Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5

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Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5



Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5








Season 5, Episode 1: Redemption: Part 2
Original Air Date?21 September 1991
As Worf fights in the Klingon Civil War, Capt. Picard and his crew must stop the Romulans from helping their pawns win it.

Season 5, Episode 2: Darmok
Original Air Date?28 September 1991
Picard must learn to communicate with a race that speaks in metaphor under a difficult set of circumstances.

Season 5, Episode 3: Ensign Ro
Original Air Date?5 October 1991
Captain Picard foils a plot against the Bajorians with his new Bajorian officer, Ensign Ro.

Season 5, Episode 4: Silicon Avatar
Original Air Date?12 October 1991
While Frakes, Data, Crusher and various other crew enjoy a recreational day on an earth-like human colony, they are hit by an electrical storm but succeed in hiding safely in a cave they make collapse after Frakes recognizes it's an attack of the feared crystalline entity. After their release, xenologist Dr. Kila Marr is brought in, who specializes in studying the creature which needs to destroy an entire community to feed on given its immense energy consumption. Picard forces her to take Data in the investigatory team, although she suspects he might be in league with it as his brother was, but comes to appreciate his objective scientific input and even takes a liking to him after learning he has and can evoke many memories of the victims of an earlier crystalline attack in which her son Remi perished. Despite a new crystalline attack destroying a space-ship, the crew decides to attempt communicating and works out to do so be graviton beam, in which experiment Dr. Marr takes part...

Season 5, Episode 5: Disaster
Original Air Date?19 October 1991
While the Enterprise enjoys a rest, just when elementary school science prize winners Patterson Supera, Jay Gordon Graas and Marissa Flores visit the ship, it's reduced to impulse power by hitting a quantum singularity, so people are trapped in different compartments and face various damage there needing attention. Gordie and Dr. Crusher have to deal with a corrosion threat by damage to the ship's skin, which starts a very toxic chemical reaction on the hole; Data and Riker face an electric field blocking their way which Data passes at the price of decapitation, and must be repaired on the spot; Worf is with pregnant Keiko O'Brien, who gets contractions, so he'll have to deliver; the wounded captain and the school children must climb to the power supply in the ship's core; Troi decides as highest in rank on the bridge, without technical expertise, not to give up an possible survivors in engineering despite the risk not closing it off causes for the whole ship...

Season 5, Episode 6: The Game
Original Air Date?26 October 1991
Wesley Crusher returns to the Enterprise on vacation from the Academy only to discover a mysterious alien game infiltrating and controlling the crew.

Season 5, Episode 7: Unification: Part 1
Original Air Date?2 November 1991
Picard and Data follow Spock into Romulan space on a dangerous mission.

Season 5, Episode 8: Unification: Part 2
Original Air Date?9 November 1991
Picard is found on Romulus by senator Pardel, who brings him to ambassador Spock, who explains his secret 'cowboy diplomacy' is about the off chance of a Vulcan-Romulan reunification thanks to an old, recently significantly grown philosophically friendly Romulan underground party, which includes the rising new proconsul Neral, who claims the Romulan senate itself can no longer resist the people's outcry for peace, but is actually in league with Sela. Klingon captain K'Vada isn't amused when Data claims he may be able to crack the Romulan encryption log. Vulcan-human half-blood Spock and android Data exchange views on the virtues of emotional and cool logical qualities. Meanwhile commander Riker's Ferengi investigation for the stolen Vulcan ship continues, starting with the mundane wife of the smuggler who died while pursued and finds a Barolian ship was involved. Spock and Picard fear rightly it all ties together in a Romulan war plot...

Season 5, Episode 9: A Matter of Time
Original Air Date?16 November 1991
Reaching Panthera IV after an asteroid wreaks havoc of catastrophic proportions, the Enterprise crew deals with trying to save the planet as well as deal with someone who claims to be a historian from the future.

Season 5, Episode 10: New Ground
Original Air Date?4 January 1992
Geordi can barely curtail his enthusiasm at being able to test out a new theory of transportation, as Worf's mother boards the Enterprise with his son and news that Worf's Earthly parents can no longer care for him.

Season 5, Episode 11: Hero Worship
Original Air Date?25 January 1992
Data rescues a boy, and in a way to repress his own pain, the boy begins to mimic Data's "personality"

Season 5, Episode 12: Violations
Original Air Date?1 February 1992
Transporting three Ullian mind-probing historians, the Enterprise crew is stymied when some of its members fall into a coma. Deanna Troi, the first crew member to come through it, cannot recall anything surrounding the incident.

