Story arcs and themes

Q

8 episodes.

• S01E01-E02 Encounter at Farpoint: Picard, new captain of the Enterprise, is confronted by Q, who judges humanity a savage race and sets Farpoint Station as a test. Picard and Riker discover the station is a captive lifeform, held by the Bandi, and free it, passing Q's test.
• S01E10 Hide & Q: Q gives Riker the powers of the Q, hoping to lure him into the Continuum; Riker is tempted, but when he offers his friends their dearest wishes they all turn them down, and Q loses his wager with Picard.
• S02E16 Q Who?: After Picard refuses Q's request to join the crew, Q throws the Enterprise seven thousand light years away, where a Borg cube attacks and kills eighteen crew. With the ship helpless, Picard admits 'I need you!' and Q sends them back.
• S03E13 Déjà Q: Stripped of his powers, Q asks Picard for sanctuary on the Enterprise while the crew tries to push a falling moon away from Bre'el Four. Hunted by the Calamarain, Q shows some selflessness, is restored to the Continuum, and the moon returns to orbit.
• S04E20 Qpid: Q, saying he is repaying a debt, throws Picard and his officers into a Robin Hood story to prove that loving Vash makes him weak. Picard rescues Vash as Maid Marian. Afterward she leaves with Q as his new partner.
• S06E06 True Q: Intern Amanda Rogers, adopted by humans, is revealed by Q to be a Q herself. Q is sent to test her and teach her; he warns she may be killed unless she can refrain from using her power. She saves Tagra Four's people and chooses to join the Continuum.
• S06E15 Tapestry: Dying after an attack, Picard is offered a second chance by Q to avoid the Nausicaan fight that cost him his heart. He does, but returns to a life as an unremarkable junior officer, and begs to go back and fight again.
• S07E25-E26 All Good Things...: Q tells Picard, who is shifting between past, present and future, that humanity is condemned and that Picard causes its destruction. Picard finds that tachyon pulses from his ships in all three eras created the anti-time anomaly, and the three Enterprises collapse it. Q says the trial never ends.

Borg

6 episodes.

• S02E16 Q Who?: After Picard refuses Q's request to join the crew, Q throws the Enterprise seven thousand light years away, where a Borg cube attacks and kills eighteen crew. With the ship helpless, Picard admits 'I need you!' and Q sends them back.
• S03E26 Best Of Both Worlds, part 1: The Borg invade Federation space and destroy a colony, Shelby arrives as a tactical expert and clashes with Riker, and after a costly battle Picard is captured and returns on screen as Locutus of Borg.
• S04E01 Best of Both Worlds, part 2: Riker, promoted to captain, rescues Picard from the Borg; Data uses the link to Locutus, with Picard's help, to put the Borg to sleep after they have wrecked the fleet at Wolf 359.
• S05E23 I, Borg: A lone injured Borg, named Hugh by Geordi, develops individuality; Picard abandons a plan to use him to destroy the Collective, and Hugh chooses to return to the Borg.
• S06E26 Descent, part 1: Borg who act as individuals attack an outpost and the Enterprise; Data feels anger and, goaded by a captured Borg, goes off in a shuttle with him. Picard's team follows and finds a Borg hall, where Lore appears and Data declares the sons of Soong will destroy the Federation.
• S07E01 Descent, part 2: Lore controls Data and experiments on captured Enterprise officers while Crusher commands the ship, rescuing the stranded crew and destroying a Borg ship. Picard's team restores Data's ethical programme, Hugh turns on Lore, and Data shoots Lore to deactivate him.

Klingon

15 episodes.

• S01E20 Heart Of Glory: Rescued from a dying freighter, three renegade Klingons urge Worf to join them in reclaiming the old warrior ways; when their escape endangers the Enterprise, Worf kills Korris and chooses Starfleet duty.
• S02E08 A Matter of Honour: Riker volunteers for an exchange posting as first officer of the Klingon ship Pagh. When a hull-eating organism appears, Captain Kargan blames the Enterprise and prepares to attack. Riker keeps his oaths, has Kargan beamed away, takes command briefly, then hands it back.
• S02E20 The Emissary: Federation emissary K'Ehleyr, whom Worf knew six years earlier, joins the Enterprise to stop a Klingon ship whose crew, asleep for seventy-five years, will attack Federation colonies believing the war continues. Worf's bluff as commander forces Captain K'Temoc to yield. K'Ehleyr and Worf part with feelings unresolved.
• S03E15 Yesterday's Enterprise: The Enterprise-C emerges from a temporal rift, creating a timeline where the Federation is losing a war with the Klingons and Tasha Yar is alive; Guinan senses the wrongness, and Picard sends the Enterprise-C back to its fate with Tasha aboard.
• S03E17 Sins Of The Father: Kurn, a Klingon exchange officer, tells Worf the High Council has branded their father Mogh a traitor. Worf and Picard, as cha'DIch, learn the Council knew Mogh was innocent, so Worf accepts discommendation to spare Kurn and prevent civil war.
• S04E07 Reunion: Dying K'mpec asks Picard to arbitrate the Klingon succession and find his poisoner. K'Ehleyr, who has arrived with Worf's son Alexander, investigates Duras over Khitomer and is killed; she names Duras, and Worf kills him despite Riker's arrival.
• S04E24 The Mind's Eye: Geordi is abducted and brainwashed by the Romulans, who control him through his VISOR to assassinate Klingon Governor Vagh and wreck the Federation-Klingon alliance; Ambassador Kell is their agent, and an unnamed woman commander is heard but not seen.
• S04E26 Redemption: Gowron's succession is challenged by Toral, son of Duras, and his aunts Lursa and B'Etor, who have Romulan allies; Picard refuses to take sides, and Worf resigns from Starfleet to serve Gowron, who restores his honour.
• S05E01 Redemption part 2: Picard sets a tachyon detection blockade on the Romulan-Klingon border to expose Romulan help for the Duras. Data, commanding the Sutherland, disobeys orders and fires on the hidden convoy, so Sela withdraws. Gowron wins, and Worf spares the captured Toral.
• S05E07 Unification, part 1: Sent to find Ambassador Spock, reported on Romulus, Picard visits the dying Sarek, then he and Data, disguised as Romulans, travel on a borrowed Klingon ship. Sarek dies on the way. On Romulus, Pardek's soldiers take them off the street, and Spock reveals himself.
• S06E13 Aquiel: Geordi studies the logs of missing Lieutenant Aquiel Uhnari and falls for her when Klingons return her alive. Crusher finds the remains on the relay station are a coalescent organism that copies what it absorbs. Aquiel and Morag are held for observation, and Geordi destroys the creature when it copies his dog.
• S06E17 Birthright, part 2: Held by Tokath at a camp where Klingon captives from Khitomer live with Romulans, Worf teaches the young people Klingon ways. Tokath orders his execution, but Toq, Ba'el and the elders stand with him and the young leave with Worf. He tells Picard no camp existed.
• S06E20 The Chase: After Professor Galen, Picard's old archaeology teacher, is killed, Picard pursues his number blocks, which prove to be DNA fragments forming a program. Cardassians, Klingons and Romulans race him for the last piece. It plays a recorded message from an ancient being who seeded life on many worlds.
• S06E23 Rightful Heir: Worf, in a crisis of faith, goes to Boreth, where Klingon Guardians present a returned Kahless. Gowron calls him an impostor, and Worf learns he is a clone. To avoid civil war, Worf proposes Kahless become Emperor as a figurehead, and Gowron accepts.
• S07E21 Firstborn: K'mtar, who says he was sent to protect Worf from assassins, pushes Worf's son Alexander toward the warrior's path and urges Worf to send him to a Klingon school. He turns out to be Alexander from forty years in the future, who staged the attack; Worf talks him into accepting himself.

Romulan

19 episodes.

