Top 25 Favourite Star Trek: The Next Generation Episodes
by baileycrckr | created - 01 Nov 2016 | updated - 01 Nov 2016 | PublicThe definitive list of my favourite tng episodes.
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1.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Inner Light
(1992)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Picard awakes to find himself living in a small village where he is a well-known member of the community who is suffering from a delusion of being a starship captain.
Director: Peter Lauritson | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 8,254
2.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Best of Both Worlds: Part 1
(1990)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Responding to a distress call on one of the Federation's outer-most colonies, the Enterprise arrives...only to find a big hole in the ground where the town used to be, and discovers the Borg are behind the attack.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 5,791
3.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Best of Both Worlds: Part 2
(1990)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Having absorbed Captain Picard and his knowledge, the Borg head for Earth, leaving Riker and the Enterprise desperate for an unanticipated way to defeat them.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 5,423
4.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
I Borg
(1992)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Enterprise finds a lone Borg drone, separated from the collective, and brings him aboard. The drone begins to reassert his individuality, but his presence causes differing levels of fear and sympathy from various crew members.
Director: Robert Lederman | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 4,320
5.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Chain of Command, Part II
(1992)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
While the humorless Captain Jellico leads the effort to prevent a Cardassian invasion, Picard is captured and tortured by a ruthless interrogator in an attempt to break him.
Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 4,005
6.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Parallels
(1993)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
On his return from a bat'leth competition in the Klingon Empire, Worf finds himself shifting realities where events and details are in a constant state of flux and only he is aware of the changes.
Director: Robert Wiemer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,839
7.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Deja Q
(1990)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Much to Picard's displeasure, Q reappears on the Enterprise, claiming to have been ejected from the Q Continuum, and therefore, lost his powers.
Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 4,280
8.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Tapestry
(1993)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When Captain Picard's artificial heart fails, he is offered the rare opportunity to go back in time and set right the mistake that led to his demise.
Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 4,294
9.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Lessons
(1993)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Picard falls for the new head of the stellar science services department, but has feelings of misgivings when he's forced to assign her to a dangerous mission.
Director: Robert Wiemer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,205
10.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Who Watches the Watchers
(1989)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A proto-Vulcan culture worships Captain Picard and prepares to offer Counselor Troi as a sacrifice.
Director: Robert Wiemer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 4,374
11.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Captain's Holiday
(1990)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After mediating a difficult trade agreement, Captain Picard is encouraged to take a much needed rest on a vacationing planet, where he's visited by a strange race from the future, in search of a dangerous weapon.
Director: Chip Chalmers | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,593
12.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Where No One Has Gone Before
(1987)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Everyone accurately pegs a visiting propulsion scientist as a charlatan, but only Wesley Crusher recognizes his alien assistant as the real deal.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby
Votes: 4,570
13.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
All Good Things...
(1994)
TV-PG | 105 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Capt. Picard finds himself shifting continually into the past, future and present and must use that to discover a threat to humanity's existence.
Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 9,255
14.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Relics
(1992)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Enterprise stumbles upon a Dyson sphere, with a ship crashed on the outer surface. An away team finds some systems still powered up and the chief engineer from the old Enterprise, Montgomery Scott, locked in the transporter cycle.
Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,931
15.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Time's Arrow, Part II
(1992)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Captain Picard and crew follow Data back to the late 1800s to get him back, only to find the suspected alien visitors killing people of that time.
Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,647
16.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Drumhead
(1991)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A retired admiral boards the Enterprise in an effort to determine the actions aboard the ship surrounding an act of sabotage and possible treason.
Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 4,189
17.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Lower Decks
(1994)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A mission of the Enterprise is seen through the eyes of some junior officers who are up for promotions, as questions of duty and honor arise among some of them, such as a Bajoran whom Worf has designated to be promoted to operations.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 4,153
18.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Frame of Mind
(1993)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Riker begins to question reality when he finds himself in an alien insane asylum and faces the prospect his life on the Enterprise has been a delusion.
Director: James L. Conway | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,415
19.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Yesterday's Enterprise
(1990)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Enterprise C enters the Enterprise D's time and space continuum, where they find Picard and crew in a constant state of war with the Klingons, and only Guinan knows it.
Director: David Carson | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 6,048
20.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Measure of a Man
(1989)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When Data resigns his commission rather than be dismantled for examination by an inadequately skilled scientist, a formal hearing is convened to determine whether Data is considered property without rights or is a sentient being.
Director: Robert Scheerer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 6,229
21.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Darmok
(1991)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Picard must learn to communicate with a race that speaks in metaphor under a difficult set of circumstances.
Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 5,077
22.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Pegasus
(1994)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Riker finds out his former commander from the starship Pegasus has orders that entail more than what is revealed to Picard, who thinks the Enterprise is en route to recover the lost ship. And Riker is ordered to secrecy.
Director: LeVar Burton | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,415
23.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Cause and Effect
(1992)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Enterprise gets caught in a time loop which always has one result: total destruction of the ship, itself.
Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 4,758
24.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Ship in a Bottle
(1993)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Lt. Barclay mistakenly awakes Moriarty in the forgotten holodeck program, who then makes his demands clear and unforgettable.
Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,652
25.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
First Contact
(1991)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Disguised as an alien prior to First Contact, Will's life becomes imperiled when incurred injuries reveal his foreign internal structure to a xenophobic alien population.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,726
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