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Patrick Stewart as Captain Jean-Luc Picard
RECURRING CAST
Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher
Episodes 1 & 2 - Encounter At Farpoint
Episode 3 - The Naked Now
Episode 4 - Code of Honor
Episode 5 - The Last Outpost
Episode 6 - Where No One Has Gone Before
Episode 7 - Lonely Among Us
Episode 8 - Justice
Episode 9 - The Battle
Episode 10 - Hide and Q
Episode 11 - Haven
Episode 12 - The Big Goodbye
Episode 13 - Datalore
Episode 14 - Angel One
Episode 15 - 11001001
Episode 16 - Too Short a Season
Episode 17 - When The Bough Breaks
Episode 18 - Home Soil
Episode 19 - Coming of Age
Episode 20 - Heart of Glory
Episode 21 - The Arsenal of Freedom
Episode 22 - Symbiosis
Episode 23 - Skin of Evil
Episode 24 - We'll Always Have Paris
Episode 25 - Conspiracy
Episode 26 - The Neutral Zone
Episode 27 - The Child
Episode 28 - Where Silence Has Lease
Episode 29 - Elementary, Dear Data
Episode 30 - The Outrageous Okona
Episode 31 - Loud as a Whisper
Episode 32 - The Schizoid Man
Episode 33 - Unnatural Selection
Episode 34 - A Matter of Honor
Episode 35 - The Measure of a Man
Episode 36 - The Dauphin
Episode 37 - Contagion
Episode 38 - The Royale
Episode 39 - Time Squared
Episode 40 - The Icarus Factor
Episode 41 - Pen Pals
Episode 42 - Q Who
Episode 43 - Samaritan Snare
Episode 44 - Up the Long Ladder
Episode 45 - Manhunt
Episode 46 - The Emissary
Episode 47 - Peak Performance
Episode 48 - Shades of Gray
Episode 49 - Evolution
Episode 50 - The Ensigns of Command
Episode 51- Survivors
Episode 52 - Who Watches The Watchers
Episode 53 - The Bonding
Episode 54 - Booby Trap
Episode 55 - The Enemy
Episode 56 - The Price
Episode 57 - The Vengeance Factor
Episode 58 - The Defector
Episode 59 - The Hunted
Stardate 43489.2
Episode 60 - The High Ground
Stardate 43510.7
Episode 61 - Deja Q
Episode 62 - A Matter of Perspective
Episode 63 - Yesterday's Enterprise
Episode 64 - The Offspring
Episode 65 - Sins of The Father
Episode 66 - Allegiance
Episode 67 - Captain's Holiday
Episode 68 - Tin Man
Episode 69 - Hollow Pursuits
Episode 70 - The Most Toys
Episode 71 - Sarek
Episode 72 - Menage a Troi
Episode 73 - Transfigurations
Episode 74 - The Best of Both Worlds, Part One
Episode 75 - The Best of Both Worlds, Part Two
Episode 76 - Family
Episode 77 - Brothers
Episode 78 - Suddenly Human
Episode 79 - Remember Me
Episode 80 - Legacy
Episode 81 - Reunion
Episode 82 - Future Imperfect
Episode 83 - Final Mission
Episode 84 - The Loss
Episode 85 - Data's Day
Episode 86 - The Wounded
Episode 87 - Devil's Due
Episode 88 - Clues
Episode 89 - First Contact
Episode 90 - Galaxy's Child
Episode 91 - Night Terrors
Episode 92 - Identity Crisis
Episode 93 - The Nth Degree
Episode 94 - Qpid
Episode 95 - The Drumhead
Episode 96 - Half a Life
Episode 97 - The Host
Episode 98 - The Mind's Eye
Episode 99 - In Theory
Episode 100 - Redemption Part One
Episode 101 - Redemption Part Two
Episode 102 - Darmok
Episode 103 - Ensign Ro
Episode 104 - Silicon Avatar
Episode 105 - Disaster
Episode 106 - The Game
Episode 107 - Unification, Part One
Episode 108 - Unification, Part Two
Episode 109 - A Matter Of Time
Episode 110 - New Ground
Episode 111 - Hero Worship
Episode 112 - Violations
Episode 113 - The Masterpiece Society
Episode 114 - Conundrum
Episode 115 - Power Play
Episode 116 - Ethics
Episode 117 - The Outcast
Episode 118 - Cause And Effect
Episode 119 - The First Duty
Episode 120 - Cost of Living
Episode 121 - The Perfect Mate
Episode 122 - Imaginary Friend
Episode 123 - I Borg
