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Star Trek: The Next Generation
Season Three Episode Summaries

Evolution
The Ensigns of Command
The Survivors
Who Watches the Watchers?
The Bonding
Booby Trap
The Enemy
The Price
The Vengeance Factor
The Defector
The Hunted
The High Ground
Déjà Q
A Matter of Perspective
Yesterday's Enterprise
The Offspring
Sins of the Father
Allegiance
Captain's Holiday
Tin Man
Hollow Pursuits
The Most Toys
Sarek
Ménage Á Troi
Transfigurations
The Best of Both Worlds, Part 1

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)

Evolution
GUEST STARS:
Dr. Paul Stubbs: Ken Jenkins
Eric: Scott Grimes
Annette: Amy O'Neill
Nurse: Mary McCusker
Crewman No. 1: Randal Patrick

While escorting a scientist to the site of an exploding star in the Kavis Alpha Sector, a computer malfunction on the U.S.S. Enterprise-D jeopardizes lives and research.
The Ensigns of Command
GUEST STARS:
Ard'rian McKenzie: Eileen Seeley
Noe: Richard Allen
Haritath: Mark L. Taylor
Gosheven: Grainger Hines
Sheliak: Mart McChesney

The Enterprise organizes a massive evacuation when an alien race reclaims a planet and orders the removal of all humans within four days -- or face annihiliation.
The Survivors
GUEST STARS:
Kevin Uxbridge: John Anderson
Rishon Uxbridge: Anne Haney

The Enterprise arrives at Rana IV and discovers that the planet's entire population has been destroyed, with the exception of an elderly couple who refuse to leave.
Who Watches the Watchers?
GUEST STARS:
Nuria: Kathryn Leigh Scott
Liko: Ray Wise
Dr. Barron: James Greene
Oji: Pamela Segall
Fento: John McLiam
Hali: James McIntire
Mary Warren: Lois Hall

While assisting Federation anthropologists injured during an explosion on Mintaka III, the Away Team inadvertantly causes its primitive people to view Picard as a god.
The Bonding
GUEST STARS:
Jeremy Aster: Gabriel Damon
Lieutenant Marla Aster: Susan Powell
Teacher: Raymond D. Turner

Worf and Wesley help a 12-year-old boy cope with the death of his mother, an archeologist killed during an Away Team investigation of a deserted planet.
Booby Trap
GUEST STARS:
Dr. Leah Brahms: Susan Gibney
Galek Dar: Albert Hall
Christy Henshaw: Julie Warner

The Enterprise sends an Away Team to investigate an ancient warship, and is trapped in the same energy-draining field that snared the derelict ship during a battle a thousand years before.
The Enemy
GUEST STARS:
Centurion Bochra: John Snyder
Commander Tomalak: Andreas Katsulas
Patahk: Steve Rankin

A Romulan ship hinders attempts to rescue Geordi, who is stranded on the Federation planet Galorndon Core, along with the survivor of a downed Romulan vessel.
The Price
GUEST STARS:
Devinoni Ral: Matt McCoy
Premier Bhavani: Elizabeth Hoffman
Dr. Mendoza: Castulo Guerra
DaiMon Goss: Scott Thompson
Dr. Arridor: Dan Shor
Leyor: Kevin Peter Hall

Duplicity and subterfuge abound as the Enterprise hosts negotiations for rights to a newly discovered wormhole, which is coveted by both the Barzan and the Ferengi.
The Vengeance Factor
GUEST STARS:
Yuta: Lisa Wilcox
Brull: Joey Aresco
Marouk: Nancy Parsons
Chorgan: Stephen Lee
Volnoth: Marc Lawrence
Temarek: Elkanah Burns

The crew attempts to reconcile the Acamerians and the rebel group known as the Gatherers, a faction which broke away from the Acamerians during clan wars more than 100 years earlier.
The Defector
GUEST STARS:
Sub-Lieutenant Setal/Alidar Jarok: James Sloyan
Commander Tomalak: Andreas Katsulal
Admiral Haden: John Hancock
John Bates: S.A. Templeman

A defecting Romulan pilot warns the crew of the Enterprise about an impending assault from a Romulan base being established in the Neutral Zone.
The Hunted
GUEST STARS:
Roga Danar: Jeff McCarthy
Nayrok: James Cromwell
Zaynar: J. Michael Flynn
Wagnor: Andrew Bicknell

The planet Angosia III seeks to become a member of the Federation, and asks for assistance in their efforts to capture a prison escapee who has a reputation for extreme violence.
The High Ground
GUEST STARS:
Kyril Finn: Richard Cox
Waiter (Katik Shaw): Marc Buckland
Policeman: Fred G. Smith
Boy (Ansata): Christopher Pettiet

Dr. Crusher is kidnapped by terrorists while delivering much-needed medical supplies to a planet torn by civil war.
Déjà Q
GUEST STARS:
Q: John DeLancie
Dr. Garin: Richard Cansino
Bre'el Scientist: Betty Muramoto
Q2: Corbin Bernsen

