The newly commissioned U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 D and its crew must race against time to solve the mystery of the Farpoint Station and escape certain execution by the alien superbeing "Q".
Naked Now, The
The last message from a federation starship seems to indicate that its crew blew the hatch on the ship voluntarily killing every crew member. Upon inspection it is revealed that the ships crew were intoxicated.
Code of Honor
Tasha Yar is kidnapped by a ruler of a planet that the Enterprise is contacting. This kidnapping is a custom of great honour on the planet and the only way for Tasha to escape is to duel his wife to the death.
Last Outpost, The
The Enterprise encounters for the first time the Ferengi, a race known for its traders. The Enterprise and the Ferengi ship are being held by a power emitting from a nearby planet. This planet is known to be the last outpost of a once glorious empire.
Where No One Has Gone Before
The Enterprise is visited upon by a Starfleet scientist and his mysterious sidekick who intend to improve the efficiency of the warp drive. The Enterprise is then shot millions of light years across the universe to a place where your very thoughts become reality.
Lonely Among Us
When passing through a strange energy cloud -while transporting an alien delegation to a peace summit- the Enterprise accidentally scoops up an energy being who then enters the body of several crew members killing one of them in the process and then
Justice
The Enterprise is in orbit of a strange planet. All of the inhabitants are extremely happy and make love on the drop of a hat. But when playing with the children of the planet Wesley accidentally trashes a flower bed and is sentenced to death.
Battle, The
Three Ferengi visit the Enterprise, and they bare a gift to "The Hero of Maxima" i.e. Picard. The gift is Picard's former ship of command, the USS Stargazer. But then Picard starts to have reoccurring nightmares about his last hours on the Stargazer....
Hide & Q
Q's back, and this time he's concentrating on Cmdr. Riker. Responding to a distress call the Enterprise is en route when the bridge crew of the enterprise is snatched away leaving Picard alone on the bridge. Q plays a few games with the crew before leaving.
Big Goodbye, The
Picard is preparing to greet an insectoid race known as Jaradans. To relieve the stress of his preparations, Picard enters the Holodeck as a 1940s hard boiled detective named Dixon Hill. Data and Dr. Crusher then join him.
Haven
At planet Haven, Picard and his crew meet up with Lwaxana Troi, Deanna´s mother, who blusters aboard insisting that Deanna should stand by an old vow and marry a friend of the Troi family, much to imzadi Riker's confusion.
Datalore
The Enterprise returns to Data's "home" Omicron Theta. The away team finds the lab of the reclusive Dr. Noonian Soong, a renegade Earth scientist who originally built a "twin" of Data's named Lore. Over time, the crew learns that Lore was disassembled Lore because he was just plain evil.
Angel One
Searching for survivors from a freighter that's been missing for seven years, the Enterprise visits the matriarchal planet Angel I and gets a frosty reception from its female leader. Riker especially seems out of place as Yar and Troi handle the situation.
11001001
The Enterprise is upgrading the ship's computer facilities - a task that will be performed by the Bynars. They are a race grown so dependent upon computers that they work in pairs and communicate directly in binary language. Riker tries out a new system..
Too Short a Season
A hostage situation on Mordan IV brings the Enterprise and Admiral Mark Jameson to negotiate a peace. But suddenly the wheelchair-bound Admiral doesn't seem so wheelchair-bound any more and he seems to be getting younger.
When the Bough Breaks
The Enterprise stumbles across the planet Aldea a world completely cloaked from outsiders by a powerful force-shield. But the find is no accident: the seemingly friendly Aldeans kidnap seven youngsters, including Wesley, from the ship to perpetuate.
Home Soil
The Enterprise is asked to check up on a remote terraforming station on Velara III. But during the crisis, an engineer is mysteriously killed when the laser drill in the hydraulics room goes berserk. Minutes later, Data narrowly avoids the same fate...
