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- 1987–19941h 32mTV-PG6.9 (7.3K)TV EpisodeDirectorCorey AllenStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonOn the maiden mission of the U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC-1701-D), an omnipotent being known as Q challenges the crew to discover the secret of a mysterious base in an advanced and civilized fashion.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG6.3 (4.2K)TV EpisodeDirectorRichard A. CollaStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe Enterprise makes a confrontational first contact with the piratical Ferengi race as their two ships are ensnared by a presumed dead planet ready to judge them.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG7.5 (4.6K)TV EpisodeDirectorRob BowmanStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonEveryone accurately pegs a visiting propulsion scientist as a charlatan, but only Wesley Crusher recognizes his alien assistant as the real deal.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG6.3 (3.8K)TV EpisodeDirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhile distracted by two antithetical races applying for Federation membership, the Enterprise picks up a sentient entity that can alternately possess either man or machinery.
- DirectorJames L. ConwayStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonOn an alien planet, young Wesley Crusher commits a transgression - small by our standards but mandatorily punishable by death in theirs.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonBeware Ferengi bearing gifts. Capt. Picard receives the Stargazer, a ship considered lost that he once commanded.
- DirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe Enterprise encounters Q again, and he tempts Riker by endowing him with the powers of the Q.
- DirectorJoseph L. ScanlanStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonCaptain Picard and some of his crew are caught in a deadly trap in the holodeck as the result of a ship-wide scan from an alien race.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe Enterprise visits the planet where Data was created and discovers another android like him, but when he's assembled, he's not exactly like him.
- DirectorPaul LynchStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe Enterprise docks at a starbase for repairs where it is commandeered by a race of technologically-linked aliens intent on using the vessel for their own purposes.
- DirectorMichael VejarStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonPicard finds himself facing a strenuous test of his loyalty to Starfleet, one which the other members of the crew are struggling to cope with, whilst Wesley faces an equally challenging entrance exam at Starfleet Academy.
- DirectorJoseph L. ScanlanStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonCounselor Troi is held captive on a deserted planet by a slick, black, oily, sentient and immortal puddle of evil.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG6.5 (3.5K)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert BeckerStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonA scientist's experiment in time goes awry, reuniting Picard with an old flame, now married to the scientist.
- DirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonAfter diverting to a secret meeting with an old friend and some of Starfleet's finest commanders, Picard finds the Horatio blown to bits just hours after the meeting and he returns the Enterprise to Earth looking for answers.
- 1987–199446mTV-PG7.4 (3.9K)TV EpisodeDirectorJames L. ConwayStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhile assigned to investigate missing outposts in the Neutral Zone, the Enterprise revives three cryogenically frozen people found aboard a wayward derelict Earth vessel.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG7.0 (3.7K)TV EpisodeDirectorWinrich KolbeStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe Enterprise encounters a mysterious void in space and when they move in closer to investigate further, it envelops them and they can't get out.
- 1987–199446mTV-PG8.1 (4.4K)TV EpisodeDirectorRob BowmanStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonAn attempt to provide Data with a challenging Sherlock Holmes holodeck program backfires when its Professor Moriarty character accidentally becomes self-aware.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG6.5 (3.6K)TV EpisodeDirectorLarry ShawStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe crew ferries a deaf mediator to Solais V to negotiate an end to a civil war.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG8.1 (4K)TV EpisodeDirectorRob BowmanStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonUnder an Officers Exchange Program, Riker serves aboard a Klingon ship, whose aging captain seeks an unwarranted bloody retaliation for suspected Enterprise treachery.
- 1987–199446mTV-PG9.1 (6.3K)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert ScheererStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhen 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.
- DirectorJoseph L. ScanlanStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonEncountering the superior technology of a very ancient race creates system malfunctions for a doomed Federation starship, for the Enterprise, and for an eavesdropping Romulan warbird.
