8.0/1039 votes#1 - Lower Decks
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 2/7/1994
Stardate: 47566.7. Four young ensigns compete for a promotion that only one of them will receive. However, they are soon placed on a top secret mission that places some of their lives in danger.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Writer: Jeri Taylor
8.0/101 votes#2 - Unfinished Business
Season 8 Episode 8 - Aired 1/20/1988
Magnum prepares for the trial of Quang Ki, who attempted to kill both him and his family. But when the case is suddenly, unexpectedly acquitted, angered Thomas suspects some other hand is behind Ki's release. It becomes evident that his arch-nemesis will stop at nothing to destroy Thomas and his family, when he receives a video-tape containing terrible information about the fate of his former wife and young daughter. As Thomas plans his revenge against Ki, he is thrust into a quagmire of intrigue endangering a sensitive P.O.W. prisoner exchange programme...
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writer: Jeri Taylor
8.0/1043 votes#3 - The Drumhead
Season 4 Episode 21 - Aired 4/29/1991
Stardate: 44769.2. Picard is accused of treason when an explosion aboard the Enterprise is investigated by a ruthless and paranoid Starfleet Admiral.
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Writer: Jeri Taylor
7.9/1029 votes#4 - Eye of the Needle
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/20/1995
Stardate: 48579.4. The discovery of a wormhole leading to the Alpha Quadrant elates the crew, however, their only contact within range is a skeptical and paranoid Romulan.
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: Jeri Taylor
7.8/1041 votes#5 - The Wounded
Season 4 Episode 12 - Aired 1/28/1991
Stardate: 44429.6. When the Cardassians start re-arming themselves, a Federation Captain takes it upon himself to remove a potential threat before it escalated. Now, Picard must fight for the Cardassians and stop the renegade from slaughtering innocents.
Director: Chip Chalmers
Writer: Jeri Taylor
7.6/1024 votes#6 - One
Season 4 Episode 25 - Aired 5/13/1998
Stardate: 51929.3. The crew goes into stasis during a month-long journey through a nebula, leaving Seven and the Doctor in sole charge of running the ship.
Director: Kenneth Biller
Writer: Jeri Taylor
7.6/1043 votes#7 - Time's Arrow (1)
Season 5 Episode 26 - Aired 6/15/1992
Stardate: 45959.1. Data's head is uncovered in an archaeological dig on Earth, where evidence is also found that aliens may have been on Earth as early as the 19th Century. Using modified technology, an away team follows Data into the late 1890s to investigate.
Director: Les Landau
Writer: Jeri Taylor
7.5/1041 votes#8 - Unification (1)
Season 5 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1991
Stardate: 45233.1. Ambassador Spock has disappeared and intelligence finds him on Romulus. Captain Picard is sent to Romulus to find Spock. Meanwhile Riker and the rest of the crew investigate the fragments of a Vulcan ship discovered in the wreck of a Ferengi vessel.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Jeri Taylor
7.5/1038 votes#9 - Caretaker
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/16/1995
Stardate: 48315.6. While in pursuit of a Maquis ship in a region of space known as the 'Badlands', Captain Kathryn Janeway and her crew aboard Voyager and the Maquis ship are transported 70,000 light years from home into the uncharted region of the galaxy known as the Delta Quadrant.
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: Jeri Taylor
7.5/1028 votes#10 - The 37's
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 8/28/1995
Stardate: 48975.1. After discovering a 1936 Ford truck from Earth floating in space Voyager discovers a series of cryo-statis chambers containing abductees from Earth during the 1930's, including Amelia Earhart and her navigator.
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: Jeri Taylor
7.5/1038 votes#11 - Descent (1)
Season 6 Episode 26 - Aired 6/21/1993
Stardate: 46982.1. The Borg return to threaten the Federation under the new leadership of Lore. Data experiences a disturbing facet of human emotions - he feels pleasure after killing a Borg drone.
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: Jeri Taylor
7.5/1042 votes#12 - Time's Arrow (2)
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 9/21/1992
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
7.4/1025 votes#13 - Resolutions
Season 2 Episode 25 - Aired 5/13/1996
Stardate: 49690.1. When Captain Janeway and Chakotay contract an incurable virus they are left on a planet that shield them from its effects. While Janeway searches for a cure, she begins to form a deeper relationship with her first officer. Onboard Voyager, Tuvok, who is now in command, faces a near mutiny.