• S01E26 The Neutral Zone: The Enterprise revives three humans frozen since the 20th century and makes first contact in decades with the Romulans, who say they have also lost outposts to an unknown enemy; Federation outposts have been destroyed too.
• S02E11 Contagion: After the Yamato destroys itself, an alien Iconian programme carried in her downloaded log cripples the Enterprise and a Romulan ship. Picard destroys the Iconian control room, Data's memory wipe suggests Geordi's fix, and the Enterprise shuts down and reloads clean.
• S03E07 The Enemy: Geordi is stranded on storm-wracked Galorndon Core with a Romulan and they must cooperate to survive; Worf refuses to give the ribosomes a dying Romulan needs, and the Enterprise faces down a Romulan warbird at the border.
• S03E10 The Defector: A Romulan who first calls himself Setal, then admits he is Admiral Jarok, defects to the Enterprise warning of a secret Romulan base at Nelvana Three. Picard finds no base, only a trap that Tomalak springs; Klingon ships force the Romulans back, and Jarok kills himself.
• S03E20 Tin Man: The Betazoid telepath Tam Elbrun makes contact with Gomtuu, a lonely living ship, while the Romulans race to seize or destroy it; Gomtuu destroys one warbird, and Tam chooses to stay with it.
• S04E11 Data's Day: Data narrates a day in his life to Commander Maddox: he learns to dance, his friendly meddling nearly derails the wedding of O'Brien and Keiko, and he helps uncover a Romulan spy posing as a Vulcan ambassador.
• S04E24 The Mind's Eye: Geordi is abducted and brainwashed by the Romulans, who control him through his VISOR to assassinate Klingon Governor Vagh and wreck the Federation-Klingon alliance; Ambassador Kell is their agent, and an unnamed woman commander is heard but not seen.
• S04E26 Redemption: Gowron's succession is challenged by Toral, son of Duras, and his aunts Lursa and B'Etor, who have Romulan allies; Picard refuses to take sides, and Worf resigns from Starfleet to serve Gowron, who restores his honour.
• S05E01 Redemption part 2: Picard sets a tachyon detection blockade on the Romulan-Klingon border to expose Romulan help for the Duras. Data, commanding the Sutherland, disobeys orders and fires on the hidden convoy, so Sela withdraws. Gowron wins, and Worf spares the captured Toral.
• S05E07 Unification, part 1: Sent to find Ambassador Spock, reported on Romulus, Picard visits the dying Sarek, then he and Data, disguised as Romulans, travel on a borrowed Klingon ship. Sarek dies on the way. On Romulus, Pardek's soldiers take them off the street, and Spock reveals himself.
• S05E08 Unification, part 2: Picard and Spock find that Proconsul Neral's reunification offer is a plot by Sela to send an invasion force to Vulcan in stolen Vulcan ships. They escape her, and Spock's warning reaches the Enterprise, which stops the ships. Spock stays on Romulus to help the underground movement.
• S05E24 The Next Phase: After a transporter accident, La Forge and Ro are phased by a Romulan experimental device and believed dead. Unseen, they attend their own memorial party and uncover the Romulans' plan to wreck the Enterprise's warp engines. Data's anyon beam makes them visible again.
• S06E14 Face of the Enemy: Troi wakes surgically altered as Tal Shiar Major Rakal aboard a Romulan warbird. Subcommander N'Vek, a dissident, needs her to deliver defecting Vice Proconsul M'ret to the Federation. She bluffs Commander Toreth, then tricks the Enterprise into lowering shields and transports M'ret across. N'Vek dies and Troi is rescued.
• S06E16 Birthright, part 1: Worf is told by the Yridian Jaglom Shrek that his father Mogh survived Khitomer in a Romulan prison camp, and goes there. Meanwhile a plasma shock gives Data visions of Doctor Soong, and he activates dormant circuits that let him dream. Worf is seized in the camp.
• S06E17 Birthright, part 2: Held by Tokath at a camp where Klingon captives from Khitomer live with Romulans, Worf teaches the young people Klingon ways. Tokath orders his execution, but Toq, Ba'el and the elders stand with him and the young leave with Worf. He tells Picard no camp existed.
• S06E20 The Chase: After Professor Galen, Picard's old archaeology teacher, is killed, Picard pursues his number blocks, which prove to be DNA fragments forming a program. Cardassians, Klingons and Romulans race him for the last piece. It plays a recorded message from an ancient being who seeded life on many worlds.
• S06E25 Timescape: Returning from a conference, Picard, Troi, Data and Geordi find the Enterprise and a Romulan warbird frozen in fragmented time, with a warp core breach slowly expanding. They learn aliens nesting in the Romulan engine core caused it, reverse time, and Picard breaks the power transfer, saving the ship.
• S07E04 Gambit, part 1: Believing Picard was killed, Riker investigates and is captured by Baran's mercenaries, who are looting Romulan artefacts. He finds Picard alive, undercover as "Galen", and agrees to play a disgraced officer to win Baran's trust. Riker shuts down the Enterprise's shields, and the mercenaries fire on it.
• S07E12 The Pegasus: Admiral Pressman brings the Enterprise to find the lost Pegasus before the Romulans do, secretly intending to restart its illegal phasing cloak experiment. Riker, who once backed him in a mutiny aboard the Pegasus, refuses, and Picard arrests Pressman for violating the Treaty of Algeron.

Cardassian

8 episodes.

• S04E12 The Wounded: Captain Maxwell of the Phoenix, who lost his family in a Cardassian raid, destroys Cardassian ships, claiming they are rearming. Picard, with Gul Macet aboard, tracks him down and, with O'Brien's help, persuades him to surrender, preserving the peace and warning Macet that the Federation is watching.
• S05E03 Ensign Ro: Picard is sent to find Bajoran terrorist leader Orta, aided by newly assigned, disgraced Ensign Ro. Ro admits Admiral Kennelly secretly meant her to offer Orta weapons. Picard exposes the Solarion Four attack as likely a Cardassian setup, and persuades Ro to stay in Starfleet.
• S06E10 Chain of Command, part 1: Vice Admiral Nechayev replaces Picard with Captain Jellico to negotiate with the Cardassians, while Picard, Worf and Crusher secretly enter Cardassian space to find a suspected metagenic weapon lab. It is a trap, and Picard is captured and interrogated by Madred.
• S06E11 Chain of Command, part 2: Gul Madred tortures the captured Picard for Starfleet's defence plans, demanding he say he sees five lights. Meanwhile Jellico, with Riker piloting, mines the Cardassian ships hidden in a nebula and forces them to withdraw and release Picard, who says there are four lights.
• S06E20 The Chase: After Professor Galen, Picard's old archaeology teacher, is killed, Picard pursues his number blocks, which prove to be DNA fragments forming a program. Cardassians, Klingons and Romulans race him for the last piece. It plays a recorded message from an ancient being who seeded life on many worlds.
• S07E15 Lower Decks: Four junior officers compete for a promotion to Ops while Picard secretly tests Ensign Sito for a mission; she poses as a prisoner to help a Cardassian informant cross the border and is reported killed.
• S07E20 Journey's End: Wesley returns from the Academy troubled and resigns after a vision of his father; the Federation hands the colony world Dorvan V to Cardassia, its colonists choose to stay under Cardassian rule, and the Traveler reveals himself and offers to guide Wesley.
• S07E24 Preemptive Strike: Starfleet sends Lieutenant Ro undercover into the Maquis, and Picard has her lure them into a trap at the Hugora Nebula. After Macias is killed in a Cardassian attack, Ro warns the Maquis, abandons Starfleet and leaves with them, apologising to Picard.

Maquis

1 episodes.

• S07E24 Preemptive Strike: Starfleet sends Lieutenant Ro undercover into the Maquis, and Picard has her lure them into a trap at the Hugora Nebula. After Macias is killed in a Cardassian attack, Ro warns the Maquis, abandons Starfleet and leaves with them, apologising to Picard.

Ferengi

8 episodes.

• S01E05 The Last Outpost: The Enterprise pursues a Ferengi ship that stole a T9 energy converter, and both ships are held by a force field from a planet. An away team and Ferengi are tested by Portal, a Tkon guardian; Riker answers its challenge and both ships are freed.
• S01E09 The Battle: The Ferengi DaiMon Bok gives Picard his old ship, the Stargazer, as a trap; a hidden thought-control device makes Picard relive the Battle of Maxia, where he destroyed the ship commanded by Bok's son, until Riker's crew breaks the control.
• S02E21 Peak Performance: In a war game against Riker's stripped-down Hathaway, Picard's Enterprise is hit by a real Ferengi attack led by Bractor. Data, shaken after losing Strategema to Kolrami, helps Picard fake the Hathaway's destruction to scare the Ferengi off, then forces Kolrami to a stalemate.
• S03E08 The Price: Barzan's Premier Bhavani takes bids for a stable wormhole aboard the Enterprise. Negotiator Devinoni Ral, who is part Betazoid, romances Troi and uses empathy to win for the Chrysalians, staging a Ferengi missile threat. Troi exposes him. Geordi and Data find the wormhole worthless.
• S03E24 Ménage à Troi: DaiMon Tog of the Ferengi kidnaps Lwaxana Troi for her telepathy, along with Deanna and Riker. Riker hides a signal in the static, and Lwaxana offers to stay with Tog. Picard's staged jealous ultimatum gets her back. Wesley misses the Academy exam and is promoted to full Ensign.
• S06E07 Rascals: Picard, Guinan, Ro and Keiko are turned into children when a molecular reversion field disrupts their beam-out. Renegade Ferengi under DaiMon Lurin then seize the Enterprise; the children use their size to disable the Ferengi, retake the ship, and are restored to adults.
• S06E22 Suspicions: Crusher invites scientists to see Ferengi Doctor Reyga's metaphasic shield. After a pilot's death and Reyga's apparent suicide, she defies Picard's ban and autopsies Reyga, then flies the shuttle to prove the shield works, exposing the saboteur Jo'Bril and winning reinstatement.
• S07E22 Bloodlines: Bok, stripped of his DaiMon rank, returns to avenge his son's death at Picard's hands; he threatens Picard's supposed son Jason Vigo, whose DNA he has faked, until Picard sees through it and confronts him on his ship.

Lore

4 episodes.

• S01E13 Datalore: On Data's home planet, the Enterprise crew find a disassembled android, Lore, and rebuild him. Lore drugs Data, impersonates him and calls a crystalline entity to the ship to feed on its life. Data and Wesley stop him and beam him away, and the entity leaves.
• S04E03 Brothers: Data hijacks the Enterprise, answering a homing signal from his creator Dr Soong, who is dying and wants to give him an emotion chip. Lore, also summoned, impersonates Data, takes the chip and escapes, leaving Soong alive.
• S06E26 Descent, part 1: Borg who act as individuals attack an outpost and the Enterprise; Data feels anger and, goaded by a captured Borg, goes off in a shuttle with him. Picard's team follows and finds a Borg hall, where Lore appears and Data declares the sons of Soong will destroy the Federation.
• S07E01 Descent, part 2: Lore controls Data and experiments on captured Enterprise officers while Crusher commands the ship, rescuing the stranded crew and destroying a Borg ship. Picard's team restores Data's ethical programme, Hugh turns on Lore, and Data shoots Lore to deactivate him.

Data

36 episodes.

