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Season 7

"Descent" (Part 2)

(153:178)
The evil android brother, Lore, is back and now leader of a group of borgs. But he also controls Data, who, with his ethical program not working, commence experiments on his best friend Geordi La Forge. Meanwhile, captain Picard and Deanna Troi attempts to escape. Elsewhere on the planet Riker and Worf meets the familiar borg, Hugh ("I Borg" (123)), who spread the individualism into his group of borgs.
US Air Date: 20 September 1993
Enterprise makes use of the metaphasic shield, invented by the ferengie Reyga ("Suspicions" (148)), which ables them to enter a stars corona. Data reclaims his emotion chip, which Lore stole ("Brothers" (77)).


Descent (Part 2)

"Liaisons"

(154:178)
While the Enterprise is hosting two ambassadors from an alien race, Picard is on his way to their planet. But on the way an accident happens and crash-lands on a barrenness planet. A woman finds him and nurse him, but soon Picard suspects her of just holding him off...
US Air Date: 27 September 1993


Liaisons

"Interface"

(155:178)
Geordi's mother disappear along with the space ship Hera, who she is the captain on. He refuses to acknowledge her being dead, so when he sees the mother through the probe, he is interfacing with, he disobeys captain Picard's order not to proceed again.
US Air Date: 4 October 1993
Geordi La Forge gets his disobedience written into his permanent record.


Interface

"Gambit" (Part 1)

(156:178)
Riker is shocked to find Picard, who has been missing and presumed dead, as a mercenary on an alien ship. First of all Riker has to convince the aliens, that he is worth keeping alive.
US Air Date: 11 October 1993


Gambit (Part 1)

"Gambit" (Part 2)

(157:178)
Picard and Riker finds out, that the mercenaries are on the raid of a potential, deadly, vulcan cultural artefact. But who can they trust?
US Air Date: 18 October 1993


Gambit (Part 2)

"Phantasms"

(158:178)
The Enterprise gets a new warp core, but Geordi repeately experiences problems, that more and more delays captain Picard, who reluctant are on his way to the annually banquet. Meanwhile, Data has begon dreaming the most bizarre dreams, so Deanna Troi begins to worry. Because Data is acting more and more strangely.
US Air Date: 25 October 1993
Directed by: Patrick Stewart
Alexander is mentioned but never seen!


Phantasms

"Dark Page"

(159:178)
Lwaxana Troi has through a period of time worked with a population, who uses a more sofisticated, telepathic way of communication. While a delegation of them are on board the Enterprise, Lwaxana falls in a deep coma, and thanks to them Deanna can probe her mothers mind, where a well-guarded secret are to find.
US Air Date: 1 November 1993
Mr. Homn is mentioned but never seen!


Dark Page

"Attached"

(160:178)
Captain Picard, who is to decide the population of kes' application to be a part of the Federation, beams down on the planet along with Beverly Crusher. But instead they ends up as prisoners in the closed prytt society, where they telepathically gets connected and is forced to face the feelings, they always have had for each other.
US Air Date: 8 November 1993
Directed by: Jonathan Frakes
Nurse Alyssa Ogawa Powell and Wesley Crusher is mentioned but never seen! Jean-Luc Picard declares his old love towards Beverly Crusher.


Attached

"Force of Nature"

(161:178)
The Enterprise is searching for the missing transport spaceship, the Flemming, in the Hekaras corridor and meets a ferengi spaceship, who has been attacked by a verteron beam, so now they float helpless about. The Enterprise becomes on their continuing voyage exposed to the same, and a brother and a sister beams aboard to proof their theory on how warp drive spoil the universe.
US Air Date: 15 November 1993
Data is training his cat. Geordi competes with another chief engineer of another starship. With reason to cause sub space rifts Starfleet orders their ships and its Allies not to travel with more than warp 5 speed. Only in emergencies may the limit be crossed.


Force of Nature

"Inheritance"

(162:178)
The planet Altrea 4 is threaten by a geological eruption, that will make the planet uninhabitable. Data is working along with the scientist Juliana, who tells Data, that she once was married to doctor Noonien Soong. A fact, he puts himself to investigate.
US Air Date: 22 November 1993


Inheritance

"Parallels"

(163:178)
Returned to the Enterprise, after having won a klingon competition, Worf finds the reality constantly changing and gets worried, when no one else seems to notice.
US Air Date: 29 November 1993
Alexander is mentioned but never seen! Worf invites Deanna Troi to dinner.


Parallels

"The Pegasus"

(164:178)
The romulans are on the trace of the USS Pegasus, which was believed exploded 12 years back. The space ship's captain from back then, Eric Pressman, now promoted to admiral, orders a broken-hearted Riker, at that time newly qualified from the Starfleet, to hide the real purpose of the risky mission to captain Picard. A mission, that is as mysterious, as back then.
US Air Date: 10 January 1994
Directed by: LeVar Burton


The Pegasus

"Homeward"

(165:178)
A planets atmosphere is soon gone and Worf's foster brother, Nikolaj, breaks the prime directive and beams a group of the primitive population into a holodeck aboard the Enterprise. They still believe, they are on the planet, which gives captain Picard time to find a new, suitable planet, while Worf and Nikolaj keeps the illusion going. But then a person finds the exit of the holodeck...
US Air Date: 17 January 1994


Homeward

"Sub Rosa"

(166:178)
Soon after the death of her grandmother, Felisa Howard, Beverly Crusher becomes enchanted with a ghost lover, who has been in her family for generations. However, there is something, that do not add up.
US Air Date: 31 January 1994
Directed by: Jonathan Frakes


Sub Rosa

"Lower Decks"

(167:178)
While, slowly procedures on promotion aboard the Enterprise take place, four officers finds themselves involved in a top secret mission.
US Air Date: 7 February 1994
Ensign Sito Jaxa was implicated in the scandal about Wesley Crusher at the Starfleet Academy ("The First Duty" (119)) - it was captain Picard, who gave her a chance aboard the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D.