Episode 124 - The Next Phase
Episode 125 - The Inner Light
Episode 126 - Time's Arrow, Part One
Episode 127 - Time's Arrow, Part Two
Episode 128 - Realm Of Fear
Episode 129 - Man Of The People
Episode 130 - Relics
Episode 131 - Schisms
Episode 132 - True Q
Episode 133 - Rascals
Episode 134 - A Fistful of Datas
Episode 135 - The Quality of Life
Episode 136 - Chain Of Command, Part One
Episode 137 - Chain Of Command, Part Two
Episode 138 - Ship In A Bottle
Episode 139 - Aquiel
Episode 140 - Face Of The Enemy
Episode 141 - Tapestry
Episode 142 - Birthright, Part One
Episode 143 - Birthright, Part Two
Episode 144 - Starship Mine
Episode 145 - Lessons
Episode 146 - The Chase
Episode 147 - Frame of Mind
Episode 148 - Suspicions
Episode 149 - Rightful Heir
Episode 150 - Second Chances
Episode 151 - Timescape
Episode 152 - Descent, Part One
Episode 153 - Descent, Part Two
Episode 154 - Liaisons
Episode 155 - Interface
Episode 156 - Gambit, Part One
Episode 157 - Gambit, Part Two
Episode 158 - Phantasms
Episode 159 - Dark Page
Episode 160 - Attached
Episode 161 - Force Of Nature
Episode 162 - Inheritance
Episode 163 - Parallels
Episode 164 - The Pegasus
Episode 165 - Homeward
Episode 166 - Sub Rosa
Episode 167 - Lower Decks
Episode 168 - Thine Own Self
Episode 169 - Masks
Episode 170 - Eye of the Beholder
Episode 171 - Genesis
Episode 172 - Journey's End
Episode 173 - Firstborn
Episode 174 - Bloodlines
Episode 175 - Emergence
Episode 176 - Preemptive Strike
Episode 177 - All Good Things
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REGULAR CAST
Jonathan Frakes as William Riker
LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge
Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner as Data
Michael Dorn as Worf
Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher
Denise Crosby as Tasha Yar
Diana Muldaur as Katherine Pulaski
Whoopi Goldberg as Guinan
Colm Meaney as Miles O'Brien
Majel Barrett as Lwaxana Troi
John de Lancie as Q
Rosalind Chao as Keiko O'Brien
Dwight Schultz as Reginald Barclay
Michelle Forbes as Ro Laren
Patti Yasutake as Alyssa Ogawa
Robert O'Reilly as Gowron
Suzie Plakson as K'Ehleyr
Brian Bonsall as Alexander Rozhenko
Natalia Nogulich as Alynna Nechayev
Andreas Katsulas as Commander Tomalak
Armin Shimerman as DaiMon Bractor
Marc Alaimo as Badar
Eric Menyuk as The Traveler
FIRST SEASON
Stardate 41153.7
The crew of the new Enterprise is forced to stand trial for the crimes of humanity by the mysterious Q.
Stardate 41209.2
The crew is afflicted with a touch-transmitted virus which lowers inhibitions and threatens to turn deadly until Riker remembers hearing about something similar happening to Kirk's Enterprise.
Stardate 41235.25
Kidnapped by an alien who wants her to become one of his wives, Tasha Yar fights for her own freedom and the welfare of a planet.
Stardate 41386.4
Federation and Ferengi crewmembers must impress an alien Portal before they are allowed to return to their journeys through space.
Stardate 41263.1
A mysterious Traveler sends the Enterprise to a region of space where thoughts shape reality.
Stardate 41249.3
While traveling to a peace conference, an unknown entity alters the personalities of Picard, Crusher, and Worf.
Stardate 41255.6
Wesley Crusher is sentenced to death for accidentally violating alien law, forcing Picard to choose between obeying the noninterference directive and manipulating the alien culture.
Stardate 41723.9
A Ferengi captain uses a mind-altering device to force Picard to relive combat from years earlier on a now-abandoned starship.