• S01E03 The Naked Now: An alcohol-like contaminant from the dead research ship Tsiolkovsky spreads through the Enterprise, and Wesley seizes Engineering as a star collapses. Crusher adapts a cure from Kirk's Enterprise records, and Data's chip repair plus Wesley's repulser beam let the ship escape.
• S01E13 Datalore: On Data's home planet, the Enterprise crew find a disassembled android, Lore, and rebuild him. Lore drugs Data, impersonates him and calls a crystalline entity to the ship to feed on its life. Data and Wesley stop him and beam him away, and the entity leaves.
• S01E24 We'll Always Have Paris: Picard answers a distress call from scientist Paul Manheim, whose time experiments are distorting time across thousands of light years, and finds his wife Jenice, whom Picard once failed to meet in Paris. Data seals the breach, and Picard says goodbye to Jenice in a holodeck Paris.
• S02E03 Elementary, Dear Data: Geordi asks the computer for an opponent capable of defeating Data, and Professor Moriarty becomes self-aware, takes over the holodeck and holds Pulaski. He wants to keep existing; Picard cannot free him, so Moriarty returns control and his programme is saved.
• S02E04 The Outrageous Okona: Roguish freighter captain Okona is demanded by Debin of Atlec for dishonouring his daughter and by Kushell of Straleb for theft. Okona reveals he was only carrying messages between the real lovers, Yanar and Benzan, and the couple agree to marry. Meanwhile Data uses a holodeck comic to learn humour.
• S02E06 The Schizoid Man: The dying scientist Ira Graves secretly transfers his mind into Data's body, wanting to live on with his assistant Kareen, and refuses to give it up until his behaviour turns violent; he then uploads himself into the ship's computer.
• S02E09 The Measure of a Man: Commander Maddox wants to dismantle Data to learn how to build more androids; at a hearing with Riker prosecuting and Picard defending, Captain Louvois rules that Data has the right to choose, and he refuses the procedure.
• S02E11 Contagion: After the Yamato destroys itself, an alien Iconian programme carried in her downloaded log cripples the Enterprise and a Romulan ship. Picard destroys the Iconian control room, Data's memory wipe suggests Geordi's fix, and the Enterprise shuts down and reloads clean.
• S02E15 Pen Pals: Data answers a message from Sarjenka, a girl on Drema Four, and asks Picard to help when her planet starts tearing apart. After debate, Picard allows it. Wesley's team finds dilithium crystals are the cause, resonators stop them, and Sarjenka's memory of Data is wiped.
• S02E21 Peak Performance: In a war game against Riker's stripped-down Hathaway, Picard's Enterprise is hit by a real Ferengi attack led by Bractor. Data, shaken after losing Strategema to Kolrami, helps Picard fake the Hathaway's destruction to scare the Ferengi off, then forces Kolrami to a stalemate.
• S03E02 The Ensigns of Command: Data is sent to Tau Cygna Five to evacuate fifteen thousand human colonists before the Sheliak settle it. Gosheven refuses, so Data threatens to destroy the colony's aqueduct and wins them over, while Picard uses a treaty arbitration clause to win three weeks.
• S03E16 The Offspring: Data builds a daughter, Lal, and raises her aboard the Enterprise. Admiral Haftel orders her moved to Galor Four, and Picard backs Data's refusal. Lal feels fear, suffers cascade failure and dies; Data transfers her memories into himself.
• S03E22 The Most Toys: Collector Kivas Fajo fakes Data's death in a shuttle explosion and holds him captive, while La Forge doubts the accident. Fajo's assistant Varria helps Data escape and is killed. Data holds Fajo at disruptor point until the Enterprise beams him back; Fajo is arrested.
• S04E03 Brothers: Data hijacks the Enterprise, answering a homing signal from his creator Dr Soong, who is dying and wants to give him an emotion chip. Lore, also summoned, impersonates Data, takes the chip and escapes, leaving Soong alive.
• S04E06 Legacy: Hayne's Coalition sends Tasha Yar's sister Ishara to help the Enterprise rescue two freighter crewmen held by the Alliance on Turkana Four. After befriending Data, she tries to overload the Alliance's defences so Coalition troops can attack, and Data stops her.
• S04E11 Data's Day: Data narrates a day in his life to Commander Maddox: he learns to dance, his friendly meddling nearly derails the wedding of O'Brien and Keiko, and he helps uncover a Romulan spy posing as a Vulcan ambassador.
• S04E13 Devil's Due: Ardra claims the people of Ventax Two and the Enterprise under a thousand-year-old contract. Picard demands arbitration with Data as judge, and with Geordi and Riker finding her cloaked ship, he shows her powers are tricks. Ardra withdraws and the contract is dissolved.
• S04E14 Clues: After a supposed wormhole, the Enterprise crew find clues that a day is missing while Data refuses to explain. The Paxans, who hide their system, erased everyone's memory; Picard ordered Data to keep silent. Picard persuades the Paxans to try again, and the crew forget once more.
• S04E25 In Theory: Data, advised by crewmates, builds a programme to pursue a romance with Jenna D'Sora while the Enterprise is damaged by spatial deformations in the Mar Oscura nebula. Picard pilots a shuttle to guide the ship out. Jenna ends the relationship, saying Data cannot feel anything for her.
• S05E01 Redemption part 2: Picard sets a tachyon detection blockade on the Romulan-Klingon border to expose Romulan help for the Duras. Data, commanding the Sutherland, disobeys orders and fires on the hidden convoy, so Sela withdraws. Gowron wins, and Worf spares the captured Toral.
• S05E04 Silicon Avatar: Dr Kila Marr, whose son died on Omicron Theta, joins the Enterprise to hunt the Crystalline Entity that destroyed Melona colony. Picard wants to communicate with it, but when contact is made she keeps up a lethal graviton signal against his order and shatters it.
• S05E07 Unification, part 1: Sent to find Ambassador Spock, reported on Romulus, Picard visits the dying Sarek, then he and Data, disguised as Romulans, travel on a borrowed Klingon ship. Sarek dies on the way. On Romulus, Pardek's soldiers take them off the street, and Spock reveals himself.
• S05E11 Hero Worship: Timothy, orphaned when the research ship Vico is wrecked in a Black Cluster, pretends to be an android like Data. He blames himself for the disaster, but his memory of "more shields" lets Data realise shields amplify the wavefronts, saving the Enterprise. Timothy then drops the act.
• S05E26 Time's Arrow, part 1: Data's head is found in a cave beneath San Francisco, dated five centuries old. While the Enterprise investigates aliens on Devidia, Data is pulled into 1893 San Francisco, where he finds Guinan and Clemens. Picard's away team follows the aliens through a portal.
• S06E08 A Fistful of Datas: Geordi's experimental interface makes Data's personal programming replace a computer subroutine, so the Wild West holodeck programme's outlaws take Data's face and abilities. Worf and Troi, with the safeguards off, must rescue kidnapped Alexander by facing Frank Hollander in a showdown, then the programme ends.
• S06E09 The Quality of Life: Data believes Doctor Farallon's exocomps may be alive and tries to stop her using them as labourers. When Riker orders them sent into a radiation surge to save Picard and La Forge, Data locks out the transporter; the exocomps instead save the officers by siphoning power themselves.
• S06E12 Ship in a Bottle: Moriarty, freed from protected holodeck memory, seizes control of the Enterprise and demands to leave the holodeck with the Countess. Data, Picard and Barclay realise they are inside his simulation, then trap Moriarty and the Countess in a simulation of their own, restoring the ship.
• S06E16 Birthright, part 1: Worf is told by the Yridian Jaglom Shrek that his father Mogh survived Khitomer in a Romulan prison camp, and goes there. Meanwhile a plasma shock gives Data visions of Doctor Soong, and he activates dormant circuits that let him dream. Worf is seized in the camp.
• S06E26 Descent, part 1: Borg who act as individuals attack an outpost and the Enterprise; Data feels anger and, goaded by a captured Borg, goes off in a shuttle with him. Picard's team follows and finds a Borg hall, where Lore appears and Data declares the sons of Soong will destroy the Federation.
• S07E01 Descent, part 2: Lore controls Data and experiments on captured Enterprise officers while Crusher commands the ship, rescuing the stranded crew and destroying a Borg ship. Picard's team restores Data's ethical programme, Hugh turns on Lore, and Data shoots Lore to deactivate him.
• S07E05 Gambit, part 2: Picard and Riker, undercover on Baran's mercenary ship, kill Baran and take command. Tallera, who claimed to be Vulcan Security, assembles the Stone of Gol resonator at the T'Kareth sanctuary; Picard defeats it by having everyone empty their minds of violence, and Satok takes her into custody.
• S07E06 Phantasms: Data's dream programme turns to nightmares and waking hallucinations, and he stabs Troi. Crusher finds interphasic organisms feeding on the crew; Data's dreams mirror them, and an interphasic pulse from his adjusted subprocessor eliminates them.
• S07E10 Inheritance: Geologist Juliana Tainer, who says she was Soong's wife, helps Data and the crew re-liquefy the core of Atrea Four. Data finds she is an android who believes she is human; Soong's hologram asks him to keep it secret, and Data does.
• S07E16 Thine Own Self: Data, memoryless after a power surge, lives in a pre-industrial village and is blamed for a sickness caused by radioactive probe fragments. He cures it, is killed by the villagers, and is recovered by the Enterprise. Meanwhile Troi passes Riker's Bridge Officer's test and is promoted.
• S07E17 Masks: An ancient alien archive inside a comet reshapes the Enterprise into its own culture's artefacts and fills Data with personalities, including the queen Masaka. Picard finds the symbols for her temple and her counterpart Korgano, poses as Korgano, and puts her to sleep, restoring the ship and Data.
• S07E23 Emergence: The Enterprise's systems form an intelligence that takes over the ship, with a holodeck train as its imagination, and builds an object in the cargo bay. Picard's crew cooperates, creating vertion particles with a modified torpedo, and the new lifeform leaves into space.

Holodeck

16 episodes.

