8.0/101 votes#1 - A Dream of Jennifer
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/14/1980
Buck is haunted by the appearance of a young woman who bears a striking resemblance to Jennifer, a woman who Buck left behind when he was propelled into the 25th Century. He follows her, finds out her name is Leila Markeson, and soon discovers that she was made to look like Jennifer in order to lure Buck into a trap set by an alien who wants Buck to stop a space freighter from delivering weapons to a planet his people hope to conquer. Buck gets Wilma to detonate a warhead to deceive the aliens into thinking the shipment is destroyed. Buck defeats the enemy, but loses Leila, and his lost love again, as she tearfully dies in his arms.
Director: David G. Phinney
Writer: Alan Brennert
7.7/1021 votes#2 - Cold Station 12 (2)
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/2004
Arik Soong leads his band of Augments to a medical facility where hundreds of genetically enhanced embryos are still stored, intending to retrieve them and bring them to life.
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: Alan Brennert
7.5/102 votes#3 - The Cold Equations
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 1/7/1989
A shuttle pilot on the outer fringes of space finds a stowaway on board his ship. Because of the extra weight, he does not have enough fuel for his journey and faces a dilemma forcing him to consider jettisoning her into space.
Director: Martin Lavut
Writer: Alan Brennert
7.2/1019 votes#4 - Sanctuary
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 11/29/2004
The team finds a paradise world that would make an ideal sanctuary for those fleeing from the Wraith, but the local inhabitants believe their goddess will not permit it.
Director: James Head
Writer: Alan Brennert
7.0/101 votes#5 - The Plot to Kill a City (2)
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 10/18/1979
After a Defense Directorate agent kills a member of a group of interstellar assassins, they plot to take their revenge on the city of New Chicago. Buck masquerades as an assassin and joins the group, but is soon uncovered. He must now, not only escape from the assassins, but also stop them from detonating New Chicago's matter/antimatter energy plant.
Director: Dick Lowry
Writer: Alan Brennert
7.0/104 votes#6 - The Refuge
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 4/5/1996
""What is reality?"" is the question before Raymond Bava after he collapses during a blizzard and awakens in a private refuge run by Sanford Valle. Valle's companions include his son and daughter-in-law, Thomas and Justine, and Gina Beaumont. Ray, drawn to the gentle Gina, recoils from the callous corruption displayed by the all-controlling Valle and the other inhabitants. Then, following a moment of violence, Ray begins to doubt reality when all the characters, including Gina, reverse roles and personalities. When he is suddenly freed from Valle's control, Ray finds he has been locked in a cryogenic-induced nightmare, but one he must return to fulfill his love for Gina.
Director: Ken Girotti
Writer: Alan Brennert
6.8/105 votes#7 - Healer
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/11/1985
Cat burglar Jackie Thompson breaks into a museum to steal ancient artifacts and takes a rare gem that has strange healing powers - he is shot but the gem heals him. Taking on the name of Brother John, Jackie becomes a faith healer but soon becomes too greedy. Meanwhile an old Indian man, Duende, shows up and tells Jackie the relic must go back to where it belongs. Jackie starts to have second thoughts but his partner Harry leaves with the cash and his old bullet wound opens up and he begins dying again. A young deaf boy he had previously rejected because of lack of payment heals Jackie with it, then Jackie heals the boy and Duende leaves with the stone.
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
Writer: Alan Brennert
6.2/106 votes#8 - Dark Matters
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/2/1995
Dropped out of hyperspace by a mysterious chunk of dark matter, Pilot Paul Stein must save the transport vessel by facing his past and ultimately trusting his own decisions.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Alan Brennert
6.2/1020 votes#9 - Daedalus
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 1/14/2005
The inventor of the transporter, Emory Erickson, comes aboard Enterprise for a risky experiment.
Director: David Straiton
Writer: Alan Brennert
6.1/109 votes#10 - Shatterday
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/27/1985
A man named Peter Jay Novins accidentally dials his home phone number, and it's answered by Peter Jay Novins.
Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Alan Brennert
6.0/101 votes#11 - Quarantine
Season 1 Episode 43 - Aired 2/7/1986
A man is awakened after several hundred years of cryogenic sleep. He finds a world where psychic powers abound. The people there want him to complete a mission that only he can accomplish.
Director: Martha Coolidge
Writer: Alan Brennert
6.0/101 votes#12 - Time and Teresa Golowitz
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 7/10/1987
A Broadway composer, Bluestone, who has just died of a heart attack is visited by "Prince", who gives him one wish because of his contributions to entertainment. Bluestone wants to relive a youthful encounter with the girl of his dreams, Mary Ellen Kasgrove. When he returns to the high school party, nothing is as he remembers it but one girl, Teresa Golowitz, sits by herself. Prince, in a girl's body, reminds him that Teresa committed suicide that night. Bluestone gets her to sing and convinces her to meet him the next day. When he returns to the present, Bluestone finds out that Teresa went on to become a famous singer and that because of his interference he won't be going to the "higher place". He and "Prince" head off to lower fields to prepare some entertainment.
