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Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season One Episode Summaries

Encounter at Farpoint
The Naked Now
Code of Honor
The Last Outpost
Where No One Has Gone Before
Lonely Among Us
Justice
The Battle
Hide and Q
Haven
The Big Goodbye
Datalore
Angel One
11001001
Too Short a Season
When the Bough Breaks
Home Soil
Coming of Age
Heart of Glory
The Arsenal of Freedom
Symbiosis
Skin of Evil
We’ll Always Have Paris
Conspiracy
The Neutral Zone

REGULAR CAST:
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Patrick Stewart
Commander Will Riker: Jonathan Frakes
Counselor Deanna Troi: Marina Sirtis
Dr. Beverly Crusher: Gates McFadden
Commander Data: Brent Spiner
Lt. Tasha Yar: Denise Crosby
Lt. Worf: Michael Dorn
Chief Engineer Geordi LaForge: LeVar Burton
Wesley Crusher: Wil Wheaton
Guinan: Whoopi Goldberg (joins in season 2)
Miles O’Brien: Colm Meaney
Dr. Katherine Pulaski: Diana Muldaur (joins for season 2)
Ensign Ro: Michelle Forbes (joins in season 5)

Encounter at Farpoint
GUEST STARS:
Q: John DeLancie
Groppler Zorn: Michael Bell
Lieutenant Torres: Jimmy Ortega

In the series pilot, Captain Jean-Luc Picard, a new captain for a new Starship Enterprise, assembles the crew for its first mission: Discover the secret of Farpoint Station. En route, they encounter the omnipotent being Q, who accuses humanity of barbarism and challenges Picard to prove otherwise.
The Naked Now
GUEST STARS:
Chief Engineer Sarah MacDougal: Brooke Bundy
Assistant Engineer Jim Schimoda: Benjamin W.S. Lum
Transporter Chief: Michael Rider

While investigating the deaths aboard the Starship Tsiolkovsky, the Enterprise crew becomes infected with a deadly virus that induces intoxicated behavior and which the original Enterprise crew had contracted decades earlier.
Code of Honor
GUEST STARS:
Lutan: Jessie Lawrence Ferguson
Yareena: Karole Selmon
Hagon: James Louis Watkins
Transporter Chief: Michael Rider

On a desperate mission to get their hands on a life-saving vaccine from the planet Ligon II, Tasha Yar is kidnapped by the planet’s leader. To win her release and the vaccine, Picard must follow a strict Ligonian code of honor that requires Tasha to fight her kidnapper’s wife -- until one of them is dead.
The Last Outpost
GUEST STARS:
Letek: Armin Shimerman
Mordoc: Jake Dengel
Kayron: Tracey Walter
Portal: Darryl Henriques
Dai-Mon Taar: Mike Gomez

In a confrontation over an unknown planet, the Enterprise and a Ferengi starship are paralyzed indefinitely by a powerful creature who insists there is only one escape: They must answer one of his riddles.
Where No One Has Gone Before
GUEST STARS:
Kosinski: Stanley Kamel
Traveler: Eric Menyuk
Yvette Gessard Picard: Herta Ware
Lieutenant-Commander Argyle: Biff Yeager
Crew Member: Charles Dayton
Ballerina: Victoria Dillard

An arrogant Starfleet propulsion expert and his mysterious assistant inadvertantly send the Enterprise a billion light-years from their galaxy into a region of space where thought becomes reality.
Lonely Among Us
GUEST STARS:
Ssestar: John Durbin
First Security Guard: Colm Meaney
Lieutenant Commander Singh: Kavi Raz

While transporting two adversarial ambassadors to a Federation conference, the Enterprise passes through an energy field that takes control of Picard's mind.
Justice
GUEST STARS:
Rivan: Brenda Bakke
Liator: Jay Louden

While vacationing on the blissful planet Rubicon III, Wesley accidentally breaks a planetary law and is sentenced to death. Picard is then faced with a painful decision: Save Wesley from death or uphold the Prime Directive.
The Battle
GUEST STARS:
Kazago: Doug Warhit
Rata: Robert Towers

The Ferengi present Picard with his old starship, the Stargazer. Yet havoc ensues: A mind-altering device is planted on board that causes Picard to think he is reliving an old battle -- with the Enterprise as the enemy.
Hide and Q
GUEST STARS:
Q: John DeLancie

Q toys with the Enterprise crew, forcing them to play a Napoleonic war game against boar-faced soldiers.
Haven
GUEST STARS:
Lwaxana: Majel Barrett
Wyatt Miller: Rob Knepper
Victoria Miller: Nan Martin
Steven Miller: Robert Ellenstein
Mr. Homn: Carel Struycken
Valeda Innis: Anna Katarina
Wrenn: Raye Birk
Ariana: Danitza Kingsley

Counselor Deanna Troi's mother, the always affectionate and often annoying Lwaxana, makes a surprise visit to the Enterprise and announces the prearranged marriage of Deanna and the son of her late husband's best friend.
The Big Goodbye
GUEST STARS:
Cyrus Redblock: Lawrence Tierney
Felix Leech: Harvey Jason
Lieutenant Dan Bell: William Boyett
Whalen: David Selburg
Lieutenant McNary: Gary Armagnal

In this Peabody Award-winning episode, Picard recreates a 1941 San Francisco scenario in the holodeck from one of his favorite Dixon Hill detective novels, and enlists Data and Dr. Crusher in the fun. But the program malfunctions and they find themselves up against holodeck criminals.
Datalore
GUEST STARS:
Lieutenant Commander Argyle: Biff Yeager