In this humor-filled episode, a suddenly powerless Q is forced to request sanctuary on the Starship Enterprise when a Calamarian seeks revenge against him.
A Matter of Perspective
GUEST STARS:
Dr. Apgar: Mark Margolis
Krag: Craig Richard Nelson
Manua Apgar: Gina Hecht
Tayna: Juli Donald

While on Tanuga IV, Riker must defend himself against accusations of murder when a research scientist is killed in an explosion, and Picard uses the Enterprise's holodeck to prove his commander's innocence.
Yesterday's Enterprise
GUEST STARS:
Lieutenant Tasha Yar: Denise Crosby
Captain Rachel Garrett: Tricia O'Neil
Lieutenant J.G. Richard Castillo: Christopher McDonald

A rift in space and time brings the Enterprise into contact with a ship that was destroyed 20 years earlier, and leads to a reunion with ex-security chief Tasha Yar.
The Offspring
GUEST STARS:
Lal: Hallie Todd
Admiral Haftel: Nicholas Coster
Lieutenant Ballard: Judyann Elder
Lal as Robot: Leonard John Crowfoot

Data becomes a daddy when he creates an android daughter named Lal, whom he enrolls in school so she can learn human behavior.
Sins of the Father
GUEST STARS:
K'Mpec: Charles Cooper
Kurn: Tony Todd
Duras: Patrick Massett
Kahlest: Thelma Lee

Worf meets his long-lost brother and learns that his father has been charged with treason for aiding the Romulans during the Khitomer assault. Together, they confront the Klingon High Council and challenge the charges against their father.
Allegiance
GUEST STARS:
Kova Tholl: Stephen Markel
Esoqq: Reiner Schöne
Cadet Mitena Haro: Joycelyn O'Brien
Alien No. 1: Jerry Rector
Alien No. 2: Jeff Rector

An alien energy beam kidnaps Picard from his quarters and replaces him with a look-alike, whose strange behavior gives the crew just cause to relieve him of his command.
Captain's Holiday
GUEST STARS:
Vash: Jennifer Hetrick
Ajur: Karen Landry
Boratus: Michael Champion
Sovak: Max Grodenchik
Joval: Deirdre Imershein

Picard's tropical vacation is interrupted by time-traveling Vorgons from the 27th century who say they've a security team searching for a powerful weapon hidden on the paradise planet.
Tin Man
GUEST STARS:
Tam Elbrun: Harry Groener
Captain Robert DeSoto: Michael Cavanaugh
Romulan Commander: Peter Vogt

The Enterprise risks hostile Romulan Warbirds and a star on the verge of exploding in order to bring a Betazoid Federation emissary into contact with Tin Man, a newly discovered alien intelligence.
Hollow Pursuits
GUEST STARS:
Lieutenant Barclay: Dwight Schultz
Lieutenant Duffy: Charley Lang

A timid and ineffectual crew member uses the holodeck to act out his fantasies and vent his frustrations, but places the Enterprise in jeopardy when he neglects his duties in engineering.
The Most Toys
GUEST STARS:
Kivas Fajo: Saul Rubinek
Palor Toff: Nehemiah Persoff
Varria: Jane Daly

The crew is convinced Data is dead after his shuttlecraft explodes but they are forced to leave on a mission before confirming what has happened to the android.
Sarek
GUEST STARS:
Sarek: Mark Lenard
Perrin: Joanna Miles
Ki Mendrossen: William Denis
Sakkath: Rocco Sisto
Science Crewman: John H. Francis

Tempers flare during a visit by the Vulcan ambassador Sarek, who boards the Enterprise to negotiate diplomatic ties with the Legaran.
Ménage Á Troi
GUEST STARS:
Lwaxana Troi: Majel Barrett
DaiMon Tog: Frank Corsentino
Dr. Farek: Ethan Phillips
Nibor: Peter Slutsker
Reittan Grax: Rudolph Willrich
Mr. Homn: Carel Struycken

Riker and Troi's shore leave on Betazed suddenly goes awry: First they are interrupted by Deanna Troi's mother, Lwaxana, and then all three are kidnapped by the greedy Ferengi, who want to study Lwaxana Troi's telepathic powers. In order to retrieve Lwaxana, Picard is forced to feign jealousy and spout his beloved Shakespeare.
Transfigurations
GUEST STARS:
John Doe: Mark LaMura
Commander Sunad: Charles Dennis
Christy Henshaw: Julie Warner
Nurse Temple: Patti Tippo

After they suceed in rescuing a severely injured humanoid from a crippled escape pod, the entire crew of the Starship Enterprise is overcome with feelings of serenity, and witness the alien's healing powers.
The Best of Both Worlds, Part 1
GUEST STARS:
Lieutenant Commander Shelby: Elizabeth Dennehy
Admiral J.P. Hanson: George Murdock

An ambitious Starfleet officer arrives on the Enterprise to assist in an investigation of the disappearance of a Federation colony, and leads an Away Team effort to rescue Picard, who has been kidnapped and assimilated by the Borg.


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