Category: The Next Generation

Stardate not given: Data attempts to convince the stubborn leader of an endangered colony that his people must evacuate the planet or face certain extinction at the hands of a race of ruthless aliens also seeking a planet to colonize.

written by Melinda M. Snodgrass
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Eileen Seeley (Ard’rian MacKenzie), Granger Hines (Gosheven), Mark L. Taylor (Haritath), Richard Allen (Kentor), Colm Meaney (Chief O’ Brien), Mart McChesney (Sheliak)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 43142.4: Captain Picard unravels one horrifying mystery after another while trying to persuade two people who are apparently the only survivors of an obliterated population of eleven thousand that their assailants have returned.

written by Michael Wagner
directed by Les Landau
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: John Anderson (Kevin Uxbridge), Anne Haney (Rishon Uxbridge)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 43173.5: A hidden outpost on a distant planet where Starfleet anthropologists are observing a primitve race of Vulcan-like beings is revealed after a mechanical malfunction, polluting the primitives’ religious and ethical beliefs and causing one of them to identify Picard with God.

written by Richard Manning and Hans Beimler
directed by Robert Wiemer
music by Ron Jones

Guest Cast: Kathryn Leigh Scott (Nuria), Ray Wise (Liko), James Greene (Dr. Barron), Pamela Segall (Oji), John McLiam (Fento), James McIntire (Hali), Lois Hall (Dr. Warren)

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Stardate 43198.7: Worf’s conscience struggles with a fatality under his command as a deceased crew member’s young son confronts an alien life form that attempts to take on the physical and psychological characteristics of his mother.

written by Ronald D. Moore
directed by Winrich Kolbe
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Susan Powell (Marla Aster), Gabriel Damon (Jeremy Aster), Colm Meaney (Chief O’Brien)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 43205.6: After taking the Enterprise into a mysterious asteroid belt to examine the only known relic of a long-dead race, Picard discovers that the asteroid belt is actually a lethal snare and assigns La Forge the impossible task of finding a way out before it’s too late. Geordi turns to the holodeck for a simulation of one of the Enterprise’s original designers to help him brainstorm an escape route.

teleplay by Ron Roman, Michael Piller and Richard Danus
story by Michael Wagner and Ron Roman
directed by Gabrielle Beaumont
music by Ron Jones

Guest Cast: Susan Gibney (Dr. Leah Brahms), Colm Meaney (Chief O’Brien), Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan), Albert Hall (Galek Dar), Julie Warner (Christy)

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Stardate 43421.9: Riker as a man of conscience and Picard as a diplomat run up against an age-old wall of mafia-likee blood feuding, almost certain to ruin the first negotiations between a clan of vicious pirates and a race of civilized if haughty beings in centuries. Riker ends up with the most difficult decision of all…

written by Sam Rolfe
directed by Timothy Bond
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Lisa Wilcox (Yuta), Joey Aresco (Brull), Nancy Parsons (Sovereign Marouk), Stephen Lee (Chorgan), Marc Lawrence (Volnath), Elkanah J. Burns (Temarek)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 43489.2: The Enterprise, sworn by Federation treaty to defend the inhabitants of a once war-torn world, is faced with a destructive challenge in the form of a biologically altered war veteran whose mind allows no mercy in the face of danger, but all he and his fellow soldiers want is their home and their freedom.

written by Robin Bernheim
directed by Cliff Bole
music by Dennis McCarthy

Guest Cast: Jeff McCarthy (Roga Danar), James Cromwell (Prime Minister Nayrok), Colm Meaney (Chief O’Brien), J. Michael Flynn (Zayner), Andrew Bicknell (Wagnor)

LogBook entry by Earl Green

Stardate 43510.7: While tending to innocent bystanders injured in the explosion of a terrorist bomb, Dr. Crusher is taken hostage by a ruthless freedom fighter who is blind to the fate of his rebellion and refuses to hear any argument from the Starfleet officers or the local law enforcers that his way of “liberating” his people may not be just.

written by Melinda M. Snodgrass
directed by Gabrielle Beaumont
music by Ron Jones

Guest Cast: Kerrie Keane (Devos), Richard Cox (Finn), Marc Buckland (Waiter), Fred G. Smith (Policeman), Christopher Pettiet (Boy)

Notes: On the BBC, which was the first broadcast outlet in the UK to show Star Trek: The Next Generation, this episode was banned due to fear its allegory to Irish Republican Army terrorism is too controversial (and then there’s that bit about the Irish Reunification in the 21st century in which terrorism was a key successful element).

LogBook entry by Earl Green