Episodes

176 transcript entries covering all 178 broadcast episodes (double-length episodes are one entry). Listed in broadcast order. Director and writer credits come from Wikipedia; synopses and arc tags come from the curated data files, written from each episode's transcript. Click a title for the episode note, or "transcript" below it to read the transcript, reformatted with linked speaker names. To find a line, use Search.

Contents (7 sections)

Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6
Season 7

Season 1

Code	Episode	Aired	Director	Writer	Arcs	Synopsis
S01E01-E02	Encounter at Farpoint transcript	1987-09-28	Corey Allen	D. C. Fontana & Gene Roddenberry	Q, Trial & ethics, Crew origins	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.
S01E03	The Naked Now transcript	1987-10-05	Paul Lynch	Story by: John D. F. Black and D. C. Fontana Teleplay by: D. C. Fontana	Data, Tasha	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 transcript	1987-10-12	Russ Mayberry	Katharyn Powers & Michael Baron	Tasha, Prime Directive	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.
S01E05	The Last Outpost transcript	1987-10-19	Richard Colla	Story by: Richard Krzmeien Teleplay by: Herbert Wright	Ferengi	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.
S01E06	Where No One Has Gone Before transcript	1987-10-26	Rob Bowman	Diane Duane & Michael Reaves	Wesley & Traveler	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.
S01E07	Lonely Among Us transcript	1987-11-02	Cliff Bole	Story by: Michael Halperin Teleplay by: D. C. Fontana	Alien influence	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.
S01E08	Justice transcript	1987-11-09	James L. Conway	Story by: John D. F. Black & Worley Thorne Teleplay by: Worley Thorne	Prime Directive	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.
S01E09	The Battle transcript	1987-11-16	Rob Bowman	Story by: Larry Forrester Teleplay by: Herbert Wright	Picard's past, Ferengi	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.
S01E10	Hide & Q transcript	1987-11-23	Cliff Bole	Story by: Maurice Hurley Teleplay by: Maurice Hurley & Gene Roddenberry	Q, Riker	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.
S01E11	Haven transcript	1987-11-30	Richard Compton	Story by: Tracy Tormé & Lan O'Kun Teleplay by: Tracy Tormé	Troi family	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.
S01E12	The Big Goodbye transcript	1988-01-11	Joseph L. Scanlan	Tracy Tormé	Holodeck	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.
S01E13	Datalore transcript	1988-01-18	Rob Bowman	Story by: Robert Lewin & Maurice Hurley Teleplay by: Robert Lewin & Gene Roddenberry	Data, Lore	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.
S01E14	Angel One transcript	1988-01-25	Michael Rhodes	Patrick Barry	Riker, Prime Directive	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 transcript	1988-02-01	Paul Lynch	Maurice Hurley & Robert Lewin	Holodeck, Riker	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.
S01E16	Too Short A Season transcript	1988-02-08	Rob Bowman	Story by: Michael Michaelian Teleplay by: Michael Michaelian & D. C. Fontana	Prime Directive	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.
S01E17	When The Bough Breaks transcript	1988-02-15	Kim Manners	Hannah Louise Shearer		The Aldeans, hidden behind a planetary shield and unable to have children, take the Enterprise's children, including Wesley, and refuse to return them. Riker and Data disable the shield's power source while Picard and Crusher show the Aldeans their own radiation is poisoning them. The children go home and the Enterprise helps.
S01E18	Home Soil transcript	1988-02-22	Corey Allen	Story by: Karl Geurs & Ralph Sanchez and Robert Sabaroff Teleplay by: Robert Sabaroff	First contact	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.
S01E19	Coming of Age transcript	1988-03-14	Mike Vejar	Sandy Fries	Starfleet politics	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.
S01E20	Heart Of Glory transcript	1988-03-21	Rob Bowman	Story by: Maurice Hurley and Herbert Wright & D. C. Fontana Teleplay by: Maurice Hurley	Klingon, Worf family	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.
S01E21	The Arsenal Of Freedom transcript	1988-04-11	Les Landau	Story by: Maurice Hurley & Robert Lewin Teleplay by: Richard Manning & Hans Beimler	Geordi	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.
S01E22	Symbiosis transcript	1988-04-18	Win Phelps	Story by: Robert Lewin Teleplay by: Robert Lewin and Richard Manning & Hans Beimler	Prime Directive	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.
S01E23	Skin Of Evil transcript	1988-04-25	Joseph L. Scanlan	Story by: Joseph Stefano Teleplay by: Joseph Stefano & Hannah Louise Shearer	Tasha	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.
S01E24	We'll Always Have Paris transcript	1988-05-02	Robert Becker	Deborah Dean Davis & Hannah Louise Shearer	Picard's past, Holodeck, Data	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.
S01E25	Conspiracy transcript	1988-05-09	Cliff Bole	Story by: Robert Sabaroff Teleplay by: Tracy Tormé	Starfleet politics, Alien influence	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.
S01E26	The Neutral Zone transcript	1988-05-16	James L. Conway	Story by: Deborah McIntyre & Mona Clee Teleplay by: Maurice Hurley	Romulan	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.