Coming of Age
As Wesley prepares to beam down to Relva VII to take his long awaited entrance exam to Starfleet Academy, Picard's old friend, Admiral Quinn, beams up for surprise business that he won't explain: a tough interrogation of the Captain's senior officer.
Heart of Glory
The Enterprise finds a battered Talarian freighter and three Klingons aboard. They express their hatred of the UFP-Klingon Alliance to Worf and appeal to him to listen to his heart and give up his life with the humans.
Arsenal of Freedom, The
The Enterprise is sent to the planet Minos search for the missing USS Drake. The famed world of arms merchants hail the ship with a commercial use for weapons, but surprisingly the sensors show no sentient life on the planet.
Symbiosis
The Enterprise picks up a confusing distress call from a disabled freighter. Four passengers are beamed away in time. The survivors are from two neighbouring worlds, Brekka and Ornara, and the cargo is felicium, a drug grown only on Brekka, which the inhabitants on Ornara need.....
Skin of Evil
Troi and her shuttle pilot are pulled off course. They crash on Vagra II, the home of the sadistic being Armus, created from the cast-off sins of his race and then abandoned. Then, acting out of sheer malice, the black oozing form of goo tortures them.......
We'll Always Have Paris
While the ship is travelling to Sarona VII, a bizarre time loop distortion causes a literal déjà vu effect on the Enterprise. Soon after the ship receives a distress signal from Dr. Paul Manheim's science outpost. There Picard meets Dr. Manheim.....
Conspiracy
Picard is disturbed when his old friend Walker Keel summons him to a secret meeting with two other captains on a deserted planetoid, but he warily agrees. The subject? The trio's suspicion, much like Admiral Quinn´s on Relva VII, that a conspiracy has struck the highest ranks of Starfleet......
Neutral Zone, The
As the Enterprise awaits Picard's return from a special briefing, Data can't resist investigating a three-hundred-year old capsule that floats by. Three humans are found frozen inside the capsule. They are the only survivors of the fad of cryogeni.....
Child, The
Troi stuns the crew by announcing she's pregnant. What she describes as a glowing white light impregnated her during sleep. According to new chief medical officer Kate Pulaski, the fetus will grow full term in just thirty-six hours.
Where Silence Has Lease
En route to the Morgana System, the Enterprise suddenly finds itself inside a black void without form or dimension -a void that is unending and inescapable, no matter which direction the ship turns (it is not space). Finally the presence behind the void appears: Nagilum, an entity who wants to study humans' reaction to death.
Elementary Dear Data
La Forge persuades Sherlock Homes fan Data to use the extra time playing the role of the detective on the holodeck, with the engineer as Watson. But Holmes's original cases are no challenge to Data's memory, so Dr. Pulaski -who has yet to accept the android as anything more than a machine- challenges him to solve a new, computer generated case.
Outrageous Okona
Near the twin Maden planets, the Enterprise picks up young trader Thaduin Okona while helping him repair his small craft. The roguish charmer quickly makes friends, especially among the female crew members. Intrigued by Okona's wisecracks, Data tries to further his understanding of humor. Meanwhile people from all over are demanding that the Enterprise hands Okona over for his crimes.
Schiziod Man, The
Dr. Ira Graves ,who was Dr. Noonian Soongs mentor, is dying of a terminal illness when the Enterprise answers his young female aide's call for help on their secluded research world. Data becomes close to Graves, leading the genius to reveal his last breakthrough: a device capable of transferring a human personality into a computer. After Graves dies Data begins to act irrationally.
Loud as a Whisper
To help settle a civil war, the Enterprise is sent to retrieve the great Ramatisian mediator Riva. The crew is surprised to learn, though, that Riva and his ruling family were born deaf and use a three-member telepathic chorus to communicate.
Unnatural Selection
Answering a distress call from the USS Lantree the Enterprise finds by visual scans that the supply ship's entire crew has died of old age.