Stardate 41590.5
When Q offers Riker powers equivalent to his own. Riker grants everyone what he thinks are their dearest wishes, only to discover that he makes a lousy god.
Stardate 41294.5
When Deanna Troi's mother arrives to fulfill the terms of an arranged marriage, Troi must face her feelings for Riker while her new fiance considers an entirely different destiny.
Stardate 41997.5
The holodeck malfunctions, trapping Picard and other crewmembers in 1940's San Francisco in the middle of a gangster plot.
Stardate 41242.4
When the crew discovers a prototype for Data, the lookalike android first attempts to ingratiate himself, then to take over the ship.
Stardate 41636.9
Riker struggles with the female leader of a planet where males are second-class citizens, while a plague on the Enterprise makes sanctuary for the rebels impossible.
Stardate 41365.9
The Enterprise is hijacked by aliens who communicate in the binary language of computers.
Stardate 41309.5
An aging admiral negotiating for the release of hostages, who blames himself for a tragic previous hostage crisis on the same planet, takes a wonder drug that makes him become a much younger man.
Stardate 41509.1
The children of the Enterprise are kidnapped by a sterile civilization that wants to teach them their customs and use them to repopulate their kind.
Stardate 41463.9
An inorganic life form threatens to destroy the Federation scientists working to terraform its planet.
Stardate 41416.2
Picard faces a competency investigation while Wesley takes the Starfleet Academy entrance exam.
Stardate 41503.7
When Klingon fugitives come aboard and try to commandeer the ship, Worf must weigh his loyalty to Starfleet and the humans who raised him.
Stardate 41798.2
Picard and an away team including a badly wounded Beverly Crusher try to stay alive on a planet run by computerized weapons.
Two alien races struggle over a shipment of a drug ostensibly used to treat a deadly disease.
Stardate 41601.3
An evil alien kills Tasha Yar and holds Deanna Troi hostage while she argues the innate goodness of most beings.
Stardate 41697.9
When a scientist's temporal experiments turn deadly, Picard tries to rescue him and his wife - Picard's old flame - before the galaxy begins to tear apart.
Stardate 41775.5
After a fellow captain and his crew are killed in mysterious circumstances, Picard returns to Earth to investigate a conspiracy among the highest ranks of Starfleet Command.
Stardate 41986.0
On the way to a meeting with the Romulans, the Enterprise encounters a ship carrying cryogenically frozen humans from the 20th century, whom they revive.
SECOND SEASON
Stardate 42073.1
A mysterious alien impregnates Deanna Troi so that it can incarnate as a human while the ship's storage compartments are carrying a deadly plague.
Stardate 42193.6
The ship is trapped by a being who wishes to understand death by observing the crew dying in as many ways as possible.
Stardate 42286.3
When Data plays Sherlock Holmes on the holodeck and LaForge asks for an opponent capable of defeating him, the holodeck turns off the safety protocols to create a sentient Moriarty.
Stardate 42402.7
The Enterprise hosts a witty renegade captain, and Data tries to gain a sense of humor.
Stardate 42193.6
A deaf mediator who has three vocal interpreters is brought in to stop a deadly war on an alien planet.
Stardate 42437.5
A dying scientist transfers his mind into Data's body so that he can live forever, continue his experiments, and woo his young apprentice.
Stardate 42494.8
Dr. Pulaski is exposed to a virus that accelerates the aging process, causing people to die of old age in a matter of hours.
Stardate 42506.5
Riker is assigned to a Klingon vessel as part of an exchange, but his loyalties are tested when he learns the ship plans to attack the Enterprise.
Stardate 42523.7
When a scientist wants to disassemble Data in order to figure out how to replicate him, Picard and Riker must take opposing sides in arguing Data's right to refuse.
Stardate 42568.8
The Enterprise escorts a young planetary leader for whom Wesley develops feelings before he learns that she is not what she appears to be.
Stardate 42609.1
The ship's computer begins to malfunction as a result of a mysterious computer virus which programs the ship to self-destruct.
Stardate 42625.4
While investigating a discovery from ancient Earth, an away team is trapped in the hotel Royale, a bad holonovel with no end in sight.
Stardate 42679.2
Picard encounters his own double from several hours in the future, who is catatonic after witnessing the destruction of the Enterprise.