Season 2

Code	Episode	Aired	Director	Writer	Arcs	Synopsis
S02E01	The Child transcript	1988-11-21	Rob Bowman	Jaron Summers & Jon Povill and Maurice Hurley	Troi family, Crew origins	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.
S02E02	Where Silence Has Lease transcript	1988-11-28	Winrich Kolbe	Jack B. Sowards	Alien influence	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.
S02E03	Elementary, Dear Data transcript	1988-12-05	Rob Bowman	Brian Alan Lane	Holodeck, 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 transcript	1988-12-12	Robert Becker	Story by: Les Menchen & Lance Dickson and David Landsberg Teleplay by: Burton Armus	Data, Holodeck, Comedy	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.
S02E05	Loud as a Whisper transcript	1989-01-09	Larry Shaw	Jacqueline Zambrano		The Enterprise carries the deaf mediator Riva to the warring Solari. An assassin kills the three Chorus members who speak for him. Troi and Data help him recover, and he returns to the hilltop to teach both factions sign language so they learn to communicate.
S02E06	The Schizoid Man transcript	1989-01-23	Les Landau	Story by: Richard Manning & Hans Beimler Teleplay by: Tracy Tormé	Data	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.
S02E07	Unnatural Selection transcript	1989-01-30	Paul Lynch	John Mason & Mike Gray		The genetically engineered children of Darwin Station carry an immune response that ages adults rapidly, killing the crew of the Lantree and infecting Pulaski, until a modified transporter reverses the damage.
S02E08	A Matter of Honour transcript	1989-02-06	Rob Bowman	Story by: Wanda M. Haight & Gregory Amos and Burton Armus Teleplay by: Burton Armus	Klingon, Riker	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.
S02E09	The Measure of a Man transcript	1989-02-13	Robert Scheerer	Melinda M. Snodgrass	Data, Trial & ethics	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.
S02E10	The Dauphin transcript	1989-02-20	Rob Bowman	Scott Rubenstein & Leonard Mlodinow		Ensign Wesley Crusher falls for Salia, who is being escorted by her protector Anya to Daled Four to unite its warring factions. Picard orders Wesley away after Anya, an allasomorph, attacks in Sickbay. Wesley learns Salia is also a shapeshifter, and she beams down.
S02E11	Contagion transcript	1989-03-20	Joseph L. Scanlan	Steve Gerber & Beth Woods	Romulan, Data	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.
S02E12	The Royale transcript	1989-03-27	Cliff Bole	Tracy Tormé	Alien influence	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.
S02E13	Time Squared transcript	1989-04-03	Joseph L. Scanlan	Story by: Kurt Michael Bensmiller Teleplay by: Maurice Hurley	Time travel	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.
S02E14	The Icarus Factor transcript	1989-04-24	Robert Iscove	Story by: David Assael Teleplay by: David Assael and Robert McCullough	Riker, Worf family	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.
S02E15	Pen Pals transcript	1989-05-01	Winrich Kolbe	Story by: Hannah Louise Shearer Teleplay by: Melinda M. Snodgrass	Data, Prime Directive	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.
S02E16	Q Who? transcript	1989-05-08	Rob Bowman	Maurice Hurley	Q, Borg	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.
S02E17	Samaritan Snare transcript	1989-05-15	Les Landau	Robert McCullough	Picard's past	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.
S02E18	Up The Long Ladder transcript	1989-05-22	Winrich Kolbe	Melinda M. Snodgrass	Comedy	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 transcript	1989-06-19	Rob Bowman	Tracy Tormé	Troi family, Holodeck, Comedy	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.
S02E20	The Emissary transcript	1989-06-26	Cliff Bole	Story by: Richard Manning & Hans Beimler Teleplay by: Richard Manning & Hans Beimler Based on an unpublished story by: Thomas H. Calder	Klingon, Worf family	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.
S02E21	Peak Performance transcript	1989-07-10	Robert Scheerer	David Kemper	Riker, Data, Ferengi	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 transcript	1989-07-17	Rob Bowman	Story by: Maurice Hurley Teleplay by: Maurice Hurley and Richard Manning & Hans Beimler	Riker	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.

