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Journey’s End – The Saga of Star Trek
Writer: Stephen Wolcott
Director: Donald Beck
Guest star: Patrick Stewart (Himself), Jonathan Frakes (Himself), Denise Crosby (Herself), Michael Dorn (Himself), Gates McFadden (Herself), Rick Berman (Himself), Brent Spiner (Himself), Marina Sirtis (Herself), John de Lancie (Himself), Colm Meaney (Himself), Winrich Kolbe (Himself), Michael Piller (Himself), LeVar Burton (Himself)
A retrospective look back at the Star Trek franchise in general, and on the Star Trek: The Next Generation series in particular.
1 :01x01 - Encounter at Farpoint, Part I
Writer: Gene Roddenberry, D. C. Fontana
Director: Corey Allen
Guest star: DeForest Kelley (Admiral Leonard H. McCoy), Michael Bell (Groppler Zorn), John de Lancie (Q), David Erskine (Bandi Shopkeeper), Evelyn Guerrero (Ensign), Jimmy Ortega (Lieutenant Torres), Timothy Dang (Main Bridge Security), Chuck Hicks (Officer), Colm Meaney (Chief Miles O' Brien), Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (Trial Bailiff)
Stardate: 41153.7 While en route to Farpoint, Captain Picard and his crew encounter a god-like being called Q, who places humanity on trial for barbarism. Captain Picard has to prove to Q that the Human race is not barbaric; otherwise, the entire human race will be destroyed.
Meanwhile, on Farpoint, the newly assigned second-in-command, Commander William T. Riker, must solve the mysterious goings on, on the planet, before the Federation makes their decision on if they may join the Federation of planets.
Somehow, both Picard and Riker’s separate tasks become intertwined.
2 :01x02 - Encounter at Farpoint, Part II
Writer: Gene Roddenberry, D. C. Fontana
Director: Corey Allen
Guest star: Michael Bell (Groppler Zorn), John de Lancie (Q), Timothy Dang (Main Bridge Security)
Stardate: 41153.7 While en route to Farpoint, Captain Picard and his crew encounter a god-like being called Q, who places humanity on trial for barbarism. Captain Picard has to prove to Q that the Human race is not barbaric; otherwise, the entire human race will be destroyed.
Meanwhile, on Farpoint, the newly assigned second-in-command, Lt. Cmdr. William Riker, must solve the mysterious goings on, on the planet, before the Federation makes their decision on if they may join the Federation of planets.
Somehow, both Picard and Riker’s separate tasks become intertwined.
3 :01x03 - The Naked Now
Writer: D. C. Fontana
Director: Paul Lynch
Guest star: Brooke Bundy (Sarah McDougal), Benjamin W. S. Lum (Jim Shimoda), David Renan (Conn), Kenny Koch (Kissing Crewman), Michael Rider (Transport Chief), Skip Stellrecht (Engineering Crewman)
Stardate: 41209.2 When the Enterprise is ordered to investigate what has happened to the Starship Tsiolkovsky, they find everyone dead due to bizarre incidents. Later they realize that the away team has brought back the contaminant that killed the Tsiolkovsky crew, which is past on by skin contact. Although similar to the effects that affected the past 1701 Enterprise crew, that cure isn’t affective in this case. This Enterprise faces the same fate as that faced by the 1701 Enterprise, unless they too can find the cure to the contaminant.
To make matters worse, the star the Tsiolkovsky was studying is about to go super nova, and Wesley Crusher, affected by the contaminant, disables the ships engines, leaving the ship in the path of destruction.
4 :01x04 - Code of Honor
Writer: Michael Baron, Katharyn Michaelian Powers
Director: Russ Mayberry
Guest star: Michael Rider (Transporter Chief), James Louis Watkins (Hagon), Jessie Lawrence Ferguson (Lutan), Karole Selmon (Yareena)
Stardate: 41235.25: The Enterprise visits a planet in hopes of diplomatically acquiring a necessary vaccine, but things go sour when one of the world's leaders kidnaps Tasha.
5 :01x05 - The Last Outpost
Writer: Herbert Wright
Director: Richard Colla
Guest star: Armin Shimerman (Letek), Tracey Walter (Kayron), Jake Dengel (Mordoc), Darryl Henriques (Portal), Mike Gomez (Daimon Tarr)
Stardate 41386.4 The Enterprise and the Federation’s first meeting with the relatively unknown Ferengi race occurs near a strange, but unknown planet. Both the Enterprise and the Ferengi ship become trapped by the planet’s forces, and both the ships slowly lose power. Although the Enterpriseand the Ferengi ship agree to send away teams to the planet together in hopes of finding away to destroy the source of the power that has left their ships trapped in orbit, can the Enterprise really trust the unknown Ferengi not to do harm to their own away team?
6 :01x06 - Where No One Has Gone Before
Writer: Diane Duane, Michael Reaves
Director: Rob Bowman
Guest star: Stanley Kamel (Kosinski), Eric Menyuk (The Traveler), Victoria Dillard (Ballerina), Biff Yeager (Lt. Cmdr. Argyle), Charles Dayton (Crew Member), Herta Ware (Yvette Gessard Picard)
Stardate 41263.1 A Starfleet Officer thinks he can improve the Enterprise's engines. However, it is his mysterious alien assistant that really holds the key to the miraculous distances the Enterprise is able to achieve. Then It becomes up to Wesley Crusher to get the starship back to their own galaxy, after the alien, now known as the "Traveler," falls ill.
7 :01x07 - Lonely Among Us
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Colm Meaney (First Security Guard), John Durbin (Ssestar), Kavi Raz (Lt. Cmdr. Singh), Marc Alaimo (Antican Delegate)
Stardate 41249.3: Picard's mind becomes possessed by an unknown entity, while the Enterprise carries delegates to a peace treaty conference.
8 :01x08 - Justice
Writer: Worley Thorne
Director: James L. Conway
Guest star: Brenda Bakke (Rivan), Jay Louden (Liator), Josh Clark (Conn Officer), Judith Jones (Edo Girl), David Q. Combs (First Mediator), Eric Matthew (Edo Boy #1), Brad Zerbst (Nurse), David Graves (Edo Boy #2), Richard Lavin (Second Mediator)
Stardate 41255.6: While visiting a peaceful planet protected by a partly invisible entity, Wesley Crusher breaks a trivial law, and is sentenced to death.
9 :01x09 - The Battle
Director: Rob Bowman
Guest star: Douglas Warhit (Kazago), Robert Towers (Rata), Frank Corsentino (DaiMon Bok)
Stardate 41723.9 A Ferengi captain, Bok, offers to return the Starfleet vessel Stargazer, the ship which was Captain Picard's first command. Strangely, Bok asks for no compensation for the vessel which Captain Picard had abandoned during the battle of Maxia. However, Bok’s ulterior motive is revenge on Picard for the death of his son during that battle. Bok tells the crew that the Stargazer’s log show that Picard really fired on an unarmed Ferengi ship in the famous “Battle of Maxia.”
Bok has also planted a mind control device on the Stargazer. The device causes Picard, after he beams back to the Stargazer, to believe he is back fighting the battle of Maxia, and believing the Enterprise is the opposing Ferengi vessel.
10 :01x10 - Hide and Q
Writer: C. J. Holland
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Elaine Nalee (Klingon Survivor), John de Lancie (Q), William A. Wallace (Wesley (25 years old)), Faith Minton (Klingon Warrioress)
Stardate: 41590.5 While on a critical rescue mission, the “Q” entity reappears and decides to whisk the senior crew off the ship to play in a deadly war game against strange monsters in French military uniforms which has summoned up. Then, in a twist, “Q” offers Cmdr. Riker a chance to end the game by accepting becoming a “Q.” Against Capt. Picard’s orders, Riker agrees, and transports everyone back to Enterprise. However, Riker soon finds his new powers are corrupting his judgment, as he tries to live his normal life aboard the ship. The problem escalates when Enterprise reaches the planet they were originally headed to rescue.
11 :01x11 - Haven
Writer: Tracy Tormé
Director: Richard Compton
Guest star: Nan Martin (Victoria Miller), Robert Ellenstein (Steven Miller), Robert Knepper (Wyatt Miller), Carel Struycken (Mr. Homm), Majel Barrett (Lwaxana Troi), Raye Birk (Wrenn), Anna Katarina (Valeda Wrenn), Danitza Kingsley (Ariana), Michael Rider (Transporter Chief), Armin Shimerman (The Gift Box), Martha Hackett (Talerian)
Stardate 4129.5: Counselor Deanna Troi’s mother, Lwaxana, drops by for a surprise visit. Lwaxana has come to inform Deanna that the arranged marriage her father had set up for her while she was still a child, is about to occur. Although Deanna has known about the arrangement, she had just assumed the arrangement had been called off due to her career in Starfleet. Even though she has never met the groom, Deanna believes she has being seeing visions of him, so she agrees to acquiesce to this Betazoid tradition.
However, the wedding plans are thrown into chaos when a major plaque ship approaches and threatens a world. The Enterprise responds to the planet’s distress call, but soon both the Enterprise and Deanna find that not all is as it appears to be with the plague and her groom.
12 :01x12 - The Big Goodbye
Writer: Tracy Tormé
Director: Joseph Scanlan
Guest star: William Boyett (Dan Bell), David Selburg (Whalen), Harvey Jason (Felix Leech), Lawrence Tierney (Cyrus Redblock), Gary Armagnac (Lt. McNary), Dick Miller (Vendor), Mike Genovese (Desk Sergeant), Rhonda Aldrich (Secretary), Erik Cord (Thug), Carolyn Allport (Jessica Bradley)
Stardate 41997.7: Captain Picard is tasked with making a very important “first contact” meeting with a xenophobic alien race. After tirelessly working on his opening speech (in their alien language), he decides to take some time off in the holodeck. However, when the alien’s probe the Enterprise, it causes the holodeck to malfunction, leaving those inside in great danger. The crew must rescue Picard and the others from the holodeck, while at the same time trying to delay the alien race’s demand to begin their exchange.
13 :01x13 - Datalore
Writer: Robert Lewin
Director: Rob Bowman
Guest star: Biff Yeager (Lt. Cmdr. Argyle), Brent Spiner (Lore)
Stardate: 41242.4 The crew of Enterprise discovers another of Dr. Soong’s androids while attempting to investigate Data’s past. After they reassemble the newly found android, which also exactly resembles Data, they learn the android is named “Lore.” Lore tells the crew he is Data’s older more perfect brother. However, the crew soon learns why Lore was disassembled, as Lore soon leads the dreaded object known as the Crystalline Entity to Enterprise’s location for his own evil purposes, and the destruction of Enterprise and Data.
14 :01x14 - Angel One
Writer: Patrick Barry
Director: Michael Ray Rhodes
Guest star: Patricia McPherson (Ariel), Sam Hennings (Ramsey), Karen Montgomery (Beata), Leonard Crofoot (Trent)
Stardate: 41636.9 The Enterprise is sent to make a belated effort to find the possible survivors from a lost freighter that crashed seven years earlier. There, they find the planet that the freighter crashed on is ruled by women, with men in the subservient position. The crew then learns that there were survivors, but that they became outcasts, who were forced to go into hiding. The outcasts are now considered enemies of the state, and threatened with execution if found.
Meanwhile, to make matters worse, a virulent virus outbreak has occurred aboard the Enterprise. Most of the crew has become incapacitated to the point that the away team is not even allowed to return, except for Data.
Matters become even more critical when the Enterprise is desperately needed at the neutral zone, to fend off several threatening Romulan Warbirds.
15 :01x15 - 11001001
Writer: Maurice Hurley, Robert Lewin
Director: Paul Lynch
Guest star: Carolyn McCormick (Minuet), Gene Dynarski (Cmdr. Orfil Quinteros), Katy Boyer (Zero One), Alexandra Johnson (One Zero), Jack Sheldon (Piano Player), Abdul Salaam El Razzac (Bass Player), Ron Brown (Drummer), Kelli Ann McNally (One One), Iva Lane (Zero Zero)
Stardate 41365.9: A strange species which relies on direct computer interfaces to communicate with each other, known as the Bynars, are set to upgrade the Enterprise’s computer. However, instead they cause the crew to abandon ship by faking a pending loss of warp core containment. They have also set up a diversion in the holodeck to keep Riker onboard and unaware of the situation. Picard, who had stopped by the holodeck, is also left onboard, unaware. The space station holding the Enterprise for the upgrade sends the Enterprise on an automatic course away from the station, to prevent its destruction.
16 :01x16 - Too Short a Season
Writer: Michael Michaelian
Director: Rob Bowman
Guest star: Michael Pataki (Karnas), Marsha Hunt (Anne Jameson), Clayton Rohner (Admiral Mark Jameson)
Stardate: 41309.5 After several Federation officials are taken hostage, the Enterprise is dispatched to carry a famous, but now elderly, retired negotiator back to the planet where he became famous many years before for negotiating a peaceful settlement to the planet’s civil war. It is hoped that he can replicate his previous success and get the hostages freed.
However, the elderly Admiral begins to show signs of improving health and even signs of growing younger. Soon it becomes apparent the Admiral has taken drastic measures to not only save the hostages, but to also hide the dark secret of just how he was able to end the planet’s civil war those many years ago. The measures he has taken will likely cause his death in a very short period of time; maybe even before he can complete his task.
17 :01x17 - When the Bough Breaks
Writer: Hannah Louise Shearer
Director: Kim Manners
Guest star: Brenda Strong (Rashella), Jerry Hardin (Radue), Paul Lambert (Melian), Jandi Swanson (Katie), Ivy Bethune (Duana), McKenzie Westmore (Rose), Amy Wheaton (Tara), Connie Danese (Toya), Michele Marsh (Leda), Dierk Torsek (Dr. Bernard), Dan Mason (Accolan), Jeremy Wheaton (Mason), Vanessa Bova (Alexandra), Philip Waller (Harry Bernard), Jessica Bova (Alexandra)
Stardate: 41509.1 An ancient mythical race, which has been able to cloak their planet from outsiders, is discovered by accident by the Enterprise. However, the crew’s awe at finding this race is soon turned to consternation, as the planet’s inhabitants' abduct several the crews’ children. The crew learns that the inhabitants can no longer procreate, and need their children to continue their population.
