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Star Trek:  The Next Generation 
Season One Episode Summaries
Encounter at Farpoint 
The Naked Now 
Code of Honor 
The Last Outpost 
Where No One Has Gone Before 
Lonely Among Us 
Justice 
The Battle 
Hide and Q 
Haven 
The Big Goodbye 
Datalore 
Angel One 
11001001 
Too Short a Season 
When the Bough Breaks 
Home Soil 
Coming of Age 
Heart of Glory 
The Arsenal of Freedom 
Symbiosis 
Skin of Evil 
We’ll Always Have Paris 
Conspiracy 
The Neutral Zone 
REGULAR CAST: 
Captain Jean-Luc Picard:  Patrick Stewart 
Commander Will Riker:  Jonathan Frakes 
Counselor Deanna Troi:  Marina Sirtis 
Dr. Beverly Crusher:  Gates McFadden 
Commander Data:  Brent Spiner 
Lt. Tasha Yar:  Denise Crosby 
Lt. Worf:  Michael Dorn 
Chief Engineer Geordi LaForge:  LeVar Burton 
Wesley Crusher:  Wil Wheaton 
Guinan:  Whoopi Goldberg (joins in season 2) 
Miles O’Brien:  Colm Meaney 
Dr. Katherine Pulaski:  Diana Muldaur (joins for season 2) 
Ensign Ro:  Michelle Forbes (joins in season 5) 
Encounter at Farpoint 
GUEST STARS: 
Q:  John DeLancie 
Groppler Zorn:  Michael Bell 
Lieutenant Torres:  Jimmy Ortega 
In the series pilot, Captain Jean-Luc Picard, a new captain for a new Starship Enterprise, assembles the crew for its first mission:  Discover the secret of Farpoint Station.  En route, they encounter the omnipotent being Q, who accuses humanity of barbarism and challenges Picard to prove otherwise. 
The Naked Now 
GUEST STARS: 
Chief Engineer Sarah MacDougal:  Brooke Bundy 
Assistant Engineer Jim Schimoda:  Benjamin W.S. Lum 
Transporter Chief:  Michael Rider 
While investigating the deaths aboard the Starship Tsiolkovsky, the Enterprise crew becomes infected with a deadly virus that induces intoxicated behavior and which the original Enterprise crew had contracted decades earlier. 
 Code of Honor 
GUEST STARS: 
Lutan:  Jessie Lawrence Ferguson 
Yareena:  Karole Selmon 
Hagon:  James Louis Watkins 
Transporter Chief:  Michael Rider 
On a desperate mission to get  their hands on a life-saving vaccine from the planet Ligon II, Tasha Yar is kidnapped by the planet’s leader.  To win her release and the vaccine, Picard must follow a strict Ligonian code of honor that requires Tasha to fight her kidnapper’s wife -- until one of them is dead. 
 The Last Outpost 
GUEST STARS: 
Letek:  Armin Shimerman 
Mordoc:  Jake Dengel 
Kayron:  Tracey Walter 
Portal:  Darryl Henriques 
Dai-Mon Taar:  Mike Gomez 
In a confrontation over an unknown planet, the Enterprise and a Ferengi starship are paralyzed indefinitely by a powerful creature who insists there is only one escape:  They must answer one of his riddles. 
 Where No One Has Gone Before 
GUEST STARS: 
Kosinski:  Stanley Kamel 
Traveler:  Eric Menyuk 
Yvette Gessard Picard:  Herta Ware 
Lieutenant-Commander Argyle:  Biff Yeager 
Crew Member:  Charles Dayton 
Ballerina:  Victoria Dillard 
An arrogant Starfleet propulsion expert and his mysterious assistant inadvertantly send the Enterprise a billion light-years from their galaxy into a region of space where thought becomes reality. 
 Lonely Among Us 
GUEST STARS: 
Ssestar:  John Durbin 
First Security Guard:  Colm Meaney 
Lieutenant Commander Singh:  Kavi Raz 
While transporting two adversarial ambassadors to a Federation conference, the Enterprise passes through an energy field that takes control of Picard's mind. 
 Justice 
GUEST STARS: 
Rivan:  Brenda Bakke 
Liator:  Jay Louden 
While vacationing on the blissful planet Rubicon III, Wesley accidentally breaks a planetary law and is sentenced to death.  Picard is then faced with a painful decision:  Save Wesley from death or uphold the Prime Directive. 
 The Battle 
GUEST STARS: 
Kazago:  Doug Warhit 
Rata:  Robert Towers 
The Ferengi present Picard with his old starship, the Stargazer.  Yet havoc ensues:  A mind-altering device is planted on board that causes Picard to think he is reliving an old battle -- with the Enterprise as the enemy. 
 Hide and Q 
GUEST STARS: 
Q:  John DeLancie 
Q toys with the Enterprise crew, forcing them to play a Napoleonic war game against boar-faced soldiers. 
 Haven 
GUEST STARS: 
Lwaxana:  Majel Barrett 
Wyatt Miller:  Rob Knepper 
Victoria Miller:  Nan Martin 
Steven Miller:  Robert Ellenstein 
Mr. Homn:  Carel Struycken 
Valeda Innis:  Anna Katarina 
Wrenn:  Raye Birk 
Ariana:  Danitza Kingsley 
Counselor Deanna Troi's mother, the always affectionate and often annoying Lwaxana, makes a surprise visit to the Enterprise and announces the prearranged marriage of Deanna and the son of her late husband's best friend. 