Lower Decks

"Thine Own Self"

(168:178)
Deanna Troi will very much like to get command shifts on the bridge like Beverly Crusher and therefore asks to take the test. In the meantime, Data is on the planet Barkon 4, where he is to remove radioactive material from a crashed probe. But something has happened to Data, when he saunter into a village with amnesia. Radioactive metal pieces gets scattered, and the horror for the inexplicable illness get blamed on Data by the primitive people.
US Air Date: 14 February 1994
Deanna Troi takes the bridge officer test.


Thine Own Self

"Masks"

(169:178)
In a secluded region of space Enterprise comes across an 87 million year old comet, and mysterious objects turns up all around the ship. As they drill into the comet parts of the Enterprise is bit by bit transformed into objects and signs from an ancient culture. Finally, Data is invaded by several personalities from the extinct civilization.
US Air Date: 21 February 1994


Masks

"Eye of the Beholder"

(170:178)
Kwan, a young cadet, commit suicide without motive, which Deanna Troi gets the job to investigate. Simultaneous, she involves herself more and more intim in her colleague Worf, something mysterious is happening on the scene of the crime.
US Air Date: 28 February 1994
Deanna Troi and Worf begins a relationship.


Eye of the Beholder

"Genesis"

(171:178)
Worf looses a torpedo during a drill, and captain Jean-Luc Picard and Data takes up the pursuit in a shuttlecraft. When they return 3 days after, the Enterprise is adrift in space, and the evolution of the crew developed backwards to a prehistoric level.
US Air Date: 21 March 1994
Directed by: Gates McFadden


Genesis

"Journey's End"

(172:178)
In an agreement with the cardassian government the North American indians on the planet Dorvan 5 is going to be evacuated, which captain Picard reluctant must take care of. Wesley Crusher returns to the Enterprise with an attitude, that is not like him. A colonist gets Wesley to reconsider his future.
US Air Date: 28 March 1994


Journey's End

"Firstborn"

(173:178)
Worf is worried about his son Alexander, when he do not want to carry out a klingon ritual. Captain Picard wants to help Worf by setting the course to the klingon planet, Maranga 4, where Worf tries to make his son be interested in the klingon culture. When they at night is assaulted, they get rescued by K'mtar, who tells he is the servant of the family Mogh. It is the sisters Duras ("Redemption" (100/101)), who is evident responsible for the attack.
US Air Date: 25 April 1994
Kurn is mentioned but never seen!


Firstborn

"Bloodlines"

(174:178)
A probe shows itself in front of the Enterprise transmitting a holographic message from Bok ("The Battle" (9)), who wil revenge his his son by killing captain Picard's. Now, the hunt after a son, Picard never knew he had, begins. They track him, and a DNA analysis shows, Jason is the son of captain Jean-Luc Picard. But, how is it possible to get hold of Bok, when he is able to beam aboard the Enterprise undetected by the sensors and while the shields are still up?
US Air Date: 2 May 1994
The ferengi DaiMon Bok, who once again will revenge his son ("The Battle" (9)), returns!


Bloodlines

"Emergence"

(175:178)
The famous train line the Orient Express runs simultaneously with the programme Data is running. Enterprise is searching for suitable places to colonize but their search is interrupted as they on and off looses the control of the starship. Here and there Geordi and Data finds small knot points integrated into the system, and it protects itself. The holodeck is where the answer is to be found aboard the Orient Express...
US Air Date: 9 May 1994


Emergence

"Preemptive Strike"

(176:178)
The recently promoted Ro Laren is forced to choose between her loyalty towards Picard and her hatred towards the cardassians, when she accepts an assignment to infiltrate the rebels calling themselves The Maquis.
US Air Date: 16 May 1994
Directed by: Patrick Stewart
The Maquis are seen for the first time in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "The Maquis" (Part 1+2) (40/41).


Preemptive Strike

"All Good Things..." (Part 1)

(177:178)
Picard finds himself travelling between past, present, and future, while he tries to understand why. It happens without any prewarning and he gets closer to a coherence, which he not yet understands.
US Air Date: 23 May 1994


All Good Things... (Part 1)

"All Good Things..." (Part 2)

(178:178)
Picard has found out that it is Q, who is behind his travel between past, present, and future. Picard can only rectify this, if he in all three periods of time do something about the time displacement, which has mounted up in the Deveron system.
US Air Date: 23 May 1994
First aired in USA the episode is not divided in two parts. Today "All Good Things..." is only shown as a two part episode. That is why the same date.


All Good Things... (Part 2)




The TV series "Star Trek: The Next Generation" is concluded but continues in the following movies:
Star Trek: Generations
Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: Insurrection
Star Trek: Nemesis

 

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