• S01E12 The Big Goodbye: Picard plays a Dixon Hill detective program in the holodeck before greeting the Jaradan. After a Jaradan probe passes through the ship, the holodeck controls and exits fail and its characters become dangerous. Wesley and Geordi restore control, and Picard makes the greeting.
• S01E15 11001001: At Starbase 74 the Bynars, upgrading the Enterprise computer, use a holodeck woman, Minuet, to keep Riker occupied, evacuate the ship and take it to Bynaus. They need its computer to hold their planet's data through a supernova pulse. Picard and Riker retake control and restore it.
• S01E24 We'll Always Have Paris: Picard answers a distress call from scientist Paul Manheim, whose time experiments are distorting time across thousands of light years, and finds his wife Jenice, whom Picard once failed to meet in Paris. Data seals the breach, and Picard says goodbye to Jenice in a holodeck Paris.
• S02E03 Elementary, Dear Data: Geordi asks the computer for an opponent capable of defeating Data, and Professor Moriarty becomes self-aware, takes over the holodeck and holds Pulaski. He wants to keep existing; Picard cannot free him, so Moriarty returns control and his programme is saved.
• S02E04 The Outrageous Okona: Roguish freighter captain Okona is demanded by Debin of Atlec for dishonouring his daughter and by Kushell of Straleb for theft. Okona reveals he was only carrying messages between the real lovers, Yanar and Benzan, and the couple agree to marry. Meanwhile Data uses a holodeck comic to learn humour.
• S02E19 Manhunt: Lwaxana Troi, in a Betazoid mid-life phase, pursues Picard, who hides in his Dixon Hill holodeck programme. She turns to Riker, then to the holodeck bartender Rex. She finally reads the minds of two Antedean delegates and exposes them as assassins carrying explosives.
• S03E06 Booby Trap: After the Enterprise visits a dead Promellian cruiser, it is drained of power by hidden aceton assimilators. Geordi builds a holodeck Leah Brahms from computer records to help him, then proposes shutting almost everything off. Picard flies the ship out through the debris.
• S03E14 A Matter Of Perspective: After Doctor Apgar's research station explodes, Tanugan investigator Krag accuses Riker of murder and demands extradition. Picard has the holodeck replay the witnesses' conflicting accounts. The crew shows Apgar's energy converter, not Riker's phaser, caused the blast, so Apgar died trying to kill Riker and Krag withdraws.
• S03E21 Hollow Pursuits: Lieutenant Barclay, mocked by colleagues as 'Broccoli', escapes into holodeck fantasies of the crew while a spreading malfunction caused by invidium contamination threatens the ship; his insight helps solve it.
• S04E08 Future Imperfect: Riker wakes sixteen years in the future as captain with a son, then spots flaws and a false Romulan plot to extract Outpost twenty three's location. That too proves illusory: a lonely alien boy, Barash, made it all, wanting someone real to stay. Riker offers to take him along.
• S04E16 Galaxy's Child: Geordi, who has a fantasy about a holographic Leah Brahms, meets the real, hostile Dr Brahms. Meanwhile the Enterprise kills a space creature, delivers its baby, and the two engineers wean the baby off the ship's power. Leah finds the hologram, they quarrel, then reconcile.
• S06E08 A Fistful of Datas: Geordi's experimental interface makes Data's personal programming replace a computer subroutine, so the Wild West holodeck programme's outlaws take Data's face and abilities. Worf and Troi, with the safeguards off, must rescue kidnapped Alexander by facing Frank Hollander in a showdown, then the programme ends.
• S06E12 Ship in a Bottle: Moriarty, freed from protected holodeck memory, seizes control of the Enterprise and demands to leave the holodeck with the Countess. Data, Picard and Barclay realise they are inside his simulation, then trap Moriarty and the Countess in a simulation of their own, restoring the ship.
• S07E06 Phantasms: Data's dream programme turns to nightmares and waking hallucinations, and he stabs Troi. Crusher finds interphasic organisms feeding on the crew; Data's dreams mirror them, and an interphasic pulse from his adjusted subprocessor eliminates them.
• S07E13 Homeward: Worf's foster brother Nikolai smuggles a village of Boraalans onto the holodeck to save them from their planet's death; Picard reluctantly helps relocate them, and Nikolai stays with the villagers.
• S07E23 Emergence: The Enterprise's systems form an intelligence that takes over the ship, with a holodeck train as its imagination, and builds an object in the cargo bay. Picard's crew cooperates, creating vertion particles with a modified torpedo, and the new lifeform leaves into space.

Time travel

9 episodes.

• S02E13 Time Squared: A shuttle carrying a Picard from six hours in the future, who fled the Enterprise just before it was destroyed, is found; the present Picard realises an energy vortex wants him, stops his double repeating the escape, and flies the ship into the vortex, breaking the loop.
• S03E15 Yesterday's Enterprise: The Enterprise-C emerges from a temporal rift, creating a timeline where the Federation is losing a war with the Klingons and Tasha Yar is alive; Guinan senses the wrongness, and Picard sends the Enterprise-C back to its fate with Tasha aboard.
• S03E19 Captain's Holiday: Pushed into shore leave, Picard goes to Risa and teams up with the archaeologist Vash in a hunt for the Tox Uthat, pursued by a Ferengi and by time-travelling Vorgons; the Uthat is destroyed.
• S05E09 A Matter Of Time: Professor Rasmussen claims to be a 26th-century historian watching the Enterprise try to save Penthara Four, and refuses Picard's plea to reveal the outcome. After the plan works, Data finds Rasmussen is a 22nd-century inventor who stole crew items and the time pod. He is caught, but the pod leaves without him.
• S05E18 Cause and Effect: The Enterprise keeps colliding with another ship and exploding, then resetting, while the crew gets only deja vu. Once they work out it is a temporal causality loop, they send themselves a message through Data. In the next loop Data acts on it and the ship escapes.
• S05E26 Time's Arrow, part 1: Data's head is found in a cave beneath San Francisco, dated five centuries old. While the Enterprise investigates aliens on Devidia, Data is pulled into 1893 San Francisco, where he finds Guinan and Clemens. Picard's away team follows the aliens through a portal.
• S06E01 Time's Arrow, part 2: In nineteenth-century San Francisco the crew hunt aliens who drain human neural energy, with Samuel Clemens on their trail, while Picard meets the young Guinan and is stranded with her until Clemens helps him return.
• S07E21 Firstborn: K'mtar, who says he was sent to protect Worf from assassins, pushes Worf's son Alexander toward the warrior's path and urges Worf to send him to a Klingon school. He turns out to be Alexander from forty years in the future, who staged the attack; Worf talks him into accepting himself.
• S07E25-E26 All Good Things...: Q tells Picard, who is shifting between past, present and future, that humanity is condemned and that Picard causes its destruction. Picard finds that tachyon pulses from his ships in all three eras created the anti-time anomaly, and the three Enterprises collapse it. Q says the trial never ends.

Wesley & Traveler

3 episodes.

• S01E06 Where No One Has Gone Before: A warp experiment by the arrogant Kosinski, secretly driven by his assistant the Traveler, throws the ship beyond the galaxy to a place where thought becomes reality; the Traveler sees Wesley's potential and Picard makes him an acting ensign.
• S04E05 Remember Me: Crusher watches people vanish from the ship, and everyone forgets them, until she is alone in a shrinking universe; she is trapped in a warp bubble from Wesley's experiment, and the returning Traveler helps Wesley open a way out.
• S07E20 Journey's End: Wesley returns from the Academy troubled and resigns after a vision of his father; the Federation hands the colony world Dorvan V to Cardassia, its colonists choose to stay under Cardassian rule, and the Traveler reveals himself and offers to guide Wesley.

Troi family

9 episodes.

• S01E11 Haven: Deanna Troi prepares to honour an arranged marriage to Wyatt Miller while her mother Lwaxana feuds with his parents. A Tarellian plague ship nears Haven, and Wyatt, who has dreamed of its passenger Ariana, beams over to stay and work on a cure.
• S02E01 The Child: Troi is impregnated by an alien life form and gives birth to Ian, who ages rapidly; the ship carries plague specimens, one of which grows because of Ian's radiation, and he leaves; Pulaski is newly aboard and Wesley asks to stay.
• S02E19 Manhunt: Lwaxana Troi, in a Betazoid mid-life phase, pursues Picard, who hides in his Dixon Hill holodeck programme. She turns to Riker, then to the holodeck bartender Rex. She finally reads the minds of two Antedean delegates and exposes them as assassins carrying explosives.
• S03E24 Ménage à Troi: DaiMon Tog of the Ferengi kidnaps Lwaxana Troi for her telepathy, along with Deanna and Riker. Riker hides a signal in the static, and Lwaxana offers to stay with Tog. Picard's staged jealous ultimatum gets her back. Wesley misses the Academy exam and is promoted to full Ensign.
• S04E10 The Loss: Troi loses her empathic sense and tries to resign as counsellor. Meanwhile the Enterprise is towed by two-dimensional beings toward a cosmic string fragment. Troi suggests they are drawn to it by instinct, a simulated string frees the ship, and her sense returns as the beings reach it.
• S04E22 Half a Life: Lwaxana becomes close to Timicin, a Kaelon Two scientist expected to end his life at sixty under the Resolution. She urges him to refuse and he seeks asylum, but after his daughter's rebuke he returns home, and Lwaxana goes with him.
• S05E20 Cost of Living: Lwaxana Troi prepares to marry Minister Campio, whom she has never met, and befriends Alexander, undermining Worf's rules. Metal parasites eating the ship's nitrium nearly destroy it until Data lures them away with a nitrium beam. Lwaxana arrives at the wedding naked and Campio leaves.
• S07E07 Dark Page: Lwaxana collapses after telepathic work with the Cairn. With Maques as a telepathic bridge, Troi enters her mother's metaconscious and finds Lwaxana's grief over the drowning of Troi's older sister Kestra. Troi persuades her to let go, and Lwaxana wakes.
• S07E18 Eye of the Beholder: Troi investigates a suicide and, through an empathic imprint left by a murder eight years earlier, uncovers the killer; she and Worf become lovers.

Worf family

19 episodes.