Wesley Crusher, along with the other children, decides to fight their abduction by the inhabitants, while Dr. Crusher soon discovers the answer to the planet’s procreation problem.
However, can the crew convince the more technically advanced and powerful race that they have the answer to their dilemma, and get their children back?
18 :01x18 - Home Soil
Writer: Robert Sabaroff
Director: Corey Allen
Guest star: Walter Gotell (Kurt Mandl), Gerard Prendergast (Bjorn Benson), Elizabeth Lindsey (Louisa Kim), Mario Roccuzzo (Arthur Malencon), Carolyne Barry (Female Engineer)
Stardate: 41463.9 The Enterprise is sent to investigate strange occurrences on a planet being terraformed by a Federation science team. Although the planet was designated as being lifeless by the Federation, recent events there raise questions about if this is really true, especially after the strange death of one of the science team members.
The crew must find out if the scientist was murdered by one of his team members, or could there be another explanation.
19 :01x19 - Coming of Age
Writer: Sandy Fries
Director: Mike Vejar
Guest star: Tasia Valenza (T'Shanik), Robert Ito (Tac. Officer Chang), Stephen Gregory (Jake Kurland), John Putch (Mordock), Robert Schenkkan (Lt. Cmdr. Dexter Remmick), Ward Costello (Admiral Gregroy Quinn), Daniel Riordan (Rondon), Brendan McKane (Technician #1), Estee Chandler (Oliana Mirren), Wyatt Knight (Technician #2)
Stardate: 41461.2 Wesley takes the Star Fleet entrance exam, which ends up testing his metal more than his mental abilities. This is more than he expected, and raises some old ghosts from his past.
Meanwhile, Admiral Quinn and his assistant, Lt. Cmdr. Remmick beam aboard to grill the crew over their past actions, thus upsetting the crews’ normal duties, and also endangering one teen’s life, when his decision to run away in a shuttle leads to near disaster.
20 :01x20 - Heart of Glory
Writer: Maurice Hurley
Director: Rob Bowman
Guest star: Vaughn Armstrong (Captain Korris), Charles H. Hyman (Lt. Konmel), David Froman (K'nera), Dennis Madalone (Ramos), Robert Bauer (Kunivas), Brad Zerbst (Nurse)
Stardate: 41503.7 Worf struggles between his loyalty to Starfleet and his loyalty to his Klingon brethren when two Klingon fugitives are rescued by the Enterprise from a fatally damaged Talarian ship. Picard puts Worf in charge of the pair, but Picard soon learns from an approaching Klingon vessel that the two are really criminals being sought by the approaching vessel.
The two fleeing fugitives now plan to take over the Enterprise and continue on their quest to restore the Klingons Empire to its past glories of battles and conquests.
Whether the two will succeed in taking over the ship or be captured comes down to which loyalties Worf will follow.
21 :01x21 - The Arsenal of Freedom
Writer: Hans Beimler, Richard Manning
Director: Les Landau
Guest star: Julia Nickson (Ensign Lian T'Su), Vyto Ruginis (Chief Engineer Logan), Marco Rodriguez (Capt. Paul Rice), Vincent Schiavelli (Peddler), George De La Pena (Lt. Jnr. Grade. Orfil Solis)
Stardate: 41798.2 Enterprise is sent to investigate the mysterious disappearance of the U.S.S. Drake. The trail leads them to the planet Minos, where an ancient pre-recorded message appears on the ship’s main viewer stating that the planet trades in advanced weapons. Upon investigation, Capt. Picard and the away team discover that the apparently barren world is really a testing ground to demonstrate the ancient race’s weapons. Unfortunately, it turns out the weapons are demonstrated on any one on the surface of the planet. Plus, each time a weapons attack is defeated by the away team, the defeated weapon is replaced by a more improved weapon. Capt. Picard and the away team, both now on the surface, must find a quick solution, as they only have a limited time before the improving weapons eventually kill them all.
22 :01x22 - Symbiosis
Writer: Robert Lewin
Director: Win Phelps
Guest star: Judson Scott (Sobi), Merritt Butrick (T'Jon), Richard Lineback (Romas), Kimberley Farr (Langor)
Stardate: Unknown While on a routine survey mission, Enterprise answers a distress call from a nearby cargo vessel. After the survivors and the cargo are beamed to Enterprise, it becomes clear that something is amiss. The survivors are from two different planets, but both claim the “critically important” cargo. The cargo appears to be a relieving suave for one of the planet’s ongoing medical plague problem. However, the cargo and the people who developed it are not what they appear to be, and have their own ulterior motives. Picard must weigh the “prime directive” restraint against interfering in what he feels is the right thing to do. His solution in the matter must avoid this issue, but also resolve the two planet’s dilemma.
23 :01x23 - Skin of Evil
Writer: Joseph Stefano
Director: Joseph Scanlan
Guest star: Mart McCesney (Armus), Raymond Forchion (Lt. Ben Prieto), Brad Zerbst (Nurse), Walker Boone (Lt. Commander Leland T. Lynch), Ron Gans (Voice of Armus)
Stardate: 41601.3 Troi, and her shuttle pilot, develop system problems on their shuttle on their return to Enterprise. They then crash on a planet where a malevolent creature lives. The creature, which seems to feed on the suffering of others, is able to prevent their rescue due to its strange powers.
The Enterprise crew’s attempt to rescue Troi leads to the death of a valued crew member. The crew must then find a way around the creature’s powers and rescue Troi, the sole survivor of the shuttle crash, without losing any more of the crews’ lives.
24 :01x24 - We'll Always Have Paris
Writer: Deborah Dean Davis, Hannah Louise Shearer
Director: Robert Becker
Guest star: Michelle Phillips (Jenice Manheim), Rod Loomis (Dr. Paul Manheim), Jean-Paul Vignon (Edouard), Isabel Lorca (Gabrielle), Kelly Ashmore (Francine), Lance Spellerberg (Transporter Chief Herbert), Dan Kern (Lt. Dean)
Stardate: 41697.9 When Enterprise encounters a hiccup in time, they proceed to the possible source of the event after also receiving a distress signal close to the origin of the temporal rift. There, Capt. Picard finds a long lost love of his, now married to the scientist whose work on temporal mechanics may be the cause of the dimensional rift.
25 :01x25 - Conspiracy
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Robert Schenkkan (Lt. Cmdr. Dexter Remmick), Ray Reinhardt (Admiral Aaron), Ward Costello (Admiral Gregroy Quinn), Henry Darrow (Admiral Savar), Jonathan Farwell (Capt. Walker Keel), Michael Berryman (Capt. Rixx), Ursaline Bryant (Capt. Tryla Scott)
Stardate: 41775.5 Capt. Picard is asked by an old Starfleet Captain friend to meet with him in secret. At this meeting with his friend, and with a few other officers, they tell Picard there is a possible problem within Starfleet command. Picard thinks they are overstating things, until he later learns his friend’s Starship has exploded for no apparent reason.
Data is then tasked to look into any disturbing irregularities in recent Starfleet records, and after reviewing recent communiqués he finds several anomalies. Picard then decides to take Enterprise back to Earth to get some answers. In a twist, Starfleet command welcomes Enterprise’s return and invites Picard and Riker to a dinner in their honor.
However, it is a trap. Picard knows it, but can he and Riker, who is to stay onboard to keep an eye on a visiting suspect Admiral, find a way to defeat the trap and save Starfleet and the Federation?
26 :01x26 - The Neutral Zone
Director: James L. Conway
Guest star: Leon Rippy (Sonny Clemonds), Marc Alaimo (Cmdr. Tebok), Peter Mark Richman (Ralph Offenhouse), Anthony James (Sub-Cmdr. Thei), Gracie Harrison (Clare Raymond)
While waiting for Capt. Picard’s return from a conference, the Enterprise crew finds an ancient Earth spaceship which contains three people in cryogenic stasis. After reviving the three, and after healing their ailments, which were incurable back in their time, the crew must find out what to do with these out of place persons.
However, when Picard returns, he tells the crew they are to investigate the disappearance of several Federation outposts near the Neutral Zone. This leads to a confrontation with the Romulans, who are also investigating the loss of several Romulan outposts near the Neutral Zone.
27 :02x01 - The Child
Writer: Jaron Summers, Jon Povill, Maurice Hurley
Director: Rob Bowman
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Seymour Cassel (Lt. Cmdr. Hester Dealt), Diana Muldaur (Dr. Katharine Pulaski), Zachary Benjamin (Young Ian), Dawn Arnemann (Miss Gladstone), R. J. Williams (Ian Andrew Troi), Dore Keller (Crewman)
Stardate 42073.1 After the Enterprise's new medical doctor is brought aboard, the vessel and her crew head to the Rachellis Star System to retrieve collected samples of an unknown plasma plague that has broken out there. The Enterprise must deliver them to a science station in order for a cure to be found. As they begin their journey to the star system, a mysterious beacon of light enters the ship.
28 :02x02 - Where Silence Has Lease
Writer: Jack B. Sowards
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Guest star: Diana Muldaur (Dr. Katharine Pulaski), Earl Boen (Nagilum), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Charles Douglass (Ensign Haskell)
Stardate 42193.6 While en route to a star system not yet visited by the Federation, the Enterprise encounters a seemingly empty body of space, where no starlight can be seen. Moving in for a closer look, Picard prepares to investigate the dark mass by launching research probes into the object.
29 :02x03 - Elementary, Dear Data
Writer: Brian Alan Lane
Director: Rob Bowman
Guest star: Diana Muldaur (Dr. Katharine Pulaski), Daniel Davis (Moriarty), Alan Shearman (Lestrade), Anne Elizabeth Ramsay (Assistant Engineer Clancy), Richard Merson (Pie Man), Biff Manard (Ruffian), Diz White (Prostitute), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate 42286.3 While en route to rendezvous with the USS Victory, and with a bit of time to kill, Data and Geordi enter the holodeck. Slipping into their respective guises of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor John Watson, the two begin one of the adventures of the Sherlock Holmes novels. However, since Data knows all of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's works on Sherlock Holmes, Geordi has the holodeck computer create a new challenge for Data, and not Sherlock Holmes. This leads to a holodeck creation that threatens the entire ship. Can their new holodeck Moriarty be defeated?
30 :02x04 - The Outrageous Okona
Director: Robert Becker
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Rosalind Allen (Yanar), Albert Stratton (Kushell), Teri Hatcher (Lt. Bronwyn G. Robinson), Joe Piscopo (The Comic), Bill Campbell (Captain Thadiun Okona), Kieran Mulroney (Benzan), Douglas Rowe (Debin)
Stardate 42402.7 While the Enterprise is passing through a star system that contains two inhabited planets which have a treaty that keeps a shaky peace in place, the crew receives a call from the cargo ship Erstwhile, saying it is in need of repairs. The captain of the vessel is Thadiun Okona, a handsome scoundrel, who quickly makes a reputation for himself aboard the Enterprise. However, his reputation made on the two inhabited planets catches up with him. Now, both planets demand that he be turned over to them.
31 :02x05 - Loud as a Whisper
Writer: Jacqueline Zambrano
Director: Larry Shaw
Guest star: Diana Muldaur (Dr. Katharine Pulaski), Marnie Mosiman (Woman), Howie Seago (Riva), Leo Damian (Adonis), Randy Oglesby (Scholar), Chip Heller (Warrior #2), Richard Lavin (Warrior #1), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), John Garrett (Lieutenant)
Stardate 42477.2 Leaders of warring factions in the Ramatis Star System have asked for the Federation to send a mediator to help resolve their differences. The Enterprise has been ordered by Star Fleet to act as courtesy transportation for the arbiter, a man named Riva who was instrumental in brokering treaties between the Klingon Empire and the Federation.
Riva, who is a mute, is assisted in his arbitrations by three people who speak his thoughts and feelings. When the three are killed in an ambush, Riva tells the crew that he can not continue the arbitration with them. Capt. Picard must convince Riva to find another way to proceed, if a peace is to be brokered.
32 :02x06 - The Schizoid Man
Writer: Tracy Tormé
Director: Les Landau
Guest star: Barbara Alyn Woods (Kareen Brianon), W. Morgan Sheppard (Dr. Ira Graves), Suzie Plakson (Lt. Selar)
Stardate: 42437.5 The Enterprise receives a distress call from one of the greatest living scientist, Ira Graves. His assistant has called for help against his wishes. The elderly Graves has an incurable illness, and is now near death. However, they find Graves interested in learning more about Data.
After Graves dies, Data begins acting strangely, and the crew begins to worry about what is happening to him.
33 :02x07 - Unnatural Selection
Writer: Mike Gray, John Mason
Director: Paul Lynch
Guest star: Patricia Smith (Dr. Sara Kingsley), Colm Meaney (Transporter Chief Miles O'Brien), George Baxter (Child from station), J. Patrick McNamara (Captain Tagget), Scott Trost (Transporter Ensign)
Stardate: 42494.8 After finding the crew of the U.S.S. Lantree all dead of old age, the Enterprise heads to the ship's last location, the Darwin Genetic Research Station. They find the researchers there are suffering from the same aging diseases as on the Lantree. They tell the crew that they can’t find the cause or a cure, and asks the Enterprise to evacuate two genetically engineered children from the station. The scientist state that the children have been in quarantine the whole time and could not have been infected.
Picard reluctantly agrees, but adds additional precautions by having them beamed up in stasis to a shuttle craft piloted by Dr. Pulaski. Nevertheless, shortly thereafter, Dr. Pulaski begins to show signs of having the aging disease too.
Now the crew must frantically fight to save Dr. Pulaski, before times runs out.
34 :02x08 - A Matter of Honor
Writer: Burton Armus
Director: Rob Bowman
Guest star: John Putch (Ensign Mendon), Brian Thompson (Klag), Chris Latta (Captain Kargan), Peter Parros (Tactics Officer), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Laura Drake (Vekma)
Stardate: 42506.5 Riker agrees to be the first Starfleet officer to serve on a Klingon war ship as part of an officer exchange program. As part of this program a Benzite is assigned to the Enterprise. Both must learn to adapt to another culture’s ways, when a space borne bacteria is found feeding on both the Enterprise and the Klingon Warbird.