Stardate 42686.4
Riker's estranged father is sent to brief his son when Will is promoted to captain of the Aries; meanwhile, Worf laments the anniversary of his Rite of Ascension in the absence of other Klingons.
Stardate 42695.3
When a young girl who has been communicating with Data tells him that her planet is in trouble, Picard must reconcile the Prime Directive and the need for intervention to save her people.
Stardate 42761.3
Q flings the Enterprise into the path of a malevolent race of organic-artificial aliens called the Borg.
Stardate 42779.1
Geordi is held hostage by slow aliens while Wesley takes Starfleet exams and Picard fights for his life in surgery.
Stardate 42823.2
The ship rescues a long-lost Earth colony of boisterous farmers and discovers a nearby dying civilization comprised of clones.
Stardate 42859.2
Lwaxana Troi comes aboard the Enterprise in search of the perfect man, and settles on Picard.
Stardate 42901.3
Worf's former flame K'Ehleyr is sent to mediate a potentially inflammatory situation with a Klingon sleeper ship in Federation space.
Stardate 42923.4
Riker and part of the crew are sent to the derelict ship Hathaway for simulated battle maneuvers against the Enterprise.
As Riker's central nervous system is attacked by a deadly microbe, Pulaski tries to stimulate his memories to ward off the effects.
THIRD SEASON
Stardate 43125.8
A group of nanites unleashed by Wesley attacks the life support systems, forcing the crew to fight them to survive.
Stardate: 43133.3
Data struggles to save a colony that's been marked for death by aliens if the humans fail to evacuate.
Stardate 43152.4
On a remote planet where only two of thousands have survived an alien attack, the survivors seems kindly despite their refusals to be evacuated, but Deanna Troi begins to suffer horribly at the sound of their music box.
Stardate 43173.5
Upon witnessing Federation technology, a primitive culture begins to venerate Picard as a god and plans to sacrifice Troi to him. Picard must violate the Prime Directive even further to demonstrate that he's only a person.
Stardate 43198.7
When an archaeologist dies on an away mission, leaving an orphaned son for whom Worf feels responsible, the alien who caused her death creates an artificial image of the mother and their home for the boy.
Stardate 43205.6
When the ship is caught in an ancient snare that transforms energy into radiation, LaForge creates a holographic simulation of scientist Leah Brahms to help them escape.
Stardate 43349.2
When Geordi is stranded on a planet plagued by storms with a hostile Romulan, the crew must contend with a warship seeking its missing crewmembers.
Stardate 43885.6
When a group of delegates converge on the Enterprise to bid on the rights to a stable wormhole, Deanna Troi falls for the unscrupulous half-Betazoid representing one of the Federation's competitors.
Stardate 43421.9
An ancient assassin plagues the crew's attempt to stop a violent dispute between warring aliens.
Stardate 43462.5
A high-ranking Romulan defector bent on preserving peace between his empire and the Federation leads the crew into a showdown that could trigger a war.
A solder who has been medically altered to be the perfect killer threatens the Enterprise while the crew debates what responsibility they have to try to help him.
Crusher is abducted by a group of terrorists who are desperate to demonstrate their suffering to Starfleet before the Enterprise assists the other side in their civil war.
Stardate 43539.1
Q appears again, in trouble with the Continuum and minus his powers, while the Enterprise is trying to save a planet.
Stardate 43610.4
When Riker is accused of murdering a scientist who claimed the first officer made a pass at his wife, Picard uses the holodeck to study the crime.
Stardate 43625.2
The appearance of the Enterprise-C coincides with time rift that causes a dramatic shift in history, creating a universe where Tasha Yar is alive and the Federation is at war with the Romulans.
Stardate 43657.0
When Data creates an android daughter using his own neural network, an admiral wants to place her in Starfleet custody at a robotics institute.
Stardate 43685.2
Worf's long-lost brother Kurn arrives to draw Worf into a battle for his family's honor with the unscrupulous Duras.
Stardate 43714.1
Captain Picard is abducted by aliens and replaced with a wild and crazy double; meanwhile, the real Picard must work with unruly aliens to try to escape.
Stardate 43745.2
Picard goes to Risa for vacation and meets an archaeologist named Vash, who is searching for an artifact from the future which is coveted by aliens from that era as well as her own.