• S01E20 Heart Of Glory: Rescued from a dying freighter, three renegade Klingons urge Worf to join them in reclaiming the old warrior ways; when their escape endangers the Enterprise, Worf kills Korris and chooses Starfleet duty.
• S02E14 The Icarus Factor: Riker turns down command of the Ares as his estranged father Kyle arrives and they settle things in an anbo-jyutsu match; Worf's friends stage a tenth-anniversary Rite of Ascension.
• S02E20 The Emissary: Federation emissary K'Ehleyr, whom Worf knew six years earlier, joins the Enterprise to stop a Klingon ship whose crew, asleep for seventy-five years, will attack Federation colonies believing the war continues. Worf's bluff as commander forces Captain K'Temoc to yield. K'Ehleyr and Worf part with feelings unresolved.
• S03E05 The Bonding: Worf tries to make the R'uustai bond with a boy whose mother died on his away mission, while an energy being recreates the mother to comfort the child; with help from Picard, Troi and Wesley the boy faces his grief and the bond is completed.
• S03E07 The Enemy: Geordi is stranded on storm-wracked Galorndon Core with a Romulan and they must cooperate to survive; Worf refuses to give the ribosomes a dying Romulan needs, and the Enterprise faces down a Romulan warbird at the border.
• S03E17 Sins Of The Father: Kurn, a Klingon exchange officer, tells Worf the High Council has branded their father Mogh a traitor. Worf and Picard, as cha'DIch, learn the Council knew Mogh was innocent, so Worf accepts discommendation to spare Kurn and prevent civil war.
• S04E02 Family: Picard recovers from his Borg ordeal at the family vineyard in France, fights it out with his brother Robert, and turns down the Atlantis project; Worf's parents visit, and Wesley watches a message from his late father.
• S04E07 Reunion: Dying K'mpec asks Picard to arbitrate the Klingon succession and find his poisoner. K'Ehleyr, who has arrived with Worf's son Alexander, investigates Duras over Khitomer and is killed; she names Duras, and Worf kills him despite Riker's arrival.
• S04E26 Redemption: Gowron's succession is challenged by Toral, son of Duras, and his aunts Lursa and B'Etor, who have Romulan allies; Picard refuses to take sides, and Worf resigns from Starfleet to serve Gowron, who restores his honour.
• S05E01 Redemption part 2: Picard sets a tachyon detection blockade on the Romulan-Klingon border to expose Romulan help for the Duras. Data, commanding the Sutherland, disobeys orders and fires on the hidden convoy, so Sela withdraws. Gowron wins, and Worf spares the captured Toral.
• S05E10 New Ground: Worf's mother leaves his son Alexander with him aboard the Enterprise. Alexander lies and steals, and Worf plans to send him to a Klingon school. After Alexander is hurt in a fire during a rescue, Worf lets him stay with him.
• S05E16 Ethics: Paralysed Worf asks Riker to help him die; Riker refuses and sends him to his son Alexander, and Worf instead agrees to Doctor Russell's experimental spinal replacement, which Crusher opposes. Worf dies on the table but his Klingon redundant organs revive him.
• S05E20 Cost of Living: Lwaxana Troi prepares to marry Minister Campio, whom she has never met, and befriends Alexander, undermining Worf's rules. Metal parasites eating the ship's nitrium nearly destroy it until Data lures them away with a nitrium beam. Lwaxana arrives at the wedding naked and Campio leaves.
• S06E08 A Fistful of Datas: Geordi's experimental interface makes Data's personal programming replace a computer subroutine, so the Wild West holodeck programme's outlaws take Data's face and abilities. Worf and Troi, with the safeguards off, must rescue kidnapped Alexander by facing Frank Hollander in a showdown, then the programme ends.
• S06E16 Birthright, part 1: Worf is told by the Yridian Jaglom Shrek that his father Mogh survived Khitomer in a Romulan prison camp, and goes there. Meanwhile a plasma shock gives Data visions of Doctor Soong, and he activates dormant circuits that let him dream. Worf is seized in the camp.
• S06E17 Birthright, part 2: Held by Tokath at a camp where Klingon captives from Khitomer live with Romulans, Worf teaches the young people Klingon ways. Tokath orders his execution, but Toq, Ba'el and the elders stand with him and the young leave with Worf. He tells Picard no camp existed.
• S07E11 Parallels: Worf, thrown between quantum realities after his shuttle crosses a fissure, finds himself married to Troi in one of them. As more Enterprises flood into Riker's universe, Worf takes the original shuttle back through the fissure, reseals it and returns home.
• S07E13 Homeward: Worf's foster brother Nikolai smuggles a village of Boraalans onto the holodeck to save them from their planet's death; Picard reluctantly helps relocate them, and Nikolai stays with the villagers.
• S07E21 Firstborn: K'mtar, who says he was sent to protect Worf from assassins, pushes Worf's son Alexander toward the warrior's path and urges Worf to send him to a Klingon school. He turns out to be Alexander from forty years in the future, who staged the attack; Worf talks him into accepting himself.

Picard's past

8 episodes.

• S01E09 The Battle: The Ferengi DaiMon Bok gives Picard his old ship, the Stargazer, as a trap; a hidden thought-control device makes Picard relive the Battle of Maxia, where he destroyed the ship commanded by Bok's son, until Riker's crew breaks the control.
• S01E24 We'll Always Have Paris: Picard answers a distress call from scientist Paul Manheim, whose time experiments are distorting time across thousands of light years, and finds his wife Jenice, whom Picard once failed to meet in Paris. Data seals the breach, and Picard says goodbye to Jenice in a holodeck Paris.
• S02E17 Samaritan Snare: Picard has a faulty artificial heart replaced at a starbase and Pulaski helps save him when the surgery goes wrong; meanwhile Riker outwits the slow-witted but dangerous Pakleds, who have taken Geordi hostage.
• S04E02 Family: Picard recovers from his Borg ordeal at the family vineyard in France, fights it out with his brother Robert, and turns down the Atlantis project; Worf's parents visit, and Wesley watches a message from his late father.
• S06E15 Tapestry: Dying after an attack, Picard is offered a second chance by Q to avoid the Nausicaan fight that cost him his heart. He does, but returns to a life as an unremarkable junior officer, and begs to go back and fight again.
• S06E20 The Chase: After Professor Galen, Picard's old archaeology teacher, is killed, Picard pursues his number blocks, which prove to be DNA fragments forming a program. Cardassians, Klingons and Romulans race him for the last piece. It plays a recorded message from an ancient being who seeded life on many worlds.
• S07E08 Attached: Prytt captors implant Picard and Crusher on Kesprytt III so they can read their minds; the implants link the two telepathically as they escape, and Picard's long-hidden feelings for her come out, while Riker works the Kes-Prytt dispute for their release.
• S07E22 Bloodlines: Bok, stripped of his DaiMon rank, returns to avenge his son's death at Picard's hands; he threatens Picard's supposed son Jason Vigo, whose DNA he has faked, until Picard sees through it and confronts him on his ship.

Riker

18 episodes.

• S01E10 Hide & Q: Q gives Riker the powers of the Q, hoping to lure him into the Continuum; Riker is tempted, but when he offers his friends their dearest wishes they all turn them down, and Q loses his wager with Picard.
• S01E14 Angel One: Searching for survivors of the freighter Odin, Riker's away team finds Ramsey's men refuse rescue, and Beata, the Elected One, sentences them to death. While a virus sweeps the Enterprise, Riker argues that executing them will make martyrs, and Beata exiles them instead.
• S01E15 11001001: At Starbase 74 the Bynars, upgrading the Enterprise computer, use a holodeck woman, Minuet, to keep Riker occupied, evacuate the ship and take it to Bynaus. They need its computer to hold their planet's data through a supernova pulse. Picard and Riker retake control and restore it.
• S02E08 A Matter of Honour: Riker volunteers for an exchange posting as first officer of the Klingon ship Pagh. When a hull-eating organism appears, Captain Kargan blames the Enterprise and prepares to attack. Riker keeps his oaths, has Kargan beamed away, takes command briefly, then hands it back.
• S02E14 The Icarus Factor: Riker turns down command of the Ares as his estranged father Kyle arrives and they settle things in an anbo-jyutsu match; Worf's friends stage a tenth-anniversary Rite of Ascension.
• S02E21 Peak Performance: In a war game against Riker's stripped-down Hathaway, Picard's Enterprise is hit by a real Ferengi attack led by Bractor. Data, shaken after losing Strategema to Kolrami, helps Picard fake the Hathaway's destruction to scare the Ferengi off, then forces Kolrami to a stalemate.
• S02E22 Shades Of Gray: On Surata Four, Riker is stabbed by a vine thorn and infected with a microorganism that spreads toward his brain. Pulaski stimulates his brain, replaying memories as flashbacks, and finds that negative emotions inhibit the organisms. This eradicates the infection and Riker recovers.
• S03E09 The Vengeance Factor: Picard brings Sovereign Marouk to offer amnesty to the Gatherers. Riker befriends her servant Yuta, but finds she is the last of the Tralesta clan, altered to live long and kill the Lornak with an engineered virus. He cannot stop her and vapourises her.
• S03E14 A Matter Of Perspective: After Doctor Apgar's research station explodes, Tanugan investigator Krag accuses Riker of murder and demands extradition. Picard has the holodeck replay the witnesses' conflicting accounts. The crew shows Apgar's energy converter, not Riker's phaser, caused the blast, so Apgar died trying to kill Riker and Krag withdraws.
• S03E26 Best Of Both Worlds, part 1: The Borg invade Federation space and destroy a colony, Shelby arrives as a tactical expert and clashes with Riker, and after a costly battle Picard is captured and returns on screen as Locutus of Borg.
• S04E01 Best of Both Worlds, part 2: Riker, promoted to captain, rescues Picard from the Borg; Data uses the link to Locutus, with Picard's help, to put the Borg to sleep after they have wrecked the fleet at Wolf 359.
• S04E08 Future Imperfect: Riker wakes sixteen years in the future as captain with a son, then spots flaws and a false Romulan plot to extract Outpost twenty three's location. That too proves illusory: a lonely alien boy, Barash, made it all, wanting someone real to stay. Riker offers to take him along.
• S05E17 The Outcast: Riker helps the J'naii rescue their shuttle crew from null space and falls for Soren, who secretly identifies as female, which J'naii law punishes with treatment. Picard cites the Prime Directive; Riker and Worf try to free her, but Soren, now treated, refuses and Riker leaves.
• S06E21 Frame of Mind: Riker, rehearsing a play about an asylum, is sent undercover to Tilonus IV; he slips between the stage, the Enterprise and an asylum run by an alien administrator, Suna, who is extracting information from his memory.
• S06E24 Second Chances: A transporter accident eight years earlier created a second Riker, alone on Nervala IV ever since; he rekindles his love for Troi, clashes with his counterpart, and leaves for a new posting.
• S07E04 Gambit, part 1: Believing Picard was killed, Riker investigates and is captured by Baran's mercenaries, who are looting Romulan artefacts. He finds Picard alive, undercover as "Galen", and agrees to play a disgraced officer to win Baran's trust. Riker shuts down the Enterprise's shields, and the mercenaries fire on it.
• S07E05 Gambit, part 2: Picard and Riker, undercover on Baran's mercenary ship, kill Baran and take command. Tallera, who claimed to be Vulcan Security, assembles the Stone of Gol resonator at the T'Kareth sanctuary; Picard defeats it by having everyone empty their minds of violence, and Satok takes her into custody.
• S07E12 The Pegasus: Admiral Pressman brings the Enterprise to find the lost Pegasus before the Romulans do, secretly intending to restart its illegal phasing cloak experiment. Riker, who once backed him in a mutiny aboard the Pegasus, refuses, and Picard arrests Pressman for violating the Treaty of Algeron.