35 :02x09 - The Measure of a Man
Writer: Melinda Snodgrass
Director: Robert Scheerer
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Clyde Kusatsu (Adm.Nakamura), Brian Brophy (Cmdr. Bruce Maddox), Amanda McBroom (Captain Phillipa Louvois), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien)
Stardate: 42523.7 Upon visiting the new Starbase 173, Data is reassigned to the command of an officer who wants to study and disassemble Data, to aid in his research into making more androids.
At the same time, Capt. Picard is reunited with an old romantic acquaintance, Phillipa Louvois, who also happens to be the lone person on the station who can save Data from this deadly fate. However, can Phillipa, the station’s JAG officer (the Judge Advocate General), put aside her conflicted feelings for Picard, and impartially decide Data’s fate?
36 :02x10 - The Dauphin
Writer: Leonard Mlodinow, Scott Rubenstein
Director: Rob Bowman
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Paddi Edwards (Anya), Jamie Hubbard (Salia), Madchen Amick (Anya as Teenage Girl), Jennifer Barlow (Ensign Gibson), Cindy Sorenson (Animal Anya), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Peter Neptune (Aron)
Stardate: 42568.8 The Enterprise’s task to transport a young woman back to her home planet, which she is destined to rule, is complicated when Wesley becomes smitten with her. However, the young woman and her guardian are not what they appear to be. Wesley must come to terms with this fact, before his object of affection leaves the ship.
37 :02x11 - Contagion
Writer: Steve Gerber, Beth Woods
Director: Joseph Scanlan
Guest star: Dana Sparks (Tactical Officer), Carolyn Seymour (Sub Cmdr. Taris), Thalmus Rasulala (Captain Donald Varley), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Folkert Schmidt (Doctor)
When the Enterprise speeds into the neutral zone to the rescue the Starship Yamato, which is suffering system failures, the Enterprise begins to suffer similar system failures. This occurs after Enterprise downloads the destroyed Yamato’s data logs. Enterprise heads to the Yamato’s last known planet fall, the ancient mythical lost planet of the Iconians.
However, can Capt. Picard and Data find the solution to the Enterprise’s problems before their ship is destroyed, too?
38 :02x12 - The Royale
Writer: Tracy Tormé
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Noble Willingham (Texas), Diana Muldaur (Dr. Katharine Pulaski), Sam Anderson (Assistant Manager), Jill Jacobson (Vanessa), Leo Garcia (Bellboy), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien)
Stardate 42625.4 After discovering debris from an old manned NASA vessel, an away team beams down to an out of place building on a nearby planet. There inside the building they discover a recreation of an Earth casino-hotel. They also discover that there is no exit from this casino-hotel.
39 :02x13 - Time Squared
Writer: Maurice Hurley
Director: Joseph Scanlan
Guest star: Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien)
When Enterprise comes upon a shuttlecraft adrift in space, they bring it onboard. What they discover shocks them greatly. The shuttlecraft is from their Enterprise, and the pilot is none other than Jean-Luc Picard himself, or at least a duplicate of him. This Picard is semi conscious, and doesn’t seem to know there are crew around him. Dr. Pulaski determines that this Picard is in a state of temporal flux from a point in time several hours in their future.
After checking the shuttle’s logs, they see that this Picard left his Enterprise just before it was destroyed, near a massive space vortex. The crew and their Picard must determine how to avoid this future event before it happens again, to them, and their Enterprise is destroyed, too.
40 :02x14 - The Icarus Factor
Writer: David Assael
Director: Robert Iscove
Guest star: Mitchell Ryan (Kyle Riker), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), John Tesh (K'Tesh), Lance Spellerberg (Transporter Operator)
Riker must make a tough choice when he is offered the command of his own starship. His decision on whether to accept, or not, is hampered by the appearance of his father, with whom he detests and has been estranged from for a very long time. His father pushes Riker to take the command, but they must first hash out their underling bad feelings toward each other, before Riker can make his decision.
41 :02x15 - Pen Pals
Writer: Melinda Snodgrass
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Guest star: Diana Muldaur (Dr. Katharine Pulaski), Nikki Cox (Sarjenka), Whitney Rydbeck (Alans), Ann Gillespie (Heldebrandt), Nicholas Cascone (Davies), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien)
Enterprise is on a survey mission to monitor a system of planets, when it is learned that Data has secretly been communicating with a “pen pal” on Drema IV, one of the planets being investigated. Although he was contacted by accident by the little girl, his response back was still a major breach of protocol, and Picard is quite displeased. However, Data has learned through his contact, that conditions on Drema IV are deteriorating and the planet’s life is about to be extinguished.
Meanwhile, as part of his ship board studies to become a full officer, Riker puts Wesley in charge of the team performing the mineral studies being done on the planet. Wesley finds that being in charge of a team composed of more senior adults a big challenge, as they begin to dismiss his directions and instead try to convince him to follow their lead.
Will Data be allowed to rescue his new found friend on the planet, and will Wesley be able to reign in the scientists under his temporary command?
42 :02x16 - Q Who?
Writer: Maurice Hurley
Director: Rob Bowman
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Lycia Naff (Ensign Sonya Gomez), John de Lancie (Q), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien)
Stardate: 42761.3 Q, from the Q continuum, returns to the Enterprise to toy with Picard and the crew. Q asks to become a member of the crew, but when he is rebuffed, he sends Enterprise out of the Alpha quadrant and into an unknown part of space. Here, Q warns them about the dangers they will face as they “go where no one has gone before.”
The danger turns out to come from a deadly aggressive machine like race made up of part human, part machine, cyborg-like people, known as the Borg. As the Borg approach Enterprise, Picard tries to make friendly overtures, but the Borg response is that the crew will be “assimilated.” Enterprise’s defenses prove no match for the Borg’s Cube that is attempting to “assimilate” them.
Can Picard save the ship and crew from certain assimilation into this machine like race, and what personal sacrifice must he make in order to secure their escape?
43 :02x17 - Samaritan Snare
Writer: Robert L. McCullough
Director: Les Landau
Guest star: Lycia Naff (Ensign Sonya Gomez), Tzi Ma (Biomolecular Physiologist), Daniel Benzali (Surgeon), Lauren Collins (Reginod), Chris Latta (Pakled Captain Grebnedlog)
Stardate: 42779.1 An innocently looking repair mission on a backward society’s ship turns into a rescue mission to save Geordi from a kidnapping.
44 :02x18 - Up the Long Ladder
Writer: Melinda Snodgrass
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Guest star: Jon DeVries (Granger), Barrie Ingham (Danilo Odell), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Rosalyn Landor (Brenna Odell)
Stardate: 42823.2 The Enterprise races to evacuate a lost colony who’s planet is about to be destroyed. The rustic colonists, known as the Bringloidis, tell the crew that they had traveled from Earth many generations ago with a second colonist group, which continued on to another planet, after their colony was dropped off.
The Enterprise decides to search for the second group, to check if the Mariposans, as the other group are known as, also survived. They soon find the Mariposans, and are surprised to find they all are descended from the five survivors of the ship, which crashed, and all are now clones. Dr. Pulaski discovers that the Mariposan colony will soon die out due to an inherent flaw in the cloning process.
The Mariposans ask the crew for some of their DNA, but when they refuse, the Mariposans then attempt to steal their DNA. When they are foiled in their attempt, the crew comes up with their own solution, which involves the commingling of the Bringloidis.
45 :02x19 - Manhunt
Writer: Terry Deveraux
Director: Rob Bowman
Guest star: Robert Costanzo (Slade Bender), Mick Fleetwood (Antidean Dignitary), Rhonda Aldrich (Madeline), Rod Arrants (Rex), Carel Struycken (Mr. Homn), Majel Barrett (Lwaxana Troi), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Wren T. Brown (Transporter Pilot), Robert O'Reilly (Scarface)
Stardate: 42859.2 Lwaxana Troi hops a ride on Enterprise to a conference to which it is taking two other delegates to, as Lwaxana is going as a delegate too. The other two delegates have come aboard in self induced comas, as to avoid their species dislike of space travel.
The crew tries to find ways to avoid Lwaxana, as she chases after Capt. Picard and others, for marital purposes; in effect, her “manhunt.” Deanna explains that her mother is at the point in her life where a Betazoid woman’s sex drive increases tenfold. When Picard decides to hide in a Dickson Hill holodeck program, Lwaxana sets her sights on Riker.
However, as the other two delegates begin to fully awaken from their comas, it is Lwaxana’s telepathy that alerts the crew to a major danger facing the conference.
46 :02x20 - The Emissary
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Lance LeGault (K'Temoc), Suzie Plakson (K'Ehleyr), Greorgann Johnson (Admiral Gromek), Anne Elizabeth Ramsay (Ensign Clancy), Diedrich Bader (Tactical Crewman), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien)
Stardate: 42901.3 Enterprise is sent to intercept an old Klingon warship and crew who are in long term hibernation. They are on a military mission, which was launched while the Klingons and the Federation were still at war. A special half human, half Klingon Emissary is sent to help in this task. However, Worf and the female Klingon Emissary begin to make a strange personal connection, after a rocky start. However, will Worf’s ridged following of Klingon ways ruin things between them?
47 :02x21 - Peak Performance
Writer: David Kemper
Director: Robert Scheerer
Guest star: Armin Shimerman (DaiMon Bractor), Miles O'Brien (Sirna Kolrami), Glenn Morshower (Ensign Burke), David L. Lander (Ferengi Tactician), Leslie Neale (Ensign Nagel)
Stardate: 42923.4 Enterprise participates in a battle simulation between Enterprise and an 80 year old starship, to be capt.’d by Riker. A Zakdornian is assigned to oversee the mismatched simulation. The Zakdor is also a master of the game Strategema. Learning this, Dr. Pulaski pushes Data to challenge the Master to a game. Data relents and plays the game and loses. Stunned, Data removes himself from duty, feeling he must be malfunctioning.
The battle simulation then takes place, but it is interrupted by a Ferengi attack on the Enterprise, as they think there must be some profit Enterprise is seeking from the weaker Starfleet vessel. The question is can Riker, in the weaker vessel, save Enterprise from the Ferengi attack.
48 :02x22 - Shades of Gray
Writer: Hans Beimler
Director: Rob Bowman
Guest star: Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien)
Stardate: 42976.1 On an away mission, Cmdr. Riker is struck by a deadly thorn. As the crew fights to cure the virus or infection he has received, Riker must be subjected to very emotional flashbacks in order for the medical team to find the right medical path to take.
49 :03x01 - Evolution
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Scott Grimes (Eric), Ken Jenkins (Dr. Paul Stubbs), Amy O'Neill (Annette), Randal Patrick (Crewman), Mary McCusker (Nurse)
Stardate: 43125.8 Wesley loses a couple of the nanites that he was studying, which then multiply and evolve, finally reaching a collective intelligence. When they start feeding off of Enterprise’s computer chips, several systems failures begin to occur, and this delays a very important scientific mission. The visiting scientist, there to oversee this important scientific mission, then tries to destroy the nanities, to save his once in a life time spatial observation. Now the crew must fight the nanites attempts to take over the ship, and their attempts to seek revenge on the visiting scientist.
50 :03x02 - The Ensigns of Command
Writer: Melinda Snodgrass
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Mart McCesney (Sheliak), Grainger Hines (Gosheven), Mark L. Taylor (Haritath), Eileen Seeley (Ard'rian McKenzie), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Richard Allen (Noe)
Stardate: 43133.3 When the Sheliak race, which abhors human kind, finds a large human colony on one of their planets, they demand their removal before they exterminate them. The crew learns that the people in question are from a ship that crashed there years ago.
Now Picard and Deanna must negotiate with the Sheliak to try to get more time to evacuate this colony. Meanwhile, Data must try to convince the colonists to evacuate. However, he is impeded by a very proud and stubborn leader that is willing to stay and die defending the colony. Can Data convince the rest of the colonist to go against their leader, and leave the planet? And is there even enough time to evacuate the settlers before the Sheliak begin their eradication process?
51 :03x03 - The Survivors
Writer: Michael I. Wagner, Michael I. Wagner
Director: Les Landau
Guest star: Anne Haney (Rishon Uxbridge), John Anderson (Kevin Uxbridge)
Stardate: 43152.4 Enterprise finds a planet that has had its surface obliterated, except for the appearance of a house and the land around it, and a retired elderly couple who live there. When Deanna senses who and what one of the couple, Kevin, truly is, her senses are blocked by the placing music from a music box into her mind. And when Picard senses trouble, Kevin tries to lure the Enterprise away by sending the evil Husnock race after them. However, Picard stays one step ahead of Kevin, and eventually figured who, or what Kevin is. Being discovered, Kevin takes the music form Deanna's mind. He also explains that he is a Dowg, a non-corporeal life form that can shape shift into any form, whom had married his wife Rishan when he was in human form. When the planet was attacked, he tried to fool the Husnock, since his own prime directive was that he would not kill, but when his wife is killed in the attack, he takes the ultimate action against the Husnock.
52 :03x04 - Who Watches the Watchers?
Writer: Hans Beimler, Richard Manning
Director: Robert Weimer
Guest star: Pamela Adlon (Oji), James Greene (Dr. Barron), Lois Hall (Mary Warren), John McLiam (Fento), Ray Wise (Liko), Mary Warren (Nuria), James McIntire (Hali)
Stardate: 43173.5 A primitive race, known as Mintakins, discovers a hidden federation outpost set to observe their planet and culture, when there is a explosion at there outpost. The Federation scientists signal for help and the Enterprise responds. However, Enterprise must walk a dangerous path, to try to fix this “too early” first contact.
53 :03x05 - The Bonding
Writer: Ronald D. Moore
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Guest star: Gabriel Damon (Jeremy Aster), Raymond D. Turner (Teacher), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Susan Powell (Marla Aster)
Stardate: 43198.7 When on an away mission, crewman Marla Aster is killed by an ancient device. Then a non-corporeal life form indigenous to the planet, that can take human form, decides it must care for Aster’s son Jeremy, who is now an orphan, as it was their ancient weapon that killed his mother. The entity takes the form of the boy’s mother, Marla, and intends to take the boy down to the planet and raise him as his mother. However, the Enterprise crew intervenes, and tries to convince the entity that Jeremy’s interests would be better served by the boy staying with his own kind.