Season 3

Code	Episode	Aired	Director	Writer	Arcs	Synopsis
S03E01	Evolution transcript	1989-09-25	Winrich Kolbe	Story by: Michael Piller & Michael Wagner Teleplay by: Michael Piller	Crusher, Alien influence	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.
S03E02	The Ensigns of Command transcript	1989-10-02	Cliff Bole	Melinda M. Snodgrass	Data	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.
S03E03	The Survivors transcript	1989-10-09	Les Landau	Michael Wagner	Alien influence, Trial & ethics	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.
S03E04	Who Watches The Watchers transcript	1989-10-16	Robert Wiemer	Richard Manning & Hans Beimler	Prime Directive	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.
S03E05	The Bonding transcript	1989-10-23	Winrich Kolbe	Ronald D. Moore	Worf family	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.
S03E06	Booby Trap transcript	1989-10-30	Gabrielle Beaumont	Story by: Michael Wagner & Ron Roman Teleplay by: Ron Roman and Michael Piller & Richard Danus	Geordi, Holodeck	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 transcript	1989-11-06	David Carson	David Kemper and Michael Piller	Romulan, Geordi, Worf family	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.
S03E08	The Price transcript	1989-11-13	Robert Scheerer	Hannah Louise Shearer	Ferengi	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.
S03E09	The Vengeance Factor transcript	1989-11-20	Timothy Bond	Sam Rolfe	Riker	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.
S03E10	The Defector transcript	1990-01-01	Robert Scheerer	Ronald D. Moore	Romulan	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.
S03E11	The Hunted transcript	1990-01-08	Cliff Bole	Robin Bernheim	Trial & ethics, Prime Directive	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.
S03E12	The High Ground transcript	1990-01-29	Gabrielle Beaumont	Melinda M. Snodgrass	Crusher	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.
S03E13	Déjà Q transcript	1990-02-05	Les Landau	Richard Danus	Q, Comedy	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.
S03E14	A Matter Of Perspective transcript	1990-02-12	Cliff Bole	Ed Zuckerman	Riker, Holodeck, Trial & ethics	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.
S03E15	Yesterday's Enterprise transcript	1990-02-19	David Carson	Teleplay by: Ira Steven Behr & Richard Manning & Hans Beimler & Ronald D. Moore Story by: Trent Christopher Ganino & Eric A. Stillwell	Time travel, Tasha, Klingon	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.
S03E16	The Offspring transcript	1990-03-12	Jonathan Frakes	René Echevarria	Data	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.
S03E17	Sins Of The Father transcript	1990-03-19	Les Landau	Story by: Drew Deighan Teleplay by: Ronald D. Moore & W. Reed Moran	Klingon, Worf family	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.
S03E18	Allegiance transcript	1990-03-26	Winrich Kolbe	Richard Manning & Hans Beimler	Alien influence	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.
S03E19	Captain's Holiday transcript	1990-04-02	Chip Chalmers	Ira Steven Behr	Time travel	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.
S03E20	Tin Man transcript	1990-04-23	Robert Scheerer	Dennis Bailey & David Bischoff	Romulan, First contact	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.
S03E21	Hollow Pursuits transcript	1990-04-30	Cliff Bole	Sally Caves	Holodeck, Barclay	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.
S03E22	The Most Toys transcript	1990-05-07	Timothy Bond	Shari Goodhartz	Data	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.
S03E23	Sarek transcript	1990-05-14	Les Landau	Story by: Peter S. Beagle Teleplay by: Peter S. Beagle		Ambassador Sarek, suffering from Bendii Syndrome that leaks his emotions, must complete a final negotiation; Picard mind-melds with him to hold it together, at great cost to himself.
S03E24	Ménage à Troi transcript	1990-05-28	Robert Legato	Fred Bronson & Susan Sackett	Troi family, Ferengi, Comedy	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.
S03E25	Transfigurations transcript	1990-06-04	Tom Benko	René Echevarria	Crusher, Prime Directive	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.
S03E26	Best Of Both Worlds, part 1 transcript	1990-06-18	Cliff Bole	Michael Piller	Borg, Riker	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.