While visiting Data's home planet, the Away Team discovers a laboratory containing android parts that, when assembled, form an exact replica of their own Lt. Commander Data.
Angel One
GUEST STARS:
Beata: Karen Montgomery
Ramsey: Sam Hennings
Ariel: Patricia McPherson
Trent: Leonard John Crowfoot

The Enterprise crew journeys to a planet dominated by females, and while on Angel One, they discover a group of men -- whose Federation freighter crashed years earlier -- living as fugitives.
11001001
GUEST STARS:
Minuet: Carolyn McCormick
Commander Orfil Quinteros: Gene Dynarski
Piano Player: Jack Sheldon

The Enterprise's computer is scheduled for a rehaul by Bynar technicians while docked in Starbase 74. Instead of improving the system, the Bynars steal the starship to save their own planet.
Too Short a Season
GUEST STARS:
Admiral Mark Jameson: Clayton Rohner
Karnas: Michael Pataki
Anne Jameson: Marsha Hunt

A legendary admiral -- on a mission to negotiate the release of Federation hostages -- is dying. But then he shocks the Enterprise crew as he appears to reverse the aging process before their very eyes.
When the Bough Breaks
GUEST STARS:
Radue: Jerry Hardin
Rashella: Brenda Strong
Katie: Jandi Swanson
Melian: Paul Lambert
Mason: Jeremy Wheaton
Tara: Amy Wheaton
Roe: MacKenzie Westmore

Wesley and other children are kidnapped from the Enterprise and taken to the planet Aldea where the inhabitants of the sterile civilization cannot have children of their own.
Home Soil
GUEST STARS:
Kurt Mandl: Walter Gotell
Louisa Kim: Elizabeth Lindsey
Bjorn Benson: Gerald Prendergast
Arthur Malencon: Mario Roccuzzo

While investigating the death of a terraformer engineer on Velara III, the Away Team is suddenly faced with the murderous wrath of microscopic inorganic life forms.
Coming of Age
GUEST STARS:
Admiral Gregory Quinn: Ward Costello
Lieutenant Commander Dexter Remmick: Robert Schenkkan
Mordock: John Putch
Tac Officer Chang: Robert Ito
Jake Kurland: Stephen Gregory
T'Shanik: Tasia Valenza
Oliana Mirren: Estee Chandler
Rondon: Robert Riordan

Picard suddenly finds himself and his career under intense investigation, and Wesley takes the Starfleet Academy entrance exam.
Heart of Glory
GUEST STARS:
Commander Korris: Vaughn Armstrong
Lieutenant Konmel: Charles H. Hyman
K'nera: David Froman
Kunivas: Robert Bauer
Ramos: Dennis Madalone

Two renegade, war-hungry Klingons are rescued and beamed aboard the Enterprise, which they then try to take over.
The Arsenal of Freedom
GUEST STARS:
The Peddler: Vincent Schiavelli
Captain Paul Rice: Marco Rodriguez
Chief Engineer Logan: Vyto Ruginis
Ensign Lian T'Su: Julia Nickson
Lieutenant J.G. Orfil Solis: George de la Pena

Destructive energy spheres, sinkholes that swallow, and invisible enemies plague the Enterprise as the crew scours the planet Minos for the missing U.S.S. Drake.
Symbiosis
GUEST STARS:
Sobi: Judson Scott
T'Jon: Merritt Butrick
Romas: Richard Line-back
Langor: Kimberly Farr

The Enterprise encounters two civilizations in the Delos system with an unhealthy codependency dating back 200 years. Without disobeying the Prime Directive, Picard attempts to break the longstanding codependency and prevent all-out war.
Skin of Evil
GUEST STARS:
Armus: Mart McChesney
Assistant Chief Engineer Leland T. Lynch: Walker Boone
Nurse: Brad Zerbst
Lieutenant Ben Prieto: Raymond Forchion

Counselor Troi's shuttlecraft crash lands on Vagra II, a planet whose only life form is a sinister creature that enjoys the suffering of humans. Troi's rescue cost the Enterprise the life of one of it's crew -- Tasha Yar.
We’ll Always Have Paris
GUEST STARS:
Mrs. Manheim: Michelle Phillips
Dr. Paul Manheim: Rod Loomis
Gabrielle: Isabel Lorca
Lieutenant Dean: Dan Kern
Edouard: Jean-Paul Vignon
Transporter Chief Herbert: Lance Spellerberg

A scientist endangers his own life when his experiments cause a rip in the fabric of time and open up a new dimension. Meanwhile, Picard tries to deal with his feelings for the man's wife, who happens to be the first woman he fell in love with.
Conspiracy
GUEST STARS:
Admiral Savar: Henry Darrow
Admiral Quinn: Ward Costello
Lieutenant Commander Dexter Remmick: Robert Schenkkan
Admiral Aaron: Ray Reinhardt
Captain Walker Keel: Jonathan Farwell
Captain Riix: Michael Berryman
Captain Tryla Scott: Ursaline Bryant

Picard suspects there is something rotten eating away at the Federation when he notices strange behavior in Starfleet's top brass.
The Neutral Zone
GUEST STARS:
Commander Tebok: Marc Alaimo
Sub-Commander Thei: Anthony James
"Sonny" Clemonds: Leon Rippy
Clare Raymond: Gracie Harrison
Ralph Offenhouse: Peter Mark Richman

Three cryogenically-preserved bodies are found on a 20th-century Earth satellite just as the Enterprise is ordered to the Neutral Zone to confront Romulans.


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