Stardate 43779.3
A disturbed telepath attempts to help the crew protect a a lifeform resembling a biological starship from the Romulans.
Stardate 43807.4
Lieutenant Barclay creates holographic versions of the ship's crew as an escape from having to deal with the real ones.
Stardate: 43872.2
While the crew believes that Data is dead, he is actually being held hostage by a trader who wants to add him to his collection of unique items.
Stardate 43917.4
When Spock's father, the famed ambassador, comes on board strange outbreaks of violence begin to afflict people close to him.
Stardate 43930.7
When Deanna and Lwaxana Troi are kidnapped by a Ferengi, only Picard's love can save them!
Stardate 43957.2
The Enterprise rescues a mysterious amnesiac alien who has a seemingly miraculous ability to heal.
When the Borg set course for Earth, Riker must work with ambitious Commander Shelby to come up with a plan to combat them.
FOURTH SEASON
Stardate 44001.4
Riker tries to find a way to save both Picard and the human race when the Borg use the captain as part of their plan to assimilate Earth.
Stardate 44012.3
While the Enterprise is repaired at Earth's spacedock, Picard stays with his older brother and Worf's parents arrive to visit him.
Stardate 44085.7
When a dying Dr. Soong summons Data and accidentally brings Lore home as well, the two androids struggle to understand the reasons their "father" created them.
Stardate 44143.7
Picard must decide whether to risk a war and violate a boy's wishes to reunite the long-lost human child with his family.
Stardate 44161.2
After Beverly Crusher watches an experiment of Wesley's go wrong, crewmembers begin to disappear.
Stardate: 44215.2
Tasha Yar's mysterious sister becomes close with Data when the crew is sent on a rescue mission to her home planet.
Stardate 44246.3
Picard is asked by the Klingons to mediate a struggle for succession, forcing Worf to confront the Klingon family which disgraced his own.
Stardate 44286.5
Riker awakens in sickbay after a disastrous away mission to discover that sixteen years have passed, he now commands the Enterprise, and he has a young son.
Stardate 44307.3
On his way to Starfleet Academy, Wesley accompanies Picard on an away mission that turns deadly, leaving him to keep the captain alive.
Stardate 44356.9
When two-dimensional life forms cause Counselor Troi to lose her empathic powers, she resigns her post as counselor.
Stardate 44390.1
During twenty-four hours in the life of Data, the impending wedding of Miles and Keiko causes the android to study human feelings, which in turn enable him to sniff out a Romulan spy.
Stardate 44429.6
A Federation starship commanded by a captain who lost his family to the Cardassians begins attacking their ships, claiming that they are preparing for a new war.
Stardate 44474.5
A woman claiming to be the devil appears on a world which has committed its citizens to eternal slavery to her.
Stardate 44502.7
Picard and the crew find mounting evidence that Data is lying to them about how much time they were unconscious and what transpired while they were out.
When he is injured during a reconnaissance mission, Riker's identity as an alien is discovered by an alien culture deeply fearful of the idea that they are not alone in the galaxy.
Stardate 44614.6
While the crew fights to save an alien baby whose mother was accidentally killed, LaForge tries to bond with Leah Brahms, who is nothing like his holographic dream woman.
Stardate 44631.2
The crew is trapped in a rift in space where lack of dreams causes hallucinations; only Troi can still dream, and she is plagued by horrible nightmares.
Stardate 44664.5
LaForge learns that every officer on an away mission to Tarchannen Three years earlier has begun to transform.
Stardate 44704.2
After an encounter with an alien probe, Barclay develops superhuman intelligence and tries to take over the ship.
Stardate 44741.9
In the middle of an archaeology conference, Q, trying to show the captain a good time, turns Picard and crew into Robin Hood and his merry men.
Stardate 44769.2
A famous Starfleet admiral leads a hunt for a traitor aboard the Enterprise.
Stardate 44805.3
A visiting scientist who becomes Lwaxana Troi's lover seeks asylum to avoid having to commit ritual suicide,.
Stardate 44821.3
Crusher falls in love with a Trill, only to discover that his real personality exists in a small symbiont living inside his body.
Stardate 44885.5
LaForge is kidnapped and altered by Romulans to take part in an assassination plot against a Klingon ambassador.