Season 4

Code	Episode	Aired	Director	Writer	Arcs	Synopsis
S04E01	Best of Both Worlds, part 2 transcript	1990-09-24	Cliff Bole	Michael Piller	Borg, Riker	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.
S04E02	Family transcript	1990-10-01	Les Landau	Ronald D. Moore	Picard's past, Worf 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.
S04E03	Brothers transcript	1990-10-08	Rob Bowman	Rick Berman	Data, Lore	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.
S04E04	Suddenly Human transcript	1990-10-15	Gabrielle Beaumont	Story by: Ralph Phillips Teleplay by: John Whelpley and Jeri Taylor		The Enterprise rescues a human boy, Jono (Jeremiah Rossa), raised by the Talarian Captain Endar. Picard wants to keep him with his human family, but after Jono stabs him out of loyalty to his father, Picard admits his mistake and returns him to Endar.
S04E05	Remember Me transcript	1990-10-22	Cliff Bole	Lee Sheldon	Crusher, Wesley & Traveler	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.
S04E06	Legacy transcript	1990-10-29	Robert Scheerer	Joe Menosky	Tasha, Data	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.
S04E07	Reunion transcript	1990-11-05	Jonathan Frakes	Story by: Drew Deighan and Thomas Perry & Jo Perry Teleplay by: Thomas Perry & Jo Perry and Ronald D. Moore & Brannon Braga	Klingon, Worf family	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.
S04E08	Future Imperfect transcript	1990-11-12	Les Landau	J. Larry Carroll & David Bennett Carren	Riker, Holodeck	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.
S04E09	Final Mission transcript	1990-11-19	Corey Allen	Story by: Kacey Arnold-Ince Teleplay by: Kacey Arnold-Ince & Jeri Taylor		Captain Picard and Ensign Wesley Crusher crash on a desert moon with Captain Dirgo, a miners' shuttle pilot. Dirgo is killed by a guardian near a water fountain; Wesley disables it, fetches water for the badly injured Picard, and is found by the Enterprise.
S04E10	The Loss transcript	1990-12-31	Chip Chalmers	Teleplay by: Hilary J. Bader and Allan J. Adler & Vanessa Greene Story by: Hilary J. Bader	Troi family	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.
S04E11	Data's Day transcript	1991-01-07	Robert Wiemer	Story by: Harold Apter Teleplay by: Harold Apter and Ronald D. Moore	Data, Romulan	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.
S04E12	The Wounded transcript	1991-01-28	Chip Chalmers	Story by: Stuart Charno & Sara Charno and Cy Chermak Teleplay by: Jeri Taylor	Cardassian	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.
S04E13	Devil's Due transcript	1991-02-04	Tom Benko	Story by: Philip LaZebnik & William Douglas Lansford Teleplay by: Philip LaZebnik	Trial & ethics, Data	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 transcript	1991-02-11	Les Landau	Story by: Bruce D. Arthurs Teleplay by: Bruce D. Arthurs and Joe Menosky	Data	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.
S04E15	First Contact transcript	1991-02-18	Cliff Bole	Teleplay by: Dennis Bailey & David Bischoff and Joe Menosky & Ronald D. Moore and Michael Piller Story by: Marc Scott Zicree	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.
S04E16	Galaxy's Child transcript	1991-03-11	Winrich Kolbe	Story by: Thomas Kartozian Teleplay by: Maurice Hurley	Geordi, Holodeck	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.
S04E17	Night Terrors transcript	1991-03-18	Les Landau	Story by: Shari Goodhartz Teleplay by: Pamela Douglas & Jeri Taylor	Alien influence	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.
S04E18	Identity Crisis transcript	1991-03-25	Winrich Kolbe	Story by: Timothy DeHaas Teleplay by: Brannon Braga	Geordi	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.
S04E19	The Nth Degree transcript	1991-04-01	Robert Legato	Joe Menosky	Barclay, First contact, Alien influence	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.
S04E20	Qpid transcript	1991-04-22	Cliff Bole	Story by: Randee Russell and Ira Steven Behr Teleplay by: Ira Steven Behr	Q, Comedy	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.
S04E21	The Drumhead transcript	1991-04-29	Jonathan Frakes	Jeri Taylor	Trial & ethics	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.
S04E22	Half a Life transcript	1991-05-06	Les Landau	Story by: Ted Roberts and Peter Allan Fields Teleplay by: Peter Allan Fields	Troi family, Prime Directive	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.
S04E23	The Host transcript	1991-05-13	Marvin V. Rush	Michel Horvat	Crusher	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.
S04E24	The Mind's Eye transcript	1991-05-27	David Livingston	Story by: Ken Schafer and René Echevarria Teleplay by: René Echevarria	Romulan, Geordi, Klingon	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.
S04E25	In Theory transcript	1991-06-03	Patrick Stewart	Joe Menosky & Ronald D. Moore	Data	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.
S04E26	Redemption transcript	1991-06-17	Cliff Bole	Ronald D. Moore	Klingon, Romulan, Worf family	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.

