,#I],37:[1,#I],58:[1,#I],77:[1,#I]@1“Skin of Evil” (TNG)@2Stardate 41601.3. Shuttlecraft 13, carrying Deanna Troi and pilot Ben Prieto on a return flight to the Enterprise -D, is forced to make a crash-landing on planet Vagra II. Investigation by an Enterprise -D away team determines the crash to have been caused by an entity that calls itself Armus. During the investigation, Enterprise -D security chief Tasha Yar is killed by Armus.
Later efforts are successful in rescuing Troi and other Enterprise -D personnel from the planet. Captain Picard assigns Worf as acting security chief.
~1:[5,#B],8:[2,#I],34:[1,#I],43:[1,#I],101:[2,#I],113:[7,#I],191:[16,#I],208:[2,#I],219:[5,#I]@1“We’ll Always Have Paris” (TNG)@2Stardate 41697.9. U.S.S. Enterprise -D is en route to planet Sarona VIII, when the ship encounters a brief temporal distortion. This phenomenon is also reported by the freighter Lalo and the Ilecom star system. Shortly thereafter, the Enterprise -D responds to a distress call from a science laboratory on planetoid Vandor IV. Investigation determines the temporal distortions to have been created by Dr. Paul Manheim, studying the relationship between time and gravity. Manheim suffers neurochemical injury caused by the temporal distortions, until Data is successful in repairing the temporal anomaly caused by Manheim’s experiments.
• Starship Enterprise -D goes to planet Sarona VIII for crew shore leave.
Just after “We’ll Always Have Paris” (TNG).
• Admiral Norah Satie uncovers evidence of a widespread alien conspiracy infiltrating Starfleet Command. Among the evidence is a series of unusual occurrences, including strange orders, high-ranking officials backing apparently irrational decisions, the evacuation of Starbase 12 for two days, and the apparently accidental deaths of Mckinney, Ryan Sipe, and Onna Karapleedeez. Satie enlists the assistance of key personnel, including captains Walker Keel, Tryla Scott, and Rixx to counter the incursion.
Prior to “Conspiracy” (TNG). Satie’s role in uncovering the conspiracy is described in “The Drumhead” (TNG).
• U.S.S. Enterprise -D is assigned to scientific investigation on planet Pacifica.
