The Best Episodes Written By Jeri Taylor

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.5/10(2 votes)

   #1 - The Love That Lies

   S8:E611/18/1987

   Magnum becomes embroiled in Carol Baldwin's professional and private life which puts his investigative skills on a sensitive course.

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   #2 - The Drumhead

   S4:E214/29/1991

   Stardate: 44769.2. Picard is accused of treason when an explosion aboard the Enterprise is investigated by a ruthless and paranoid Starfleet Admiral.

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   8.0/10(43 votes)

   #3 - Lower Decks

   S7:E152/7/1994

   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.

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   8.0/10(35 votes)

   #4 - Eye of the Needle

   S1:E62/20/1995

   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.

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   8.0/10(1 votes)

   #5 - Unfinished Business

   S8:E81/20/1988

   When the indictment against Quang Ki in his attempt to murder Magnum is dismissed, it becomes evident that the villain will stop at nothing to place Magnum's former wife and daughter in deadly jeopardy.

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   7.8/10(48 votes)

   #6 - The Wounded

   S4:E121/28/1991

   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.

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   7.8/10(30 votes)

   #7 - One

   S4:E255/13/1998

   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.

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   7.6/10(48 votes)

   #8 - Unification (1)

   S5:E711/4/1991

   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.

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   7.6/10(49 votes)

   #9 - Time's Arrow (1)

   S5:E266/15/1992

   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.

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    7.6/10(43 votes)

    #10 - Descent (1)

    S6:E266/21/1993

    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.

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    7.6/10(45 votes)

    #11 - Caretaker

    S1:E11/16/1995

    Stardate: 48315.6. The USS Voyager, led by Captain Kathryn Janeway, is sent into the dangerous Badlands in pursuit of a Maquis ship, only for both ships to find themselves 70,000 light years from home in the uncharted Delta Quadrant.

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    7.6/10(30 votes)

    #12 - Investigations

    S2:E203/13/1996

    Stardate: 49485.2. After weeks of erratic behavior, Tom Paris leaves Voyager and joins a Talaxian convoy.

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13. 

    7.6/10(28 votes)

    #13 - The Maquis (2)

    S2:E215/1/1994

    Stardate: Unknown. Sisko tries to resolve the Maquis crisis by preventing a war, freeing Gul Dukat and offering the defected Hudson the chance to return.

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    7.5/10(30 votes)

    #14 - The Maquis (1)

    S2:E204/24/1994

    Stardate: Unknown. The destruction of a Cardassian ship leads Sisko, Dukat, and Sisko's old friend Cal Hudson to the fact that there is an unofficial war between the Maquis and the Cardassians.

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    7.4/10(47 votes)

    #15 - Time's Arrow (2)

    S6:E19/21/1992

    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.

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    7.4/10(32 votes)

    #16 - The 37's

    S2:E18/28/1995

    Stardate: 48975.1. The crew happen upon a 1936 Ford truck adrift in space, leading to the discovery of a cryogenic chamber of humans abducted in the 1930s, including Amelia Earhart.

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    7.3/10(32 votes)

    #17 - Resolutions

    S2:E255/13/1996

    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.

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    7.2/10(31 votes)

    #18 - The Homecoming (1)

    S2:E19/26/1993

    Stardate: Unknown. Word that a previously thought dead Bajoran resistance legend is still alive sends Kira and Chief O'Brien to Cardassia IV to rescue him; meanwhile "The Circle", a sect of the Bajoran provisional government that is intent on wiping out alien influence, is sneaking into power.

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    7.1/10(32 votes)

    #19 - Real Life

    S3:E224/23/1997

    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.

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    7.0/10(43 votes)

    #20 - Night Terrors

    S4:E173/18/1991

    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.

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    7.0/10(44 votes)

    #21 - Silicon Avatar

    S5:E410/14/1991

    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.

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    7.0/10(29 votes)

    #22 - Alliances

    S2:E141/22/1996

    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.

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    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - The Great Hawaiian Adventure Company

    S8:E91/27/1988

    Magnum's enthusiasm for a lucrative business deal is put on the back burner when TC's son lands in jail.

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    7.0/10(31 votes)

    #24 - Hunters

    S4:E152/11/1998

    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.

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    6.8/10(31 votes)

    #25 - Day of Honor

    S4:E39/17/1997

    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.

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