Star Trek: best of The Next Generation
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1.
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
2.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
11001001
(1988)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The 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.
Director: Paul Lynch | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Denise Crosby
Votes: 4,087
3.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Where Silence Has Lease
(1988)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The 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.
Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,692
4.
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
5.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Contagion
(1989)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Encountering 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.
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,559
6.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Time Squared
(1989)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The Enterprise comes across its own shuttlecraft adrift in space - a duplicate - with an unconscious duplicate Capt. Picard inside.
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,682
7.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Q Who
(1989)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Q 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.
Director: Rob Bowman | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 5,068
8.
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: 4,375
9.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Bonding
(1989)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A startling surprise awaits the crew of the Enterprise when a mission costs the life of a crew member, who left her son behind.
Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,411
10.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Enemy
(1989)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
La Forge gets left behind on a storm-plagued planet when the rest of his team encounters a Romulan warrior.
Director: David Carson | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,586
11.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Hunted
(1990)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Investigating a planet applying for membership into the Federation, the crew of the Enterprise finds a group of inhabitants who used to be soldiers, but now fight for their very existence.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,514
12.
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
13.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Offspring
(1990)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After 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.
Director: Jonathan Frakes | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 4,576
14.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Sins of the Father
(1990)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A Klingon commander comes aboard the Enterprise in an officer exchange program initiated by Starfleet, much to the chagrin of the crew.
Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,755
15.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Allegiance
(1990)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Picard is kidnapped and held with three different aliens and meanwhile replaced with a replica as impostor captain.
Director: Winrich Kolbe | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,428
16.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Most Toys
(1990)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When 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.
Director: Timothy Bond | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,567
17.
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
18.
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
19.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Remember Me
(1990)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Dr. Crusher's fear of losing loved ones becomes real when her worries create an alternate reality.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,826
20.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Future Imperfect
(1990)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Riker 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.
Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,633
21.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Data's Day
(1991)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Data tries to comprehend the complex emotions between O'Brien and Keiko, who are about to be married.
Director: Robert Wiemer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,818
22.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
The Wounded
(1991)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After 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.
Director: Chip Chalmers | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,614
23.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Clues
(1991)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Effects 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.
Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,834
24.
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
25.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Night Terrors
(1991)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
The 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.
Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,219
26.
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
27.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Conundrum
(1992)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When an approaching alien ship wipes their memory, the crew struggles to put back together what happened.
Director: Les Landau | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,585
28.
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
29.
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
30.
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
31.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Chain of Command, Part I
(1992)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Picard 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.
Director: Robert Scheerer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,660
32.
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: 4,006
33.
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
34.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Starship Mine
(1993)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
When 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.
Director: Cliff Bole | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,256
35.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Timescape
(1993)
TV-PG | 45 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Aboard 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 ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Nimoy | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,383
36.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Gambit, Part I
(1993)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
While investigating the apparent death of Capt. Picard, Riker is abducted by a group of intergalactic archaeological thieves, only to find Picard has apparently joined their ranks.
Director: Peter Lauritson | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,024
37.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994)
Episode:
Gambit, Part II
(1993)
TV-PG | 46 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Riker and Picard must find out why this intergalactic gang is looting archaeological sites.
Director: Alexander Singer | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn
Votes: 3,017
38.
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
39.
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
40.
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
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