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Encounter At Farpoint

Episode:

1

Director:

Corey Allen

Written by:

D.C. Fontana, Gene Roddenberry

Story by:

Stardate:

41153.7

Synopsis:

Captain Picard, assigned to the newly commissioned USS Enterprise-D, encounters a life-form known as "Q", who puts mankind on trial for being "a dangerous, savage child-race". Picard challenges this ruling and Q allows them to use their first mission as a success: solve the mystery of Farpoint Station. They succeed, and Q allows them to continue on their mission of exploration.

Rating:

C+

Notes:

The Naked Now

Episode:

3

Director:

Paul Lynch

Written by:

J. Michael Bingham

Story by:

John D.F. Black & J. Michael Bingham

Stardate:

41209.2

Synopsis:

While investigating the deaths of the entire crew of the USS Tsiolkovsky, the Enterprise crew becomes infected with a virus which acts like intoxication, and threatens the Enterprise when a fragment from a star threatens to destroy the Enterprise. Commander Riker solves the problem, because he remembersreading about it happening to the first Enterpirse's crew, and Ensign Crusher manages to save the ship from destruction with a modification to the tractor beam.

Rating:

C

Notes:

Code Of Honour

Episode:

4

Director:

Russ Mayberry

Written by:

Katharyn Powers & Michael Baron

Story by:

Stardate:

41235.25

Synopsis:

On an important mission to obtain a much-needed life-saving vaccine from Ligon II, Lieutenant Yar is captured. To ensure her release and obtain the vaccine, Captain Picard must allow her to follow a strict Ligoniancode of honour, which states that she must fight her kidnapper's wife, Yareena, to the death. She wins, but Yareena is beamed aboard the Enterprise and saved.

Rating:

B-

Notes:

The Last Outpost

Episode:

5

Director:

Richard Colla

Written by:

Herbert Wright

Story by:

Richard Krzemien

Stardate:

41386.4

Synopsis:

In a confrontation between the Enterprise and a Ferengi Vessel, they are both paralysed by a powerful creature who demands that they answer one of his riddles in order to be released.

Rating:

C

Notes:

Where No One Has Gone Before

Episode:

6

Director:

Rob Bowman

Written by:

Diane Duane & Michael Reaves

Story by:

Stardate:

41263.1

Synopsis:

A brilliant Starfleet propulsion expert, Kosinski, and his mysterious assistant come on board the Enterpirse to make modifications to the warp drive, but inadvertantly, their experiments sned the Enterprise outside the galaxy, into a place where thoughts become real. It is later discovered that this was due to Kosinski's assistant, a being from Tau Alpha C, who posseses the ability to manipulate time, space and thought using his mind.

Rating:

B+

Notes:

Lonely Among Us

Episode:

7

Director:

Cliff Bole

Written by:

D.C. Fontana

Story by:

Michael Halperin

Stardate:

41249.3

Synopsis:

While transporting two ambassadors to a Federation Conference, the Enterprise passes through an energy field that takes control of Picard's mind, causing him to beam himself into space as a non-corporeal energy form. However, when he discovers the true nature of the energy field - other non-corporeal beings, he returns to the ship and is successfully rematerialised.

Rating:

B+

Notes:

Justice

Episode:

8

Director:

James L. Conway

Written by:

Worley Thorne

Story by:

Ralph Wills & Worley Thorne

Stardate:

41255.6

Synopsis:

While enjoying shore leave on the beautiful planet of Rubicun III, Ensign Crusher accidentally breaks one of their laws and is sentenced to death. In direct defiance of the prime directive, Captain Picard intervenes and prevents Wesley from being executed.

Rating:

C

Notes:

The Battle

Episode:

9

Director:

Rob Bowman

Written by:

Herbert Wright

Story by:

Larry Forrester

Stardate:

41723.9

Synopsis:

While involved in wargame simulations, the Ferengi show up and present Picard with his old ship, the USS Stargazer. However, as devious as ever, the Ferengi have an ulterior motive. Daimon Bok plans to use a mind altering device to cause Picard to relive the Battle of Maxia, in which Bok's son was killed, using the Enterprise as the enemy, to gain revenge.

