Top 25 Favourite Star Trek: The Next Generation Episodes
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- 1987–199445mTV-PG9.4 (8.3K)TV EpisodeDirectorPeter LauritsonStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonPicard awakes to find himself living in a small village where he is a well-known member of the community who is suffering from a delusion of being a starship captain.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG9.3 (5.8K)TV EpisodeDirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonResponding to a distress call on one of the Federation's outer-most colonies, the Enterprise arrives...only to find a big hole in the ground where the town used to be, and discovers the Borg are behind the attack.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG9.2 (5.5K)TV EpisodeDirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonHaving absorbed Captain Picard and his knowledge, the Borg head for Earth, leaving Riker and the Enterprise desperate for an unanticipated way to defeat them.
- DirectorRobert LedermanStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe Enterprise finds a lone Borg drone, separated from the collective, and brings him aboard. The drone begins to reassert his individuality, but his presence causes differing levels of fear and sympathy from various crew members.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG8.9 (4K)TV EpisodeDirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhile the humorless Captain Jellico leads the effort to prevent a Cardassian invasion, Picard is captured and tortured by a ruthless interrogator in an attempt to break him.
- DirectorRobert WiemerStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonOn his return from a bat'leth competition in the Klingon Empire, Worf finds himself shifting realities where events and details are in a constant state of flux and only he is aware of the changes.
- DirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonMuch to Picard's displeasure, Q reappears on the Enterprise, claiming to have been ejected from the Q Continuum, and therefore, lost his powers.
- DirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhen Captain Picard's artificial heart fails, he is offered the rare opportunity to go back in time and set right the mistake that led to his demise.
- DirectorRobert WiemerStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonPicard falls for the new head of the stellar science services department, but has feelings of misgivings when he's forced to assign her to a dangerous mission.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG8.0 (4.4K)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert WiemerStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonA proto-Vulcan culture worships Captain Picard and prepares to offer Counselor Troi as a sacrifice.
- 1987–199446mTV-PG7.2 (3.6K)TV EpisodeDirectorChip ChalmersStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonAfter mediating a difficult trade agreement, Captain Picard is encouraged to take a much needed rest on a vacationing planet, where he's visited by a strange race from the future, in search of a dangerous weapon.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG7.5 (4.6K)TV EpisodeDirectorRob BowmanStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonEveryone accurately pegs a visiting propulsion scientist as a charlatan, but only Wesley Crusher recognizes his alien assistant as the real deal.
- 1987–19941h 45mTV-PG9.1 (9.3K)TV EpisodeDirectorWinrich KolbeStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonCapt. Picard finds himself shifting continually into the past, future and present and must use that to discover a threat to humanity's existence.
- DirectorAlexander SingerStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe Enterprise stumbles upon a Dyson sphere, with a ship crashed on the outer surface. An away team finds some systems still powered up and the chief engineer from the old Enterprise, Montgomery Scott, locked in the transporter cycle.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG8.2 (3.7K)TV EpisodeDirectorLes LandauStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonCaptain Picard and crew follow Data back to the late 1800s to get him back, only to find the suspected alien visitors killing people of that time.
- DirectorJonathan FrakesStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonA retired admiral boards the Enterprise in an effort to determine the actions aboard the ship surrounding an act of sabotage and possible treason.
- DirectorGabrielle BeaumontStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonA mission of the Enterprise is seen through the eyes of some junior officers who are up for promotions, as questions of duty and honor arise among some of them, such as a Bajoran whom Worf has designated to be promoted to operations.
- DirectorJames L. ConwayStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonRiker begins to question reality when he finds himself in an alien insane asylum and faces the prospect his life on the Enterprise has been a delusion.
- 1987–199446mTV-PG9.2 (6.1K)TV EpisodeDirectorDavid CarsonStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe Enterprise C enters the Enterprise D's time and space continuum, where they find Picard and crew in a constant state of war with the Klingons, and only Guinan knows it.
- 1987–199446mTV-PG9.1 (6.3K)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert ScheererStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonWhen Data resigns his commission rather than be dismantled for examination by an inadequately skilled scientist, a formal hearing is convened to determine whether Data is considered property without rights or is a sentient being.
- DirectorWinrich KolbeStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonPicard must learn to communicate with a race that speaks in metaphor under a difficult set of circumstances.
- DirectorLeVar BurtonStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonRiker finds out his former commander from the starship Pegasus has orders that entail more than what is revealed to Picard, who thinks the Enterprise is en route to recover the lost ship. And Riker is ordered to secrecy.
- 1987–199446mTV-PG8.9 (4.8K)TV EpisodeDirectorJonathan FrakesStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonThe Enterprise gets caught in a time loop which always has one result: total destruction of the ship, itself.
- 1987–199445mTV-PG8.5 (3.7K)TV EpisodeDirectorAlexander SingerStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonLt. Barclay mistakenly awakes Moriarty in the forgotten holodeck program, who then makes his demands clear and unforgettable.
- DirectorCliff BoleStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesLeVar BurtonDisguised as an alien prior to First Contact, Will's life becomes imperiled when incurred injuries reveal his foreign internal structure to a xenophobic alien population.