Season 5

Code	Episode	Aired	Director	Writer	Arcs	Synopsis
S05E01	Redemption part 2 transcript	1991-09-23	David Carson	Ronald D. Moore	Klingon, Romulan, Data, Worf family, Tasha	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.
S05E02	Darmok transcript	1991-09-30	Winrich Kolbe	Story by: Philip LaZebnik and Joe Menosky Teleplay by: Joe Menosky	First contact	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.
S05E03	Ensign Ro transcript	1991-10-07	Les Landau	Story by: Rick Berman & Michael Piller Teleplay by: Michael Piller	Cardassian, 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.
S05E04	Silicon Avatar transcript	1991-10-14	Cliff Bole	Story by: Lawrence V. Conley Teleplay by: Jeri Taylor	Data	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.
S05E05	Disaster transcript	1991-10-21	Gabrielle Beaumont	Story by: Ron Jarvis & Philip A. Scorza Teleplay by: Ronald D. Moore		A quantum filament cripples the Enterprise. Troi, as senior bridge officer, resists Ro's push to separate the saucer, while Picard leads three schoolchildren up a damaged turboshaft and Worf delivers Keiko's baby. Riker and Data restore the failing containment field.
S05E06	The Game transcript	1991-10-28	Corey Allen	Story by: Susan Sackett & Fred Bronson and Brannon Braga Teleplay by: Brannon Braga	Alien influence	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.
S05E07	Unification, part 1 transcript	1991-11-04	Les Landau	Story by: Rick Berman & Michael Piller Teleplay by: Jeri Taylor	Romulan, Klingon, Data	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 transcript	1991-11-11	Cliff Bole	Story by: Rick Berman & Michael Piller Teleplay by: Michael Piller	Romulan	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.
S05E09	A Matter Of Time transcript	1991-11-18	Paul Lynch	Rick Berman	Time travel	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.
S05E10	New Ground transcript	1992-01-06	Robert Scheerer	Story by: Sara Charno & Stuart Charno Teleplay by: Grant Rosenberg	Worf family	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.
S05E11	Hero Worship transcript	1992-01-27	Patrick Stewart	Story by: Hilary J. Bader Teleplay by: Joe Menosky	Data	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.
S05E12	Violations transcript	1992-02-03	Robert Wiemer	Story by: Shari Goodhartz & T. Michael and Pamela Gray Teleplay by: Pamela Gray & Jeri Taylor		Visiting Ullian telepaths are suspected when Troi, Riker and Crusher fall into comas after nightmarish memory intrusions. Troi's memory probe seems to point to Tarmin, but Data and La Forge's records show it was his son Jev, who is caught attacking Troi again.
S05E13	The Masterpiece Society transcript	1992-02-10	Winrich Kolbe	Story by: James Kahn and Adam Belanoff Teleplay by: Adam Belanoff and Michael Piller	Prime Directive, Geordi	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.