Rating:

B+

Notes:

Hide And Q

Episode:

10

Director:

Cliff Bole

Written by:

C.J. Holland & Gene Roddenberry

Story by:

C.J. Holland

Stardate:

41590.5

Synopsis:

Q forces the Enterprise crew to take part in Napoleonic war games against bear-faced soldiers, as a pretense to offering omnipotence to Riker. Riker ultimately turns down the offer, much to Q's surprise, as the powers offer too much temptationt to be able to control.

Rating:

C

Notes:

Haven

Episode:

11

Director:

Richard Compton

Written by:

Tracy Tormé

Story by:

Tracy Tormé & Lan O'Kun

Stardate:

41294.5

Synopsis:

Counsellor Troi's mother, Lwaxana (holder of the Sacred Chalice of Rixx, Heir to the Holy Rings of Betazed and Daughter of the Fifth House of Betazed etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.) comes on board the Enterprise to announce the marriage of Counsellor Troi to Wyatt Miller, to whom she was betrothed in childhood. However, ultimately, he leaves to cure a plague from a ship from whom he has been receiving projected images.

Rating:

C-

Notes:

The Big Goodbye

Episode:

12

Director:

Joseph L. Scanlan

Written by:

Tracy Tormé

Story by:

Stardate:

41997.7

Synopsis:

Picard, Data and Crusher take part in a holodeck novel in a Dixon Hill detective novel, but the holodeck malfunctions, and the only way out is to finish the story without being killed.

Rating:

A-

Notes:

Datalore

Episode:

13

Director:

Rob Bowman

Written by:

Robert Lewin & Gene Roddenberry

Story by:

Robert Lewin & Maurice Hurley

Stardate:

41242.4

Synopsis:

The Enterprise returns to the Omicron Theta Colony, where Data was constructed, and they find android parts that, when assembled, form and exact duplicate of Data; however, trouble breaks out when Lore, the duplicate is discovered to have different, evil programming.

Rating:

B+

Notes:

Angel One

Episode:

14

Director:

Michael Rhodes

Written by:

Patrick Barry

Story by:

Stardate:

41636.9

Synopsis:

The Enterprise discovers a planet dominated by females, and a crashed Federation freighter, whose crew have been living there for years, as fugitives.

Rating:

C-

Notes:

11001001

Episode:

15

Director:

Paul Lynch

Written by:

Maurice Hurley & Robert Lewin

Story by:

Stardate:

41365.9

Synopsis:

The Enterprise docks at Starbase 74 for Computer Upgrades by the Bynars, but the Bynars kidnap the Enterprise, and Picard almost destroys it before he discovers that their planetary computer system had crashed and they needed the Enterprise to restart it.

Rating:

B+

Notes:

Too Short A Season

Episode:

16

Director:

Rob Bowman

Written by:

Michael Michaelian & D.C. Fontana

Story by:

Michael Michaelian

Stardate:

41309.5

Synopsis:

A legendary Starfleet Admiral on a critical negotiation mission is dying, but he shocks the Enterprise crew by reversing the ageing process. However, the illegal drug he is taking will eventually kill him.

Rating:

B-

Notes:

When The Bough Breaks

Episode:

17

Director:

Kim Manners

Written by:

Hannah Louise Shearer

Story by:

Stardate:

41509.1

Synopsis:

All the Children on board the Enterprise are kidnapped by the Aldeans, who are infertile but wish to have children of their own. Picard later manages to retrieve them when the cause of the infertility is discovered to be a very old power generator.