Geordi

11 episodes.

• S01E21 The Arsenal Of Freedom: On Minos, an automated weapons system left by the vanished inhabitants attacks the away team and the Enterprise. Picard and the injured Crusher are trapped in a cavern while La Forge commands the ship. Picard ends the demonstration by telling the salesman program he will buy.
• S03E06 Booby Trap: After the Enterprise visits a dead Promellian cruiser, it is drained of power by hidden aceton assimilators. Geordi builds a holodeck Leah Brahms from computer records to help him, then proposes shutting almost everything off. Picard flies the ship out through the debris.
• S03E07 The Enemy: Geordi is stranded on storm-wracked Galorndon Core with a Romulan and they must cooperate to survive; Worf refuses to give the ribosomes a dying Romulan needs, and the Enterprise faces down a Romulan warbird at the border.
• S04E16 Galaxy's Child: Geordi, who has a fantasy about a holographic Leah Brahms, meets the real, hostile Dr Brahms. Meanwhile the Enterprise kills a space creature, delivers its baby, and the two engineers wean the baby off the ship's power. Leah finds the hologram, they quarrel, then reconcile.
• S04E18 Identity Crisis: Geordi and his former colleague Susanna Leijten investigate why members of their old Tarchannen III away team vanish. Susanna and then Geordi transform into alien creatures. Geordi flees to the planet, and Susanna leads the away team to him. Surgery restores him.
• S04E24 The Mind's Eye: Geordi is abducted and brainwashed by the Romulans, who control him through his VISOR to assassinate Klingon Governor Vagh and wreck the Federation-Klingon alliance; Ambassador Kell is their agent, and an unnamed woman commander is heard but not seen.
• S05E13 The Masterpiece Society: The Enterprise helps Aaron Conor's genetically engineered colony survive a stellar core fragment, with Geordi and Hannah Bates adapting visor technology to the tractor beam. Contact unsettles the colony, and 23 colonists leave, which Picard calls a Prime Directive responsibility.
• S05E24 The Next Phase: After a transporter accident, La Forge and Ro are phased by a Romulan experimental device and believed dead. Unseen, they attend their own memorial party and uncover the Romulans' plan to wreck the Enterprise's warp engines. Data's anyon beam makes them visible again.
• S06E04 Relics: Scott, found alive in a transporter pattern buffer after seventy five years, feels useless aboard the Enterprise. When the ship is pulled inside a Dyson Sphere, he and La Forge use the wrecked Jenolen to hold the hatch open so it can escape. Picard gives him a shuttle.
• S06E13 Aquiel: Geordi studies the logs of missing Lieutenant Aquiel Uhnari and falls for her when Klingons return her alive. Crusher finds the remains on the relay station are a coalescent organism that copies what it absorbs. Aquiel and Morag are held for observation, and Geordi destroys the creature when it copies his dog.
• S07E03 Interface: Geordi uses an experimental probe interface to search the wrecked Raman, then disobeys Picard to descend further after seeing his missing mother, who says her ship is trapped on the planet. The image proves to be a subspace being that killed the Raman's crew; Geordi is saved from neural shock.

Crusher

10 episodes.

• S03E01 Evolution: Two nanites escape from Wesley's school project and, evolving, start disabling the Enterprise just before Doctor Stubbs' stellar experiment. After Stubbs kills some of them, Data lets them enter him to talk. Peace is made, the nanites get a planet, and the experiment goes ahead.
• S03E12 The High Ground: Crusher is kidnapped by Ansata separatists on Rutia IV, who use a lethal dimension-shifting transporter; their leader then attacks the Enterprise and takes Picard too, and the episode debates terrorism.
• S03E25 Transfigurations: Dr. Crusher saves an injured amnesiac who can heal others. Commander Sunad of Zalkon demands him back as an escaped criminal, since his people kill those who show these changes. Recovering his memory, John transforms into a being of energy, shows Sunad he is no threat, and departs.
• S04E05 Remember Me: Crusher watches people vanish from the ship, and everyone forgets them, until she is alone in a shrinking universe; she is trapped in a warp bubble from Wesley's experiment, and the returning Traveler helps Wesley open a way out.
• S04E23 The Host: Ambassador Odan, who is Crusher's lover, is revealed to be a symbiont when his host dies. Riker volunteers as temporary host so Odan can mediate a moon dispute, which he does, preventing war. Odan then moves to a new host, Kareel, and Crusher ends the relationship.
• S05E16 Ethics: Paralysed Worf asks Riker to help him die; Riker refuses and sends him to his son Alexander, and Worf instead agrees to Doctor Russell's experimental spinal replacement, which Crusher opposes. Worf dies on the table but his Klingon redundant organs revive him.
• S06E22 Suspicions: Crusher invites scientists to see Ferengi Doctor Reyga's metaphasic shield. After a pilot's death and Reyga's apparent suicide, she defies Picard's ban and autopsies Reyga, then flies the shuttle to prove the shield works, exposing the saboteur Jo'Bril and winning reinstatement.
• S07E01 Descent, part 2: Lore controls Data and experiments on captured Enterprise officers while Crusher commands the ship, rescuing the stranded crew and destroying a Borg ship. Picard's team restores Data's ethical programme, Hugh turns on Lore, and Data shoots Lore to deactivate him.
• S07E08 Attached: Prytt captors implant Picard and Crusher on Kesprytt III so they can read their minds; the implants link the two telepathically as they escape, and Picard's long-hidden feelings for her come out, while Riker works the Kes-Prytt dispute for their release.
• S07E14 Sub Rosa: Crusher inherits her grandmother's house on Caldos and is seduced by Ronin, an anaphasic entity that has lived with her family's women for generations; he kills to protect himself, and she destroys him.

Tasha

6 episodes.

• S01E03 The Naked Now: An alcohol-like contaminant from the dead research ship Tsiolkovsky spreads through the Enterprise, and Wesley seizes Engineering as a star collapses. Crusher adapts a cure from Kirk's Enterprise records, and Data's chip repair plus Wesley's repulser beam let the ship escape.
• S01E04 Code of Honour: Lutan of Ligon Two abducts Lieutenant Yar and says he wants her as his First One, so his mate Yareena challenges her to a fight to the death. Picard needs Ligon's vaccine for a plague, so Tasha fights and wins, and Crusher revives Yareena.
• S01E23 Skin Of Evil: On Vagra II, the oil-like Armus kills Tasha Yar for amusement and holds Troi and Lieutenant Prieto in their crashed shuttle, also seizing Riker. Picard refuses to bargain, Armus's guard drops, and Troi and Prieto are beamed up. Tasha is mourned in a holodeck farewell.
• S03E15 Yesterday's Enterprise: The Enterprise-C emerges from a temporal rift, creating a timeline where the Federation is losing a war with the Klingons and Tasha Yar is alive; Guinan senses the wrongness, and Picard sends the Enterprise-C back to its fate with Tasha aboard.
• S04E06 Legacy: Hayne's Coalition sends Tasha Yar's sister Ishara to help the Enterprise rescue two freighter crewmen held by the Alliance on Turkana Four. After befriending Data, she tries to overload the Alliance's defences so Coalition troops can attack, and Data stops her.
• S05E01 Redemption part 2: Picard sets a tachyon detection blockade on the Romulan-Klingon border to expose Romulan help for the Duras. Data, commanding the Sutherland, disobeys orders and fires on the hidden convoy, so Sela withdraws. Gowron wins, and Worf spares the captured Toral.

Ro

4 episodes.

• S05E03 Ensign Ro: Picard is sent to find Bajoran terrorist leader Orta, aided by newly assigned, disgraced Ensign Ro. Ro admits Admiral Kennelly secretly meant her to offer Orta weapons. Picard exposes the Solarion Four attack as likely a Cardassian setup, and persuades Ro to stay in Starfleet.
• S05E24 The Next Phase: After a transporter accident, La Forge and Ro are phased by a Romulan experimental device and believed dead. Unseen, they attend their own memorial party and uncover the Romulans' plan to wreck the Enterprise's warp engines. Data's anyon beam makes them visible again.
• S06E07 Rascals: Picard, Guinan, Ro and Keiko are turned into children when a molecular reversion field disrupts their beam-out. Renegade Ferengi under DaiMon Lurin then seize the Enterprise; the children use their size to disable the Ferengi, retake the ship, and are restored to adults.
• S07E24 Preemptive Strike: Starfleet sends Lieutenant Ro undercover into the Maquis, and Picard has her lure them into a trap at the Hugora Nebula. After Macias is killed in a Cardassian attack, Ro warns the Maquis, abandons Starfleet and leaves with them, apologising to Picard.

Barclay

5 episodes.

