Episode guide
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 1
25 episodes · premiered Sep 28, 1987
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.
- Episode 1: Encounter at Farpoint Sep 28, 1987 · 1h 31m · TMDB 6.7 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…
- Episode 2: The Naked Now Oct 5, 1987 · 46m · TMDB 6.4 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…
- Episode 3: Code of Honor Oct 12, 1987 · 46m · TMDB 5.2 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.
- Episode 4: The Last Outpost Oct 19, 1987 · 46m · TMDB 6.2 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.
- Episode 5: Where No One Has Gone Before Oct 26, 1987 · 46m · TMDB 7.3 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…
- Episode 6: Lonely Among Us Nov 2, 1987 · 46m · TMDB 6.1 Stardate: 41249.3. Picard's mind is taken over by an energy field that the Enterprise passes through.
- Episode 7: Justice Nov 9, 1987 · 46m · TMDB 5.9 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.
- Episode 8: The Battle Nov 16, 1987 · 46m · TMDB 6.6 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…
- Episode 9: Hide and Q Nov 23, 1987 · 46m · TMDB 6.9 Stardate: 41590.5. Q places the senior crew of the Enterprise in a war game that pits them against a boar-faced, Napoleonic enemy.
- Episode 10: Haven Nov 30, 1987 · 46m · TMDB 6.0 Stardate: 41294.5. 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…
- Episode 11: The Big Goodbye Jan 11, 1988 · 46m · TMDB 6.8 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…
- Episode 12: Datalore Jan 18, 1988 · 46m · TMDB 7.3 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.
- Episode 13: Angel One Jan 25, 1988 · 46m · TMDB 5.8 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.
- Episode 14: 11001001 Feb 1, 1988 · 46m · TMDB 7.2 Stardate: 41365.9. While undergoing repairs, the Bynar Engineers steal the Enterprise to save their planet from destruction.
- Episode 15: Too Short a Season Feb 8, 1988 · 46m · TMDB 6.4 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.
- Episode 16: When the Bough Breaks Feb 15, 1988 · 46m · TMDB 6.4 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.
- Episode 17: Home Soil Feb 22, 1988 · 46m · TMDB 6.8 Stardate: 41463.9. The members of an away team investigating the death of an engineer encounter vengeful microscopic life forms.
- Episode 18: Coming of Age Mar 14, 1988 · 46m · TMDB 6.9 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.
- Episode 19: Heart of Glory Mar 21, 1988 · 46m · TMDB 7.0 Stardate: 41503.7. Two Klingons, rescued by the Enterprise, try to take over the ship.
- Episode 20: The Arsenal of Freedom Apr 11, 1988 · 46m · TMDB 6.9 Stardate: 41798.2. The crew encounters bizarre phenomena while searching for the missing U.S.S. Drake.
- Episode 21: Symbiosis Apr 18, 1988 · 46m · TMDB 6.9 Stardate: Unknown. Picard attempts to break an ancient co-dependency between two species on one planet without violating the Prime Directive.
- Episode 22: Skin of Evil Apr 25, 1988 · 46m · TMDB 6.6 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.
- Episode 23: We'll Always Have Paris May 2, 1988 · 46m · TMDB 6.4 Stardate: 41697.9. Picard meets an old flame, whose husband has created a haywire dimensional experiment.
- Episode 24: Conspiracy May 9, 1988 · 46m · TMDB 7.5 Stardate: 41775.5. The strange behavior of high-ranking officers leads Picard to uncover a twisted alien conspiracy within Starfleet.
- Episode 25: The Neutral Zone May 16, 1988 · 46m · TMDB 7.2 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.