8.7/1058 votes#1 - The Best of Both Worlds (1)
Season 3 Episode 26 - Aired 6/18/1990
Stardate: 43989.1 An Starfleet expert on the Borg, Lt. Cmdr. Shelby, is assigned to the Enterprise to investigate the disappearance of a Federation colony. Picard is abducted by the Borg and assimilated into the Collective, which forces Riker to attempt a rescue mission.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Michael Piller
8.4/1048 votes#2 - The Best of Both Worlds (2)
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 9/24/1990
Stardate: 44001.4. Riker must pull out all the stops in order to save Earth from a Borg invasion being lead by none other than Locutus - otherwise known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Michael Piller
7.7/1026 votes#3 - Death Wish
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/19/1996
Stardate: 49301.2. A suicidal Q threatens the future of the Q-Continuum after he requests asylum aboard Voyager.
Director: James L. Conway
Writer: Michael Piller
7.5/1040 votes#4 - 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: Michael Piller
7.5/1042 votes#5 - 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: Michael Piller
7.5/1044 votes#6 - Emissary (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/1993
Stardate: 46379.1. Commander Benjamin Sisko and a new crew of Starfleet and Bajoran officers take command of an abandoned Cardassian space station and make an incredible discovery that will change the galaxy and Sisko's future.
Director: David Carson
Writer: Michael Piller
7.5/1040 votes#7 - First Contact
Season 4 Episode 15 - Aired 2/18/1991
Riker is abducted by a xenophobic race of aliens during a first contact mission. They believe the Enterprise is a scout for an invasion.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Michael Piller
7.4/1040 votes#8 - Unification (2)
Season 5 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1991
Stardate: 45245.8. Picard and Data find Spock and discover the reason behind the secret meetings. However, a darker scheme planned by the Romulans is also uncovered in the process.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Michael Piller
7.4/1026 votes#9 - The Siege (3)
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/10/1993
Stardate: Unknown. As a "Circle"-led Bajoran military tries to occupy the station, a skeleton crew led by Sisko fight to reveal "The Circle's" big secret before they are forced to evacuate themselves. Meanwhile, Kira and Dax lead a mission to reveal the truth about "The Circle" on Bajor.
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: Michael Piller
7.4/1044 votes#10 - 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: Michael Piller
7.4/1038 votes#11 - Ensign Ro
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/7/1991
Stardate: 45076.3. Picard exposes a planned genocidal attack on the Bajorans with the help of a new officer, Ensign Ro Laren.
Director: Les Landau
Writer: Michael Piller
7.3/1025 votes#12 - Basics (2)
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 9/4/1996
Stardate: 50023.4. Voyager is captured by the Kazon and the crew are dumped on a planet in its early stages of evolution. As only Tom Paris and Lon Suder have evaded capture, it's up to them and the EMH to come up with a plan to retake the ship.
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: Michael Piller
7.3/1027 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: Michael Piller
7.2/1026 votes#14 - Basics (1)
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 5/20/1996
Stardate: Unknown. Voyager receives a distress signal from Seska, who claims that Maje Cullah is going to take her baby away from her, a baby she says is Chakotay's. Chakotay is skeptical, but can't take the risk of abandoning his child, should it really prove to be his. Janeway authorises a mission to rescue Chakotay's child and the ship moves deep into Kazon Nistrim territory. However: was Seska for real, or is this all an elaborate trap?
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: Michael Piller
7.2/1027 votes#15 - Meld
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/5/1996
Stardate: Unknown. In order to help out Lon Suder, a psychopath who killed a crewmember, Tuvok performs a mind meld. Soon after he begins showing violent tendencies, which develop until he loses control.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Michael Piller
7.1/1046 votes#16 - The Enemy
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1989
Stardate:43349.2. A blind Geordie is trapped on a hazardous planet with a paranoid and severely injured Romulan. In orbit, a Romulan Warbird is preventing the Enterprise from attempting a rescue mission.
Director: David Carson
Writer: Michael Piller
7.1/1032 votes#17 - Time and Again
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/30/1995
Stardate: Unknown. After being hit by the shockwave of a devastating planet-wide explosion, Voyager investigates. While on the surface, Janeway and Paris are accidentally 'shifted' one day into the past.
Director: Les Landau
Writer: Michael Piller
7.0/1042 votes#18 - Rascals
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1992
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
6.8/1045 votes#19 - Booby Trap
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1989
Stardate: 43205.6. While investigating an ancient ship left adrift in space, the Enterprise accidentally trips the ancient booby trap that disabled the old vessel over 1000 years ago.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Writer: Michael Piller
6.7/1041 votes#20 - The Perfect Mate
Season 5 Episode 21 - Aired 4/27/1992
Stardate: 45761.3. The Ferengi try to abduct an empathic Metamorph who could bring peace between two warring worlds.
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Michael Piller
6.5/1031 votes#21 - Ex Post Facto
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/27/1995
Stardate: Unknown. Tom Paris is accused of a murder he claims he did not commit. His sentence is to re-live the last few moments of his victim's life every 14 hours through a memory transplant.
Director: LeVar Burton
Writer: Michael Piller
6.4/1038 votes#22 - The Masterpiece Society
Season 5 Episode 13 - Aired 2/10/1992
Stardate: 45470.1. A natural disaster in the core of a system's sun threatens to destroy a colony of genetically engineered people on an otherwise desolate planet. However, the crew's intervention may cause more harm than good.
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: Michael Piller
6.2/1034 votes#23 - The Cloud
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 2/13/1995
Stardate: 48546.2. In the search for omicron particles to boost the ship's energy supplies, Voyager inadvertently injures a space-faring life form.
Director: David Livingston
Writer: Michael Piller
6.0/1028 votes#24 - Tattoo
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/6/1995
Stardate: Unknown. Upon discovering a cultural symbol drawn in the ground on a planet that was used by his ancestors to 'heal the land', Chakotay tries to contact the beings his tribe called the 'Sky Spirits.'
Director: Alexander Singer
Writer: Michael Piller
4.0/103 votes#25 - Child's Play
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1987
Crockett agonizes about shooting a child during a weapons investigation.
Director: Vern Gillum
Writer: Michael Piller
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"The Best of Both Worlds (1)" is the best rated episode written by Michael Piller. It scored 8.7/10 based on 58 votes. It was directed by Cliff Bole. It aired on 6/18/1990 and is rated 0.3 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Best of Both Worlds (2)".