54 :03x06 - Booby Trap
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Susan Gibney (Dr. Leah Brahms), Julie Warner (Christy Henshaw), Albert Hall (Galek Dar), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien)
Stardate: 43205.6 When the Enterprise discovers an ancient Promellian Battle Cruiser, from a race thought a myth, they get caught in the same radiation field that was created during the Menthar and Promellian war to trap the battle cruiser.
To figure a way to get out, Geordi must recreate Leah Brahms, one of the people that designed and constructed the Enterprise, in a holodeck simulation.
55 :03x07 - The Enemy
Writer: David Kemper, Michael Piller
Director: David Carson
Guest star: Andreas Katsulas (Cmdr. Tomalak), John Snyder (Centurion Bochra), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Steve Rankin (Centurion Patahk)
Stardate: 43349.2 When Enterprise finds a crashed Romulan ship on a planet with severe electromagnetic storms, they attempt to find survivors. However, Geordi is forced to join with one of the surviving Romulans he finds, as he gets separated from the away team and falls into a pit. The two must learn to trust each other if they are to survive their ordeal on the tough planet.
56 :03x08 - The Price
Writer: Hannah Louise Shearer
Director: Robert Scheerer
Guest star: Dan Shor (Dr. Arridor), Kevin Peter Hall (Leyor), Scott Thompson (DaiMon Goss), Castulo Guerra (Dr. Mendoza), Elizabeth Hoffman (Premier Bhavani), Matt McCoy (Devinoni Ral), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien)
Stardate: 43385.6 Enterprise hosts a race's negations on the rights to control a wormhole, one which they claim is stable. As the crew sets out to determine the stability of the wormhole, the Ferengi barge into the negotiations. Also, Troi becomes attracted to one of the negotiators; a mysterious hired gun who has a secret to hide from the rest, putting Troi in an awkward situation.
57 :03x09 - The Vengeance Factor
Writer: Sam Rolfe
Director: Timothy Bond
Guest star: Joey Aresco (Brull), Lisa Wilcox (Yuta), Nancy Parsons (Marouk), Marc Lawrence (Volnoth), Stephen Lee (Chorgan), Elkanah Burns (Temarek)
Stardate 43421.9 The Enterprise investigates a destroyed research facility. The researchers have been knocked out with phaser blasts and the lab has been ransacked of all valuable items. Evidence suggests the raiders are the Gatherers, a space-faring group of Acamarians who left their home world, Acamar 3, almost a century ago, over clan disputes.
58 :03x10 - The Defector
Writer: Ronald D. Moore
Director: Robert Scheerer
Guest star: Andreas Katsulas (Cmdr. Tomalak), James Sloyan (Sub-Lt. Setal/Alidar Jarok), John Hancock (Admiral Haden), Simon Templeman (John Bates), Patrick Stewart (Henry V Soldier)
Stardate 43462.5 Picking up a distress signal from a Romulan Scout Ship, the Enterprise moves in to help the vessel...as it is being chased by a Romulan Warbird. The lone Romulan aboard the Scout Ship is saved and brought aboard the Enterprise where he tells of a secret Romulan base in the Neutral Zone that is nearing completion. In 48 hours the base will go online and the Romulans will be that much closer to attacking the Federation. However, Picard and his senior staff are skeptical of the defector's story.
59 :03x11 - The Hunted
Writer: Robin Bernheim
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: James Cromwell (Nayrok), Andrew Bicknell (Wagnor), J. Michael Flynn (Zaynar), Jeff McCarthy (Roga Danar), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien)
Stardate: 43489.2 While visiting a planet which is seeking membership in the Federation, a military prisoner there escapes. Enterprise is asked to help recapture him, only to find this to be a daunting task. The reason is the ex-soldier appears to have been modified or enhanced by the society, to fight in their just concluded war with their vanquished enemy.
The more the crew learns about the prisoner, and the harder it becomes to stop him, the more they question the society’s plea to join the Federation.
60 :03x12 - The High Ground
Writer: Melinda Snodgrass
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Guest star: Richard Cox (Kyril Finn), Kerrie Keane (Alexana Devos), Christopher Pettiet (Ansata), Marc Buckland (Katik Shaw), Fred G. Smith (Policeman)
Stardate: 43510.7 A group of terrorists that are demanding freedom on their planet decide to kidnap Dr. Crusher, in order to see if she can treat their transporter disease, which restricts their movements.
61 :03x13 - Déjà Q
Writer: Richard Danus
Director: Les Landau
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Corbin Bernsen (Q), Richard Cansino (Dr. Garin), John de Lancie (Q), Betty Muramoto (Bre'el Scientist), Sandra Wild (Fantasy Woman), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien)
Stardate 43539.1 The Enterprise moves in to assist Bre'el IV, as their planet's satellite's orbit has decayed exponentially, sending it on a collision course with the planet. Just as the Enterprise begins the operation to attempt to move the satellite away from the planet, an intense ringing is heard throughout the ship. It is just then that a very undignified Q makes another appearance aboard Picard's ship.
62 :03x14 - A Matter of Perspective
Writer: Ed Zuckerman
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Mark Margolis (Dr. Nel Apgar), Juliana Donald (Tayna), Gina Hecht (Manua Apgar), Craig Richard Nelson (Krag), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien)
Stardate: 43610.4 A fight between Riker and a scientist results in the explosion of a space station. This results in getting the attention of Tanegan Security Service, and Riker is brought to trial, while they investigate what caused the explosion, and possible murder.
63 :03x15 - Yesterday's Enterprise
Director: David Carson
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Christopher McDonald (Lt. Richard Castillo), Tricia O'Neil (Captain Rachel Garrett), Denise Crosby (Lt. Tasha Yar)
Stardate: 43625.2 A time rift opens up in front of the Enterprise. A battered and abused starship comes through from 22 years in the past. It is the Enterprise-C, the predecessor to the modern ship. A terrible battle which almost destroyed it has opened the rift. As the Enterprise-C comes through the rift, however, the end of its presence in the past drastically alters the present, and Lt. Worf is replaced by the formerly deceased Tasha Yar...The Enterprise-C's failure to be where it needed to be has led to a very different present, victim of a long and drawn-out war between the Federation and the Klingon Empire, leading to the death of billions. Only Guinan senses the change, and, warning Picard, he must make a choice -- to send back the ship through the rift, to almost certain doom, trusting Guinan's assurances that his present was never meant to be. Or to save the 125 surviving crewmembers.
64 :03x16 - The Offspring
Writer: René Echevarria
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Nicolas Coster (Admiral Haftel), Judyann Elder (Lt. Ballard), Hallie Todd (Lal), Leonard Crofoot (Robotic Lal), Diane Moser (Crewman), Hayne Bayle (Crewman), James G. Becker (Crewman), Maria Leone (Crewman)
Stardate: 43657.0 Data constructs a daughter for himself, but Starfleet want to take her away for their own studies.
65 :03x17 - Sins of the Father
Director: Les Landau
Guest star: Thelma Lee (Kalest), Patrick Massett (Duras), Tony Todd (Kurn), Charles Cooper (K'mpec), J. Teddy Davis (Transporter Tech. (as Teddy Davis))
Stardate: 43685.2 A Klingon first officer comes onboard the enterprise as part of the exchange program; he has some news for Worf about his family.
66 :03x18 - Allegiance
Writer: Richard Manning, Hans Beimler
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Guest star: Reiner Schöne (Esoqq), Jeff Rector (Alien #2), Jerry Rector (Alien #1), Joycelyn O’Brien (Cadet Mitena Haro), Stephen Markle (Kova Tholl)
An unknown race replaces Captain Picard with a perfect double, who’s orders lead Enterprise into a potential deadly situation. Meanwhile, the real Picard is trapped in a cell with three individuals from different known races, as part of some test..
67 :03x19 - Captain's Holiday
Writer: Ira Steven Behr
Director: Chip Chalmers
Guest star: Max Grodénchik (Sovak), Michael Champion (Boratus), Jennifer Hetrick (Vash), Deirdre Imershein (Joval), Karen Landry (Ajur)
Stardate: 43745.2 The crew suggests a small vacation for Jean-Luc, and he goes to Riker's vacation planet. He gets bored, annoyed, and frustrated...especially at a Ferengi, who is after a disk with important information that a woman has, and so the Captain's vacation turns out to be one big adventure.
68 :03x20 - Tin Man
Writer: David Bischoff, Dennis Putman Bailey
Director: Robert Scheerer
Guest star: Harry Groener (Tam Elbran), Michael Cavanaugh (Captain Robert DeSoto), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Peter Allen Vogt (Romulan Commander)
Stardate: 43779.3 An alien ship named Gomtuu is in danger since it is in Romulan space. Enterprise is forced to rely on a Betazoid named Tam Elbrum to try and communicate with Gomtuu. It turns out that Gomtuu needs Tam, as much as Tam needs Gomtuu. Tam's has telepathic abilities so strong that for a time Tam had to be a patient of Deanna once, and Gomtuu hasn't seen its crew or another of its own kind in many years.
69 :03x21 - Hollow Pursuits
Writer: Sally Caves
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Dwight Schultz (Lt. Reginald "Reg" Barclay III), Charley Lang (Duffy)
Stardate: 43807.4 When strange mechanical events occur aboard Enterprise, Geordi assigns the investigation to a Lieutenant who is having trouble fitting in. The Lieutanant, Lt. Reginald "Reg" Barclay, seems to prefer his holodeck life to his real life aboard Enterprise.
70 :03x22 - The Most Toys
Writer: Shari Goodhartz
Director: Timothy Bond
Guest star: Nehemiah Persoff (Palor Toff), Jane Daly (Varria), Saul Rubinek (Kivas Fajo), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien)
Stardate: 43872.2 A rich collector of the "most rare" objects, and "one of a kind" objects decides to add Data to his collection.
71 :03x23 - Sarek
Director: Les Landau
Guest star: Joanna Miles (Perrin), John H. Francis (Science Officer), Rocco Sisto (Sakkath), Mark Lenard (Sarek), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), William Denis (Ki Mendrossen)
Stardate: 43917.4 Sarek is about to lose his mind as a result of a terminal illness where Vulcans are no longer able to suppress their emotions, so Picard offers to help.
72 :03x24 - Ménage à Troi
Writer: Fred Bronson, Susan Sackett
Director: Robert Legato
Guest star: Ethan Phillips (Dr. Farek), Rudolph Willrich (Reittan Grax), Peter Marx (Nibor), Frank Corsentino (DaiMon Tog), Carel Struycken (Mr. Homn), Majel Barrett (Lwaxana Troi)
Stardate: 43930.7 An enamored Ferengi kidnaps Troi, Cmndr. Riker, and Lwaxana Troi in order to woo Lwaxana into marriage, but his crew is not so sure there is profit in this move.
73 :03x25 - Transfigurations
Writer: René Echevarria
Director: Tom Benko
Guest star: Patti Tippo (Nurse Temple), Julie Warner (Christy Henshaw), Mark La Mura (John Doe), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Charles Dennis (Cmdr. Sunad)
Stardate: 43957.2 Enterprise comes to the rescue of a survivor of a crashed spaceship. Although the survivor has amnesia, he begins to exhibit signs of strange powers during his recovery. However, a ship from his home planet arrives, and claims he is actually a criminal, and a danger to the state. Enterprise soon learns their guest is actually the first of his race to fully experience the evolutionary change his society is about to go through.
74 :03x26 - The Best of Both Worlds (1)
Writer: Michael Piller
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), George Murdock (Admiral J. P. Hanson), Elizabeth Dennehy (Lt. Cmdr. Elizabeth Shelby), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien)
Stardate: 43989.1 When Borg "footprints" are found on a alien planet, Starfleet sends Borg expert, Lt. Cmdr. Elizabeth Shelby, to assist them. However, upon contact, the Borg are able to kidnap Picard and assimilate him.
75 :04x01 - The Best of Both Worlds, Part II
Writer: Michael Piller
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), George Murdock (Admiral Hanson), Elizabeth Dennehy (Lt. Cmdr. Elizabeth Shelby), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Todd Merrill (Ensign Gleason)
Stardate: 44001.4 Now that Capt. Picard has been assimilated by the Borg, and is now known as “Locutus,” acting Capt. Riker must fight the Borg with new strategies that Locutus/Picard would not expect from his knowledge of Riker. Riker must also temper his new headstrong 1st Officer, before she endangers the ship and crew.
76 :04x02 - Family
Writer: Ronald D. Moore
Director: Les Landau
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Samantha Eggar (Marie Picard), Doug Wert (Jack Crusher), Theodore Bikel (Sergey Rozhenko), David Birkin (Rene Picard), Dennis Creaghan (Louis), Jeremy Kemp (Robert Picard), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Georgia Brown (Helena Rozhenko)
Stardate: 44012.3In the aftermath of his assimilation by the Borg and subsequent recovery, Captain Picard returns home to his family's ancestral French vinery to consider his future as a Starfleet Captain, facing an estranged older brother and the bitter in-fighting that their rivalry has caused to distance them.
Meanwhile, Lt. Worf's human foster parents come to visit him on the ship, much to his trepidation and discomfiture.
77 :04x03 - Brothers
Writer: Rick Berman
Director: Rob Bowman
Guest star: Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Cory Danziger (Jake Potts), James Lashly (Ensign Kopf), Adam Ryen (Willie Potts), Brent Spiner (Lore / Dr. Noonien Soong)
Stardate: 44085.7 Data takes over control of the Enterprise, and takes the ship to his creator, Dr. Soong. This action endangers a child on Enterprise who must be quickly treated at a Starbase, or he will die from a deadly poison he ingested earlier.
Data is unaware of his actions until he meets his creator. Dr. Soong has called Data back to receive an emotion chip which will make him more human. However, in a strange twist, Lore turns up too, as he also had the recall program.
Lore finds it strange that his creator has not worked on a fix for him, and decides to take an action which will lead to great future repercussions for Data, and the crew.
