The Next Generation

Season Five

Redemption (Part 2)
09/21/91 -- Stardate: 45020.4
SOS Rating: 8.3 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 6.5

A Klingon civil war between supporters of Gowron and the Duras family rages on, and Picard suspects that Romulans are supplying the forces loyal to Duras.


Darmok
09/28/91 -- Stardate: 45047.2
SOS Rating: 8.7 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 9.5

The captain of a Tomarian ship transports himself and Picard to a nearby planet, where they face a terrible beast together, thus forming a bond that may lead to future friendly contacts between the two races.


Ensign Ro
10/05/91 -- Stardate: 45076.3
SOS Rating: 8.3 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 7.0

Assigned to the Enterprise to help locate a Bajoran terrorist group accused of destroying the Federation colony on Solarian IV, the rebellious Ensign Ro Laren helps Picard discover that it is really the Cardassians who attacked Solarian IV.


Silicon Avatar
10/12/91 -- Stardate: 45122.3
SOS Rating: 7.4 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 9.5

After the crystalline entity attacks the colony on Molona IV, a Federation scientist, whose son was killed by a previous attack by the entity, comes aboard the Enterprise to investigate the entity.


Disaster
10/19/91 -- Stardate: 45208.2
SOS Rating: 7.5 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 2.0

The Enterprise strikes a guantuum filament, thus causing catastrophic damage to all ship's systems and wide-spread injuries among the crew.


The Game
10/26/91 -- Stardate: 45233.1
SOS Rating: 5.9 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 6.0

Riker brings aboard the Enterprise an electronic game that unknowingly causes the player to become addicted to the game and subject to mind control.


Unification (Part 1)
11/02/91 -- Stardate: 45245.8
SOS Rating: 8.5 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 9.5

Vulcan Ambassador Spock disappears on a secret mission to the Romulan homeworld, and Picard and Data go to Romulus to try to find him.


Unification (Part 2)
11/09/91 -- Stardate: 45245.9
SOS Rating: 8.3 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 10.0

Spock reveals to Picard and Data that he is on a personal mission to attempt the reunification of the Romulan and Vulcan races; but the Romulans, led by Tasha Yar's daughter Sela, have other plans for the Vulcans.


A Matter of Time
11/16/91 -- Stardate: 45349.1
SOS Rating: 7.4 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 7.0

A historian, claims to have travel in time from the 27th Century to do first-hand research on the Enterprise and its crew; but the time traveler's true intentions are not so honorable.


New Ground
01/04/92 -- Stardate: 45376.3
SOS Rating: 6.2 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 9.0

As the Enterprise participates in experiments to propel ships at warp speed by waves generated on a planet, Worf deals with taking on the role of being a father to Alexander.


Hero Worship
01/25/92 -- Stardate: 45397.3
SOS Rating: 6.8 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 8.5

A young boy, who blames himself for an accident that destroyed a starship, is brought aboard the Enterprise and begins to emulate the emotionless Data in order to repress his own troubled emotions.


Violation
02/01/92 -- Stardate: 45429.3
SOS Rating: 6.8 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 7.0

Troi, Riker, and Dr. Crusher experience strong, frightening memories, which cause them to collapse into comas; and it is later found that they were mentally raped by a telepathic guest on the Enterprise.


The Masterpiece Society
02/08/92 -- Stardate: 45470.1
SOS Rating: 6.2 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 7.5

A core fragment is on a collision course with a closed, genetically-engineered colony, and contacts between the Enterprise crew and the colonists result in changes to the colony's way of life.


Conundrum
02/15/92 -- Stardate: 45494.2
SOS Rating: 8.1 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 10.0

A beam from a mysterious ship scans the Enterprise, causing amnesia among the entire crew, and they are led to believe, by a spy aboard the ship, that they are at war with the Lisians.


Power Play
02/22/92 -- Stardate: 45571.2
SOS Rating: 7.4 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 7.5

After a shuttlecraft crashes on a primitive planet, the bodies of Troi, Data, and O'Brien are taken over by evil energy beings from a penal colony.


Ethics
02/29/92 -- Stardate: 45587.3
SOS Rating: 6.9 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 5.0

Worf's spine is broken in an accident, and his only options are life as a praplegic, an unproven regenerative procedure, or ritual suicide.


The Outcast
03/14/92 -- Stardate: 45614.6
SOS Rating: 5.8 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 3.0

Riker falls for a member of a race of nonsexual aliens, whose members are ostracized and subjected to brainwashing if they exhibit any sexual tendencies.


Cause and Effect
03/21/92 -- Stardate: 45652.1
SOS Rating: 9.0 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 10.0

A starship from the 23rd Century emerges from a timewarp, causing the Enterprise and her crew to be caught in a continuous time loop that ends with the Enterprise's destruction.


The First Duty
04/18/92 -- Stardate: 45703.9
SOS Rating: 8.4 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 9.0

Picard and Dr. Crusher travel to Starfleet Academy, where Wesley has gotten involved in the coverup of a fatal accident caused by his group's desire to impress the student body with their piloting skills.


Cost of Living
04/25/92 -- Stardate: 45733.6
SOS Rating: 5.5 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 1.0

Lwaxana Troi is on board the Enterprise to get married in a traditional Betazoid ceremony, and seeks to take responsibility for caring for Worf's son, Alexander.


The Perfect Mate
05/02/92 -- Stardate: 45761.3
SOS Rating: 7.1 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 6.5

Kamala, a beautiful, genetically-engineered woman, is being taken by the Enterprise to a planet where she is to be married, but Kamala's beauty overwhelms the male members of the crew.


Imaginary Friend
05/09/92 -- Stardate: 45852.1
SOS Rating: 4.5 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 4.0

A little girl named Clara, whose Starfleet father is a workaholic, seeks the comfort of an imaginary friend, who turns out to be a real, invisible alien.


I, Borg
05/16/92 -- Stardate: 45854.2
SOS Rating: 8.6 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 9.5

The Enterprise finds a crashed Borg surveillance craft with one survivor; and while La Forge tries to help him rediscover his humanity, Picard and Guinan must confront their own feelings about the Borg.


The Next Phase
05/23/92 -- Stardate: 45984.3
SOS Rating: 8.1 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 7.5

La Forge and Ensign Ro are turned invisible by a transporter accident related to a Romulan experiment to develop a new cloaking device.


The Inner Light
05/30/92 -- Stardate: 45944.1
SOS Rating: 9.4 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 10.0

Picard is knocked out by an alien probe and lives, in his mind, an alternate life on a distant planet threatened by extinction.


Time's Arrow (Part 1)
06/06/92 -- Stardate: 45959.1
SOS Rating: 8.1 -- Tim Lynch's Rating: 8.0

After finding what appears to be a 500-year old head of an android like Data, Picard and company time travel to 19th Century San Francisco to investigate.

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