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: Jeri Taylor
7.3/1023 votes#14 - Investigations
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/13/1996
Stardate: 49485.2. After weeks of erratic behavior, Tom Paris leaves Voyager and joins a Talaxian convoy.
Director: Les Landau
Writer: Jeri Taylor
7.1/1025 votes#15 - Real Life
Season 3 Episode 22 - Aired 4/23/1997
Stardate: 50863.2. The Doctor decides he should create a holographic family in order to expand himself. When B'Elanna is disgusted by its unrealistic perfectionism, she alters the program to include random events and outcomes with interesting and devastating results.
Director: Anson Williams
Writer: Jeri Taylor
7.0/101 votes#16 - The Love That Lies
Season 8 Episode 6 - Aired 11/18/1987
Thomas is trying to protect Carol, who is in the middle of a particularly controversial court case, when he is hired by a woman from the mainland to help locate the birth certificate for the child she gave up for adoption 30 years ago. But in doing so he becomes embroiled in Carol's personal life, as he discovers a powerful secret about her parents and her true birthright that could shatter her...
Director: Ray Danton
Writer: Jeri Taylor
7.0/101 votes#17 - The Great Hawaiian Adventure Company
Season 8 Episode 9 - Aired 1/27/1988
Thomas is trying to get Rick, T.C. and Higgins interested in joining him in a potentially lucrative new tourist business venture. But his friends all have other things on their minds, especially T.C., who puts thoughts of the deal on the back-burner when his son Bryant lands in trouble with the Police after becoming mixed up with a juvenile biker gang...
Director: Ray Danton
Writer: Jeri Taylor
6.9/1024 votes#18 - Hunters
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/11/1998
Stardate: 51501.4. As letters from the Alpha Quadrant come trickling through the communications array, the Voyager crew learns of an assortment of joyous, disturbing, and inevitable news.
Director: David Livingston
Writer: Jeri Taylor
6.9/1035 votes#19 - Night Terrors
Season 4 Episode 17 - Aired 3/18/1991
Stardate: 44631.2. Troi faces a recurring nightmare when the Enterprise is caught in a rift in space. Soon, the crew begins to slip into insanity through dream deprivation.
Director: Les Landau
Writer: Jeri Taylor
6.9/1038 votes#20 - Silicon Avatar
Season 5 Episode 4 - Aired 10/14/1991
Stardate: 45122.3. Picard attempts communications with the Crystalline Entity - a life form responsible for hundreds of deaths throughout the Alpha Quadrant. However, a scientist on board the Enterprise has plans of revenge over the death of her only son at the hands of the Entity.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Jeri Taylor
6.8/1022 votes#21 - Alliances
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 1/22/1996
Stardate: Unknown. Janeway tries to make an alliance with a Kazon sect for their own protection and so they can continue their journey through the Delta Quadrant.
Director: Les Landau
Writer: Jeri Taylor
6.6/1026 votes#22 - Persistence of Vision
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/1995
Stardate: Unknown. Captain Janeway starts seeing characters and objects from her holo-novel around the ship. Soon afterwards the crew begins entering a catatonic state one by one, while only Kes and the Doctor remain unaffected.
Director: James L. Conway
Writer: Jeri Taylor
6.5/1026 votes#23 - Coda
Season 3 Episode 15 - Aired 1/29/1997
Stardate: 50518.6. Captain Janeway repeatedly dies after she and Chakotay crash into a planet in what appears to be a time loop. Soon, her deceased father appears and tells her that she is dead and must accept her situation and move on.
Director: Nancy Malone
Writer: Jeri Taylor
6.5/1024 votes#24 - Day of Honor
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 9/17/1997
Stardate: Unknown. When Voyager is forced to eject its warp core, Torres and Paris take a shuttle to retrieve it. But when the shuttle is damaged, the two officers are forced to abandon it—and find themselves alone in space with a rapidly depleting oxygen supply.
Director: Jesús Salvador Treviño
Writer: Jeri Taylor
6.4/1037 votes#25 - Suddenly Human
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1990
Stardate: 44143.7. A custody battle between Picard and a child's adoptive father arises when a boy showing evidence of abuse is discovered.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Writer: Jeri Taylor
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"Lower Decks" is the best rated episode written by Jeri Taylor. It scored 8/10 based on 39 votes. It was directed by Gabrielle Beaumont. It aired on 2/7/1994 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Unfinished Business".