S05E14	Conundrum transcript	1992-02-17	Les Landau	Story by: Paul Schiffer Teleplay by: Barry Schkolnick	Alien influence, Trial & ethics	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 transcript	1992-02-24	David Livingston	Story by: Paul Ruben and Maurice Hurley Teleplay by: René Balcer and Herbert Wright & Brannon Braga	Alien influence	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.
S05E16	Ethics transcript	1992-03-02	Chip Chalmers	Story by: Sara Charno & Stuart Charno Teleplay by: Ronald D. Moore	Worf family, Trial & ethics, Crusher	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 transcript	1992-03-16	Robert Scheerer	Jeri Taylor	Riker, Trial & ethics, Prime Directive	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.
S05E18	Cause and Effect transcript	1992-03-23	Jonathan Frakes	Brannon Braga	Time travel	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.
S05E19	The First Duty transcript	1992-03-30	Paul Lynch	Ronald D. Moore & Naren Shankar	Trial & ethics	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.
S05E20	Cost of Living transcript	1992-04-20	Winrich Kolbe	Peter Allan Fields	Troi family, Worf family, Comedy	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.
S05E21	The Perfect Mate transcript	1992-04-27	Cliff Bole	Story by: René Echevarria and Gary Perconte Teleplay by: Gary Perconte and Michael Piller		Picard escorts Kamala, an empathic metamorph bred as a gift to seal a peace treaty, to her arranged marriage to Chancellor Alrik; he falls for her but lets her go through with it.
S05E22	Imaginary Friend transcript	1992-05-04	Gabrielle Beaumont	Story by: Jean Louise Matthias & Ronald Wilkerson and Richard Fliegel Teleplay by: Edithe Swensen and Brannon Braga	Alien influence	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.
S05E23	I, Borg transcript	1992-05-11	Robert Lederman	René Echevarria	Borg, Trial & ethics	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.
S05E24	The Next Phase transcript	1992-05-18	David Carson	Ronald D. Moore	Romulan, Geordi, Ro	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.
S05E25	The Inner Light transcript	1992-06-01	Peter Lauritson	Story by: Morgan Gendel Teleplay by: Morgan Gendel and Peter Allan Fields		A probe from Kataan locks onto Captain Picard, who lives decades as Kamin, a husband and father on a drought-stricken world. He learns the planet is doomed and the probe was sent so he would carry its people's memory. He wakes after twenty-five minutes with the flute.
S05E26	Time's Arrow, part 1 transcript	1992-06-15	Les Landau	Story by: Joe Menosky Teleplay by: Joe Menosky & Michael Piller	Time travel, Data	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.

