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Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season Two Episode Summaries

The Child
Where Silence Has Lease
Elementary, Dear Data
The Outrageous Okona
Loud as a Whisper
The Schizoid Man
Unnatural Selection
A Matter of Honor
The Measure of a Man
The Dauphin
Contagion
The Royale
Time Squared
The Icarus Factor
Pen Pals
Q Who?
Samaritan Snare
Up the Long Ladder
Manhunt
The Emissary
Peak Performance
Shades of Gray

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 for season 2)
Miles O’Brien: Colm Meaney
Dr. Katherine Pulaski: Diana Muldaur (joins in season 2)
Ensign Ro: Michelle Forbes (joins in season 5)

The Child
GUEST STARS:
Lieutenant-Commander Hester Dealt: Seymour Cassel
Ian Andrew Troi: R.J. Williams
Miss Gladstone: Dawn Arnemann
Young Ian: Zachary Benjamin

The U.S.S. Enterprise-D tries to free the Rachelis system from a deadly plague, and Counselor Troi shocks everyone with the news that she's pregnant.
Where Silence Has Lease
GUEST STARS:
Naglium: Earl Boen
Ensign Haskell: Charles Douglass

Picard is forced to make the most difficult decision of his career when the Enterprise enters a mysterious "hole" with no dimensions recognizable to humans.
Elementary, Dear Data
GUEST STARS:
Professor Moriarty: Daniel Davis
Lestrade: Alan Shearman
Assistant Engineer Clancy: Anne Elizabeth Ramsey

During some unexpected time off, Data and Geordi book onto the holodeck and travel back to Victorian England to pay homage to Data's hero, Sherlock Holmes.
The Outrageous Okona
GUEST STARS:
Captain Thadiun Okona: William O. Campbell
Debin: Douglass Rowe
Kushell: Albert Stratton
Yanar: Rosalind Ingledew
Benzan: Kiernan Mulroney
Lieutenant J.G. Robinson: Teri Hatcher
The Comic: Joe Piscopo

The Enterprise takes a disabled ship under its wing but doesn't realize the ship's only resident, Captain Okona, will put them in the middle of a love triangle. Data attempts to conquer another human trait: humor.
Loud as a Whisper
GUEST STARS:
Riva: Howie Seago
Warrior/Adonis: Leo Damian
Woman: Marnie Mosiman
The Scholar: Thomas Oglesby

The Away Team escorts a well-known deaf mediator to end an ancient conflict on Solaris Five, but tragedy strikes when a disgruntled soldier shoots without warning.
The Schizoid Man
GUEST STARS:
Lieutenant Selar: Suzie Plakson
Kareen Brianon: Barbara Alyn Woods
Dr. Ira Graves: W. Morgan Sheppard

A brilliant scientist dies but his spirit lives on--by taking over Data's mind and body. Instead of being an academic boon, the ghostly presence turns Data violently jealous.
Unnatural Selection
GUEST STARS:
Dr. Sara Kingsley: Patricia Smith
Captain Taggert: J. Patrick McNamara

The Enterprise resonds to a distress call from a Federation supply ship only to find the entire crew has died of old age.
A Matter of Honor
GUEST STARS:
Ensign Mendon: John Putch
Captain Kargan: Christopher Collins
Klag: Brian Thompson
Tactics Officer: Peter Parros
Vekma: Laura Drake

Commander Riker is given an opportunity to serve as the first Starfleet officer to be posted to a Klingon ship, but a misunderstanding leads to a showdown between Riker and the Enterprise.
The Measure of a Man
GUEST STARS:
Captain Phillipa Louvois: Amanda McBroom
Admiral Nakamura: Clyde Kusatsu
Commander Bruce Maddox: Brian Brophy

Data finds his future on trial when the chief of a new starbase orders the android to be disassembled for research. Picard is forced to defend Data against Riker, who's put into a prosecution role.
The Dauphin
GUEST STARS:
Salia: Jamie Hubbard
Anya: Paddi Edwards
Anya as girl: Mädchen Amick
Anya as Animal: Cindy Sorenson
Ensign Gibson: Jennifer Barlow