Matter of Honor, A
In a new exchange program, Riker becomes the first Starfleet officer to serve aboard a Klingon vessel. He throws himself into the job, taking a crash course in Klingon culture and cuisine from Worf.
Measure of a Man, The
Data's rights as a sentient being are questioned when Commander Bruce Maddox, a cyberneticist, wants to disassemble the android to make duplicates for Starfleet. When Maddox seems uncertain of his ability to reassemble Data, the Enterprise second officer refuses to submit to his experiment and resign from Starfleet. But Maddoz gets a ruling that the android is Starfleet property. Picard challenges the ruling and a trial follows.
Dauphin, The
A diplomatic mission provides the setting for Wesley's first romance when the ship must ferry home a princess and her overprotective guard.
Contagion
Crossing the Neutral Zone to answer an SOS from the USS Yamato, the Enterprise arrives in time to see widespread computer malfunction destroy its sister ship. When log tapes from the Yamato reveal that its captain had tracked the mythical planet Iconia to this location. Picard decides that discovering the secrets of the Iconian civilisation would be worth risking an encounter with the Romulans. But soon the Enterprise finds itself also plagued by computer malfunctions.
Royale, The
Puzzled by the recovery of a chunk of a twenty-first-century Earth spacecraft, Worf, Data and Riker beam down into the middle of the lone structure they find on the nearest uninhabited planet. After passing through a revolving door seen in an otherwise black void, they cannot escape from what appears to be a resort casino named the Hotel Royale.
Timed Squared
In a bizarre turn of events, Picard is confronted by his own double from six hours into the future, out of phase and disoriented after being recovered from a shuttlecraft that has recorded the Enterprise's destruction in a vast energy whirlpool.
Icarus Factor, The
When Riker is offered command of his own ship, the Enterprise heads for Starbase Montgomery to meet with the civilian strategist who will brief him on the assignment. That strategist turns out to be his father, Kule, whom Riker hasn't seen in fifteen years. Time has not softened the first officer's hostility toward the older man, and he summarily rejects his father's efforts at reconciliation. For some reason Worf seems to be growing unnaturally tense.
Pen Pals
While risking violation of the Prime Directive Data befriends a small girl who is situated on a planet that is in risk of being destroyed.
Q Who?
On the edge of UFP space, the Enterprise encounters its old nemesis, the superbeing Q, whose anger at being refused a crew post leads him to hurl the ship into unknown space. There, they encounter a new threat - The Borg.
Samaritan Snare
As Wesley prepares to take more Academy test at Starbase 515, Picard suddenly elects to join him for the long shuttle ride after a heated argument with Pulaski. Aboard Enterprise, Riker underestimate the slow-witted Pakleds, who kidnap La Forge after number one allows Geordi to beam over to give the obese scavengers a hand with their ship.
Up the Long Ladder
Stellar flares are about to destroy the Bringloidi home world when the Enterprise rescues the colony, populated by a simple but lively people long ago forgotten except for fragmentary post-holocaust records. The Bringloidi bring along their livestock and set up a camp on a cargo bay.
Manhunt
While picking up Antedian delegates on a diplomatic escort duty, the Enterprise is graced once again by Troi's mother, Lwaxana, who checks aboard this time with full ambassadorial status as a delegate. She even joins Picard in a Dixon Hill mystery.
Emissary
Sent to assist the Enterprise in stopping a pre-alliance Klingon sleeper ship that could awake to prey upon helpless UFP worlds is a special envoy from the Klingon Empire - a half human, half Klingon female name K'Ehleyr. K'Ehleyr', whose advice is to destroy the ship is rejected by Picard, turns out to be a former lover of Worf's.
Peak Performances
To prepare for the Borg threat, Picard asks for a master Zakdorn strategist to oversee a battle simulation he will wage against Riker, who will command the revived derelict USS Hathaway. Strategist Sirna Kolrami, who predicts that Riker has no chance, is also a champion at the game Strategema. His shockingly easy defeat of Data leaves Pulaski and others fuming at the tactician's arrogance.
