Star Trek: The Next Generation, episode guide

In the main intro the title screen of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION is glowing.

"Redemption" (Part 2)

(101:178)
Picard involves the Enterprise in the klingon civil war, after he becomes convinced the romulans are supporting the subversive Duras family. Meanwhile, Worf is kidnapped by Lursa and B'Etor in the hopes he will join them.
US Air Date: 23 September 1991
Natasha Yar is mentioned!

"Darmok"

(102:178)
A people the Federation in decades without success has tried to communicate with, awaits at the rim of the border. Picard will try to communicate and so will the captain on the other vessel. But they do not understand each other so the captain beams Picard and himself down to the planet below, and his spaceship hinders any rescue. Seperated from the Enterprise Picard must learn to communicate with an alien race whose language has been called 'incomprehensible'.
US Air Date: 30 September 1991

"Ensign Ro"

(103:178)
When a Federation colony is attacked by bajorans, Picard is ordered to take aboard the court-martialed bajoran Starfleet officer Ro Laren to locate the rebels. When Guinan helps Ro, Picard begins to realise everything is not as it seems.
US Air Date: 7 October 1991
For the first time Bajor is mentioned. For many years they have been oppressed and invaded by Cardassia and the fight for freedom is mentioned. A bajoran has their last name first. Ro Laren is new ensign onboard the Enterprise.

"Silicon Avatar"

(104:178)
Four years back the crystalline entity destroyed a whole Federation colony ("Datalore" (13)), but now it has destroyed another and the scientist Kila Marr suspects Data then and now to be collaborating with the entity. She is no less mildly when Picard insist she and Data is going to be working together.
US Air Date: 14 October 1991
Data plays guitar. Lore is mentioned but not seen! The crystalline entity is killed!

"Disaster"

(105:178)
The Enterprise is crippled in an accident and Deanna Troi finds herself in command of the spaceship. Meanwhile, Picard and three children is trapped in a turbolift, Worf attends to a pregnant Keiko in Ten Forward and Beverly and Geordi must extinguish a plasma fire.
US Air Date: 21 October 1991
Keiko gives birth to hers and Miles Edward O’Brien’s baby with the help of Worf.

"The Game"

(106:178)
While vacationing from the academy Wesley Crusher falls in love with a young ensign. He also discovers that the crew is rapidly falling victim to an addictive new game Riker has brought onboard after a visit to Risa. Can Wesley save them in time?
US Air Date: 28 October 1991
Keiko and Miles Edward O’Brien’s daughter is called Molly.

"Unification" (Part 1)

(107:178)
When ambassador Spock appears on the romulan homeworld, Picard is ordered to return him to the Federation. His first stop is the planet Vulcan, where he seeks the advice of Sarek ("Sarek" (71)), whose condition has deteriorated. Meanwhile, Riker and his crew try to solve the mystery of a stolen vulcan space ship.
US Air Date: 4 November 1991
Sarek dies. The episode is in memory of Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991).

"Unification" (Part 2)

(108:178)
Having found Spock, Picard becomes embroilled in the legendary vulcan's quest for the reunification of the romulans and vulcans. Meanwhile, Riker and the crew continue their search for the missing ship. Can the romulans be trusted, and what do the two incidents have in common?
US Air Date: 11 November 1991
Spock remains on Romulus. Captain Kirk and Sarek is mentioned. The episode is in memory of Gene Roddenberry (1921-1991).

"A Matter of Time"

(109:178)
Berlingoff Rasmussen, a historian from the 26th century, has arrived in a time machine informing the crew, that he has travelled through time to study the crew on the Enterprise. Meanwhile, Picard and his officers are working on saving a planet, which, when a massive meteor hits it, will develop climatic changes on the surface.
US Air Date: 18 November 1991

"New Ground"

(110:178)
Worf's son, Alexander ("Reunion" (81)), returns, when his adoptive parents find him too difficult to handle. Worf, who himself experiences problems with Alexander has to decide, what is best for the boy. On the USS Enterprise a new propulsion method is tested, that could revolutionize space travel.
US Air Date: 6 January 1992
Alexander now lives with his father Worf on Enterprise.