Rating:

B

Notes:

Home Soil

Episode:

18

Director:

Corey Allen

Written by:

Robert Sabaroff

Story by:

Karl Guers, Ralph Sanchez & Robert Sabaroff

Stardate:

41463.9

Synopsis:

While investigating the mysterious deaths of a terraformer engineer on Velara III, the Away Team is threatened, and eventually discover that the death could be due to a new life-form, one based on silicon, not carbon.

Rating:

B

Notes:

Coming Of Age

Episode:

19

Director:

Mike Vejar

Written by:

Sandy Fries

Story by:

Stardate:

41416.2

Synopsis:

Picard finds himself and the Enterprise under investigation as Admiral Quinn searches for evidence of infiltration, as he belives that there is a conspiracy in Starfleet. Meanwhile, Engisn Crusher takes the Academy Entrance Exam, but fails. In a touch of compassion at the end, Picard reveals to him that he failed the Entrance Exam the first time.

Rating:

B+

Notes:

Heart Of Glory

Episode:

20

Director:

Rob Bowman

Written by:

Maurice Hurley

Story by:

Maurice Hurley, Herbert Wright & D.C. Fontana

Stardate:

41503.7

Synopsis:

Two renegade Klingons are beamed aboard in response to a distress call, but once they are discovered, they try to take over ths ship, until another Klingon vessel approaches.

Rating:

B

Notes:

The Arsenal Of Freedom

Episode:

21

Director:

Les Landau

Written by:

Richard Manning & Hans Beimler

Story by:

Maurice Hurley & Robert Lewin

Stardate:

41798.2

Synopsis:

An Away Team becomes threatened when they beam down to Minos looking for the missing USS Drake. They discover a peddler, trying to sell them a weapon which can seek out weaknesses and overcome them, and the away team are almost killed, until Captain Picard figures out how to stop them.

Rating:

A-

Notes:

Symbiosis

Episode:

22

Director:

Win Phelps

Written by:

Robert Lewin, Robert Manning & Hans Beimler

Story by:

Robert Lewin

Stardate:

Not Given

Synopsis:

The Enterprise encounter two civilisations with a bad co-dependency dating back 200 years. Without disobeying the Prime Directive, Picard must try to break the co-dependency and prevent a war starting.

Rating:

C+

Notes:

Skin Of Evil

Episode:

23

Director:

Joseph L. Scanlan

Written by:

Joseph Stefano & Hannah Louise Shearer

Story by:

Joseph Stefano

Stardate:

41601.3

Synopsis:

Counsellor Troi's shuttle crashes on Vagra III, where a single life form lives, that enjoys human suffering. When the Enterprise arrives to rescue her, Lieutenant Tasha Yar is killed as a simple demonstration of the creature's power.

Rating:

A

Notes:

This episode marks the departure of Denise Crosby from the regular cast.

We'll Always Have Paris

Episode:

24

Director:

Robert Becker

Written by:

Deborah Dean Davis & Hannah Louise Shearer

Story by:

Stardate:

41697.9

Synopsis:

A scientist endangers his life when his experiments accidentally open a rip in the fabric of time and space, and Data must attempt to restore it. Meanwhile, Picard must face his feelings for Dr. Manheim's wife, who was the first woman he fell in love with.

Rating:

B

Notes:

Conspiracy

Episode:

25

Director:

Cliff Bole

Written by:

Tracy Tormé

Story by:

Robert Sabaroff

Stardate:

41775.5

Synopsis:

Continuing the story from "Coming of Age", Picard attempts to uncover the conspiracy in Starfleet when he notices strange behaviour in some of Starfleet's senior admirals.

Rating:

B+

Notes:

The Neutral Zone

Episode:

26

Director:

James L. Conway

Written by:

Maurice Hurley

Story by:

Deborah McIntyre & Mona Glee

Stardate:

41986.0

Synopsis:

Three cryogenically preserved bodies are found on an old twentieth century ship, and are discovered to be revivable. Meanwhile, the Enterprise is ordered to the Neutral Zone to confront the Romulans.

Rating:

C

Notes:

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