78 :04x04 - Suddenly Human
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Guest star: Barbara Townsend (Admiral Connaught Rossa), Sherman Howard (Captain Endar), Chad Allen (Jono)
Stardate: 44143.7 Enterprise receives an emergency hail from an alien ship in distress. One of the crew turns out to be a human youth. Although he is the grandson of a Federation Admiral, he refuses to leave his new alien family. Capt. Picard must decide the best course for the youth, while balancing a possible conflict with the alien race that has raised him.
79 :04x05 - Remember Me
Writer: Lee Sheldon
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Bill Erwin (Dr. Dalen Quaice), Eric Menyuk (The Traveler), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien)
Stardate: 44161.2 One of Wesley Crusher’s experiments inadvertently sends his mother into a bubble universe, where more and more people she knows keep disappearing, until there is no one remaining but her.
80 :04x06 - Legacy
Writer: Joe Menosky
Director: Robert Scheerer
Guest star: Christopher Michael (Coalition Lieutenant), Don Mirault (Hayne), Beth Toussaint (Ishara Yar), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Vladimir Velasco (Tan Tsu)
Stardate: 44215.2 An escape pod from the U.S.S. Arcos has landed on Turkana IV, the home of the late Lt. Tasha Yar. As the planet no longer has a stable government, it has become a veritable warzone, controlled by two factions, the Alliance and the Coalition. The former captured the survivors in the pod while the latter is endeavoring to assist the Enterprise crew with their recovery. However, all is not as it seems, particularly when a young woman named Ishara Yar comes on the scene.
81 :04x07 - Reunion
Writer: Thomas Perry, Jo Perry
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Guest star: Basil Wallace (Kling Guard #1), Mirron E. Willis (Vorn), Michael Rider (Security Guard), Suzie Plakson (K'Ehleyr), Patrick Massett (Duras), Charles Cooper (K'mpec), April Grace (Transporter Chief Hubbel), Robert O'Reilly (Gowron), John Paul Steuer (Alexander Rozhenko)
Stardate: 44246.3 Before the Klingon High Chancellor K'mpec dies, his final act is to name Captain Picard the Arbiter of Succession. As a result, the responsibility of choosing his successor, either the traitorous Duras or Gowron, falls on Picard. However, the elderly chancellor was poisoned, and one of his potential successors was the one responsible.
Meanwhile, the half-human/half-Klingon ambassador K'Ehleyr returns with a surprise for Worf...their son, Alexander.
82 :04x08 - Future Imperfect
Writer: David Carren, J. Larry Carroll
Director: Les Landau
Guest star: Carolyn McCormick (Minuet), George O'Hanlon, Jr. (Transporter Chief), Chris Demetral (Jean-Luc/Ethan), Andreas Katsulas (Ambassador Tomalak), April Grace (Transporter Chief), Todd Merrill (Gleason), Patti Yasutake (Alyssa Ogawa), Dana Tjowander (Barash)
Stardate: 44286.5 On his birthday, Riker leads an away mission to Alpha Onias III in search of a suspected Romulan outpost. While on the planet, the away team loses consciousness due to noxious gases. When he awakens in sickbay, sixteen years have passed and he is now captain of the Enterprise. Not only that, he has a young son named Jean-Luc, a Federation-Romulan peace treaty is imminent, and he is expected to be the chief negotiator.
83 :04x09 - Final Mission
Writer: Kasey Arnold-Ince
Director: Corey Allen
Guest star: Kim Hamilton (Chairman Songi), Nick Tate (Dirgo), Mary Kohnert (Ensign Tess Allenby)
Stardate: 44307.3 Wesley Crusher is accepted into Starfleet Academy. However, when he joins the Catain on one final mission, their spacecraft crashes. Now the would-be cadet must care for the critically injured Picard, after their crash on a barren desert moon.
84 :04x10 - The Loss
Writer: Hilary J. Bader
Director: Chip Chalmers
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Kim Braden (Ensign Janet Brooks), Mary Kohnert (Ensign Tess Allenby), Lucy Boryer (Ensign Janeway), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 44356.9 After suffering an intense headache, Deanna Troi discovers that she has lost her telepathic and empathic powers; the Enterprise is pulled not only off-course but to the brink of destruction by an unknown force.
85 :04x11 - Data's Day
Writer: Harold Apter
Director: Robert Wiemer
Guest star: Alan Scarfe (Admiral Mendak), Shelly Desai (V'Sal), Sierra Pecheur (T'Pel/Sub-Cmdr. Selok), April Grace (Transporter Chief), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Rosalind Chao (Keiko O'Brien), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 44390.1 On a particularly eventful day, Data records his daily duties and experiences. Among the challenges he faces are convincing an apprehensive bride to go ahead with her wedding, uncovering a Romulan plot and...learning to dance.
86 :04x12 - The Wounded
Director: Chip Chalmers
Guest star: Marc Alaimo (Gul Macet), Bob Gunton (Benjamin Maxwell), John Hancock (Admiral Haden), Time Winters (Glinn Daro), Marco Rodriguez (Glinn Telle), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Rosalind Chao (Keiko O'Brien)
Stardate: 44429.6 A highly respected and decorated Starfleet captain, Benjamin Maxwell, has turned renegade without explanation. With his ship, a Nebula-class science vessel called the Phoenix, he is attacking numerous Cardassian vessels and outposts along the border. His actions are threatening the fragile peace that exists following the Federation-Cardassian war.
However, transporter chief Miles O'Brien served with Maxwell on the Rutledge. Both Picard and Starfleet Command hope that O'Brien can convince his former commanding officer to stand down before it become necessary to destroy his ship.
87 :04x13 - Devil's Due
Writer: Philip LaZebnik
Director: Tom Benko
Guest star: William Glover (Marley), Marcelo Tubert (Jared), Paul Lambert (Dr. Clarke), Marta DuBois (Ardra), Tom Magee (Klingon Monster), Thad Lamey (Devil Monster)
Stardate: 44474.5 The Federation science team on Ventax II has been taken hostage. Alerted by the science station's distress call, the Enterprise arrives to investigates. There it finds the Ventaxians in a state of panic. According to their mythology, their ancestors made a deal with Ardra, a figure reminiscent of the Devil, one thousand years ago. Having seemingly fulfilled her part of the bargain, Ardra returns to lay claim to the planet.
88 :04x14 - Clues
Writer: Bruce D. Arthurs
Director: Les Landau
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Thomas Knickerbocker (Gunman), Rhonda Aldrich (Madeline), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Pamela Winslow (Ensign McKnight), Patti Yasutake (Alyssa Ogawa), Majel Barrett (Enterprise Computer)
Stardate: 44502.7 Data seems to be the key to the strange events that occur after the Enterprise passes through a small wormhole, after approaching a previously undiscovered planet. Is he telling the crew the truth about what occurred at the planet?
89 :04x15 - First Contact
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Bebe Neuwirth (Lanel), George Hearn (Berel), Carolyn Seymour (Mirasta Yale), Sachi Parker (Dr. Tava), Michael Ensign (Krola), George Coe (Avel Durken), Steven Anderson (Dr. Nilrem)
Stardate: Unknown The inhabitants of Malcoria III have recently developed warp technology. While the warp project is still in its infancy and largely experimental, the Federation believes it is a sufficient reason for first contact between their two cultures to take place. However, their efforts on contact are hindered by the fact that Riker is lost on the surface, and a xenophobic attitude is prevalent among some Malcorians.
90 :04x16 - Galaxy's Child
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Susan Gibney (Dr. Leah Brahms), Lanai Chapman (Ensign Sariel Rager), Jana Marie Hupp (Ensign Pavlik), April Grace (Transporter Chief)
Stardate: 44614.6 Geordi gets to meet the real woman behind the one he became enamored with during a holodeck simulation used to save Enterprise in the past. The meeting goes way different than expected, but the two once again are called upon to save the Enterprise, when a space born alien baby begins feeding on the ship's power.
91 :04x17 - Night Terrors
Director: Les Landau
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Brian Tochi (Ensign Kenny Lin), Lanai Chapman (Ensign Sariel Rager), Craig Hurley (Ensign Peeples), Duke Moosekian (Ensign Gillespie), John Vickery (Andrus Hagan), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Rosalind Chao (Keiko O'Brien), Deborah Taylor (Captain Chantel Zaheva)
Stardate: 44631.2 When Enterprise goes to the rescue of a science vessel adrift for days, they find themselves in the same dilemma. Their trapped state is worsened by the fact that they are being "dream sleep" deprived, which they know can cause their deaths, and has caused all but one of the science vessels crews’ deaths. An unaffected Troi becomes the key to their salvation.
92 :04x18 - Identity Crisis
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Guest star: Maryann Plunkett (Lt. Cmdr. Susanna Leijten), Patti Yasutake (Alyssa Ogawa), Dennis Madalone (Transporter Technician Hendrick), Mona Grudt (Ensign Graham), Amick Byram (Lt. Hickman), Paul Tompkins (Brevelle)
Stardate: 44664.5 Members of a past pre-Enterprise away mission that Geordi was on to locate missing crewmen on a planet, are apparently going AWOL. Lt. Leijten, who lead the away team at the time, and Geordi are the last known members of that mission still around. Capt. Picard and the crew must find out what is happening, before they go missing themselves.
93 :04x19 - The Nth Degree
Writer: Joe Menosky
Director: Robert Legato
Guest star: Jim Norton (Albert Einstein), David Coburn (Ensign Brower), Page Leong (Ensign April Anaya), Saxon Trainor (Lt. Linda Larson), Kay E. Kuter (Cytherian), Dwight Schultz (Lt. Reginald "Reg" Barclay III)
Stardate: 44704.2 Lt. Barkley is affected by a probe near a large sensor array, causing massive increases to his brain power.
94 :04x20 - Qpid
Writer: Ira Steven Behr
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Clive Revill (Sir Guy), Jennifer Hetrick (Vash/Maid Marian), John de Lancie (Q), Joi Staton (Servant)
Stardate: 44741.9 Q puts several of the Enterprise crew through a medieval “Robin of Loxly” role playing situation, after seeing Capt. Picard’s interaction with the visiting Vash. However, in this scenario the crew members’ lives are really at jeopardy.
95 :04x21 - The Drumhead
Writer: Jeri Taylor
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Guest star: Jean Simmons (Admiral Norah Satie), Spencer Garrett (Simon Tarses), Ann Shea (Nellen Tore), Earl Billings (Admiral Thomas Henry), Henry Woronicz (Lt. J'Dan), Bruce French (Sabin Genestra)
Stardate: 44769.2 The discovery of a traitorous visiting Klingon crewman leads a witch hunt for more conspirators among the crew. However, when a famous Federation prosecutor soon oversteps reasonable bounds in her prosecution of her search, she soon begins to focus on Capt. Picard’s involvement, much to her detriment.
96 :04x22 - Half a Life
Writer: Peter Allan Fields
Director: Les Landau
Guest star: Michelle Forbes (Dara), David Ogden Stiers (Dr. Timicin), Terence McNally (B'Tardat), Carel Struycken (Mr. Homm), Majel Barrett (Lwaxana Troi), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien)
Stardate: 44805.3 Lwaxana Troi, while visiting the Enterprise, becomes smitten with a visiting alien scientist, only to learn his culture requires him to soon die, as he has reached the required limited age in their culture.
97 :04x23 - The Host
Writer: Michel Horvat
Director: Marvin V. Rush
Guest star: Nicole Orth-Pallavicini (Kareel), Robert Harper (Lathal Bine), William Newman (Kalin Trose), Barbara Tarbuck (Governor Leka Trion), Franc Luz (Ambassador Odan), Patti Yasutake (Alyssa Ogawa)
Stardate: 44821.3 Dr. Crusher’s romantic involvement with a Trill goes wrong when the Trill’s host dies. Riker agrees to act as a substitute host till the new host can arrive. However, can Riker’s body handle the Trill long enough till the new host arrives?
98 :04x24 - The Mind's Eye
Writer: René Echevarria
Director: David Livingston
Guest star: John Fleck (Taibak), Lawrence Dobkin (Ambassador Kell), Edward Wiley (Governor Vagh), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 44885.5 The Romulans capture and re-program Geordi to become an assassin.
99 :04x25 - In Theory
Writer: Joe Menosky, Ronald D. Moore
Director: Patrick Stewart
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Michele Scarabelli (Lt. Jenna D'Sora), Pamela Winslow (Ensign McKnight), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Rosalind Chao (Keiko O'Brien)
Stardate: 44932.3 Data finds himself in an unusual situation. He enters into a romantic relationship with crewmate Ensign Jenna D'Sora. Meanwhile, random objects keep getting knocked off their perch, as the Enterprise experiences what a more primitive culture would call a "poltergeist".
100 :04x26 - Redemption, Part I
Writer: Ronald D. Moore
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Gwynyth Walsh (B'Etor), Clifton Jones (Helmsman), Tom Ormeny (Klingon First Officer), J. D. Cullum (Toral), Ben Slack (K'Tal), Tony Todd (Kurn), Nicholas Kepros (General Movar), Denise Crosby (Commander Sela), Robert O'Reilly (Gowron), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Barbara March (Lursa), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 44995.3 As Picard attends the ascension of Gowron to the leadership of the Klingon Empire, Duras’ illegitimate son Toral challenges Gowron for leadership. This leads to a Klingon civil war. Worf must decide if he should join the struggle, and should he elicit the help of Kurn's, his brother, forces.
101 :05x01 - Redemption, Part II
Writer: Ronald D. Moore
Director: David Carson
Guest star: Gwynyth Walsh (B'Etor), Clifton Jones (Ensign Craig), Timothy Carhart (Lt. Cmdr. Christopher Hobson), Nicholas Kepros (General Movar), Jordan Lund (Kulge), Fran Bennett (Admiral Shanthi), Michael G. Hagerty (Captain Larg), Tony Todd (Kurn), Barbara March (Lursa), J. D. Cullum (Toral), Stephen James Carver (Helmsman), Denise Crosby (Commander Sela), Robert O'Reilly (Gowron), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 45020.4 With the Klingon Empire embroiled in a civil war, can Picard and the Federation protect against a possible Romulan support to one of the factions in the war?
Data also finds a reluctance to his taking over as captain of one of the blockade ships among the crew of that ship he is sent to command, as part of the Federation’s effort.
