The Best Episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 6

Stardate: 46001.3. The away team's investigations are hampered by a nosy Samuel Clemens. Picard discovers that he originally met Guinan in the 1890s on Earth.

Director: Les Landau

Writer: Jeri Taylor

Stardate: 46041.1. Lt. Barclay's fear of using transporters is eerily justified when he sees bizarre aliens within the transporter beam.

Director: Cliff Bole

Writer: Brannon Braga

Stardate: 46071.6. Deanna becomes attracted to an alien ambassador. Shortly thereafter, she starts ageing rapidly and starts becoming violent.

Director: Cliff Bole, Winrich Kolbe

Writer: Brannon Braga, Frank Abatemarco

Stardate: 46125.3. Montgomery 'Scotty' Scott is discovered suspended in a transporter beam 75 years after he disappeared. After the Enterprise crew re-materialise him, he has a hard time adjusting to the new society.

Director: Alexander Singer

Writer: Ronald D. Moore

Stardate: 46154.2. Members of the crew are secretly abducted from the Enterprise to be used in bizarre experiments where they are dismembered and re-assembled without anyone's knowledge - including their own. The only signs that anything is wrong is a strange form of tiredness and no recollection of having slept well the night before.

Director: Robert Wiemer

Writer: Brannon Braga

Stardate: 46192.3. A young intern visiting the Enterprise captures the interest of Q when she starts displaying Q-like powers.

Director: Robert Scheerer

Writer: René Echevarria

Stardate: 46235.7. A transporter accident transforms Picard, Ro Laren, Guinan and Keiko O'Brien into small children who appear to be about 12 years old. Matters are complicated when the Ferengi seize the Enterprise.

Director: Adam Nimoy

Writer: Michael Piller

Stardate: 46271.5. Worf and his son, Alexander, become trapped in the holodeck when their Wild West program malfunctions. However, they must find a way to defeat the holographic bandits who have Data's appearance and abilities.

Director: Patrick Stewart

Writer: Brannon Braga, Robert Hewitt Wolfe

Stardate: 46315.2. Data discovers that the maintenance robots built by Dr. Farallon may have become sentient.

Director: Jonathan Frakes

Writer: Naren Shankar

Stardate: 46357.4. Picard resigns as Captain of the Enterprise to lead a top-secret espionage mission into Cardassia with Worf and Dr. Crusher.

Director: Robert Scheerer

Writer: Ronald D. Moore

Stardate: 46360.8. Picard is captured and tortured by the Cardassians, while Riker tries to prevent a Federation attack on Cardassia.

Director: Les Landau

Writer: Frank Abatemarco

Stardate: 46424.1. While performing holodeck maintenance, Barclay accesses the stored hologram of Professor Moriarty, who wreaks havoc on board the Enterprise.

Director: Alexander Singer

Writer: René Echevarria

Stardate: 46461.3. Geordie falls in love with a lieutenant who is the prime suspect in a murder case.

Director: Cliff Bole

Writer: Brannon Braga, Jeri Taylor, Ronald D. Moore

Stardate: 46519.1. Troi is abducted and surgically altered by the Romulans as part of a ploy to smuggle intelligence operatives into the Federation.

Director: Gabrielle Beaumont

Writer: René Echevarria, Naren Shankar

Stardate: Unknown. A mortally wounded Picard is forced into re-living a time of his life when he was back in Starfleet Academy, with the intervention of Q.

Director: Les Landau

Writer: Ronald D. Moore

Stardate: 46578.4. While visiting Deep Space Nine, Worf learns that his father is still alive and being held captive in a secret Romulan prison camp.

Director: Winrich Kolbe, Les Landau

Writer: Brannon Braga, Ronald D. Moore

Stardate: 46759.2. Worf is captured by the Romulans where he learns why the other captives did not attempt an escape years before.

Director: N/A

Writer: René Echevarria

Stardate: 46682.4. The crew evacuates the Enterprise when the ship needs to be cleaned of particles that have built up over the ship's hull. However, Picard accidentally stumbles over a terrorist group who plan on destroying the ship. He only has a short time to stop their attempts before the ship is swept by a beam of radiation to remove the particles that is lethal to all forms of life.

Director: Cliff Bole

Writer: Morgan Gendel

Stardate: 46693.1. Picard must choose between love and command when he must make a decision that could place the woman he loves in a potentially deadly and high-risk mission.

Director: Robert Wiemer

Writer: Ron Wilkerson, Jean Louise Matthias

Stardate: 46731.5. Picard's old archaeology professor is found murdered, the crew try to complete his research. Soon, the crew must compete with Romulans and Klingons and Cardassians to uncover the truth behind his discoveries.

Director: Jonathan Frakes

Writer: Joe Menosky, Ronald D. Moore

Stardate: 46778.1. Riker questions his sanity when his reality seems to shift between an alien psychiatric hospital and a play he is performing with other members of the crew.

Director: James L. Conway

Writer: Brannon Braga

Stardate: 46830.1. Dr. Crusher puts her career on the line when she tries to clear the name of a murdered scientist whose invention could allow starships to pass through a sun's corona.

Director: Cliff Bole

Writer: Joe Menosky, Naren Shankar

Stardate: 46852.2. While on a quest to summon a vision of Kahless, Worf questions his faith when the real Kahless rises from the dead to lead the Empire.

Director: Winrich Kolbe

Writer: Ronald D. Moore

Stardate: 46915.2. Riker discovers that eight years ago, an exact clone of him was created when he beamed through a planet's surface while returning to his starship. This clone, named Thomas Riker, has secretly remained on the planet for the past eight years, and still has romantic feelings for Troi.

Director: LeVar Burton

Writer: René Echevarria

Stardate: 46944.2. Picard, Geordi, Troi and Data return from a Federation conference to find the Enterprise frozen in time and under attack from a frozen Romulan Warbird.

Director: Adam Nimoy

Writer: Brannon Braga