The best episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation
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- 01
After Picard refuses to let Q join the crew, Q hurls the Enterprise into a far quadrant of space where they have a encounter with a unknown cybernetic race. A little bit of Guinan's past is revealed when she senses something is wrong on board Enterprise.
- 02
The Borg advance their plans to assimilate the human race by kidnapping Picard and making him into their spokesman.
- 03
The Best of Both Worlds Part II
Riker is torn between saving Picard or humanity when the Borg plan to use the abducted captain in their scheme to destroy Earth and turn him into Locutus.
- 04
Picard's nemesis Q, claiming to have lost his powers, appears on the Enterprise.
- 05
When returning to the Enterprise, Picard, Data, Troi and Geordi find that the Enterpise is frozen in time with a Romulan ship and in the middle of a core breach.
- 06
A first-contact mission puts Riker in an alien hospital, leaving Picard to convince the planet's leaders that the Enterprise poses no threat.
- 07
The Enterprise discovers a Dyson Sphere, in the process they discover a disabled ship that still has a crew member on board. When beaming over to the ship, Jordi discovers Montgomery "Scottie" Scott in the transporter system of the ship.
- 08
Captain Picard's secret mission fails, leading to him being captured by Cardassians. As he is tortured by his captors, Captain Jellico and theEnterpriseattempt to prevent war with the Cardassian Union.
- 09
An Enterprise from the past breaks through a time rift, altering the course of history.
- 10
Upon investigating a newly discovered Class M planet, the crew are knocked unconscious. Data claims that they had only lost 30 seconds, but the crew begin to discover clues that Data may be lying about more than just that small detail.
- 11
Spock proceeds with his quest for the reunification of Vulcan and Romulans even though he and Picard are suspicious of Romulan motives.
- 12
An encounter with a injured adolescent Borg gives Picard the opportunity to remove the Borg threat forever.
- 13
Captain Picard finds himself travelling between the past, present and future, but discovers he may be responsible for the end of mankind.
- 14
Picard and Data follow Spock on an unauthorized mission to Romulus.
- 15
Data is transported back in time to 19th century San Francisco, where he hopes to solve the mystery of his death after a Enterprise away team finds Data's head buried in a cave.
- 16
Picard, Worf, and Dr. Crusher are reassigned from the Enterprise to a secret mission. Meanwhile, the Enterprise is under the command of Captain Edward Jellico, who immediately starts making changes, much to the dismay of the crew.
- 17
Troi wakes up as a Romulan intelligence officer much to her surprise. She then finds out that it is part of a elaborate scheme for Romulan dissident's to defect.
- 18
The Enterprise encounters a ancient capsule containing cryogenically frozen people from 20th Century Earth. Data then brings them on board while the Enterprise is on its way to investigate a series of destroyed Federation outposts at the edge of the Romulan/Federation Neutral zone. The Enterprise soon encounters a Romulan Warbird after the Romulans presence being long absent.
- 19
Captain Picard and the crew visit a isolate planet that is the home to two people who lived through a devastating attack. Picard then begins to suspect that all is not as it seems when the Enterprise is repeatedly attacked by a unknown ship.
- 20
When a secret Federation observation post is accidentally revealed, a primitive culture ends up worshiping Picard as a god and prepares to sacrifice Troi to appease him.
- 21
When Doctor Crusher leaps into another dimension of reality, Enterprise crew members mysteriously disappear.
- 22
An alien probe threatens the Enterprise when it emits an energy surge that turns an innocuous crew member into a superhuman.
- 23
The away team after encountering Mark Twain and Guinan in the 19th century, try to solve the mystery of who and what alien is killing people in 19th century San Francisco.
- 24
Data experiences anger for the first time during a Borg attack that differs from previous encounters. Picard and the crew try to track the Borg down while Data attempts to recreate the emotion.
- 25
Commander Riker swaps positions and becomes a temporary first officer on the Klingon ship the Pah. A new crew member of the Enterprise scans the Pagh and discovers a micro lifeform growing on the hull of the ship.
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