- DirectorJoseph L. ScanlanStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe Enterprise comes across its own shuttlecraft adrift in space - a duplicate - with an unconscious duplicate Capt. Picard inside.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonQ tries to prove that Picard needs him as part of their crew by hurling the Enterprise 7,000 light years away where they encounter the Borg for the first time.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG7.7 (3.6K)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert ScheererStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe crew of the Enterprise participates in war games.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG7.4 (3.7K)TV EpisodeDirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonAfter 111 years of silence, an extremely litigious alien race asserts its agreed upon right to wipe out a Federation colony in its territory.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG8.0 (4.4K)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert WiemerStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonA proto-Vulcan culture worships Captain Picard and prepares to offer Counselor Troi as a sacrifice.
- DirectorGabrielle BeaumontStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe Enterprise triggers an ancient yet effective trap left by an extinct race, with a perfectly preserved derelict ship serving as cheese for Picard.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG6.5 (3.2K)TV EpisodeDirectorTimothy BondStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe Enterprise pursues a race of "gatherers" who continue to raid Federation outposts, unaware of the dangers lurking among them.
- DirectorRobert ScheererStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhen a Romulan officer defects to the Federation with a warning of a impending invasion, Capt. Picard struggles to decide if he is to be believed.
- DirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonMuch to Picard's displeasure, Q reappears on the Enterprise, claiming to have been ejected from the Q Continuum, and therefore, lost his powers.
- 1987–199446mTV-PG9.2 (6.1K)TV EpisodeDirectorDavid CarsonStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe 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.
- DirectorJonathan FrakesStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonAfter returning from a cybernetics conference to the Enterprise, Data creates his own "child," much to the chagrin of his captain, and without regards to the ramifications with Starfleet.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG8.2 (3.8K)TV EpisodeDirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonA Klingon commander comes aboard the Enterprise in an officer exchange program initiated by Starfleet, much to the chagrin of the crew.
- 1987–199446mTV-PG7.7 (3.6K)TV EpisodeDirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonA shy member of the "Enterprise" crew becomes addicted to the holodeck, where relationships are easier than in real life, when his knowledge is needed in engineering.
- DirectorTimothy BondStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhen transporting a dangerous material to the Enterprise, Data is kidnapped and the crew is led to believe he is dead when the shuttlecraft he was piloting explodes en route.
- DirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonLegendary Federation ambassador Sarek visits the Enterprise to conclude peace talks with a race called the Legarans. His arrival is accompanied with a rash of unusual emotional outbursts among the crew.
- 1987–199446mTV-PG6.9 (3.1K)TV EpisodeDirectorTom BenkoStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe Enterprise finds a deserted planet where a ship has crashed, and, with it, the lone survivor with no memory, but extraordinary healing powers.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG9.3 (5.8K)TV EpisodeDirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonResponding 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.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG9.2 (5.4K)TV EpisodeDirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonHaving absorbed Captain Picard and his knowledge, the Borg head for Earth, leaving Riker and the Enterprise desperate for an unanticipated way to defeat them.
- DirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonAfter defeating the Borg, the crew of the Enterprise experiences shore leave in various ways. Captain Picard's return to his family's vineyard in France has some extraordinary repercussions.
- DirectorRob BowmanStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonAfter an accident aboard the Enterprise leaves one of its children in grave danger, Data commandeers the Enterprise, driven to take the ship to an unknown origin, where an interesting figure awaits.
- DirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonDr. Crusher's fear of losing loved ones becomes real when her worries create an alternate reality.
- DirectorJonathan FrakesStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhen the leader of the Klingon High Council dies, Picard finds himself in the middle of the struggle for the now-vacant position. Meanwhile, Worf reunites with a past love, only to find he now has a son.
- 1987–199446mTV-PG7.7 (3.6K)TV EpisodeDirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonRiker awakens sixteen years after an away mission where he contracted a disease which destroyed his memory back to the point of infection - or so he's told.
- DirectorRobert WiemerStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonData tries to comprehend the complex emotions between O'Brien and Keiko, who are about to be married.
