Darmok

Picard is abducted by an alien captain with whom exists no known means of communicating exists, until they encounter a multi-dimensional being that they must fight in order to survive. In an exercise of understanding and linguistics, this is arguably one of the best episode of Star Trek. Air Date 30 September 1991 Production Number […]

Redemption II

The Klingon Civil War continues and things look grim for Gowron and his allies against the House of Duras. Picard attempts to enlist the Federation’s assistance in the war effort to prevent the Romulans from destroying the Klingon-Federation Alliance. Later, Sela attempts to cross a blockade and Data gets his first command. Air Date 23 […]

Redemption

Captain Picard must decide whether or not to involve the Federation in an internal power struggle at the request of Chancellor Gowron a civil war is brewing in the Klingon Empire. Worf and his brother Kurn battle to restore honor to the House of Mogh as the Duras sisters challenge Gowron’s claim to leader the […]

In Theory

Lieutenant Commander Data learns what it means to be a rebound when he strikes up a relationship with Lieutenant Junior Grade Jenna D’Sora. Meanwhile, the Enterprise-D makes a study of a nebula with unusual properties that begin to affect the ship and its crew. This is Patrick Stewart’s directorial debut. Air Date 03 June 1991 […]

The Mind’s Eye

Chief Engineer Geordie La Forge is on his way to a cybernetics symposium (and some much needed shore leave) when his shuttle is captured by a Romulan Warbird. Tal Shiar shenanigans ensue with clones, Klingons, and Kriosians aboard the Enterprise in an excellent send up of The Manchurian Candidate. Air Date 27 May 1991 Production […]

The Host

Doctor Crusher has a brief fling with an ambassador from Trill until he is killed while leaving negotiations between two moons of the planet Peliar Zel. The doctor discovers a “parasite” while attempting to save Ambassador Odan’s life only to learn that Odan is the parasite is a “symbiont,” and the body is simple “the […]

Half a Life

Diplomatic trouble ensues when Lwaxana Troi boards the starship Enterprise while visiting the reclusive world of Kaelon II whose star is dying. This is a beautiful episode that explores the topic of aging and how society treats its elders, featuring a wonderful turn by both its guest actors, Majel Barrett Roddenberry and David Ogden Stiers […]

Demons

Meanwhile, in a universe parallel to our own, Commander Archer plots against Captain Forrest when the Terran Warship Enterprise encounters a ship from the future deep in Tholian territory. Air Date 06 May 2005 Production Number 096 Stardate n/a Gregorian Calendar Date 19 January 2155 Primary Arc Rise of the Federation Secondary Arc Section 31 […]

The Drumhead

Following an explosion in Main Engineering, Star Fleet sends retired Admiral Nora Satie to assist in an investigation into possible Romulan plot to sabotage the flagship aided by a Klingon exchange officer. A trial ensue where everyone is a suspect. Regarding the secondary arc, this is more of a coda to the episode “Conspiracy” than […]

In A Mirror, Darkly | Part II

Meanwhile, in a universe parallel to our own, Commander Archer plots against Captain Forrest when the Terran Warship Enterprise encounters a ship from the future deep in Tholian territory. Air Date 29 April 2005 Production Number 095 Stardate n/a Gregorian Calendar Date 18 January 2155 Primary Arc The Mirror Universe Secondary Arc The Multiverse Tertiary […]

Qpid

Vash makes a surprise visit to the Enterprise only to be swept up in the machinations of the being Q. Picard, Vash and the crew are forced into a deadly fantasy, where they must play the characters from Robin Hood. Air Date 22 April 1991 Production Number 40274-194 Stardate 44741.9 Gregorian Calendar Date Monday, 27 […]

In A Mirror, Darkly

Meanwhile, in a universe parallel to our own, Commander Archer plots against Captain Forrest when the Terran Warship Enterprise encounters a ship from the future deep in Tholian territory. Air Date 22 April 2005 Production Number 094 Stardate n/a Gregorian Calendar Date 13 January 2155 Primary Arc The Mirror Universe Secondary Arc The Multiverse Tertiary […]

Bound

Captain Archer receives an unusual gift from the Orion Syndicate while seeking out an appropriate location for Starfleet’s first starbase in the Berengarius system. Air Date 15 April 2005 Production Number 093 Stardate n/a Gregorian Calendar Date 27 December 2154 Primary Arc The Orions Secondary Arc n/a Tertiary Arc n/a See It or Skip It […]

Prelude to Discovery | Part Two

By 2020, Star Trek: Discovery had proven successful, but not without its critics. Over the course of its first two seasons, the creative staff took note of the “feedback” from fans and made adjustments and tweaks to the look, feel, and storytelling. Those changes and the studio’s interest in expanding and growing the franchise for […]

The Nth Degree

The Enterprise encounters an alien probe while investigating a computer failure at the Argus Array, a gigantic subspace telescope. In an attempt to move the probe away from the telescope, Lieutenant Reg Barclay is knocked unconscious. Afterwards, he begins to display a rapidly increasing level of intelligence. Air Date 01 April 1991 Production Number 40274-193 […]

Identity Crisis

Several members from an away team mission to Tarchannen III, while Geordie LaForge was posted to the U.S.S. Victory five years previously, have gone missing. The Enterprise is enlisted to help track down these officers, leading them back to Tarchannen III and into a troubling mystery. Air Date 25 March 1991 Production Number 40274-192 Stardate […]

Night Terrors

In search of the U.S.S. Brattain, presumed lost for nearly a month, the crew of the Enterprise find the Miranda-class starship, its crew murdered and adrift in an unexplored binary star system with one survivor aboard, a Betazoid. Soon after, the crew begin to experience dreamless nights. Air Date 18 March 1991 Production Number 40274-191 […]

Galaxy’s Child

Geordie LaForge meets Doctor Leah Brahms in the flesh and it does not go well. But, they are forced to work together when a new born alien latches onto the ship’s fusion reactors after its mother is killed by the crew. Air Date 11 March 1991 Production Number 40274-190 Stardate 44614.6 Gregorian Calendar Date Saturday, […]

Divergence

Sabotage! The Columbia races to assist the Enterprise whose warp reaction core has been vandalized. With the tranporter down, Trip must make a dangerous line from one ship to the other while at warp. Meanwhile, Doctor Phlox discovers the reason for his kidnapping, to find a way to stop a genetically engineered virus sweeping across […]

First Contact

Commander Riker is hospitalized on an alien planet populated by a pre-warp civilization. The doctors suspect something is amiss when they discover his anatomy is a bit abnormal. The ensuing investigation forces Picard and Troi to initiate First Contact procedures. Air Date 18 February 1991 Production Number 40274-189 Stardate Unknown Gregorian Calendar Date 2367 Primary […]