Star Trek: The Next Generation, episode guide

In the main intro the title screen of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION is presented as before.

"Time’s Arrow" (Part 2)

(127:178)
Captain Picard, first officer Riker, Beverly Crusher, Deanna Troi and Geordi La Forge journey to the 19th century San Francisco to find Data and return to their future. Meanwhile, Samuel Clemens interferes in Data's attempts to return to his own time determine Data has come from the future to destroy the Earth.
US Air Date: 21 September 1992
Miles Edward O'Brien is mentioned but not seen!

"Realm of Fear"

(128:178)
The Enterprise finds the missing USS Yosemite trapped in a plasma streamer and the crew either dead or missing. When Reginald Barclay, who is terrified of the transporter, is asked to join the away team, he sees something letting him to believe he suffers from "transporter psychosis".
US Air Date: 28 September 1992

"Man of the People"

(129:178)
The lumerian ambassador Ramid Ves Alkar is beamed aboard the Enterprise to mediate a dispute in the Rekag-Bironi system. When Alkar's aged mother dies, Deanna performs a lumerian funeral meditation with him and soon after she begins exhibiting strange behaviour.
US Air Date: 5 October 1992

"Relics"

(130:178)
The Enterprise discovers the wreckage of the USS Jenolan, who was reported lost 75 years before. When the away team discovers the transporter still is engaged they complete the sequence beaming in a retired Starfleet engineer, Montgomery Scott.
US Air Date: 12 October 1992
Captain Kirk is mentioned! Guinan is mentioned but not seen!

"Schisms"

(131:178)
While mapping an extremely dense globular cluster, several of the crew begin to exhibit strange symptoms. The senior officers' investigation reveals that they are being taken from the ship by unknown aliens from a parallel universe.
US Air Date: 19 October 1992
Data reads for the crew aboard a poem he has written about his cat Spot. Spot is mentioned but never seen!

"True Q"

(132:178)
The Enterprise is attempting to save the planet Tagra from environmental collape when Q appears, claiming Amanda, a young honor student aboard the ship, as a member of Q. Amanda must now choose to remain human or become a full Q.
US Air Date: 26 October 1992
Wesley Crusher is mentioned but never seen!

"Rascals"

(133:178)
A molecular mishap during transport transforms captain Picard, ensign Ro, Keiko and Guinan into 12 year old children. Beverly Crusher starts investigating what has happend, when the ferengi attack and claim the Enterprise as salvage.
US Air Date: 2 November 1992
Wesley Crusher is mentioned but never seen!

"A Fistful of Datas"

(134:178)
In an attempt to get closer to his father, Alexander has Reginald Barclay program a wild west adventure for the two of them. When an experiment goes awry, all of the holodeck characters become Datas and sheriff Worf must defeat Data to save his son's life.
US Air Date: 9 November 1992
Directed by: Patrick Stewart
Picard plays his flute ("The Inner Light" (125)). Barclay is mentioned but not seen!

"The Quality of Life"

(135:178)
Data risks Picard's and Geordi's lives to protect the living machines, the exocomps, when Riker orders their annihilation to save an experimental mining project that have gone wrong.
US Air Date: 16 November 1992
Directed by: Jonathan Frakes

"Chain of Command" (Part 1)

(136:178)
Captain Jean-Luc Picard is relieved of the command on the Enterprise and is replaced by the unpleasant captain Edward Jellico, whose leadership is much different from Picard's. The crew on the Enterprise soon is under a lot of strain. The cardassians is getting ready for war and have grouped their forces along the Federation borders. Picard is send on a secret mission with Beverly Crusher and Worf.
US Air Date: 14 December 1992
Cardassia has withdrawed from occupied Bajor. Captain Jellico commands Deanna Troi to wear uniform when she is on duty.

"Chain of Command" (Part 2)

(137:178)
Meanwhile, the Enterprise try saving Picard from the cardassians, Picard is undergoing torture, as the cardassians believe, Picard knows the Federations defence plans for the star system they want to invade.
US Air Date: 21 December 1992
Data is temporary promoted to first officer, when captain Jellico suspends Riker.

Transporter chief Miles Edward O'Brien leaves the Enterprise in favour of the space station Deep Space Nine.

"Ship in a Bottle"

(138:178)
A Sherlock Holmes program is acting strangely and when Geordi asks Reginald Barclay find the cause, the holodeck character professor Moriarty ("Elementary, Dear Data" (29)) shows itself. 4 years back captain Picard promised to give the self-aware holodeck character a life outside the holodeck, and now he will stop at nothing to achieve his goal. Only too late Moriarty's (plan) is discovered, which is catastrophic as an exploding star is threatening the Enterprise with destruction.
US Air Date: 25 January 1993

"Aquiel"

(139:178)
The USS Enterprise finds Starfleet's little space station near the klingon border abandoned whith exception of a dog and a clue pointing against a recently commited murder. Geordi starts looking through the computer logs of the supposed victim, Aquiel Uhnaris, to find clues, but ends up being in love with this unusual, young woman.
US Air Date: 1 February 1993
Gowron is mentioned but never seen!