Season 6

Code	Episode	Aired	Director	Writer	Arcs	Synopsis
S06E01	Time's Arrow, part 2 transcript	1992-09-21	Les Landau	Story by: Joe Menosky Teleplay by: Jeri Taylor	Time travel	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.
S06E02	Realm of Fear transcript	1992-09-28	Cliff Bole	Brannon Braga	Barclay	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.
S06E03	Man of the People transcript	1992-10-05	Winrich Kolbe	Frank Abatemarco	Alien influence	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.
S06E04	Relics transcript	1992-10-12	Alexander Singer	Ronald D. Moore	Geordi	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.
S06E05	Schisms transcript	1992-10-19	Robert Wiemer	Story by: Jean Louise Matthias & Ronald Wilkerson Teleplay by: Brannon Braga	Alien influence	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.
S06E06	True Q transcript	1992-10-26	Robert Scheerer	René Echevarria	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.
S06E07	Rascals transcript	1992-11-02	Adam Nimoy	Story by: Ward Botsford & Diana Dru Botsford and Michael Piller Teleplay by: Allison Hock	Ferengi, Comedy, Ro	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 transcript	1992-11-09	Patrick Stewart	Story by: Robert Hewitt Wolfe Teleplay by: Robert Hewitt Wolfe and Brannon Braga	Holodeck, Worf family, Data, Comedy	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 transcript	1992-11-16	Jonathan Frakes	Naren Shankar	Data, Trial & ethics	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.
S06E10	Chain of Command, part 1 transcript	1992-12-14	Robert Scheerer	Story by: Frank Abatemarco Teleplay by: Ronald D. Moore	Cardassian	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 transcript	1992-12-21	Les Landau	Frank Abatemarco	Cardassian	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.
S06E12	Ship in a Bottle transcript	1993-01-25	Alexander Singer	René Echevarria	Holodeck, Data, Barclay	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.
S06E13	Aquiel transcript	1993-02-01	Cliff Bole	Story by: Jeri Taylor Teleplay by: Brannon Braga & Ronald D. Moore	Geordi, Klingon	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.
S06E14	Face of the Enemy transcript	1993-02-08	Gabrielle Beaumont	Story by: René Echevarria Teleplay by: Naren Shankar	Romulan	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.
S06E15	Tapestry transcript	1993-02-15	Les Landau	Ronald D. Moore	Q, Picard's past	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.
S06E16	Birthright, part 1 transcript	1993-02-22	Winrich Kolbe	Brannon Braga	Worf family, Data, Romulan	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 transcript	1993-03-01	Dan Curry	René Echevarria	Worf family, Klingon, Romulan	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.
S06E18	Starship Mine transcript	1993-03-29	Cliff Bole	Morgan Gendel		During a baryon sweep of the evacuated Enterprise, Picard fights Kelsey's team, who are stealing trilithium resin, while Riker, Data and Crusher are held hostage at Arkaria base by Orton. Kelsey escapes with the container, but the thieves' ship is destroyed.
S06E19	Lessons transcript	1993-04-05	Robert Wiemer	Ronald Wilkerson & Jean Louise Matthias		Captain Picard falls in love with Lieutenant Commander Nella Daren, sharing music with her and telling her about his flute. When she leads deflector teams protecting a colony evacuation and nearly dies, he decides he cannot endanger her again and they agree to part postings.
S06E20	The Chase transcript	1993-04-26	Jonathan Frakes	Story by: Ronald D. Moore & Joe Menosky Teleplay by: Joe Menosky	Picard's past, Klingon, Cardassian, Romulan	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.
S06E21	Frame of Mind transcript	1993-05-03	James L. Conway	Brannon Braga	Riker, Alien influence	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.
S06E22	Suspicions transcript	1993-05-10	Cliff Bole	Joe Menosky & Naren Shankar	Crusher, Ferengi	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.
S06E23	Rightful Heir transcript	1993-05-17	Winrich Kolbe	Story by: James E. Brooks Teleplay by: Ronald D. Moore	Klingon	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.
S06E24	Second Chances transcript	1993-05-24	LeVar Burton	Story by: Michael A. Medlock Teleplay by: René Echevarria	Riker	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.
S06E25	Timescape transcript	1993-06-14	Adam Nimoy	Brannon Braga	Romulan, Alien influence	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.
S06E26	Descent, part 1 transcript	1993-06-21	Alexander Singer	Story by: Jeri Taylor Teleplay by: Ronald D. Moore	Borg, Lore, Data	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.