Stardate 44932.3
Data creates a romantic subroutine to experiment with love when a crewmember becomes interested in dating him.
Stardate 44995.3
When Picard is asked as Arbiter of Succession to oversee Gowron's installation as governor, Worf decides to resign from Starfleet to fight for his family honor against the Duras and their Romulan ties.
FIFTH SEASON
Stardate 45020.4
While Worf fights the Romulan conspiracy within the Klingon empire, Picard intervenes in the Klingon civil war and discovers that Tasha Yar's daughter is a leader of the Romulans.
Stardate 45047.2
Picard is exiled with the leader of an alien race which speaks in metaphors, but his crew attempts to rescue him at an inopportune moment.
Stardate 45076.3
When a courtmartialed Starfleet officer from war-torn Bajor is sent to help locate a terrorist leader, Picard begins to suspect a high-level conspiracy.
Stardate 45122.3
A scientist devoted to hunting down the Crystalline Entity comes on board and discovers that Data's positronic brain contains the memories of her son.
Stardate 45156.1
Troi must take command of the ship while Picard struggles to work with three children and Worf delivers Keiko's baby.
Stardate 45208.2
When an interactive game worn over the eyes and ears becomes addictive to the crew, priming them for invasion, Wesley and his new girlfriend must save the day.
Stardate 45233.1
Shocked to learn that Ambassador Spock has apparently defected to the Romulans, Picard and Data travel to the Romulan homeworld to meet with an underground peace movement.
Stardate 45245.8
Picard tells Spock of the death of his father and learns the reason for Spock's visit to Romulus: an attempted reunification of the long-separated Vulcan and Romulan races, who are part of the same species.
Stardate 45349.1
When a visitor from a future era arrives on the ship, Picard violates the noninterference directive to ask for assistance about how to save a dying planet.
Stardate 45376.3
After Worf's human mother brings his son Alexander on board, insisting that she can no longer raise the boy, Worf seeks Troi's help in helping him fit in.
Stardate 45397.3
A young boy who is the sole survivor of a disaster that killed his parents chooses to emulate Data's nonemotional strength rather than face the facts of the accident.
Stardate 45429.3
When a race of telepathic aliens comes on board, Troi, Riker, and Crusher fall into inexplicable comas after having their memories probed and distorted.
Stardate 45470.1
A genetically planned, engineered society threatened by a disaster refuses to relocate and resists contact with the imperfect humans and aliens of Starfleet.
Stardate 45494.2
Suffering from inexplicable amnesia about their names and roles, the crew struggles to understand their place in the war they're fighting.
Stardate 45571.2
Troi, Data, and O'Brien are possessed by evil aliens who demand assistance freeing fellow entities who were stripped of their bodies as an alien form of imprisonment.
Stardate 45587.3
When an accident leaves Worf paralyzed, he asks Riker and Alexander to assist him in committing suicide rather than live paralyzed.
Stardate 45614.6
An androgynous race asks for Federation help in locating a missing shuttle, but the situation is complicated when one of the androgynes begins to fall in love with Riker, who brings out her forbidden "female" feelings.
Stardate 45652.1
The ship is caught in a time loop after an explosion, causing the crew to experience increased deja vu as they relive the events leading up to the disaster.
Stardate 45703.9
Wesley gets involved in a cover-up to protect his friends at the Academy when a stunt leads to a deadly collision.
Stardate 45733.6
Lwaxana Troi arrives to wed a man she's never met, prepared to forego the traditional nude Betazoid ceremony, but unwilling to stop exposing Alexander to free thinking and mud baths.
Stardate 45761.3
A beautiful, empathic woman sent as a peace offering to marry an alien leader begins to bond with Picard instead of her intended mate.
Stardate 45852.1
The "imaginary friend" of a little girl begins to appear to crewmembers, threatening the Enterprise.
Stardate 45854.2
When the crew rescues a lone Borg, Picard must decide whether to treat him like an individual or use him to disable the entire Borg collective.
Stardate 45892.4
Though the crew believes them dead, LaForge and Ro are trapped out of phase by a Romulan cloaking device.
Stardate 45944.1
After being trapped in a probe's energy beam, Picard awakens in the midst of living a life as a scientist and husband on a distant planet.
Stardate 45959.1
When archaeologists discover Data's head buried under San Francisco, an investigation traps data in the very era where he apparently lost his life centuries earlier.
