The Best Episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1

Stardate: 41775.5. The strange behavior of high-ranking officers leads Picard to uncover a twisted alien conspiracy within Starfleet.

Director: Cliff Bole

Writer: Tracy Tormé

Stardate: 41242.4. While exploring his homeworld, the crew of the Enterprise find android parts that are identical to Data's. When assembled, an 'evil' twin of Data named Lore is revived.

Director: Rob Bowman

Writer: N/A

Stardate: 41263.1. The Enterprise is flung across space into a distant galaxy billions of light years away when a propulsion engineer and his mysterious companion, attempt to re-design the ship's engine systems.

Director: Rob Bowman

Writer: Diane Duane, Michael Reaves

Stardate: 41365.9. While undergoing repairs, the Bynar Engineers steal the Enterprise to save their planet from destruction.

Director: Paul Lynch

Writer: Robert Lewin, Maurice Hurley

Stardate: 41986.0. A derelict satellite is found with cryonically frozen humans aboard as the USS Enterprise is sent to investigate the destruction of outposts near Romulan space.

Director: James L. Conway

Writer: N/A

Stardate: 41997.7. Picard, Dr. Crusher and Data are placed in great danger when the holodeck malfunctions while they are running a Dixon Hill program, which pits them against 1940's mobsters.

Director: Joseph L. Scanlan

Writer: Tracy Tormé

Stardate: 41503.7. Two Klingons, rescued by the Enterprise, try to take over the ship.

Director: Rob Bowman

Writer: N/A

Stardate: 41416.2. While Wesley takes the entrance exam to Starfleet Academy, the Enterprise is investigated by the Inspector General's office and Picard's competency is questioned.

Director: Michael Vejar

Writer: Sandy Fries

Stardate: 41798.2. The crew encounters bizarre phenomena while searching for the missing U.S.S. Drake.

Director: Les Landau

Writer: Richard Manning, Hans Beimler

Stardate: 41153.7. The new commander of the recently built U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC1701-D), Captain Jean- Luc Picard takes the crew on their first mission to discover the secret of Farpoint Station. During their journey, they encounter an omnipotent being known as Q. Q accuses humanity of barbarism, and places humanity on trial. Jean-Luc must prove otherwise or the human race will be annihilated.

Director: Corey Allen

Writer: Gene Roddenberry, D.C. Fontana

Stardate: 41590.5. Q places the senior crew of the Enterprise in a war game that pits them against a boar-faced, Napoleonic enemy.

Director: Cliff Bole

Writer: Gene Roddenberry

Stardate: Unknown. Picard attempts to break an ancient co-dependency between two species on one planet without violating the Prime Directive.

Director: Win Phelps

Writer: Richard Manning, Robert Lewin, Hans Beimler

Stardate: 41723.9. The Ferengi hand over an old ship which Picard once captained, the U.S.S. Stargazer. The Ferengi have installed a mind altering device that alters Picard's mind to make him think that he is reliving a past battle, and the target is the Enterprise.

Director: Rob Bowman

Writer: Herbert Wright

Stardate: 41463.9. The members of an away team investigating the death of an engineer encounter vengeful microscopic life forms.

Director: Corey Allen

Writer: Robert Sabaroff

Stardate: 41601.3. When Troi's shuttle crashes on an alien planet, a new being is discovered: an entity that thrives on the suffering of others.

Director: Joseph L. Scanlan

Writer: Joseph Stefano

Stardate: 41209.2. The crew of the Enterprise are infected with a virus contracted by the away team while they were investigating the mysterious deaths of the entire crew of the Starship Tsilkovsky.

Director: Paul Lynch

Writer: D.C. Fontana, John D.F. Black

Stardate: 41697.9. Picard meets an old flame, whose husband has created a haywire dimensional experiment.

Director: Robert Becker

Writer: Deborah Dean Davis, Hannah Louise Shearer

Stardate: 41509.1. The children of the Enterprise, including Wesley Crusher, are abducted by a race of sterile people who are unable to have children of their own.

Director: Kim Manners

Writer: Hannah Louise Shearer

Stardate: 41386.4. A powerful entity disables the Enterprise and a Ferengi ship. Their only means of escape is if they can correctly answer the riddles he asks.

Director: Richard A. Colla

Writer: Herbert Wright

Stardate: 41249.3. Picard's mind is taken over by an energy field that the Enterprise passes through.

Director: Cliff Bole

Writer: D.C. Fontana

Stardate: 41294.6. The mother of Deanna Troi, Lwaxana, pays a surprise visit to the Enterprise and announces the prearranged marriage of Deanna to the son of her mother's late husband's best friend.

Director: Richard Compton

Writer: Tracy Tormé

Stardate: 41309.5. The aging and terminally ill Starfleet Admiral Mark Jameson, who is negotiating the release of hostages, suddenly begins growing younger through an unexplained phenomenon.

Director: Rob Bowman

Writer: D.C. Fontana, Michael Michaelian

Stardate: 41255.6. Picard is forced to choose between friendship and the Prime Directive when Wesley Crusher is sentenced to death for accidentally breaking the law on Rubicon III.

Director: James L. Conway

Writer: Worley Thorne

Stardate: 41636.9. The Enterprise discovers the male crew of a crashed Federation freighter are hiding as fugitives on the planet Angel One, which is dominated and ruled by women.

Director: Michael Ray Rhodes

Writer: Patrick Barry

Stardate: 41235.25. Tasha Yar must fight for her life and a vaccine to save a race of people when she is kidnapped and forced to battle with her abductor's wife.

Director: Russ Mayberry, Les Landau

Writer: Katharyn Powers, Michael Baron, Kathryn Powers