Season 7

Code	Episode	Aired	Director	Writer	Arcs	Synopsis
S07E01	Descent, part 2 transcript	1993-09-20	Alexander Singer	René Echevarria	Borg, Lore, Data, Crusher	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.
S07E02	Liaisons transcript	1993-09-27	Cliff Bole	Story by: Roger Eschbacher & Jaq Greenspon Teleplay by: Jeanne Carrigan-Fauci & Lisa Rich	Comedy, First contact	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.
S07E03	Interface transcript	1993-10-04	Robert Wiemer	Joe Menosky	Geordi, Alien influence	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.
S07E04	Gambit, part 1 transcript	1993-10-11	Peter Lauritson	Story by: Naren Shankar and Christopher Hatton Teleplay by: Naren Shankar	Riker, Romulan	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 transcript	1993-10-18	Alexander Singer	Story by: Naren Shankar Teleplay by: Ronald D. Moore	Riker, Data	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 transcript	1993-10-25	Patrick Stewart	Brannon Braga	Data, Holodeck	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.
S07E07	Dark Page transcript	1993-11-01	Les Landau	Hilary J. Bader	Troi family	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.
S07E08	Attached transcript	1993-11-08	Jonathan Frakes	Nick Sagan	Picard's past, Crusher	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.
S07E09	Force of Nature transcript	1993-11-15	Robert Lederman	Naren Shankar	Trial & ethics	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.
S07E10	Inheritance transcript	1993-11-22	Robert Scheerer	Story by: Dan Koeppel Teleplay by: Dan Koeppel and René Echevarria	Data	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.
S07E11	Parallels transcript	1993-11-29	Robert Wiemer	Brannon Braga	Worf family	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.
S07E12	The Pegasus transcript	1994-01-10	LeVar Burton	Ronald D. Moore	Riker, Romulan, Starfleet politics	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.
S07E13	Homeward transcript	1994-01-17	Alexander Singer	Story by: Spike Steingasser Teleplay by: Naren Shankar	Worf family, Prime Directive, Holodeck	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.
S07E14	Sub Rosa transcript	1994-01-31	Jonathan Frakes	Story by: Jeri Taylor Teleplay by: Brannon Braga	Crusher	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.
S07E15	Lower Decks transcript	1994-02-07	Gabrielle Beaumont	Story by: Ronald Wilkerson & Jean Louise Matthias Teleplay by: René Echevarria	Cardassian	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.
S07E16	Thine Own Self transcript	1994-02-14	Winrich Kolbe	Story by: Christopher Hatton Teleplay by: Ronald D. Moore	Data	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 transcript	1994-02-21	Robert Wiemer	Joe Menosky	Data, Alien influence	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.
S07E18	Eye of the Beholder transcript	1994-02-28	Cliff Bole	Story by: Brannon Braga Teleplay by: René Echevarria	Troi family	Troi investigates a suicide and, through an empathic imprint left by a murder eight years earlier, uncovers the killer; she and Worf become lovers.
S07E19	Genesis transcript	1994-03-21	Gates McFadden	Brannon Braga	Barclay	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.
S07E20	Journey's End transcript	1994-03-28	Corey Allen	Ronald D. Moore	Wesley & Traveler, Cardassian	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.
S07E21	Firstborn transcript	1994-04-25	Jonathan West	Story by: Mark Kalbfeld Teleplay by: René Echevarria	Worf family, Klingon, Time travel	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.
S07E22	Bloodlines transcript	1994-05-02	Les Landau	Nick Sagan	Picard's past, Ferengi	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.
S07E23	Emergence transcript	1994-05-09	Cliff Bole	Story by: Brannon Braga Teleplay by: Joe Menosky	Holodeck, Data, Alien influence	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.
S07E24	Preemptive Strike transcript	1994-05-16	Patrick Stewart	Story by: Naren Shankar Teleplay by: René Echevarria	Maquis, Cardassian, Ro	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.
S07E25-E26	All Good Things... transcript	1994-05-23	Winrich Kolbe	Ronald D. Moore & Brannon Braga	Q, Time travel, Trial & ethics	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.