• S03E21 Hollow Pursuits: Lieutenant Barclay, mocked by colleagues as 'Broccoli', escapes into holodeck fantasies of the crew while a spreading malfunction caused by invidium contamination threatens the ship; his insight helps solve it.
• S04E19 The Nth Degree: An alien probe boosts Lieutenant Barclay's intelligence and he merges with the Enterprise computer, defying Picard's orders and taking the ship to the centre of the galaxy. There the Cytherians, who sent the probe, want an exchange of knowledge, return him to normal and let the ship go.
• S06E02 Realm of Fear: Barclay's transporter phobia is tested when he glimpses strange creatures in the matter stream; they prove to be alien microbes from a plasma streamer, and he helps rescue crewmen trapped in the beam.
• S06E12 Ship in a Bottle: Moriarty, freed from protected holodeck memory, seizes control of the Enterprise and demands to leave the holodeck with the Countess. Data, Picard and Barclay realise they are inside his simulation, then trap Moriarty and the Countess in a simulation of their own, restoring the ship.
• S07E19 Genesis: Crusher's synthetic T-cell, given to Barclay for Urodelan flu, mutates into an airborne intron virus that de-evolves the crew into earlier life forms. Returning from a torpedo search, Picard and Data make a retrovirus from Ogawa's amniotic fluid while Picard lures off the transformed Worf.

Prime Directive

13 episodes.

• S01E04 Code of Honour: Lutan of Ligon Two abducts Lieutenant Yar and says he wants her as his First One, so his mate Yareena challenges her to a fight to the death. Picard needs Ligon's vaccine for a plague, so Tasha fights and wins, and Crusher revives Yareena.
• S01E08 Justice: On the idyllic planet of the Edo, Wesley unknowingly breaks a law punishable by death; Picard must weigh the Prime Directive and his crew against saving him, while a god-like entity in orbit watches.
• S01E14 Angel One: Searching for survivors of the freighter Odin, Riker's away team finds Ramsey's men refuse rescue, and Beata, the Elected One, sentences them to death. While a virus sweeps the Enterprise, Riker argues that executing them will make martyrs, and Beata exiles them instead.
• S01E16 Too Short A Season: Admiral Jameson, summoned by Karnas to negotiate for hostages on Mordan Four, secretly overdoses on an alien de-aging drug. He admits his weapons deal began the planet's civil war. After a failed raid he surrenders to Karnas, dies as a young man, and the hostages are freed.
• S01E22 Symbiosis: The Enterprise rescues Ornaran and Brekkian traders over a cargo of felicium, which Dr. Crusher finds is an addictive narcotic, not a medicine. Citing the Prime Directive, Picard will not intervene, lets the shipment go and withholds the freighter repair coils.
• S02E15 Pen Pals: Data answers a message from Sarjenka, a girl on Drema Four, and asks Picard to help when her planet starts tearing apart. After debate, Picard allows it. Wesley's team finds dilithium crystals are the cause, resonators stop them, and Sarjenka's memory of Data is wiped.
• S03E04 Who Watches The Watchers: A failing Federation observation post on Mintaka Three is seen by the Mintakans, and Liko comes to believe Picard is the Overseer, a god. Picard refuses to play one, shows Nuria the ship and its limits, and is shot in the shoulder by Liko before the Mintakans accept he is mortal.
• S03E11 The Hunted: Enterprise captures Roga Danar, an Angosian soldier conditioned by his own government and exiled to Lunar Five. He escapes, leads the exiles in an uprising, and demands to come home. Picard, citing non-interference, leaves Prime Minister Nayrok to choose between force and welcome.
• S03E25 Transfigurations: Dr. Crusher saves an injured amnesiac who can heal others. Commander Sunad of Zalkon demands him back as an escaped criminal, since his people kill those who show these changes. Recovering his memory, John transforms into a being of energy, shows Sunad he is no threat, and departs.
• S04E22 Half a Life: Lwaxana becomes close to Timicin, a Kaelon Two scientist expected to end his life at sixty under the Resolution. She urges him to refuse and he seeks asylum, but after his daughter's rebuke he returns home, and Lwaxana goes with him.
• S05E13 The Masterpiece Society: The Enterprise helps Aaron Conor's genetically engineered colony survive a stellar core fragment, with Geordi and Hannah Bates adapting visor technology to the tractor beam. Contact unsettles the colony, and 23 colonists leave, which Picard calls a Prime Directive responsibility.
• S05E17 The Outcast: Riker helps the J'naii rescue their shuttle crew from null space and falls for Soren, who secretly identifies as female, which J'naii law punishes with treatment. Picard cites the Prime Directive; Riker and Worf try to free her, but Soren, now treated, refuses and Riker leaves.
• S07E13 Homeward: Worf's foster brother Nikolai smuggles a village of Boraalans onto the holodeck to save them from their planet's death; Picard reluctantly helps relocate them, and Nikolai stays with the villagers.

Trial & ethics

15 episodes.

• S01E01-E02 Encounter at Farpoint: Picard, new captain of the Enterprise, is confronted by Q, who judges humanity a savage race and sets Farpoint Station as a test. Picard and Riker discover the station is a captive lifeform, held by the Bandi, and free it, passing Q's test.
• S02E09 The Measure of a Man: Commander Maddox wants to dismantle Data to learn how to build more androids; at a hearing with Riker prosecuting and Picard defending, Captain Louvois rules that Data has the right to choose, and he refuses the procedure.
• S03E03 The Survivors: The Enterprise answers a distress call at Rana Four and finds a devastated planet with one intact house, home to an elderly couple. Picard deduces the house, the warship and Rishon are illusions made by Kevin, a Douwd who destroyed the attacking Husnock in grief. Picard lets him go.
• S03E11 The Hunted: Enterprise captures Roga Danar, an Angosian soldier conditioned by his own government and exiled to Lunar Five. He escapes, leads the exiles in an uprising, and demands to come home. Picard, citing non-interference, leaves Prime Minister Nayrok to choose between force and welcome.
• S03E14 A Matter Of Perspective: After Doctor Apgar's research station explodes, Tanugan investigator Krag accuses Riker of murder and demands extradition. Picard has the holodeck replay the witnesses' conflicting accounts. The crew shows Apgar's energy converter, not Riker's phaser, caused the blast, so Apgar died trying to kill Riker and Krag withdraws.
• S04E13 Devil's Due: Ardra claims the people of Ventax Two and the Enterprise under a thousand-year-old contract. Picard demands arbitration with Data as judge, and with Geordi and Riker finding her cloaked ship, he shows her powers are tricks. Ardra withdraws and the contract is dissolved.
• S04E21 The Drumhead: After Klingon exchange officer J'Dan admits passing ship schematics to the Romulans, retired Admiral Satie widens the inquiry to Crewman Tarses, whose grandfather was Romulan. Picard calls it a drumhead trial and challenges her, and Admiral Henry ends the hearings after Satie attacks Picard.
• S05E14 Conundrum: After an alien scan wipes the Enterprise crew's memories, damaged records tell them to destroy the Lysian Central Command. Picard refuses to fire on defenceless people; Commander MacDuff, revealed as a Satarran who manipulated them, is subdued.
• S05E16 Ethics: Paralysed Worf asks Riker to help him die; Riker refuses and sends him to his son Alexander, and Worf instead agrees to Doctor Russell's experimental spinal replacement, which Crusher opposes. Worf dies on the table but his Klingon redundant organs revive him.
• S05E17 The Outcast: Riker helps the J'naii rescue their shuttle crew from null space and falls for Soren, who secretly identifies as female, which J'naii law punishes with treatment. Picard cites the Prime Directive; Riker and Worf try to free her, but Soren, now treated, refuses and Riker leaves.
• S05E19 The First Duty: After a Nova Squadron cadet dies in a crash, squadron leader Locarno persuades Wesley and the others to hide that they attempted a banned Kolvoord Starburst. Picard works it out and tells Wesley to confess or he will. Wesley tells the inquiry; Locarno is expelled.
• S05E23 I, Borg: A lone injured Borg, named Hugh by Geordi, develops individuality; Picard abandons a plan to use him to destroy the Collective, and Hugh chooses to return to the Borg.
• S06E09 The Quality of Life: Data believes Doctor Farallon's exocomps may be alive and tries to stop her using them as labourers. When Riker orders them sent into a radiation surge to save Picard and La Forge, Data locks out the transporter; the exocomps instead save the officers by siphoning power themselves.
• S07E09 Force of Nature: Two Hekaran scientists sabotage ships to prove that warp drive is damaging subspace; one dies creating a rift that bears out the theory, and the Federation limits ships to warp 5.
• S07E25-E26 All Good Things...: Q tells Picard, who is shifting between past, present and future, that humanity is condemned and that Picard causes its destruction. Picard finds that tachyon pulses from his ships in all three eras created the anti-time anomaly, and the three Enterprises collapse it. Q says the trial never ends.

First contact

6 episodes.

• S01E18 Home Soil: Picard investigates a terraforming station on Velara Three after an engineer is killed by a drill. Data finds an inorganic, intelligent life form the terraformers' water pumping threatens. It takes over the Enterprise's Medical Lab and computer and declares war; Picard negotiates a truce and sends it home.
• S03E20 Tin Man: The Betazoid telepath Tam Elbrun makes contact with Gomtuu, a lonely living ship, while the Romulans race to seize or destroy it; Gomtuu destroys one warbird, and Tam chooses to stay with it.
• S04E15 First Contact: Riker, posing as Rivas Jakara, is hurt on Malcor III and held by frightened doctors and Minister Krola. Picard makes first contact with Chancellor Durken, who frees Riker but, finding his people unready, delays warp flight and asks the Enterprise to leave. Mirasta Yale goes with them.
• S04E19 The Nth Degree: An alien probe boosts Lieutenant Barclay's intelligence and he merges with the Enterprise computer, defying Picard's orders and taking the ship to the centre of the galaxy. There the Cytherians, who sent the probe, want an exchange of knowledge, return him to normal and let the ship go.
• S05E02 Darmok: Picard and the Tamarian captain Dathon are stranded together on El-Adrel, learning to communicate through a language made entirely of metaphor; Dathon dies fighting a creature and the Tamarians end hostilities.
• S07E02 Liaisons: Iyaaran ambassadors visit the Enterprise to experience pleasure, antagonism and love. Troi hosts chocolate-loving Loquel and Worf endures the rude Byleth, while Picard, stranded on a planet, is courted by Anna, who turns out to be Voval in disguise.