102 :05x02 - Darmok
Writer: Joe Menosky
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Guest star: Paul Winfield (Tamarian Captain), Ashley Judd (Ensign Lefler), Richard James (Tamarian First Officer), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien)
Stardate: 45047.2 Capt. Picard is sent to meet with a race the leaders of the Federation has been unable to communicate with, as their language has been deemed unintelligible. The leader he is to meet with turns out to be the Captain of a one of their starships, whom abducts Picard down to a planet which has a vicious alien predator with cloaking ability. Picard and the alien ship’s Captain must break through their communication problems and work with each other, if they are to survive the planet’s vicious predator.
103 :05x03 - Ensign Ro
Writer: Michael Piller
Director: Les Landau
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Harley Venton (Collins), Frank Collison (Gul Dolak), Ken Thorley (Mot), Cliff Potts (Admiral Kennelly), Jeffrey Hayenga (Orta), Scott Marlowe (Keeve Falor), Majel Barrett (Computer), Michelle Forbes (Ensign Ro Laren)
Stardate: 45076.3 A new Ensign is forced upon Capt. Picard. She has a bad history, but one of Starfleet’s Admirals forces the issue. She is sent to help Picard solve a new Maquis problem with the Cardassians. However, can Picard trust her? And is she really working toward the same Federation goal? Only time and events will tell, and the Starfleet Admiral’s goals come into question, too.
104 :05x04 - Silicon Avatar
Writer: Jeri Taylor
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Ellen Geer (Dr. Kila Marr), Susan Diol (Carmen Davila)
Stardate: 45122.3 Riker, Data, and Dr. Crusher are once again threatened by the Crystalline Entity while on a planet they were evaluating. Surviving the attack, and once back on Enterprise, they meet a visiting scientist who has been studying the Crystalline Entity.
It soon becomes apparent that the scientist is bent on the destruction of the Crystalline Entity at any cost, even while the Enterprise crew is determined to try to communicate with the structure.
105 :05x05 - Disaster
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Guest star: Jana Marie Hupp (Lt. Monroe), John Christian Graas (Jay Gordon), Erika Flores (Marissa Flores), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Rosalind Chao (Keiko O'Brien), Michelle Forbes (Ensign Ro Laren), Cameron Arnett (Ensign Mandel), Max Supera (Paterson Supra)
Stardate: 45156.1 Enterprise is hit by a quantum filament leaving the ship disabled and the crew in distress. Capt. Picard becomes trapped with three children, while Worf must deliver Keiko O'Brien’s baby in Ten Forward.
106 :05x06 - The Game
Writer: Brannon Braga
Director: Corey Allen
Guest star: Katherine Moffat (Etana Jol), Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher), Ashley Judd (Ensign Robin Lefler), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Diane M. Hurley (Ensign), Patti Yasutake (Alyssa Ogawa)
Stardate: 45208.2 In an effort to gain control over Enterprise, a visual video game is employed to control the crews’ minds. Wesley and another crewmate, who have not played the game, must save the crew from their game addiction.
107 :05x07 - Unification, Part I
Director: Les Landau
Guest star: Leonard Nimoy (Spock), Mark Lenard (Sarek), Stephen Root (Captain K'Vada), Daniel Roebuck (Jaron), Karen Hensel (Admiral Brackett), Mimi Cozzens (Soup Woman), Erick Avari (B'iJik), Malachi Throne (Senator Pardek), Graham Jarvis (Klim Dokachin), Joanna Miles (Perrin), Norman Large (Proconsul Neral), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 45236.4 When Ambassador Spock disappears and is then spotted on Romulus, Enterprise is sent to discover what Spock is up to, and possibly rescue him.
108 :05x08 - Unification, Part II
Writer: Michael Piller
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Leonard Nimoy (Spock), Stephen Root (Captain K'Vada), Daniel Roebuck (Jaron), Harriet Leider (Amarie), Vidal Peterson (D'Tan), Norman Large (Proconsul Neral), Malachi Throne (Senator Pardek), William Bastiani (Omag), Denise Crosby (Commander Sela), Susan Fallender (Romulan #2)
Stardate: 45245.8 Enterprise gets drawn into Ambassador Spock’s plan to seek a unification between the Romulans and the Vulcans. However, Spock may be being lead down a destructive path, through Romulan deception.
109 :05x09 - A Matter of Time
Writer: Rick Berman
Director: Paul Lynch
Guest star: Stefan Gierasch (Dr. Hal Moseley), Matt Frewer (Rasmussen), Shay Garner (Scientist), Sheila Franklin (Dr. Felton)
Stardate: 45349.1 A time traveling huckster tries to bamboozle the Enterprise crew.
110 :05x10 - New Ground
Writer: Sara Charno
Director: Robert Scheerer
Guest star: Richard McGonagle (Dr. J'Dar), Georgia Brown (Helena Rozhenko), Majel Barrett (Computer), Brian Bonsall (Alexander Rozhenko), Jennifer Edwards (Miss Kyle), Sheila Franklin (Ensign)
Stardate: 45376.3 Worf’s son returns to live his father, but when a new propulsion experiment goes awry, Alexander’s life is put in danger.
111 :05x11 - Hero Worship
Director: Patrick Stewart
Guest star: Joshua Harris (Timothy), Harley Venton (Hutchinson), Steven Einspahr (Teacher), Sheila Franklin (Ensign)
Stardate: 45397.3 When the Enterprise searches and finds a missing research vessel, they find a lone survivor. The survivor, a boy named Timothy, becomes the key to saving the Enterprise, now that it is stuck in the same predicament as the research vessel.
112 :05x12 - Violations
Writer: Pamela Gray
Director: Robert Wiemer
Guest star: Doug Wert (Lt. Cmdr. Jack Crusher), Eve Brenner (Inad), Craig Benton (Crewman Davis), Rick Fitts (Dr. Martin), David Sage (Tarmin), Ben Lemon (Jev), Majel Barrett (Computer), Rosalind Chao (Keiko O'Brien)
Stardate: 45429.3 When Enterprise transports a delegation of telepaths to Kaldra IV, several of the crew fall into comas. It appears that one of the delegates has broken his races' vow not to use their telepathy to harm others.
113 :05x13 - The Masterpiece Society
Writer: Adam Belanoff
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Guest star: Ron Canada (Martin Benbeck), Dey Young (Hannah Bates), John Snyder (Aaron Connor), Sheila Franklin (Ensign)
Stardate: 45470.1 Enterprise finds a secluded planetary colony in danger from a stellar core fragment. However, their contact leads some in the colony to want to leave with Enterprise. This could prove the demise to those that want to remain on the planet due to the limited population there.
114 :05x14 - Conundrum
Director: Les Landau
Guest star: Liz Vassey (Kristin), Erich Anderson (Cmdr. Kieran MacDuff), Erick Weiss (Crewman), Michelle Forbes (Ensign Ro Laren), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 45494.2 The Enterprise crew awakens with mass amnesia, only to find they have orders to destroy an enemy’s main space station.
115 :05x15 - Power Play
Director: David Livingston
Guest star: Patricia Tallman (Security Officer), Majel Barrett (Computer), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Rosalind Chao (Keiko O'Brien), Michelle Forbes (Ensign Ro Laren)
Stardate: 45571.2 When the Enterprise investigates the possible location of the missing Star Ship Essex on a desolate planet, several of the crews’ bodies are over taken by life forces, who have been trapped on the planet.
116 :05x16 - Ethics
Director: Chip Chalmers
Guest star: Caroline Kava (Dr. Toby Russell), Brian Bonsall (Alexander Rozhenko), Patti Yasutake (Alyssa Ogawa)
Stardate: 45587.3 When Worf is badly injured and paralyzed, a visiting surgeon suggests a radical operation to restore him. But can Dr. Crusher trust this surgeon’s untested ideas?
117 :05x17 - The Outcast
Writer: Jeri Taylor
Director: Robert Scheerer
Guest star: Melinda Culea (Soren), Megan Cole (Noor), Callan White (Krite)
Stardate: 45614.6 While on a rescue mission, Cmdr. Riker becomes enamored with a visitor from an androgynous race. Their relationship leads to that person being outcast by her people's race.
118 :05x18 - Cause and Effect
Writer: Brannon Braga
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Guest star: Kelsey Grammer (Captian Morgan Batestone), Michelle Forbes (Ensign Ro Laren), Patti Yasutake (Alyssa Ogawa)
Stardate: 45652.1 Enterprise finds it is in a time loop. However, in each time loop, the crew seems to remember a little bit more. Data turns out to be the key to resolving or stopping the constant time looping.
119 :05x19 - The First Duty
Writer: Ronald D. Moore, Naren Shankar
Director: Paul Lynch
Guest star: Robert Duncan McNeill (Cadet First Class Nicholas Locarno), Ed Lauter (Lt. Cmdr. Albert), Ray Walston (Boothby), Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher), Walker Brandt (Cadet Hajar), Richard Fancy (Captain Satelk), Jacqueline Brookes (Superintendant Admiral Brand), Shannon Fill (Cadet Second Class Sito), Richard Rothenberg (Cadet)
Stardate: 45703.9 Wesley gets caught up in a Starfleet Academy incident in which a fellow student dies. The question is, should Wesley remain silent to protect his team members, or reveal the truth to the investigating tribunal.
120 :05x20 - Cost of Living
Writer: Peter Allan Fields
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Guest star: David Oliver (Young Man), Patrick Cronin (Erko), Albie Selznick (Juggler), Tony Jay (Campio), Carel Struycken (Mr. Homn), Majel Barrett (Lwaxana Troi), Brian Bonsall (Alexander Rozhenko), George Ede (Poet), Christopher Halsted (First Learner), Tracey D'Arcy (Young Woman)
Stardate: 45733.6 Troi’s mother announces she is going to marry someone she hasn’t even met yet, and then also proceeds to interfere in Worf’s son’s upbringing.
121 :05x21 - The Perfect Mate
Writer: Gary Perconte
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Tim O'Connor (Briam), Famke Janssen (Kamala), Max Grodénchik (Par Lenor), Mickey Cottrell (Alrik), Roger Rignack (Miner #2), Charles Gunning (Miner #3), David Paul Needles (Miner #1), April Grace (Transporter Chief Hubbell), Michael Snyder (Qol), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 45761.3 When the stasis field she was being transported in is broken, Capt. Picard unfortunately becomes the imprint for a female empathic metamorph destined to be mate of another world leader, in hopes of resolving a long interplanetary war. The empathic metamorph is nearing the final stages of a permanent imprint, which will bond her forever to her mate. Picard's strength of character and resolve are tested as she places her inherent talents into focus on him.
122 :05x22 - Imaginary Friend
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Guest star: Sheila Franklin (Ensign Felton), Noley Thornton (Clara Sutter), Shay Astar (Isabella), Brian Bonsall (Alexander Rozhenko), Patti Yasutake (Alyssa Ogawa), Jeff Allin (Ensign Daniel Sutter)
Stardate: 45832.1 One of the children on Enterprise believes she has an imaginary friend. However, to the crews’ dismay, the imaginary friend turns out to be real, and trouble.
123 :05x23 - I, Borg
Writer: René Echevarria
Director: Robert Lederman
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Jonathan Del Arco (Hugh)
Stardate: 45854.2 Enterprise discovers a surviving Borg member from a crashed ship on a planet. Capt. Picard’s instinct is to kill the survivor, but as the Borg soon becomes an unconnected entity, known as “Hugh,” everything changes.
124 :05x24 - The Next Phase
Writer: Ronald D. Moore
Director: David Carson
Guest star: Susanna Thompson (Varel), Ken Meseroll (Ensign McDowell), Brian Cousins (Parem), Shelby Leverington (Transporter Chief Brossmer), Thomas Kopache (Mirok), Michelle Forbes (Ensign Ro Laren)
Stardate: 45092.4 The Enterprise responds to a Romulan ship’s distress call, and after surveying the ships damage, Ensign Ro and Lt. Geordi attempt to beam back, but they are then stuck in an out of phase state.
125 :05x25 - The Inner Light
Writer: Morgan Gendel
Director: Peter Lauritson
Guest star: Daniel Stewart (Young Batai), Richard Riehle (Batai), Scott Jaeck (Administrator), Margot Rose (Eline), Patti Yasutake (Alyssa Ogawa), Jennifer Nash (Meribor)
Stardate: 45944.1 An unassuming probe closes in on the Enterprise and causes Capt. Picard to lapse into a comatose state. To his perception, though, he has gained a life which he is living on a distant, comparatively primitive planet (no space travel) which is experiencing a catastrophic environmental disaster.
126 :05x26 - Time's Arrow, Part I
Writer: Joe Menosky
Director: Les Landau
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Marc Alaimo (Gambler/Frederick LaRouque), Jerry Hardin (Samuel Clemens), Milt Tarver (Scientist), Michael Hungerford (Roughneck), Barry Kivel (Doorman), Ken Thorley (Seaman), John M. Murdock (Beggar), Sheldon Peters (Falling Hawk), Michael Aron (Bellboy)
Stardate: 45959.1 The Enterprise is called back to Earth after an archeology team finds what appears to be Data’s head in an old excavation dating to 1890s San Francisco.
127 :06x01 - Time's Arrow, Part II
Director: Les Landau
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Mary Stein (Alien Nurse), Jerry Hardin (Samuel Clemens), William Boyett (Policeman), Michael Aron (Jack London), Pamela Kosh (Mrs. Carmichael), Van Epperson (Morgue Attendant), Bill Cho Lee (Male Patient), Alexander Enberg (Reporter), James Gleason (Dr. Appollinaire), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 46001.3 The crew finds that a strange alien race, in a different dimensional plane, are feeding on human essences from old San Francisco.
128 :06x02 - Realm of Fear
Writer: Brannon Braga
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Majel Barrett (Computer), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Patti Yasutake (Alyssa Ogawa), Dwight Schultz (Lt. Reginald "Reg" Barclay III), Thomas Velgrey (Crewman), Renata Scott (Admiral Hayes)
Stardate: 46041.1 When trying to rescue survivors from another trapped Starship, Barclay has a terrifying transporter experience. However, this terrifying experience may lead to the rescue of the others of the Starship's crew.
