Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1

First aired: 9/28/1987 25 episodes

Picking up decades after the original Star Trek series, season one begins the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.

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Episodes

1. Encounter at Farpoint

Aired: 9/28/1987

Stardate: 41153.7. The new commander of the recently built U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC1701-D), Captain Jean-Luc Picard takes the crew on their first mission to discover the secret of Farpoint Station. During their journey, they encounter an omnipotent being known as Q. Q accuses humanity of barbarism, and places humanity on trial. Jean-Luc must prove otherwise or the human race will be annihilated.

2. The Naked Now

Aired: 10/5/1987

Stardate: 41209.2. The crew of the Enterprise are infected with a virus contracted by the away team while they were investigating the mysterious deaths of the entire crew of the Starship Tsilkovsky.

3. Code of Honor

Aired: 10/12/1987

Stardate: 41235.25. Tasha Yar must fight for her life and a vaccine to save a race of people when she is kidnapped and forced to battle with her abductor's wife.

4. The Last Outpost

Aired: 10/19/1987

Stardate: 41386.4. A powerful entity disables the Enterprise and a Ferengi ship. Their only means of escape is if they can correctly answer the riddles he asks.

5. Where No One Has Gone Before

Aired: 10/26/1987

Stardate: 41263.1. The Enterprise is flung across space into a distant galaxy billions of light years away when a propulsion engineer and his mysterious companion, attempt to re-design the ship's engine systems.

6. Lonely Among Us

Aired: 11/2/1987

Stardate: 41249.3. Picard's mind is taken over by an energy field that the Enterprise passes through.

7. Justice

Aired: 11/9/1987

Stardate: 41255.6. Picard is forced to choose between friendship and the Prime Directive when Wesley Crusher is sentenced to death for accidentally breaking the law on Rubicon III.

8. The Battle

Aired: 11/16/1987

Stardate: 41723.9. The Ferengi hand over an old ship which Picard once captained, the U.S.S. Stargazer. The Ferengi have installed a mind altering device that alters Picard's mind to make him think that he is reliving a past battle, and the target is the Enterprise.

9. Hide and Q

Aired: 11/23/1987

Stardate: 41590.5. Q places the senior crew of the Enterprise in a war game that pits them against a boar-faced, Napoleonic enemy.

10. Haven

Aired: 11/30/1987

Stardate: 41294.6. The mother of Deanna Troi, Lwaxana, pays a surprise visit to the Enterprise and announces the prearranged marriage of Deanna to the son of her mother's late husband's best friend.

11. The Big Goodbye

Aired: 1/11/1988

Stardate: 41997.7. Picard, Dr. Crusher and Data are placed in great danger when the holodeck malfunctions while they are running a Dixon Hill program, which pits them against 1940's mobsters.

12. Datalore

Aired: 1/18/1988

Stardate: 41242.4. While exploring his homeworld, the crew of the Enterprise find android parts that are identical to Data's. When assembled, an 'evil' twin of Data named Lore is revived.

13. Angel One

Aired: 1/25/1988

Stardate: 41636.9. The Enterprise discovers the male crew of a crashed Federation freighter are hiding as fugitives on the planet Angel One, which is dominated and ruled by women.

14. 11001001

Aired: 2/1/1988

Stardate: 41365.9. While undergoing repairs, the Bynar Engineers steal the Enterprise to save their planet from destruction.

15. Too Short a Season

Aired: 2/8/1988

Stardate: 41309.5. The aging and terminally ill Starfleet Admiral Mark Jameson, who is negotiating the release of hostages, suddenly begins growing younger through an unexplained phenomenon.

16. When the Bough Breaks

Aired: 2/15/1988

Stardate: 41509.1. The children of the Enterprise, including Wesley Crusher, are abducted by a race of sterile people who are unable to have children of their own.

17. Home Soil

Aired: 2/22/1988

Stardate: 41463.9. The members of an away team investigating the death of an engineer encounter vengeful microscopic life forms.

18. Coming of Age

Aired: 3/14/1988

Stardate: 41416.2. While Wesley takes the entrance exam to Starfleet Academy, the Enterprise is investigated by the Inspector General's office and Picard's competency is questioned.

19. Heart of Glory

Aired: 3/21/1988

Stardate: 41503.7. Two Klingons, rescued by the Enterprise, try to take over the ship.

20. The Arsenal of Freedom

Aired: 4/11/1988

Stardate: 41798.2. The crew encounters bizarre phenomena while searching for the missing U.S.S. Drake.

21. Symbiosis

Aired: 4/18/1988

Stardate: Unknown. Picard attempts to break an ancient co-dependency between two species on one planet without violating the Prime Directive.

22. Skin of Evil

Aired: 4/25/1988

Stardate: 41601.3. When Troi's shuttle crashes on an alien planet, a new being is discovered: an entity that thrives on the suffering of others.

23. We'll Always Have Paris

Aired: 5/2/1988

Stardate: 41697.9. Picard meets an old flame, whose husband has created a haywire dimensional experiment.

24. Conspiracy

Aired: 5/9/1988

Stardate: 41775.5. The strange behavior of high-ranking officers leads Picard to uncover a twisted alien conspiracy within Starfleet.

25. The Neutral Zone

Aired: 5/16/1988

Stardate: 41986.0. A derelict satellite is found with cryonically frozen humans aboard as the USS Enterprise is sent to investigate the destruction of outposts near Romulan space.