Season 5, Episode 13: The Masterpiece Society
Original Air Date?8 February 1992
The Enterprise is on a mission to warn the human colony of an artificial paradisiac biosphere on planet Moab 4's southern colony of the approach of a massive stellar fragment, which will impact with seismic force causing a tectonic disaster. However its competent, considerate leader Aaron Conor refuses to evacuate, confident their biosphere can withstand earthquakes. He does allow a small Enterprise party to visit their society, which they believe far superior after eight generations of selective breeding which nearly eliminated the remaining human risk factors. Despite their rigid rule never to leave, scientist Hannah Bates is allowed to come aboard to work out a method to deflect the approaching fragment jointly with Geordi, who as blind man would not even have been born in their society, by a tractor beam and updates to the biosphere itself. Picard disapproves of genetic 'predisposition' on principle, Troi becomes platonic intimate with Conor, who would be prepared to accept her even as genetically inferior mate. The deflection works at the last second before energy would have been fatally overcharged: the colony is safe from impact, but Hannah reports fatal tectonic damage, which Geordi soon finds to be faked in order to get out of controlled life. She and others want asylum aboard, but the colony's delicate balance can't cope with such change. Conor, although in fact tempted himself, feels guilty and desperately tries to save the society...

Season 5, Episode 14: Conundrum
Original Air Date?15 February 1992
When an approaching alien ship wipes their memory, the crew struggles to put back together what happened.

Season 5, Episode 15: Power Play
Original Air Date?22 February 1992
A long-lost ship is found on a planet where cosmic storms prevented detection for 200 years. When a surface landing goes wrong, the away team is beamed back...with a few extra surprises.

Season 5, Episode 16: Ethics
Original Air Date?29 February 1992
After an accident that leaves him no longer able to walk, Worf asks Riker to help him commit suicide.

Season 5, Episode 17: The Outcast
Original Air Date?14 March 1992
While aiding an androgynous race who lost a couple of members in an unmapped region of space, Riker falls for one of them, which can lead to trouble if detected, since the alien race does not endorse gender specificity.

Season 5, Episode 18: Cause and Effect
Original Air Date?21 March 1992
The Enterprise gets caught in a time loop which always has one result: total destruction of the ship, itself.

Season 5, Episode 19: The First Duty
Original Air Date?28 March 1992
Wesley Crusher's team has an accident at Starfleet Aacademy. Picard offers to help a Starfleet investigation as to what happened, and begins to suspect they are hiding something.

Season 5, Episode 20: Cost of Living
Original Air Date?18 April 1992
Shortly after the Enterprise saves a planet from an asteroid impact by exploding it, the ship experiences strange break-downs which are ultimately attributed to an impossible to detect timely metal parasite, which will destroy it unless eliminated, so Data suggests luring it to an asteroid. Deanna Troi counsels Worf to deal with his son Alexander's authority problems by drawing up a two-ways contract on paternal and filial rights and obligations, but is still practically terrified to hear her overbearing and impulsive mother, ambassador Lwaxana, announces her own arrival, soon meddling with the educational contract, and that of a planet's Third Minister Campio whom she decided to marry solely based on computerized profiles, but finds less compatible once he and his protocol master Erko arrive for the wedding...

Season 5, Episode 21: The Perfect Mate
Original Air Date?25 April 1992
The Enterprise is unwittingly used to present a unique gift to an alien race: a beautiful empath who's sole purpose is to please her mate. Problems arise when coming out of stasis early in the voyage she imprints herself in many ways on a particular Enterprise crewman.

Season 5, Episode 22: Imaginary Friend
Original Air Date?2 May 1992
While investigating a nebula clustered around a star, the Enterprise encounters a sentient being who appears only in the form of an imaginary friend to a little girl, whose father just transferred to the ship. But the crew take the imaginary friend as just a phase for her and disregard the threat.

Season 5, Episode 23: I, Borg
Original Air Date?9 May 1992
The 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.

Season 5, Episode 24: The Next Phase
Original Air Date?16 May 1992
A transporter malfunction, combined with a Romulan ship under stress and a damaged cloaking device, creates the illusion that Ensign Ro and Geordi are dead, but Geordi doesn't believe it to be so, and he acts accordingly.

Season 5, Episode 25: The Inner Light
Original Air Date?30 May 1992
Picard 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.

Season 5, Episode 26: Time's Arrow: Part 1
Original Air Date?13 June 1992
Capt. Picard and his archaeological curiosity are called upon by scientists from Earth when they find evidence to support beliefs that aliens had visited Earth in the late 1800's.