129 :06x03 - Man of the People
Writer: Frank Abatemarco
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Guest star: Stephanie Erb (Liva), J. P. Hubbell (Ensign), George D. Wallace (Admiral Simons), Susan French (Maylor), Charles Lucia (Ambassador Vel Alkar), Rick Scarry (Jarth), Lucy Boryer (Ensign Janeway), Majel Barrett (Computer Voice), Patti Yasutake (Alyssa Ogawa)
Stardate: 46071.6 The Enterprise comes to the rescue of another Federation ship, which carries a unique Lumerian ambassador and his elder female assistant, who are traveling to mediate a dispute in the Rekag-Seronia system. The Lumerian’s assistant takes an immediate dislike to Troi, but then soon dies. Strangely, Troi soon becomes attached to the Lumerian, and also shows signs of beginning to rapidly age.
130 :06x04 - Relics
Writer: Ronald D. Moore
Director: Alexander Singer
Guest star: James Doohan (Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott), Lanai Chapman (Ensign Sariel Rager), Erick Weiss (Ensign Kane), Majel Barrett (Computer), Ernie Mirich (Waiter), Stacie Foster (Engineer Bartel)
The Enterprise receives a distress signal from a 75 year old Federation vessel, and discovers it has crashed on a Dyson Sphere, an enormous structure where a shell is artificially created which surrounds a star at roughly the same distance as the earth is from the sun. Investigation of the crashed transport finds that one of the ship's passengers has actually survived the intervening time looped inside the ship's teleporter, and it turns out to be an old friend of the Enterprise...
131 :06x05 - Schisms
Director: Robert Wiemer
Guest star: John Nelson (Medical Technician), Lanai Chapman (Ensign Sariel Rager), Angelina Fiordellisi (Kaminer), Ken Thorley (Mot), Majel Barrett (Computer), Angelo McCabe (Crewman), Scott Trost (Lt. Shipley)
Stardate: 46154.2 The crew of the Enterprise become lab rats for a race of beings that exist in a different universe.
132 :06x06 - True Q
Writer: René Echevarria
Director: Robert Scheerer
Guest star: John P. Connolly (Lote), Olivia d'Abo (Amanda), John de Lancie (Q)
Stardate: 46192.3 Enterprise learns that a new crew member is really a member of the Q Continuum. However, she is unaware of her origins and her parents’ rebellion against the continuum. When Q arrives to determine if she should continue to exist or not, things get strange for the Enterprise crew, and the nascent Q.
133 :06x07 - Rascals
Director: Adam Nimoy
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Hana Hatae (Molly O'Brien), Megan Parlen (Young Ro Laren), Tracey Walter (Berik), Michael Snyder (Morik), David Birkin (Young Jean-Luc Picard), Morgan Nagler (Child #1), Mike Gomez (DaiMon Lurin), Majel Barrett (Computer), Brian Bonsall (Alexander Rozhenko), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Rosalind Chao (Keiko O'Brien), Michelle Forbes (Ensign Ro Laren), Caroline Junko King (Young Keiko O'Brien), Isis Jones (Young Guinan)
Stardate: 46235.7 After a transporter mishap changes Captain Picard, Ensign Ro, Keiko and Guinan back into physiological twelve year olds, while having no effect on their mental state. Things go even more wrong as a surprise Ferengi attack subdues the Enterprise's crew. Their apparent age, however, provides a substantial advantage in the effort to rescue the Enterprise from the Ferengi takeover.
134 :06x08 - A Fistful of Datas
Writer: Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Director: Patrick Stewart
Guest star: John Pyper-Ferguson (Eli Hollander), Joy Garrett (Annie), Majel Barrett (Computer), Brian Bonsall (Alexander Rozhenko), Jorge Cervera, Jr (Bandito)
Stardate: 46271.5 During some down time on the Enterprise, Geordi runs an experiment to see if Data has the memory capacity to act as a backup to the Enterprise’s memory banks in an emergency. However, system problems then occur. Meanwhile, as Worf, his son, and Troi enjoy time on the holodeck, things go wrong there too. Data appears as the villain in their old west setting, and Worf learns the holodeck safeties are off, and there is no way they can exit.
135 :06x09 - The Quality of Life
Writer: Naren Shankar
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Guest star: J. Downing (Transporter Chief), Ellen Bry (Dr. Farallon), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 46307.2 Capt. Picard and the crew must determine if certain mining machines qualify as “life forms,” and whether they can be sacrificed to save humans on the mining site, when an emergency arises.
136 :06x10 - Chain of Command, Part I
Director: Robert Scheerer
Guest star: Lou Wagner (Solok), David Warner (Gul Madred), John Durbin (Gul Lemec), Ronny Cox (Captain Jellico), Gul Lemec (Admiral Alynna Nechayev), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 46357.4 Capt. Picard is reassigned, and a new Captain joins Enterprise. Picard is assigned to lead a small Enterprise team on dangerous mission, while the new Captain causes great havoc among the remaining ship’s crew.
137 :06x11 - Chain of Command, Part II
Writer: Frank Abatemarco
Director: Les Landau
Guest star: David Warner (Gul Madred), Heather Lauren Olson (Jil Orra), John Durbin (Gul Lemec), Ronny Cox (Captain Jellico), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 46360.8 Capt. Picard is captured during his team’s secret mission, and is tortured by the Cardassians, as Riker faces being relieved of command, and then later being asked to lead a separate mission to stop the Cardassians.
138 :06x12 - Ship in a Bottle
Writer: René Echevarria
Director: Alexander Singer
Guest star: Daniel Davis (Professor Moriarty), Stephanie Beacham (Countess), Clement von Franckenstein (Gentleman), Majel Barrett (Computer), Dwight Schultz (Lt. Reginald "Reg" Barclay III)
Stardate: 46424.1 The self-aware holocharacter, Sherlock Holmes' arch-nemesis Professor Moriarty, created in season 2's Elementary, Dear Data (02x03), reappears on the holodeck when Lt. Barclay performs a diagnostic check. Moriarty is able to take control of the Enterprise, and demands that the love of his life, Countess Regina Barthalomew, be given the same cognisance he has been given. However, is this really his true goal?
139 :06x13 - Aquiel
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Renée Jones (Lt. Aquiel), Reg E. Cathey (Morag), Wayne Grace (Torak), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 46461.3 Enterprise must investigate the disappearance of two crewmen on a subspace relay station. The mystery depends when evidence is found that the Klingons may have been involved. The mystery deepens even further when the Klingons produce one of the presumed dead crewmen, Lt. Aquiel Uhnari, who claims she fled the station after being attacked by the other crewman. The answer to the mysterious disappearance or death of the remaining crewman puts Geordi’s life, and the rest of the crews’ life, at great risk.
140 :06x14 - Face Of The Enemy
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Guest star: Dennis Cockrum (Alien Captain), Scott MacDonald (N'Vek), Carolyn Seymour (Cmdr. Toreth), Pamela Winslow (Ensign McKnight), Robertson Dean (Pilot), Majel Barrett (Computer), Barry Lynch (Ensign DeSeve)
Stardate: 46519.1 Troi awakens to discover she has been surgically transformed to look like a Romulan, as part of a plan to aid the defection of several high ranking Vulcan officials.
141 :06x15 - Tapestry
Writer: Ronald D. Moore
Director: Les Landau
Guest star: Clint Carmichael (Nausicaan #1), Rende Rae Norman (Penny Muroc), J. C. Brandy (Marty Batanides), Ned Vaughn (Corey), Majel Barrett (Computer), John de Lancie (Q), Clive Church (Maurice Picard), Marcus Nash (Young Picard)
Stardate: (Unknown) Captain Picard is treated for a critical injury, which causes his artificial heart to fail and then appears to pass into the afterlife. There he finds Q waiting to greet him. Q provides Picard a chance to review and alter the events in his past which led to his having an artificial heart.
142 :06x16 - Birthright, Part I
Writer: Brannon Braga
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Guest star: Alexander Siddig (Dr. Julian Bashir), James Cromwell (Jaglom Shrek), Cristine Rose (Gi'ral), Jennifer Gatti (Ba'el), Richard Herd (L'Kor), Mark Allen Shepherd (Morn)
Stardate: 46578.4 Worf is told that his father was not killed in a battle 25 years ago, as he had previously thought, but was captured and taken to a distant Romulan penal colony. Meanwhile, Data experiences disturbing visions.
143 :06x17 - Birthright, Part II
Writer: René Echevarria
Director: Dan Curry
Guest star: Alan Scarfe (Tokath), James Cromwell (Shrek), Sterling Macer, Jr. (Toq), Richard Herd (L'Kor), Cristine Rose (Gi'ral), Jennifer Gatti (Ba'el)
Stardate: 46579.2 Worf discovers elderly Klingons are being held captive in a penal colony under the benevolent control of a Romulan governor.
144 :06x18 - Starship Mine
Writer: Morgan Gendel
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Patricia Tallman (Kiro), David Spielberg (Hutchinson), Tim De Zarn (Satler), Tim Russ (Devor), Alan Altshuld (Pomet), Tom Nibley (Neil), Arlee Reed (Waiter), Glenn Morshower (Orton), Marie Marshall (Kelsey), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 46682.4 Captain Picard uncovers a plot to steal the highly dangerous compound trilithium from the starship's engines while it is in dry-dock for a procedure that requires all personnel be evacuated due to its life-threatening radiation. Unable to escape the ship, he must defeat the plotters before they are all killed by the procedure. Meanwhile, the rest of the senior staff encounters problems of their own.
145 :06x19 - Lessons
Writer: Ronald Wilkerson, Jean Louise Matthias
Director: Robert Wiemer
Guest star: Wendy Hughes (Lt. Cmdr. Neela Darren), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 46693.1 Capt. Picard becomes romantically involved with a music loving Lieutenant, but finds he can’t handle the times he has to put her life at risk.
146 :06x20 - The Chase
Writer: Joe Menosky
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Guest star: Norman Lloyd (Professor Galen), Linda Thorson (Gul Ocett), John Cothran, Jr. (Captain Nu'Daq), Maurice Roëves (Romulan Captain), Salome Jens (Humanoid Progenitor), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 46731.5 Enterprise races against the Cardassians and the Klingons to find the answer to a universal riddle. Capt. Picard is driven to find the answer to the riddle, as one of his favorite mentors’ pursuit of this riddle has lead to his death.
147 :06x21 - Frame of Mind
Writer: Brannon Braga
Director: James L. Conway
Guest star: Susanna Thompson (Inmate), Andrew Prine (Administrator), David Selburg (Dr. Syrus), Gary Werntz (Mavek), Allan Dean Moore (Wounded Crew Member)
Stardate: 46778.1 Riker is put through the ringer when he is unable to discern if he is an insane patient on Tilonus IV, or is a member of the Enterprise crew performing a part in one of Dr. Crusher’s plays.
148 :06x22 - Suspicions
Writer: Joe Menosky, Naren Shankar
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), James Horan (Dr. Jo'Bril), John S. Ragin (Dr. Christopher), Peter Marx (Dr. Reyga), Tricia O'Neil (Dr. Kurak), Patti Yasutake (Alyssa Ogawa), Joan Stuart (Dr. T'Pan), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 46830.1 Dr. Crusher is relieved of her position when an experiment she supported, involving Doctor Reyga, a Ferengi scientist, results in a death of another scientist.
149 :06x23 - Rightful Heir
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Guest star: Kevin Conway (Kahless), Charles Esten (Divok), Norman Snow (Torin), Alan Oppenheimer (Koroth), Robert O'Reilly (Gowron), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 46852.2 The ancient Klingon leader Kahless appears after Worf, in a Klingon trance ritual, tries to see his vision. However, the question becomes whether this is the true Kahless, or is he an imposter.
150 :06x24 - Second Chances
Director: LeVar Burton
Guest star: Dr. Mae Jemison (Ensign Palmer), Jonathan Frakes (Lt. Thomas 'Tom' Riker)
Stardate: 46915.2 The Enterprise discovers a duplicate Riker, who was created during a transporter accident on Nervala IV. The duplicate Riker has survived all these years all alone on the planet. Now he must adjust to the fact his twin has excelled over those years.
151 :06x25 - Timescape
Writer: Brannon Braga
Director: Adam Nimoy
Guest star: Michael Bofshever (Romulan/Alien), Patricia Tallman (Female Romulan/Alien), John DeMita (Sickbay Romulan), Joel Fredericks (Engineering Ensign)
Stardate: 46944.2 While Capt. Picard, Troi, Geordi, and Data are traveling in a long-range shuttlecraft they experience several time dilation events. As they return to Enterprise, they find it frozen in time in an attack by a Romulan ship.
152 :06x26 - Descent, Part I
Director: Alexander Singer
Guest star: Stephen Hawking (Himself), John Neville (Sir Isaac Newton), Natalija Nogulich (Admiral Alynna Nechayev), Jim Norton (Albert Einstein), Brian Cousins (Crosis), Stephen James Carver (Tayar), Richard Gilbert-Hill (Bosus), Brent Spiner (Lore)
Stardate: 46982.1 A strangely different Borg, who shows unknown before seen emotions, kidnaps Data. Enterprise chases after the ship Data is taken on, through a vortex, which leads them to a strange planet.
153 :07x01 - Descent, Part II
Writer: René Echevarria
Director: Alexander Singer
Guest star: James Horan (Barnaby), Brian Cousins (Crosis), Alex Datcher (Taitt), Jonathan Del Arco (Hugh), Brent Spiner (Lore), Benito Martinez (Transporter Technician Salazar), Michael Reilly Burke (Goval)
Stardate: 47025.4 Several of the senior Enterprise crew is captured by Lore and the Borg that now follow him. Data has now also been “influenced” to join Lore’s plan. However, the Borg named Hugh, and the Borg that follow him, are trying to fight Lore too. Can the remaining Enterprise crew and Hugh and his team, who now hate the Enterprise crew, work together to stop Lore?
154 :07x02 - Liasons
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Paul Eiding (Loquel), Eric Pierpoint (Voval), Michael Harris (Byleth), Barbara Williams (Anna), Rickey D'Shon Collins (Boy)
Stardate: (Unknown) A cultural exchange between the Federation, represented by the Enterprise crew, and the Iyaarans representatives goes awry, leading to unexpected events, to the dismay of the Enterprise crew who are involved in the exchange.
