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ST:TNG Season 1
Notes
Encounter at Farpoint
has scrolling end titles instead of the changing
captions used in later episodes.
DeForest Kelly appears as an elderly Admiral - unnamed but presumably
McCoy.
Although last seen in the episode
Skin of Evil ,
Denise Crosby remained
in the opening credits for the remainder of the season.
The BBC edited out a scene from
Conspiracy
in which Lt Remicks head explodes;
when BSkyB repeated the episode they showed the cut version at
5:30pm and the full version at 10:30pm.
Episode Details
The crew of the Enterprise is put on trial by a mysterious force called
``Q'' for all the crimes of mankind.
Picard argues that Q should judge mankind as it is now, and not for what
it was in the past. Q agrees and says that the forthcoming events at
Farpoint station will provide a suitable test.
Romance, danger and chaos result when a mysterious contaminant renders the
crew of the Enterprise intoxicated and the ship incapacitated in the path
of fragments from an exploding star.
Kidnapped by aliens known as Ligonians, Lieutenant Tasha Yar battles for
her freedom and the welfare of a diseased Federation planet.
Held captive over an unknown planet, the away teams of the USS Enterprise
and Ferengi starships must pass an important inquisition by a mysterious
life form known as Portal, before they are allowed to continue their
journeys through space.
When an experiment with the warp engines goes wrong, teenager Wesley Crusher
and a dying alien are the crew's only hope for
escape from a bizarre galaxy where thoughts become real.
Passing through a series of complex energy patterns, the Enterprise crew
find themselves trying to solve the mystery surrounding the murder of
Assistant Chief Engineer Singh and the altered personalities of Lt. Worf,
Dr. Crusher and the Captain.
When Wesley is sentenced to death for innocently violating a foreign
planet's customs, Captain Picard is forced to chose between negotiating
for Wesley's life or adhering to the Federation's prime directive which
prohibits interfering with another civilization's way of life.
A thought altering device, controlled by a Ferengi Captain seeking revenge
on Picard for his son's death, threatens the life of the Captain and the
safety of the Enterprise.
The Enterprise is once again challenged by the dangerous and powerful "Q"
who offers Riker god-like powers in exchange for Riker's membership in the
"Q" continuum.
Deanna Troi is caught between her feelings for Riker and her devotion to
family customs when she faces a prearranged marriage.
In the meantime, the crew have to deal with a ship carrying a deadly plague.
When the holodeck malfunctions, the Captain and two crew members become
trapped in San Francisco, 1941, where they are held hostage by murderous
gangsters.
While visiting Data's homeworld, the crew discover Data's android brother
(Lore) who formulates an evil masterplan involving a crystalline
entity that could destroy the Enterprise.
While the away team struggle to save male fugitives from a Federation ship
that crash
landed on a planet run by women, the Enterprise is ravaged by a highly
infectious virus.
After arriving at a Starbase for routine maintenance,
the Enterprise is hijacked
by a computer-dependant alien species known as the Binars.
Picard and Riker find they are alone on the ship, but can they regain control
from the Binars. They discover that the aliens need the ship's computer to
regenerate the computers on their home planet that are expected to be damaged
by a asteriod passing through the system.
The Enterprise escorts an elderly Federation admiral to a planet to
negotiate the release of hostages, but the planet's governor wants
to kill him in revenge for a previous hostage crises that ended in tragedy.
Wesley and several children from the Enterprise are kidnapped by the ancient
civilization of Aldea long thought to be mythical, which has become sterile and
hopes to use the children to rebuild their race.
When a terraforming project hits problems the Enterprise crew discover
a powerful microscopic life form which has declared war on humans.
The lifeform takes over the Enterprise's lab and computers, and threatens
to destroy the ship.
While Wesley endures the grueling Starfleet Academy entrance exam, Captain
Picard faces an investigation into his competency as a commander.
Lt. Worf is torn between his loyalty to the Enterprise and his fierce
Klingon heritage when two Klingon fugitives take over the ship.
Picard and the away team fight for their lives on a planet whose
people were destroyed by their own computerized weapons system.
The Enterprise is caught in the middle when two alien races wage a bitter
battle over cargo which one of them believes they need for survival.
A rescue mission turns to tragedy when one of the Enterprise officers
(Tasha Yar) is killed by an evil alien.
Captain Picard is unexpectedly reunited with his first love in the midst
of an investigation into lethal time warp experiments.
Captain Picard and Commander Riker travel to Earth to investigate a
conspiracy in the highest ranks of Starfleet command.
They soon suspect that an alien influence is at work.
While traveling to a meeting with hostile Romulans, the crew discovers a
ship containing three frozen Americans from the 20th century.
In this episode we first see a planet bearing the marks of a Borg attack
although they do not appear.
B.King@ee.surrey.ac.uk & D.White@ee.surrey.ac.uk
31st January 1994