The Enterprise escorts a young ruler and her domineering guardian to Daled IV without realizing their dangerous metamorphic powers.
Contagion
GUEST STARS:
Captain Donald Varley: Thalmus Rasulala
Sub-Commander Taris: Carolyn Seymour

The Away Team races against time to destroy an eerie power source that has infected the ship's computers, eaten away at Data's software, and left the Enterprise open to a Romulan attack.
The Royale
GUEST STARS:
Texas: Noble Willingham
Assistant Manager: Sam Anderson
Vanessa: Jill Jacobson
The Bellboy: Leo Garcia
Mickey D.: Gregory Beecroft

In an uncharted solar system, the Away Team gets trapped in a never-ending story where aliens have replicated human life based on a dramatic novel, "The Hotel Royale."
Time Squared
Picard begins to doubt his leadership when the Enterprise finds an out-of-control shuttlecraft with the captain's distraught double inside--from six hours in the future.
The Icarus Factor
GUEST STARS:
Kyle Riker: Mitchell Ryan
Transporter Operator Herbert: Lance Spellerberg

When he is promoted to captain of another Federation ship, Riker is eager to get started -- until he discovers that he's to be briefed by his estranged father.
Pen Pals
GUEST STARS:
Davies: Nicholas Cascone
Sarjenka: Nikki Cox
Hildebrandt: Anne H. Gillespie
Alans: Whitney Rydbeck

Wesley cuts his teeth as a Starfleet ensign when he's instruced to discover what's causing the earthquakes and volcanic eruptions on Drema IV where Data's young pen pal lives.
Q Who?
GUEST STARS:
Q: John DeLancie
Ensign Sonya Gomez: Lycia Naff

The Enterprise is attacked by the Borg after being hurled into a distant part of the galaxy by an angry Q. As the aliens close in for the kill, Q returns and offers his help -- if Picard swallows his pride.
Samaritan Snare
GUEST STARS:
Grebnedlog: Christopher Collins
Reginod: Leslie Morris
Surgeon: Daniel Benzali
Ensign Sonya Gomez: Lycia Naff
Biomolecular Physiologist: Tzi Ma

As Captain Picard lies near death on an operating table, the crew tries to outsmart the dim-witted Pakleds who are holding Geordi hostage.
Up the Long Ladder
GUEST STARS:
Danilo Odell: Barrie Ingham
Granger: Jon de Vries
Brenna Odell: Rosalyn Landor

Picard must convince two dying civilizations that their only chance for survival lies in cohabitating. But one of the cultures would much rather clone Riker and Dr. Pulaski.
Manhunt
GUEST STARS:
Lwaxana Troi: Majel Barrett
Slade Bender: Robert Costanza
Mr. Homn: Carel Struycken
Rex: Rod Arrants
Scarface: Robert O'Reilly
Madeline: Rhonda Alrich
Antidean Dignitary: Mick Fleetwood
Transport Pilot: Wren T. Brown

On her way to a Federation conference, Lwaxana Troi, Counselor Troi's mother, searches for a man to satisfy her insatiable appetite.
The Emissary
GUEST STARS:
K'Ehleyr: Suzie Plakson
K'Temoc: Lance le Gault
Admiral Gromek: Georgann Johnson
Ensign Clancy: Anne Elizabeth Ramsey
Tactical Crewman: Dietrich Bader

Worf is reluctantly reunited with a past lover when the Enterprise is ordered to intercept a Klingon ship whose crew has been in stasis for 100 years.
Peak Performance
GUEST STARS:
Sirna Kolrami: Roy Brocksmith
Bractor: Armin Shimerman
Ferengi Tactician: David L. Lander
Ensign Nagel: Leslie Neale
Ensign Burke: Glenn Morshower

Commander Riker and Captain Picard compete in a Starfleet battle simulation program. But the fun ends when a Ferengi warship stumbles across the game and starts firing on them for real.
Shades of Gray
In this flashback-filled episode, Riker is infected with an alien organism that quickly takes control of his brain. To fight the fatal bug, Dr. Pulaski must lead Riker's mind back to its most primitive memories of survival.


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