Director: Shelley Levinson
Writer: Alan Brennert
6.0/101 votes#13 - Disco Devil
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 10/20/1978
Wonder Woman must stop a disco that lures government engineers, and then taps their minds, stealing national secrets.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: Alan Brennert
6.0/101 votes#14 - Skateboard Wiz
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 11/24/1978
Diana's god-daughter, a teenage skateboard whiz, is used by a mobster for extortion and blackmail purposes.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: Alan Brennert
6.0/101 votes#15 - Amazon Hot Wax
Season 3 Episode 16 - Aired 2/16/1979
Going undercover to stop extortionists in the record industry gives Diana (and Lynda Carter) a chance to show off her vocal abilities.
Director: Ray Austin
Writer: Alan Brennert
6.0/101 votes#16 - The Girl with a Gift for Disaster
Season 3 Episode 19 - Aired 3/17/1979
A plan to steal priceless historical documents centers around a woman who 'attracts disaster'.
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer: Alan Brennert
6.0/101 votes#17 - The Plot to Kill a City (1)
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/11/1979
After a Defense Directorate agent kills a member of a group of interstellar assassins, they plot to take their revenge on the city of New Chicago. Buck masquerades as an assassin and joins the group, but is soon uncovered. He must now, not only escape from the assassins, but also stop them from detonating New Chicago's matter/antimatter energy plant.
Director: Dick Lowry
Writer: Alan Brennert
6.0/101 votes#18 - Cruise Ship to the Stars
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/27/1979
Murder and romance await Buck, Wilma, Theo and Twiki aboard the cruise ship Lyran Queen. Buck befriends a shy young girl (Beck) while investigating the attempted kidnapping of beauty queen Miss Cosmos (Stratten) by a woman (Noble) with superpowers. To his surprise, Buck learns the true identity of the mystery woman as he seeks the location of Miss Cosmos before a deadly dissection laser kills her.
Director: Sigmund Neufeld Jr.
Writer: Alan Brennert
5.3/103 votes#19 - Her Pilgrim Soul
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 12/13/1985
Two scientists named Kevin and Daniel are experimenting with a holographic device. One day they are confronted with a fetus in their machine. Growing, it becomes a woman whose life story fascinates and allures Kevin.
Director: Wes Craven
Writer: Alan Brennert
5.0/101 votes#20 - Cosmic Whiz Kid
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 11/15/1979
Hieronymous Fox, an 11-year-old child genius from the 20th Century is kidnapped for ransom by the sinister Roderick Zale. The boy is the President of the planet Genesia and his bodyguard fears that he will be killed because they cannot meet the ransom demand. Buck, Wilma, and the bodyguard then make separate attempts to rescue the boy.
Director: Leslie H. Martinson
Writer: Alan Brennert
5.0/103 votes#21 - Falling Star
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 6/30/1996
Pop singer Melissa McCammon is about to commit suicide. With her once meteoric career at a standstill and her husband cheating on her, she sees no hope. Then she encounters Rachael, an ardent fan from the future. Rachael is a time traveler -- and an uninvited tourist in Melissa's body. She persuades Melissa to give life a second chance, but in the process, she changes history. Now, authorities from the future want Melissa dead and will resort to anything -- including murder -- to preserve their version of the past.
Director: Ken Girotti
Writer: Alan Brennert
5.0/102 votes#22 - In the Blood
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 7/6/2001
An exploratory mission into space passes through a quantum hole torn into the very fabric of the universe and enters another continuum, a trans-space just beneath its surface.
Director: Jorge Montesi
Writer: Alan Brennert
4.8/106 votes#23 - The Second Soul
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/14/1995
Man's first encounter with beings from another planet -- the N'Tal -- appears to be a mutually rewarding arrangement. But a leery doctor/scientist must decide whether the N'Tal are friend or foe.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Alan Brennert
- 4.3/103 votes
#24 - Alien Shop
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 6/22/2001
An alien shape-shifter owns a unique curio shop whose merchandise possess strange powers; when a petty crook (Jonathon Schaech) accepts a peculiar wallet he learns the hard way that money not earned comes at a price.
Director: Peter DeLuise
Writer: Alan Brennert
- 4.0/101 votes
#25 - Heart's Desire
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 2/28/1997
A mysterious alien descends upon the town of Heart's Desire and offers to share his extraordinary powers with four outlaws - Jake Miller, his brother Ben and their partners in crime, Frank and J.D. Kelton. Taking on the human form of his first victim, a mild-mannered preacher, the alien follows the quartet to the Miller's hometown and gives both sets of brothers strange new powers that make them virtually invincible. As the Keltons kick off a crime spree by destroying all opposition with blasts of pure energy, Jake struggles with his divided loyalties, between love for his family and his childhood sweetheart Miriam -- and the terrible question: who is this mysterious stranger and why has he given the outlaws such deadly powers?
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: Alan Brennert
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"A Dream of Jennifer" is the best rated episode written by Alan Brennert. It scored 8/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by David G. Phinney. It aired on 2/14/1980 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "Cold Station 12 (2)".