Shades of Grey
A painful thorn in the leg snagged during a planetary survey turn deadly for Riker when it is found to carry an organism that attacks his central nervous system. A limp "clip show" finale to the season, "Shades of Grey" is probably the weakest Trek script ever written for either generation.
Ensigns of Command
The reclusive Sheliak Corporate breaks its 111 year silence with the Federation to demand that Tau Cygna V, ceded to it by treaty, be cleared of a human settlement within three days. Data is sent to announce the evacuation to the settlers. But he runs up against a stubborn leader who shrugs off the unseen Sheliak's threat and won't budge despite his people's growing qualms.
Evolution
What starts out as a science project in genetics for Wes almost dooms not only scientist Paul Stubb's lifelong project but the ship itself.
Survivors
Answering a distress call from Delta Rana IV, the Enterprise arrives to find the planet ravaged and its 11.000 colonists dead, except for two elderly botanists, Rishon Uxbridge and her unfriendly husband, Kevin. The two say they don't know why they were spared death, but they refuse to be evacuated. Then the massive ship that levelled the planet reappears.
Who Watches the Watchers?
A failing reactor at a hidden cultural observers post on Mintaka III draws the Enterprise to that world to render assistance. Before the starship arrives, however, the reactor explodes causing their duck blind screen to fail. But one of the natives witnesses all of this and soon starts to believe that their old god-legends were true after all and their Overseer is in fact The Picard.
Bonding, The
A routine mission to explore the ruins of the Koinonian civilisation ends in tragedy when a bomb left over from that people's long war explodes, killing ship's archaeologist Marla Asher. Now Picard and Troi must comfort her twelve-year-old son who has already lost his father. This becomes increasingly difficult when the boy's mother reappears and transforms the Aster's cabin into their old home back on Earth.
Booby Trap
The crew see a seldom revealed side of Picard as the captain gleefully leads an away team to explore an ancient Promellian battle cruiser. But the mystery behind the ship's fate becomes all to clear when the Enterprise crew members realise they are being trapped by the same energy draining device that snared the Promellians.
Enemy, The
Answering a distress call from the border world Galorndon Core, an Enterprise away team finds a crashed Romulan craft and an injured survivor. La Forge loses contact with the rest of the away team and can't be located due to the planet's severe electrical storms. And he is soon taken hostage by a Romulan on the surface. And to improve matters a Warbird shows up demanding the return of its officers.
Price, The
Troi falls for the charismatic Devinoni Ral a soft-spoken yet determined negotiator who comes aboard the Enterprise to bid on an apparently stable wormhole found near Barzan II.
Vengeance Factor, The
The Enterprise traces an attack on a Federation science outpost back to the Gatherers, a thieving band of renegades who split off from their society a hundred years ago. The captain decides to bring an end to the raids by healing the split between the two groups.
Defector, The
While fleeing his own people across the Neutral Zone in a small scout, a low level Romulan tactical clerk asks for asylum, bringing with him shocking news: The Romulans plan to retake that buffer area after almost two hundred years. Can Picard trust the defector?
Hunted, The
The Enterprise is relaying reports to back up Angosi III's application to join the Federation when it stumbles across an ugly skeleton in the planet's closet: the treatment of its war veterans.
High Ground, The
While helping victims of a terrorist bomb blast on non-aligned Rutia IV, Dr. Crusher is taken hostage by one of the terrorists, Kyril Finn. Finn is fighting for the independence of his people, the Ansata. This show, interestingly enough, was and is banned in Ireland due to its delicate subject matter and was shown severely cut on English satellite channels. And for the first time you can actually see the normally stoic captain belt a terrorist on the bridge.