"Hero Worship"

(111:178)
When a science vessel is destroyed, the Enterprise is sent to investigate. They are stunned to discover a small boy, who blames himself for the tragedy. The boy becomes attached to Data and decides, he too is an android.
US Air Date: 27 January 1992
Directed by: Patrick Stewart

"Violations"

(112:178)
The Enterprise is escorting a delegation of telepathic historians from Ullian to Kaldra Four, when Deanna Troi suddenly fall comatose. The ullians are immediately suspected, but before doctor Crusher can determined the truth, Riker falls, and later even herself, into a deep coma.
US Air Date: 3 February 1992

"The Masterpiece Society"

(113:178)
While tracking a stellar core fragment, the Enterprise discovers a long lost Earth colony on a planet that will be devastated by its passing. But the colony has been genetically engineered as a perfect society, and those in power refuse any interference or assistance.
US Air Date: 10 February 1992

"Conundrum"

(114:178)
After being scanned by an alien ship, the entire Enterprise crew suffers from amnesia. When they finally access the ship's computer they discover they are at war with a race called the lysians and they have been ordered to destroy their central command!
US Air Date: 17 February 1992
First officer Riker goes to bed with ensign Ro Laren.

"Power Play"

(115:178)
Troi, Data and O’Brien are possessed by non-corporeal lifeforms who try to take over the Enterprise. When their attempt fails, they take hostages in Ten Forward and claim to be the spirits of crewmembers from a Starfleet vessel lost in the area two centuries before.
US Air Date: 24 February 1992

"Ethics"

(116:178)
After an accident causing Worf to get paralysed, doctor Crusher has to decide whether or not to allow a visiting neurogeneticist test a new treatment on him. If she doesn't, the proud klingon warrior would rather commit suicide than live in the shame as a cripple.
US Air Date: 2 March 1992
Natasha Yar is mentioned!

"The Outcast"

(117:178)
While first officer William Riker assist the j'naii locate their missing shuttlecraft he becomes romantically involved with a member of this race.
US Air Date: 16 March 1992

"Cause and Effect"

(118:178)
The Enterprise crew is caught in a causality loop, which repeatedly ends in a collision with another ship and immediate annihilation. Gradually, as the feeling of "deja vu" becomes stronger with each loop, the crew must find a solution to their predicament or remain in the loop forever.
US Air Date: 23 March 1992
Directed by: Jonathan Frakes

"The First Duty"

(119:178)
A member of Wesley Crusher's Starfleet Academy squadron is killed during a practice flight, and the Enterprise becomes involved in the investigation of the accident. When it appears Wesley is not telling the truth at the hearing, he must face an angry Picard.
US Air Date: 30 March 1992

"Cost of Living"

(120:178)
Lwaxana Troi returns to announce her engagement and to let her wedding take place on the Enterprise. She also interferes in Deanna's attempts to solve Worf's problems with Alexander. Meanwhile a parasite is wreaking havoc on the ship...
US Air Date: 20 April 1992

"The Perfect Mate"

(121:178)
Hoping to end a war between two neighbouring systems, the Enterprise escorts the kriosian's ambassador Briam and his "gift", a beautiful woman named Kamala, to the valtese's leader Alrik. Doctor Crusher strenuously objects against the arrangement and two troublesome ferengis makes matters worse.
US Air Date: 27 April 1992

"Imaginary Friend"

(122:178)
Due to her father's Starfleet career little Clara Sutter has spent most of her childhood alone. Troi reassures the girl's father that her creation of an imaginary friend is harmless. However, things change when the playmate becomes real, and threatens to destroy the Enterprise.
US Air Date: 4 May 1992
Keiko is mentioned but not seen!

"I Borg"

(123:178)
The Enterprise crew find a surviving borg in the wreckage of a small borg ship and beam it aboard on doctor Crusher's demand. Despite his feelings, Picard sees an opportunity to improve their hopes of defeating the borg, while Guinan confronts her anger over the destruction of her race. In the next hours the crew is confronted with an ethic dilemma.
US Air Date: 11 May 1992

"The Next Phase"

(124:178)
After rendering assistance to a damaged romulan spaceship, chief engineer Geordi La Forge and ensign Ro Laren is killed in a transporter accident. But they are still alive - the others is just not able to see them. Laren thinks she is dead, but Geordi have not given up. But they do not have unlimited time as the romulans have evil in mind.
US Air Date: 18 May 1992

"The Inner Light"

(125:178)
When the Enterprise finds an alien probe, it transmit a signal to Picard who falls in a coma. He himself experience to be send to another planet and a life he might have had, if he had not stayed in Starfleet.
US Air Date: 1 June 1992
A ressikan flute, the flute Picard played as the inhabitant of the planet Kataan, is found inside the probe. Patrick Stewart's son, Daniel, plays the part as the son to Picard as he lives a whole life on the planet.

"Time’s Arrow" (Part 1)

(126:178)
The Enterprise is called back to Earth, when a group of archaeologists have found the head of second officer Data buried under San Francisco. It turns out, that the head have been there since the 19th centuries, which is some mystery. During the attempt to solve the mystery Data is accidentally thrown into the past, and finds himself in San Francisco in the 1890s. There he meets Samuel Clemens and a much younger Guinan.
US Air Date: 15 June 1992