155 :07x03 - Interface
Writer: Joe Menosky
Director: Robert Weimer
Guest star: Madge Sinclair (Capt. Silva La Forge), Ben Vereen (Commander Edward M. LaForge), Warren Munson (Admiral Holt)
Stardate: 47215.5 Geordi experiments with a machine which allows him to control a probe through brain-power alone, and then learns the technology could help save his long missing mother, and then disobeys Picard's orders in his attempt to rescue her. However, is this person really his missing mother?
156 :07x04 - Gambit, Part I
Writer: Naren Shankar
Director: Peter Lauritson
Guest star: Julie Caitlin Brown (Velor), Richard Lynch (Baran), Bruce Gray (Admiral Chekote), Alan Altshuld (Yranac), Robin Curtis (Tallera/T'Paal), Cameron Thor (Narik), Stephen Lee (Bartender), Derek Webster (Lieutenant Sanders), Sabrina Le Beauf (Ensign Giusti)
Stardate: 47135.2 Riker goes looking for Picard, who's failed to return from an archaeological trip - only to be told he's been killed / vaporized in a bar-room brawl. Unfortunately, Riker's attempt to bring the killers to justice leaves him in the clutches of ruthless mercenaries.
157 :07x05 - Gambit, Part II
Director: Alexander Singer
Guest star: Julie Caitlin Brown (Vekor), Richard Lynch (Baran), Sabrina Le Beauf (Ensign Guisti), Robin Curtis (Tallera/T'Paal), James Worthy (Koral), Martin Goslins (Commander Setok)
Stardate: 47160.1 The search for fragments of an ancient Vulcan super-weapon reaches its end, as Riker wins the mercenaries' confidence by helping them attack the Enterprise - but his reward is the order to kill Picard.
158 :07x06 - Phantasms
Writer: Brannon Braga
Director: Patrick Stewart
Guest star: Clyde Kusatsu (Admiral Nakamura), David L. Crowley (Workman), Bernard Kates (Sigmund Freud), Gina Ravera (Ensign Taylor)
Stardate: 47225.7 Data has a bad dream, which soon becomes a real-life nightmare for the Enterprise crew.
159 :07x07 - Dark Page
Writer: Hilary J. Bader
Director: Les Landau
Guest star: Kirsten Dunst (Hedrill), Amick Byram (Ian Andrew Troi), Norman Large (Maques), Majel Barrett (Lwaxana Troi), Andrea Weiner (Kestra)
Stardate: 47254.1 While welcoming a Carin delegation, Lwaxana is called on to help, as the Carin are a telepathic species without knowledge of spoken language. However, Lwaxana suddenly lapses into a coma. Troi must use the help of the Carin, who may have caused Lwaxana to lapse into her coma, to help save her mother.
But what is the dark secret her mother holds deep in her mind, and who is the child Lwaxana continues to see while in her coma?
160 :07x08 - Attached
Writer: Nick Sagan
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Guest star: Lenore Kasdorf (Lorin), Robin Gammell (Mauric), James Castle Stevens (Kes Aide)
Stardate: 47304.2 Capt. Picard and Dr. Crusher attempt to beam down to a planet where half the planet wants to join the Federation, and the other half, being xenophobes, don’t. Picard and Crusher then find themselves involved in the planet’s internal squabbles, as they are beamed instead to the xenophobes location, and then they find their lives in jeopardy, as they try to escape the xenophobes’ clutches.
161 :07x09 - Force of Nature
Writer: Naren Shankar
Director: Robert Lederman
Guest star: Lee Arenberg (DaiMon Prak), Margaret Reed (Dr. Serova), Michael Corbett (Dr. Rabal), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 47310.2 Enterprise is confronted with evidence that warp travel is in fact degrading areas of space. They learn this upon being sent to search for a missing Federation medical vessel.
The woman who has developed this theory and her brother turn out to also be the ones attacking and disabling warp capable ships traveling through their home area of space.
The crew of Enterprise must reluctantly join forces with the brother and sister team, in order to locate and rescue the crew of the missing medical ship.
162 :07x10 - Inheritance
Writer: Dan Koeppel
Director: Robert Scheerer
Guest star: Fionnula Flanagan (Juliana Tainer), William Lithgow (Pran)
Stardate: 47410.2 Enterprise travels to try to save the planet Atrea IV. One of the scientists they meet there surprises Data when she tells him she is in effect his Mother, as she was once married to Dr. Soong. However, Data soon gets an even bigger shock as he learns something about her even she doesn't know.
163 :07x11 - Parallels
Writer: Brannon Braga
Director: Robert Wiemer
Guest star: Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher), Patti Yasutake (Alyssa Ogawa), Mark Bramhall (Gul Nador), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 47391.2 Returning victorious from a Klingon Bat’leth competition, Worf must now deal with the fact it is his birthday, and the officers have thrown him a surprise party, against his expressed wishes. However, things become strange for Worf, as people at the party keep changing from being there to not being there, and vice versa. Worse, it now appears he placed second at the Bat’leth.
As events continue to change around him, Worf fights to find out what is happening and to find his way back to his true reality, and his Enterprise.
164 :07x12 - The Pegasus
Writer: Ronald D. Moore
Director: LeVar Burton
Guest star: Terry O'Quinn (Admiral Eric Pressman), Nancy Vawter (Admiral Blackwell), Michael Mack (Romulan Commander Sirol)
Stardate: 47457.1 The Enterprise is summoned by Starfleet Command to rendezvous with the Crazy Horse in order to bring aboard a person from Will Riker's past. The mission is to find the Pegasus, a ship that Riker had previously served aboard, and one that had been thought destroyed twelve years ago.
165 :07x13 - Homeward
Director: Alexander Singer
Guest star: Penny Johnson Jerald (Dobara), Paul Sorvino (Nikolai Rozhenko), Brian Markinson (Vorin), Edward Penn (Kateras), Susan Christy (Tarrana)
Stardate: 47423.9 Worf is reunited with his foster brother, Nikolai Rozhenko, when Nikolai sends out a distress call from the planet he is studying for the Federation. The planet he is monitoring is, unfortunately, in the process of becoming uninhabitable. When Picard refuses to relocate the pre-technological people there, due to the rules of the Prime Directive, Nikolai takes matters into his own hands, thus putting Worf right in the middle of his brother's actions.
166 :07x14 - Sub Rosa
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Guest star: Duncan Regehr (Ronin), Michael Keenan (Maturin), Shay Duffin (Quint), Ellen Albertini Dow (Felisa Howard)
Stardate: 47423.9 Dr. Crusher attends the funeral of her Grandmother, only to discover her Grandmother’s dark secret. However, will this secret subsume her as well? The crew must find a way to save her from the entity that controlled her Grandmother, if they are to get her back to staying on Enterprise.
167 :07x15 - Lower Decks
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Guest star: Dan Gauthier (Lavelle), Alexander Enberg (Taurik), Bruce Beatty (Ben), Shannon Fill (Sito Jaxa), Patti Yasutake (Alyssa Ogawa), Don Reilly (Joret)
Stardate: 47566.7 Crew evaluations on the lower decks cause several to worry about their impact on their advancement on the ship. Several of the crew who are close to each other share their concerns. However, one of the crew’s evaluation leads to a life threatening assignment.
168 :07x16 - Thine Own Self
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Guest star: Michael Rothhaar (Garvin), Michael G. Hagerty (Skoran), Kimberly Cullum (Gia), Ronnie Claire Edwards (Talur), Richard Miro (Ensign Rainer), Andrew Benne (Apprentice), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 47611.2 On a mission to recover radioactive debris from a probe that crashed on a pre-industrial planet, a mishap causes Data to lose his memory of his past. He is taken in by a local family, but soon many of the villagers start to show symptoms of radiation poisoning. It turns out Data brought the radioactive debris to the village without memory of its danger.
169 :07x17 - Masks
Writer: Joe Menosky
Director: Robert Wiemer
Guest star: Rickey D'Shon Collins (Eric Burton)
Stardate: 47615.2 A simple scan of a comet leads to the appearance of strange objects aboard Enterprise. Data is also invaded by a strange entity. Now, the crew must solve these onboard transfigurations, and the mystery of the comet, before they are unable to save the ship and themselves.
170 :07x18 - Eye of the Beholder
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Tim Lounibos (Lt. Kwan), Mark Rolston (Lt. Walter Pierce), Johanna McCloy (Ensign Calloway), Nancy Harewood (Lt. Nara), Nora Leonhardt (Marla E. Finn), Dugan Savoye (Lt. William Hodges)
Stardate: 47622.1 When a well adjusted crewman commits suicide for no reason, it is up to Troi and Worf to investigate the event. The investigation leads to Troi seeing things that are not really there, and to the events and people that were involved around the time of Enterprise’s construction.
171 :07x19 - Genesis
Writer: Brannon Braga
Director: Gates McFadden
Guest star: Patti Yasutake (Alyssa Ogawa), Dwight Schultz (Lt. Reginald "Reg" Barclay III), Majel Barrett (Computer), Carlos Ferro (Ensign Dern)
Stardate: 47653.2 After Data and Picard leave the ship on a long journey to retrieve an errant upgraded photon torpedo, they return to find the members of the crew are de-evolving into their prehistoric ancestors.
172 :07x20 - Journey's End
Writer: Ronald D. Moore
Director: Corey Allen
Guest star: Doug Wert (Lt. Cmdr. Jack Crusher), Richard Poe (Gul Evek), Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher), Eric Menyuk (The Traveler), Ned Romero (Anthwarta), Tom Jackson (Lakanta), Natalija Nogulich (Admiral Alynna Nechayev), George Aguilar (Wakasa)
Stardate: 47751.2 Capt. Picard is ordered to relocate a settlement of North American Indians located on a planet the Federation has ceded to the Cardassians. However, they refuse to leave, and Picard is forced to act against his own beliefs to get them off the planet.
Meanwhile, a moody and despondent Wesley transports down to the planet where he meets an odd villager who says he knows Wesley, and can help him with his troubled spirit.
173 :07x21 - Firstborn
Director: Jonathan West
Guest star: Gwynyth Walsh (B'Etor), Armin Shimerman (Quark), James Sloyan (K'Mtar), Barbara March (Lursa), Joel Swetow (Yog the Yridian), Brian Bonsall (Alexander Rozhenko), Colin Mitchell (Gorta), Michael Danek (Kahless Singer), Rickey D'Shon Collins (Eric Burton), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 47779.4 When Worf learns his son does not plan to be a warrior and will not take the Rite of Ascension as expected, he decides to take Alexander to see some Klingon culture. But once on the planet Maranga IV, they are set upon by three armed Klingons. But then a fourth Klingon appears, but he attacks the three, helping Worf out.
The helpful Klingon, named K’mtar, tells Worf that he is a friend of his family. He offers to help train Alexander to become a warrior. However, K’mtar turns out not to be who he appears to be.
174 :07x22 - Bloodlines
Writer: Nick Sagan
Director: Les Landau
Guest star: Lee Arenberg (DaiMon Bok), Peter Marx (Birta), Ken Olandt (Jason Vigo), Amy Pietz (Lieutenant Sandra Rhodes), Michelan Sisti (Tol), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 47829.1 Capt. Picard receives the disturbing news that he has a son he didn't know he had, and that someone who is seeking revenge on Picard plans to kill him. Picard learns this news from the person who is seeking revenge, as Picard is responsible for the death of his son. Picard must find the son he didn’t know he had, before the Ferengi DaiMon Bok can.
175 :07x23 - Emergence
Director: Cliff Bole
Guest star: Thomas Kopache (Engineer), David Huddleston (Conductor), Arlee Reed (Hayseed), Vinny Argiro (Hitman), Nick Dimitri (Taxi Driver), Dennis Tracey (Man in Flannel Gray Suit)
Stardate: 47869.2 When strange occurrences occur on Enterprise, the investigation leads to the Holodeck, and an independently running program there. A train is traveling to an unknown destination, which the train crew will not allow any deviation to be made. The Enterprise crew soon learns that all these events are related to the emergence of a strange new life form which may endanger Enterprise.
176 :07x24 - Preemptive Strike
Director: Patrick Stewart
Guest star: Richard Poe (Gul Evek), Michelle Forbes (Lieutenant Ro Laren), Natalija Nogulich (Admiral Alynna Nechayev), Shannon Cochran (Kalita), William Thomas, Jr. (Santos), John Franklin (Macias)
Stardate: 47941.7 Ro Laren is put in the uncomfortable position of helping the Federation help the Cardassians fight the Maquis, by acting as a infiltrator to the Maquis. However, can the Federation trust she will follow through with their plan? They find the answer not to their liking.
177 :07x25 - All Good Things... (1)
Writer: Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Guest star: Andreas Katsulas (Tomalak), Clyde Kusatsu (Admiral Nakamura), John de Lancie (Q), Denise Crosby (Lt. Tasha Yar), Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien), Patti Yasutake (Alyssa Ogawa), Martha Hackett (Alien Captain), Stephen Matthew Garvin (Ensign), Tim Kelleher (Lieutenant Gaines), Pamela Kosh (Jessel), Alison Brooks (Ensign Nell Chilton), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 47988.1 Capt. Picard finds he is awakening in different time periods; traveling back and forth through his past and his yet unknown future. Q appears to be involved, but only in a observer kind of role. There is something Picard must do during these time slips, and if he fails, all of humanity will cease to ever have ever existed.
178 :07x26 - All Good Things... (2)
Writer: Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Guest star: John de Lancie (Q), Denise Crosby (Lt. Tasha Yar), Colm Meaney (Chief Miles O'Brien), Andreas Katsulas (Tomalak), Patti Yasutake (Alyssa Ogawa), Clyde Kusatsu (Admiral Nakamura), Pamela Kosh (Jessel), Tim Kelleher (Lieutenant Gaines), Alison Brooks (Ensign Nell Chilton), Majel Barrett (Computer)
Stardate: 47988.1 Capt. Picard finds he is awakening in different time periods; traveling back and forth through his past and his yet unknown future. Q appears to be involved, but only in a observer kind of role. There is something Picard must do during these time slips, and if he fails, all of humanity will cease to ever have ever existed.