Alien influence

20 episodes.

• S01E07 Lonely Among Us: An energy being from a cloud passes from Worf to Crusher, the ship's systems and finally Picard, who beams himself out as energy to join it. Riker and Data bring Picard back through the transporter, while the Enterprise carries feuding Antican and Selay delegates to Parliament.
• S01E25 Conspiracy: After old friend Walker Keel warns him of strange changes in Starfleet Command and the Horatio is destroyed, Picard takes the Enterprise to Earth. He and Riker find parasites controlling Admirals Savar, Aaron and Quinn, and kill the mother creature inside Commander Remmick.
• S02E02 Where Silence Has Lease: The Enterprise is trapped in a void by Nagilum, a being that wants to understand death; it stages illusions and kills a crewman, saying it needs a third to half of the crew, until Picard's auto-destruct bluff makes it release the ship.
• S02E12 The Royale: Riker, Data and Worf are trapped in a hotel on a planet that acts out a bad novel, left by aliens around the remains of Colonel Richey, per his diary. Following the novel's ending, they win 12.5 million at craps, buy the hotel and escape.
• S03E01 Evolution: Two nanites escape from Wesley's school project and, evolving, start disabling the Enterprise just before Doctor Stubbs' stellar experiment. After Stubbs kills some of them, Data lets them enter him to talk. Peace is made, the nanites get a planet, and the experiment goes ahead.
• S03E03 The Survivors: The Enterprise answers a distress call at Rana Four and finds a devastated planet with one intact house, home to an elderly couple. Picard deduces the house, the warship and Rishon are illusions made by Kevin, a Douwd who destroyed the attacking Husnock in grief. Picard lets him go.
• S03E18 Allegiance: Aliens abduct Picard and put a replica in command of the Enterprise; Picard is held with other captives while the aliens study how people react to authority, until he exposes the experiment and Riker takes command.
• S04E17 Night Terrors: The Enterprise is stranded in a Tyken's rift and its crew, unable to reach REM sleep, hallucinate and turn on each other. Troi, who alone dreams, realises the dreams are a distress call from trapped aliens. She signals them in her sleep, a hydrogen release is detonated, and the ship escapes.
• S04E19 The Nth Degree: An alien probe boosts Lieutenant Barclay's intelligence and he merges with the Enterprise computer, defying Picard's orders and taking the ship to the centre of the galaxy. There the Cytherians, who sent the probe, want an exchange of knowledge, return him to normal and let the ship go.
• S05E06 The Game: Etana, a Ktarian, spreads an addictive game that controls the Enterprise crew. Wesley Crusher and Robin Lefler investigate, but Robin is taken too. Wesley is caught and forced to play, until Data, whom the crew had deactivated, frees everyone with an optical pulse.
• S05E14 Conundrum: After an alien scan wipes the Enterprise crew's memories, damaged records tell them to destroy the Lysian Central Command. Picard refuses to fire on defenceless people; Commander MacDuff, revealed as a Satarran who manipulated them, is subdued.
• S05E15 Power Play: Troi, Data and O'Brien are taken over by energy beings from a moon, who pose as the lost Essex crew and hold Ten Forward hostage. Picard exposes them as prisoners seeking escape, and Crusher's containment field frees the three, who are returned to the moon.
• S05E22 Imaginary Friend: An energy being takes the form of Clara Sutter's imaginary friend Isabella and, with others of its kind, drains the Enterprise's shields, saying the crew is cruel to Clara. Picard explains why adults set rules for children, and the beings withdraw.
• S06E03 Man of the People: Ambassador Alkar, escorted by the Enterprise to peace talks, channels his negative emotions into Troi, who ages rapidly and acts violently. Crusher briefly kills Troi to force him to switch victims. The link reverses during his meditation with Liva and Alkar dies; Troi recovers.
• S06E05 Schisms: Crew members, Riker among them, are taken from their beds by aliens from a tertiary subspace domain, drawn in by La Forge's sensor modification. Riker carries a homing device to the alien lab so the Enterprise can close the rupture with a graviton pulse, and he escapes with Ensign Rager.
• S06E21 Frame of Mind: Riker, rehearsing a play about an asylum, is sent undercover to Tilonus IV; he slips between the stage, the Enterprise and an asylum run by an alien administrator, Suna, who is extracting information from his memory.
• S06E25 Timescape: Returning from a conference, Picard, Troi, Data and Geordi find the Enterprise and a Romulan warbird frozen in fragmented time, with a warp core breach slowly expanding. They learn aliens nesting in the Romulan engine core caused it, reverse time, and Picard breaks the power transfer, saving the ship.
• S07E03 Interface: Geordi uses an experimental probe interface to search the wrecked Raman, then disobeys Picard to descend further after seeing his missing mother, who says her ship is trapped on the planet. The image proves to be a subspace being that killed the Raman's crew; Geordi is saved from neural shock.
• S07E17 Masks: An ancient alien archive inside a comet reshapes the Enterprise into its own culture's artefacts and fills Data with personalities, including the queen Masaka. Picard finds the symbols for her temple and her counterpart Korgano, poses as Korgano, and puts her to sleep, restoring the ship and Data.
• S07E23 Emergence: The Enterprise's systems form an intelligence that takes over the ship, with a holodeck train as its imagination, and builds an object in the cargo bay. Picard's crew cooperates, creating vertion particles with a modified torpedo, and the new lifeform leaves into space.

Starfleet politics

3 episodes.

• S01E19 Coming of Age: Wesley Crusher tests for Starfleet Academy on Relva Seven and loses the place to Mordock, while Remmick of the Inspector General's office investigates Picard's ship. Admiral Quinn then reveals it was a check before offering Picard the Academy Commandant post, citing a vague threat to the Federation. Picard declines.
• S01E25 Conspiracy: After old friend Walker Keel warns him of strange changes in Starfleet Command and the Horatio is destroyed, Picard takes the Enterprise to Earth. He and Riker find parasites controlling Admirals Savar, Aaron and Quinn, and kill the mother creature inside Commander Remmick.
• S07E12 The Pegasus: Admiral Pressman brings the Enterprise to find the lost Pegasus before the Romulans do, secretly intending to restart its illegal phasing cloak experiment. Riker, who once backed him in a mutiny aboard the Pegasus, refuses, and Picard arrests Pressman for violating the Treaty of Algeron.

Crew origins

2 episodes.

• S01E01-E02 Encounter at Farpoint: Picard, new captain of the Enterprise, is confronted by Q, who judges humanity a savage race and sets Farpoint Station as a test. Picard and Riker discover the station is a captive lifeform, held by the Bandi, and free it, passing Q's test.
• S02E01 The Child: Troi is impregnated by an alien life form and gives birth to Ian, who ages rapidly; the ship carries plague specimens, one of which grows because of Ian's radiation, and he leaves; Pulaski is newly aboard and Wesley asks to stay.

Comedy

10 episodes.

• S02E04 The Outrageous Okona: Roguish freighter captain Okona is demanded by Debin of Atlec for dishonouring his daughter and by Kushell of Straleb for theft. Okona reveals he was only carrying messages between the real lovers, Yanar and Benzan, and the couple agree to marry. Meanwhile Data uses a holodeck comic to learn humour.
• S02E18 Up The Long Ladder: Answering an old distress beacon, the Enterprise rescues the Bringloidi farmers, then finds the Mariposan clones, who are failing from replicative fading and secretly take tissue from Riker and Pulaski. Picard brokers a deal in which the two colonies intermarry.
• S02E19 Manhunt: Lwaxana Troi, in a Betazoid mid-life phase, pursues Picard, who hides in his Dixon Hill holodeck programme. She turns to Riker, then to the holodeck bartender Rex. She finally reads the minds of two Antedean delegates and exposes them as assassins carrying explosives.
• S03E13 Déjà Q: Stripped of his powers, Q asks Picard for sanctuary on the Enterprise while the crew tries to push a falling moon away from Bre'el Four. Hunted by the Calamarain, Q shows some selflessness, is restored to the Continuum, and the moon returns to orbit.
• S03E24 Ménage à Troi: DaiMon Tog of the Ferengi kidnaps Lwaxana Troi for her telepathy, along with Deanna and Riker. Riker hides a signal in the static, and Lwaxana offers to stay with Tog. Picard's staged jealous ultimatum gets her back. Wesley misses the Academy exam and is promoted to full Ensign.
• S04E20 Qpid: Q, saying he is repaying a debt, throws Picard and his officers into a Robin Hood story to prove that loving Vash makes him weak. Picard rescues Vash as Maid Marian. Afterward she leaves with Q as his new partner.
• S05E20 Cost of Living: Lwaxana Troi prepares to marry Minister Campio, whom she has never met, and befriends Alexander, undermining Worf's rules. Metal parasites eating the ship's nitrium nearly destroy it until Data lures them away with a nitrium beam. Lwaxana arrives at the wedding naked and Campio leaves.
• S06E07 Rascals: Picard, Guinan, Ro and Keiko are turned into children when a molecular reversion field disrupts their beam-out. Renegade Ferengi under DaiMon Lurin then seize the Enterprise; the children use their size to disable the Ferengi, retake the ship, and are restored to adults.
• S06E08 A Fistful of Datas: Geordi's experimental interface makes Data's personal programming replace a computer subroutine, so the Wild West holodeck programme's outlaws take Data's face and abilities. Worf and Troi, with the safeguards off, must rescue kidnapped Alexander by facing Frank Hollander in a showdown, then the programme ends.
• S07E02 Liaisons: Iyaaran ambassadors visit the Enterprise to experience pleasure, antagonism and love. Troi hosts chocolate-loving Loquel and Worf endures the rude Byleth, while Picard, stranded on a planet, is courted by Anna, who turns out to be Voval in disguise.