"Face of the Enemy"

(140:178)
Forced to play a romulan intelligence officer Deanna Troi plays a central role in a detailed defection plan. Meanwhile, the Enterprise is host to a man, who once was ensign in the Starfleet but defected to the romulans, claiming to have a message from ambassador Spock ("Unification" (107/108)).
US Air Date: 8 February 1993
Spock is mentioned but never seen!

"Tapestry"

(141:178)
Captain Picard is badly wounded, and while doctor Crusher fights to save his life, he experience an after death experience, where Q offers Picard a chance to change his life in another direction and avoid the fight, he participated in in his youth, in which his heart is run through. But will he become the same man, he is, if the story is rewritten?
US Air Date: 15 February 1993

"Birthright" (Part 1)

(142:178)
During a stay on the space station Deep Space Nine Worf is accosted on the promenadedeck by a shopkeeper, who claims, Worf's father, Mogh, is still alive. Worf becomes angry of the chance to this, and by that dishonour the family suffers by letting himself be captured. Meanwhile, Data is astounded by his own behaviour. He has started dreaming about his creator, doctor Noonien Soong.
US Air Date: 22 February 1993
Alexander is mentioned but not seen!

"Birthright" (Part 2)

(143:178)
Held prisoner in a society, where klingons and romulans live peacefully side by side, Worf risks his life teaching the younger klingons their forgotten heritage and inspire them to claim their honour.
US Air Date: 1 March 1993

"Starship Mine"

(144:178)
The Enterprise is abandoned, while it is being cleansed for accumulated radiation. Returned to fetch his saddle from his quarters, Picard discovers, the engineer crew, who take care of the cleansing operation, not is what they appear to be. Meanwhile, unsuspectingly of this Riker, Deanna, Beverly, Geordi and Data attends a reception down on the planet.
US Air Date: 29 March 1993

"Lessons"

(145:178)
Picard falls in love with the new head of the astro physics, Nella Daren, which turn out to be problematic. He must face the reality of the conflict standing between his feelings and unprejudiced commands.
US Air Date: 5 April 1993
Wesley Crusher is mentioned but never seen! Captain Jean-Luc Picard plays his ressikan flute ("The Inner Light" (125)).

"The Chase"

(146:178)
When Picard's old archaeology professor comes aboard and invites him to participate in a big mystery, Picard is tempted but says no. When the agitated professor as a result of this leaves the Enterprise in his shuttlecraft, he is attacked. Picard, who feels obligated to follow the professor's trail, finds himself in close competition with the cardassians, the klingons, and the romulans in solving a 4 billion year old mystery of creation.
US Air Date: 26 April 1993
Directed by: Jonathan Frakes

"Frame of Mind"

(147:178)
Riker plays a leading role in a play about a patient in a mental hospital, when he finds reality and fantasi mixed. Apparently captured in a strange mental hospital with nearly no memory of the past, Riker is convinced, he is going insane.
US Air Date: 3 May 1993

"Suspicions"

(148:178)
Beverly Crusher awaits a hearing, that can cost her her career in Starfleet. Guinan let her think back to what has happened: Reyga, a ferengi scientist, who has invented a shield resisting enormous of radiation and high temperatures, is resisted among scientists, and that is why she invites them on board. The test of the shield means the death of a scientist and soon after his unsuccessful experiment, Reyga is found dead. It looks like suicide, but doctor Crusher thinks he was murdered.
US Air Date: 10 May 1993

"Rightful Heir"

(149:178)
Captain Picard gives Worf a leave of absence in the search for his klingon beliefes, which is completed, if he on the holy planet sees the greatest klingon warrior in all times, K'ahless, who for a 1000 years ago gathered the klingon empire. Worf sees him, but he is of flesh and blood. However, in every respect it is K'ahless, who has returned from the dead to claim his empire back.
US Air Date: 17 May 1993
Worf pressures Gowron to let the cloned Kahless become emperor - though without real power.

"Second Chances"

(150:178)
The Enterprise has arrived a planet to get data from the computer on the former Federation base. Riker was at the base, when the planet 7 years back was hit by an earthquake and a transporter accident made an identical double of Riker, who survived all the years. This tries to resume his relationship with Deanna and personalities collides, when the two Rikers have to go on a mission together.
US Air Date: 24 May 1993
Directed by: LeVar Burton

"Timescape"

(151:178)
Returning to the Enterprise Picard, Data, Geordi and Deanna experience time distortions. Discovering they are in an area of temporal fragments, they carefully navigate their way back to the ship, only to find it engulfed in a battle with a romulan warbird - the entire scene frozen in time.
US Air Date: 14 June 1993
Data's cat, Spot, is mentioned but never seen!

"Descent" (Part 1)

(152:178)
Responding to a distress call from Ohniaka Three, the Enterprise arrives to find the outpost scientists dead. The away team is then attacked by borg soldiers, who act strangely and seem to focus their attention on Data. Data, who is incapable of feelings, sense rage that makes him kill a borg. A rage, he to Deanna Troi confess was followed by pleasure.
US Air Date: 21 June 1993
The episode title and the credits is put on screen in the intro scene before the show intro. This is the only episode which that occur.