- DirectorChip ChalmersStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonAfter being fired upon by a Cardassian vessel, Picard races against time to find out the facts behind the Cardassian commander's claim that the Federation attacked one of their outposts.
- DirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonEffects of passing through a wormhole give the Enterprise crew a sense that they were unconscious for more than the thirty seconds they've been led to believe.
- DirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonDisguised 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.
- DirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe Enterprise gets trapped in a Tyken's Rift, an energy-absorbing rupture in space, where all but Data, Troi and Guinan experience rising hallucinations and paranoia.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG7.9 (3.6K)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert LegatoStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhen assigned to investigate an unknown probe, Lt. Barclay is hit by an energy surge, through a shuttlecraft's computer, and he receives an inexplicable boost of confidence and a vast increase in his knowledge.
- DirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonAiming to get out of Jean-Luc's debt, Q forces Capt. Picard and his officers to live out the Legend of Robin Hood - with a past acquaintance as Maid Marian.
- DirectorJonathan FrakesStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonA retired admiral boards the Enterprise in an effort to determine the actions aboard the ship surrounding an act of sabotage and possible treason.
- DirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonCounselor Troi's mother visits the Enterprise and becomes infatuated with a man whose culture forces him into a suicidal ritual called "The Resolution."
- 1987–199445mTV-PG7.7 (3.2K)TV EpisodeDirectorDavid LivingstonStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonGeordi is brainwashed by the Romulans to start a war between the Klingons and the Federation.
- DirectorPatrick StewartStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhen a female crew member is infatuated with Lieutenant Commander Data, he decides to give a romantic relationship a try. Also, the Enterprise finds itself having to maneuver through a dangerous nebula.
- DirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonBoth Captain Picard and Lt. Worf must decide where their priorities lie as the Klingon Empire descends into a bitter civil war.
- DirectorDavid CarsonStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonAs Worf fights in the Klingon Civil War, Captain Picard and his crew must stop the Romulans from helping their pawns achieve victory.
- DirectorGabrielle BeaumontStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonCollision with a quantum filament leaves Troi in charge of a damaged and endangered Enterprise with emergency bulkheads cutting off sections of the ship.
- DirectorCorey AllenStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWesley Crusher returns to the Enterprise on vacation from the Academy only to discover a mysterious alien game infiltrating and controlling the crew.
- DirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonPicard and Data follow Spock into Romulan space on a dangerous mission.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG8.3 (3.5K)TV EpisodeDirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonOn Romulus, Picard finds Spock, as well as an underground peace movement, a double agent, a bold ulterior motive against the Federation, and a familiar adversary.
- DirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhen an approaching alien ship wipes their memory, the crew struggles to put back together what happened.
- DirectorDavid LivingstonStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonA long-lost ship is found on a planet where cosmic storms prevented detection for 200 years. When a surface landing goes wrong, the away team is beamed back...with a few extra surprises.
- 1987–199446mTV-PG8.9 (4.8K)TV EpisodeDirectorJonathan FrakesStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe Enterprise gets caught in a time loop which always has one result: total destruction of the ship, itself.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG7.8 (3.4K)TV EpisodeDirectorPaul LynchStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWesley Crusher's team has an accident at Starfleet Academy. Picard offers to help a Starfleet investigation as to what happened, and begins to suspect they are hiding something.
- DirectorRobert LedermanStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe 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.
- 1987–199446mTV-PG8.3 (3.5K)TV EpisodeDirectorDavid CarsonStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonA transporter malfunction, combined with a Romulan ship under stress and a damaged cloaking device, creates the illusion that Ensign Ro and Geordi are dead, but Geordi doesn't believe it to be so, and he acts accordingly.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG9.4 (8.3K)TV EpisodeDirectorPeter LauritsonStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonPicard 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.
- DirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonCaptain Picard and his archaeological curiosity are called upon by scientists from Earth when they find evidence to support beliefs that aliens had visited Earth in the late 1800s.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG8.2 (3.7K)TV EpisodeDirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonCaptain 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.
- DirectorAlexander SingerStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe 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.
- DirectorRobert WiemerStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonCommander Riker's inability to fall asleep begins to show in other members of the crew in other forms, putting the Enterprise on the trail of a mystery.
- DirectorRobert ScheererStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhen an honor student in the medical field is assigned to the Enterprise in an internship manner, she begins to demonstrate powers of the Q, prompting you-know-who to show up.
- 1987–199446mTV-PG7.4 (3.2K)TV EpisodeDirectorPatrick StewartStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhile the crew is experiencing some much needed down time, Worf and his son go on an Old West excursion in the holodeck, where they meet several versions of Data serving as the bad guy after an experiment in Engineering goes wrong.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG7.4 (2.9K)TV EpisodeDirectorJonathan FrakesStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhen Geordi is assigned to survey a new mining development with Dr. Farallon, who invented an experimental mining technology, she uses a new sophisticated robot called an Exocomp to repair a power grid.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG8.3 (3.7K)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert ScheererStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonPicard is replaced as captain of the Enterprise so he, Lt. Worf and Dr. Crusher go on a top-secret mission into Cardassian space. Meanwhile, his replacement, Captain Jellico, meets his new command with some resistance from the crew.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG8.9 (4K)TV EpisodeDirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhile 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.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG8.5 (3.7K)TV EpisodeDirectorAlexander SingerStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonLt. Barclay mistakenly awakes Moriarty in the forgotten holodeck program, who then makes his demands clear and unforgettable.
- DirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhen 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.
- 1987–199446mTV-PG7.5 (3K)TV EpisodeDirectorWinrich KolbeStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhile visiting Deep Space 9, a Yridian tells Worf his father lives, and a discharge from an alien device puts Data in a dream state where he meets his own father.
- DirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhen the Enterprise puts in to space dock for an energy sweep of the ship which is lethal to humans, Picard gets trapped on board with technicians who are not what they appear to be.
- DirectorJames L. ConwayStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonRiker 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.
- DirectorWinrich KolbeStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonDuring Worf's crisis of faith on Boreth, Kahless the Unforgettable makes his promised legendary return, but Klingon leader Gowron challenges his authenticity.
- DirectorAdam NimoyStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonAboard a shuttlecraft and en route back to the Enterprise, Picard, LaForge, Data, and Troi find themselves trapped in a time trap of some sort, where the Enterprise is being taken over by Romulans, and the ship, itself, on a course of destruction.
- DirectorAlexander SingerStarsJohn NevilleJim NortonNatalija NogulichAfter an encounter with the Borg, Data feels his first emotion when he gets angry with the Borg. Data then tries to find ways to recreate the situation in order to feel emotions again, whilst the Enterprise investigates the Borg activity, and are bewildered as to why they feel emotions too.
- 1987–199446mTV-PG7.7 (3.1K)TV EpisodeDirectorAlexander SingerStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonBefore Lore can run risky experiments on Geordi, Troi and Picard, the three seek a way to re-boot Data's ethical program that Lore switched off to pull Data to his side.
- DirectorPatrick StewartStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonData deals with his new ability to experience nightmares as the Enterprise deals with the installation of a new warp core that won't work as expected.
- DirectorRobert WiemerStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonOn 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.
- DirectorGabrielle BeaumontStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonA 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.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG7.8 (3.1K)TV EpisodeDirectorWinrich KolbeStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonData is sent to follow a probe that has drifted off course and crashed on a primitive planet, only to crash on the planet himself, with no memory of any event prior to crashing on the planet's surface.
- 1987–19941h 45mTV-PG9.1 (9.3K)TV EpisodeDirectorWinrich KolbeStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonCapt. Picard finds himself shifting continually into the past, future and present and must use that to discover a threat to humanity's existence.