SIXTH SEASON
Stardate 46001.3
While Data meets Guinan and Mark Twain in the 19th century, the Enterprise crew tries to stop aliens from interfering with Earth's past, and to prevent Data's death in ancient San Francisco.
Stardate 46041.1
Barclay's terror of the transporter leads him to believe that he's being attacked while within the beam, but the crew discovers that just because he's paranoid, it doesn't mean that something's not out to get him.
Stardate 46071.6
A visiting ambassador puts his negative feelings into Troi's psyche, causing her to age prematurely and to act nastily.
Stardate 46125.3
When the crew discovers a Dyson Sphere, they also discover the original Enterprise's chief engineer Scotty trapped in limbo in the transporter of a damaged ship which has been in orbit for decades.
Stardate 46154.2
Members of the crew experience bizarre symptoms and recreate a vaguely remembered alien lab on the holodeck, which leads Riker to seek the aliens who have apparently been experimenting on them.
Stardate 46193.8
A promising young student realizes during her stay on the Enterprise that her unusual powers are the result of her being descended from the Q continuum.
Stardate 46235.7
A transporter accident turns Picard, Ro, Keiko, and Guinan into children, just before Ferengi take over the ship; Picard pretends to be Riker's son to help take it back.
Stardate 46271.5
When Data is connected to the ship's computer while Worf and Alexander are playing out a Wild West holodeck scenario, the Klingons are trapped with hostile images of Data in their story and the safety protocols off.
Stardate 46307.2
When a scientist develops a sentient machine, Data risks Picard and LaForge's lives rather than allowing the exocomps to be sacrificed.
Stardate 46357.4
Picard, Crusher and Worf are abruptly reassigned for a classified mission. While Captain Jellico tries to whip the crew into shape for a confrontation with the Cardassians, Picard is taken prisoner and interrogated.
Stardate 46360.8
While the crew battles Jellico over his tactics in dealing with the Cardassians, Picard resists torture by the vicious Gul Madred.
Stardate 46424.1
When Data reopens the Sherlock Holmes holodeck file, he discovers that the archvillain Moriarty, who became self-aware when the program was first played, can exit the holodeck and hold the ship hostage until his lover can also be freed from holo-existence.
Stardate 46461.3
LaForge falls in love with a Starfleet officer whom he is supposed to be investigating as a murder suspect.
Stardate 46519.1
Kidnapped and forced to play the role of a Romulan operative, Troi must match wits against a wily Romulan captain as part of an elaborate defection scheme.
When Picard's artificial heart fails and he dies after a surprise attack, Q gives him a chance to relive his youth and change his fate.
Stardate 46578.4
Worf learns from an alien that his father may be alive in a Romulan prison camp, while an experiment by DS9's Dr. Bashir causes Data to see visions of his father.
Stardate 46579.2
Held by the Romulan-Klingon society which has grown out of the prison camp, Worf is willing to die to show the young Klingons their lost heritage.
Stardate 46682.4
While the Enterprise is shut down for a cleansing purge which is deadly to humans, Picard finds himself trapped on the ship with a band of thieves trying to steal toxic residue to make a weapon.
Stardate 46693.1
Picard falls in love with an officer on his ship, but finds that the stress of command protocol and the conflict between emotion and duty makes the relationship difficult, especially when he must send his lover on a dangerous mission.
Stardate 46731.5
Picard is drawn by an archaeological mentor into a competition with Cardassians, Romulans, and Vulcans to solve an ancient mystery.
Stardate 46778.1
After a case of stage fright and a difficult away mission, Riker finds himself in an alien mental hospital, facing mounting evidence that he is going insane.
Stardate 46830.1
When a scientist dies and another apparently commits suicide while testing a metaphasic shield, Crusher must unravel the mystery of who is causing the deaths, and why.
Stardate 46852.2
The legendary Klingon warrior Kahless returns from the dead, precipitating first a crisis of faith and then a crisis of politics as Gowron attempts to unravel the mystery of the reappearance of a myth.
Stardate 46915.2
When he returns to the site of a mission from years earlier, Riker is shocked to find a clone of himself trapped on the planet.