Deja Q
As if Picard didn't have enough headaches trying to keep Bre'el IV's moon from crashing into the planet, Q shows up, claiming to be powerless. The alien says he's been evicted by the Q Continuum for his past mischief.
Matter of Perspective, A
A routine stop at a science station is anything but that when the wife of the lone researcher accuses Riker of having murdered her husband, who was killed in an explosion seconds after the first officer's departure.
Yesterday's Enterprise
A living ghost from the past, The Enterprise C emerges from a temporal rift. In "real" history, that ship answered a Klingon outpost's distress call, paving the way for the current union of the Federation and the Klingon Empire. The ship having missed its appointment with destiny creates an alternate time line in which Tasha Yar is still alive and the Klingon-UFP peace never occurred.
Offspring, The
Data sparks another legal row over the status of androids when he innocently sets out to further his creator's work. He builds a "child" whom he names Lal.
Sins of the Father
The Enterprise receives a Klingon exchange officer on board who turns out to be the younger brother Worf never knew he had. The officer, Kurn, tells Worf their family name is about to be shamed: their dead father, Mogh, has been branded the traitor behind the Romulan attack at Khitomer that killed thousands and left Worf and Kurn orphans. Worf challenges this accusation at the risk of his life.
Allegiance
Picard is kidnapped and replaced with a double whose actions test the loyalty of the Enterprise crew. Meanwhile, the real captain is trapped with three other hostages in a bizarre cell and must devote his time not only to escaping but to keeping the peace among his cell mates.
Captain's Holiday
The crew needles Picard into taking a much needed rest, but the galaxy's most reluctant vacationer soon finds himself in the middle of an adventure the likes of which he'd never get into aboard ship. This episode features the captain's new interest, Vash, a brash, striking woman whom the captain falls for.
Tin Man
The Enterprise takes on board a Betazoid first-contact specialist, Tam Elbrun, to establish relations with a creature known as Tin Man, an alien life form resembling an organic spaceship. This seems like a straightforward task, except that the Romulans also wish to contact Tin Man, and have sent two warbirds to carry out that assignment.
Hollow Pursuits
Geordi experiences problems with one of his engineers, Reg Barclay, a nervous, shy officer, who retreats to the holodeck when he can't handle real life. There Geordi discovers a host of holodeck fantasy programs ranging from the seduction of Deanna Troi to the casting of La Forge, Data and Picard as Three Musketeers.
Most Toys, The
Data is presumed lost by a shocked crew who watch his shuttlepod blow up while returning from dealer Kivas Fajo's ship. Saddened, his shipmates go on to their mission, little knowing that Fajo staged the disaster so he could add Data to his prized galaxy-wide collection of stolen one-of-a-kind artifacts.
Sarek
Renowned Ambassador Sarek of Vulcan is about to oversee the completion of his career's crowning achievement: the establishment of relations between the Federation and the Legaran. But while being ferried to the meeting site aboard the Enterprise, Sarek weeps during a Mozart convert. The Vulcan has developed Bendii syndrome a disease that can erode and aged Vulcan's emotional control.
Menage a Troi
Picard and Betazoid officials have their doubts about allowing Ferengi to take part in a biannual Betazed trade conference. And so understandably, because as Riker and Troi are being interrupted by Lwaxana -who wants to nag her daughter about settling down- they are all kidnapped by a pesky love struck DaiMon Tog who wants to use Lwaxana's telepathic skills for profit and to make her his mate.
Transfigurations
A severely injured humanoid , known as John Doe because of his amnesia is found in the wreckage of an escape pod. As he recovers, John Doe is racked by fits of pain marked by a glowing energy burst within him. He also demonstrates incredible healing powers, but after having attempted to steal a shuttle craft he tells Picard he knows he is a threat to the crew and asks to leave.
Best of Both Worlds, The
The destruction of a colony tells the Federation that the deadly Borg have arrived. Soon enough the creatures appear, their immediate target being Captain Picard himself, and then the entire Federation, starting with Earth.