8.7/1056 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
8.5/1047 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
8.0/102 votes#3 - Wheel of Fortune (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/16/2002
Johnny Smith was leading an idyllic small-town life: working as a high school science teacher, engaged to the love of his life, Sarah, and being a devoted son to his widowed mother, Vera, who lives nearby. But after a near-fatal car accident puts him in a deep coma, Johnny awakens six years later to find everything has changed: Sarah is now married to someone else, local sheriff Walt Bannerman; the child they are raising is actually Johnny's son and knows nothing about his real father; and Johnny's mother Vera has passed away, leaving Johnny's finances under the thumb of Reverend Purdy, an influential religious leader who is also his mother's former lover. But, most importantly, Johnny himself has changed: he now finds himself with the gift (or curse) of second sight.
Director: Rob Lieberman
Writer: Michael Piller
8.0/102 votes#4 - Netherworld
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 8/4/2002
Johnny ends up in a fantasy world (or vision?) when he wakes up one day to find himself married to Sarah and the father of her two children.
Director: Rob Lieberman
Writer: Michael Piller
8.0/102 votes#5 - Zion
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 4/6/2003
Johnny goes to the funeral of Bruce's father and somehow gives Bruce visions of what Bruce's life would have been like if he had never met Johnny.
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: Michael Piller
8.0/102 votes#6 - The Storm
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 7/6/2003
In the aftermath of Kate's death, Johnny's friends stage an intervention to shake him out of his guilt, but as Bruce drives him to Purdy's lakeside resort, he senses a storm is brewing. Now Johnny is forced to try to come to terms with his destiny in order to save the people he loves.
Director: Michael Robison
Writer: Michael Piller
7.8/1024 votes#7 - 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
7.6/1043 votes#8 - 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
7.5/1041 votes#9 - 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
7.5/102 votes#10 - What It Seems (2)
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/23/2002
With the help of his new friend Bruce, Johnny attempts to stop the Bangor Strangler from claiming another victim.
Director: Rob Lieberman
Writer: Michael Piller
7.5/102 votes#11 - Dead Men Tell Tales
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 3/16/2003
Johnny becomes involved with the mob when his visions lead him to help a mobster whom he sees being gunned down.
Director: Gloria Muzio
Writer: Michael Piller
7.5/1039 votes#12 - 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
7.5/1038 votes#13 - 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
7.5/1039 votes#14 - 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
7.4/1042 votes#15 - Emissary (1)
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/1993
Stardate: 46379.1. A new crew is assigned to a former Cardassian space station: Deep Space Nine. It is a joint Federation/Bajoran force, with Commander Sisko in charge, but his life is dramatically changed when he is declared the Emissary to the Prophets by a Bajoran priest.
Director: David Carson
Writer: Michael Piller
7.4/1026 votes#16 - 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
7.4/1037 votes#17 - 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
7.4/1025 votes#18 - 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
7.4/1023 votes#19 - 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
7.3/1024 votes#20 - 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
7.2/1025 votes#21 - 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
7.1/1045 votes#22 - 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
7.1/1030 votes#23 - 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
7.0/102 votes#24 - The House
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/21/2002
Johnny moves into his new house and starts having visions of a tub filled with blood. He also sees visions of his dead mother, and comes to believe that Rev. Purdy killed his mother. The facts seem to suggest that Purdy did indeed engage in a cover-up concerning the death of Johnny's mother. In a final confrontation Johnny touches Purdy and gains a vision of Purdy finding Johnny's mother dead by suicide. Realizing what the death of a child can drive a parent to do, he goes to the aid of a local neighbor girl whose brother died on a military mission and whose mother is preparing to kill herself.
Director: James A. Contner
Writer: Michael Piller
7.0/1041 votes#25 - 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
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"The Best of Both Worlds (1)" is the best rated episode written by Michael Piller. It scored 8.705/10 based on 56 votes. It was directed by Cliff Bole. It aired on 6/18/1990 and is rated 0.2 points higher than their second-best episode, "The Best of Both Worlds (2)".