Stardate 46944.2
An away teams returns to find the ship frozen in time on the brink of destruction by a Romulan ship, caused by alien interference, and must figure out how to reset the clock far enough in the past to prevent a warp core breach.
Stardate 46982.1
The Borg return to battle Starfleet, though they now have feelings and give the same to Data, courtesy their new leader, Lore.
SEVENTH SEASON
Stardate 47025.4
While Picard, Troi, and LaForge are held prisoner by Data, the rest of the crew works with Hugh and his companions to defeat Lore's plans for the Borg.
When his shuttle crashes on an alien world, Picard is cared for by a woman who falls obsessively in love with him.
Stardate 47215.5
While testing a new sensor for his VISOR, LaForge is shocked to discover his missing mother marooned on a nearby alien world.
Stardate 47135.2
Riker discovers that Picard, who has been believed dead, is working as a mercenary on an archaeological raid.
Stardate 47160.1
Aboard the pirate vessel, Picard and Riker work with a Vulcan agent to retrieve an ancient, deadly weapon.
Stardate 47225.7
When Data initiates a dreaming program, he sees terrifying images of the crew and ship which seem to parallel their mechanical problems.
Stardate 47254.1
Lwaxana Troi is dying from repressing a traumatic secret which Deanna must probe her psyche to access.
Stardate 47304.2
When an alien race links them telepathically in prison, Picard and Crusher are forced to confront the feelings for one another they have buried for years.
Stardate 47310.2
A pair of alien scientists attempt to demonstrate that use of high warp speeds is destroying the fabric of space.
Stardate 47410.2
Data meets a woman who claims to be Soong's lover and co-worker and therefore his "mother," but he realizes that she, too, is an android.
Stardate 47391.2
Worf finds reality shifting around him, and concludes that he is moving from universe to universe while nobody else seems aware of the change.
Stardate 47391.2
An admiral who was once Riker's commander orders him to keep the nature of a salvage mission a secret even from Picard.
Stardate 47423.9
Worf's human brother uses the Enterprise to violate the noninterference directive in order to save a primitive, dying race.
When she travels for her grandmother's funeral, Crusher begins to fall under the spell of the old woman's young lover.
As they wait to learn which of them will be promoted, four junior officers on the Enterprise take part in a secret mission.
Stardate 47611.2
Data loses his memory and inadvertently exposes a technologically unsophisticated culture to deadly radiation.
Stardate 47618.4
As an alien probe transforms the Enterprise, Data takes on the personalities of many of the members of the civilization which created it.
Stardate 47622.1
Troi finds herself suffering from the aftereffects of an officer's suicide, seeing visions of his experiences which cross over into her own budding relationship with Worf.
Stardate 47653.2
When the Enterprise crew devolves into prehistoric beings, Picard and Data must figure out how to reverse the process.
Stardate 47751.2
On a mission to relocate a group of Native American settlers from a planet in the Demilitarized Zone, Wesley decides to change his future and leave Starfleet.
Stardate 47779.4
A family member with a mysterious past comes to the Enterprise to teach Alexander how to be a warrior.
Stardate 47829.1
Picard is shocked to discover that he has a son, and that an old alien nemesis has targeted the young man for death.
Stardate 47869.2
When the Enterprise begins to develop intelligence of its own, the warp drive becomes unpredictable and several crewmembers are trapped on the holodeck.
Stardate 47941.7
Sent on assignment to infiltrate the Maquis, Ro Laren finds her loyalty to Picard and the Federation weighed against her hatred for Cardassia.
Stardate 47988.1
Q causes Picard to leap back and forth in time in an attempt to save humanity from destruction by his own folly.
FILMS
When a mad scientist tries to destroy a star in order to enter a utopian Nexus, Picard must prevent him with the help of Captain Kirk, who vanished into the Nexus a generation earlier.
As the Borg attempt to change human history by preventing Zefram Cochrane's first warp flight, Picard and Data face off against the Borg Queen.
When Starfleet allies itself with a race determined to destroy a peaceful paradise, Picard and crew rebel.
A Romulan plot brings Picard face to face with an unexpected doppelganger while Data meets a brother he never knew.
A parody by famed Sev Trek cartoonist John Cook. When a giant pimple on Commander Piker's face demonstrates sentience, Captain Pinchard and the crew must decide how to deal with the threat it poses to the P.C. Directive.
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