 The Big Goodbye 
GUEST STARS: 
Cyrus Redblock:  Lawrence Tierney 
Felix Leech:  Harvey Jason 
Lieutenant Dan Bell:  William Boyett 
Whalen:  David Selburg 
Lieutenant McNary:  Gary Armagnal 
In this Peabody Award-winning episode, Picard recreates a 1941 San Francisco scenario in the holodeck from one of his favorite Dixon Hill detective novels, and enlists Data and Dr. Crusher in the fun.  But the program malfunctions and they find themselves up against holodeck criminals. 
 Datalore 
GUEST STARS: 
Lieutenant Commander Argyle:  Biff Yeager 
While visiting Data's home planet, the Away Team discovers a laboratory containing android parts that, when assembled, form an exact replica of their own Lt. Commander Data. 
 Angel One 
GUEST STARS: 
Beata:  Karen Montgomery 
Ramsey:  Sam Hennings 
Ariel:  Patricia McPherson 
Trent:  Leonard John Crowfoot 
The Enterprise crew journeys to a planet dominated by females, and while on Angel One, they discover a group of men -- whose Federation freighter crashed years earlier -- living as fugitives. 
 11001001 
GUEST STARS: 
Minuet:  Carolyn McCormick 
Commander Orfil Quinteros:  Gene Dynarski 
Piano Player:  Jack Sheldon 
The Enterprise's computer is scheduled for a rehaul by Bynar technicians while docked in Starbase 74.  Instead of improving the system, the Bynars steal the starship to save their own planet. 
 Too Short a Season 
GUEST STARS: 
Admiral Mark Jameson:  Clayton Rohner 
Karnas:  Michael Pataki 
Anne Jameson:  Marsha Hunt 
A legendary admiral -- on a mission to negotiate the release of Federation hostages -- is dying.  But then he shocks the Enterprise crew as he appears to reverse the aging process before their very eyes. 
 When the Bough Breaks 
GUEST STARS: 
Radue:  Jerry Hardin 
Rashella:  Brenda Strong 
Katie:  Jandi Swanson 
Melian:  Paul Lambert 
Mason:  Jeremy Wheaton 
Tara:  Amy Wheaton 
Roe:  MacKenzie Westmore 
Wesley and other children are kidnapped from the Enterprise and taken to the planet Aldea where the inhabitants of the sterile civilization cannot have children of their own. 
 Home Soil 
GUEST STARS: 
Kurt Mandl:  Walter Gotell 
Louisa Kim:  Elizabeth Lindsey 
Bjorn Benson:  Gerald Prendergast 
Arthur Malencon:  Mario Roccuzzo 
While investigating the death of a terraformer engineer on Velara III, the Away Team is suddenly faced with the murderous wrath of microscopic inorganic life forms. 
Coming of Age 
GUEST STARS: 
Admiral Gregory Quinn:  Ward Costello 
Lieutenant Commander Dexter Remmick:  Robert Schenkkan 
Mordock:  John Putch 
Tac Officer Chang:  Robert Ito 
Jake Kurland:  Stephen Gregory 
T'Shanik:  Tasia Valenza 
Oliana Mirren:  Estee Chandler 
Rondon:  Robert Riordan 
Picard suddenly finds himself and his career under intense investigation, and Wesley takes the Starfleet Academy entrance exam. 
 Heart of Glory 
GUEST STARS: 
Commander Korris:  Vaughn Armstrong 
Lieutenant Konmel:  Charles H. Hyman 
K'nera:  David Froman 
Kunivas:  Robert Bauer 
Ramos:  Dennis Madalone 
Two renegade, war-hungry Klingons are rescued and beamed aboard the Enterprise, which they then try to take over. 
 The Arsenal of Freedom 
GUEST STARS: 
The Peddler:  Vincent Schiavelli 
Captain Paul Rice:  Marco Rodriguez 
Chief Engineer Logan:  Vyto Ruginis 
Ensign Lian T'Su:  Julia Nickson 
Lieutenant J.G. Orfil Solis:  George de la Pena 
Destructive energy spheres, sinkholes that swallow, and invisible enemies plague the Enterprise as the crew scours the planet Minos for the missing U.S.S. Drake. 
 Symbiosis 
GUEST STARS: 
Sobi:  Judson Scott 
T'Jon:  Merritt Butrick 
Romas:  Richard Line-back 
Langor:  Kimberly Farr 
The Enterprise encounters two civilizations in the Delos system with an unhealthy codependency dating back 200 years.  Without disobeying the Prime Directive, Picard attempts to break the longstanding codependency and prevent all-out war. 
 Skin of Evil 
GUEST STARS: 
Armus:  Mart McChesney 
Assistant Chief Engineer Leland T. Lynch:  Walker Boone 
Nurse:  Brad Zerbst 
Lieutenant Ben Prieto:  Raymond Forchion 
Counselor Troi's shuttlecraft crash lands on Vagra II, a planet whose only life form is a sinister creature that enjoys the suffering of humans.  Troi's rescue cost the Enterprise the life of one of it's crew -- Tasha Yar. 
 We’ll Always Have Paris 
GUEST STARS: 
Mrs. Manheim:  Michelle Phillips 
Dr. Paul Manheim:  Rod Loomis 
Gabrielle:  Isabel Lorca 
Lieutenant Dean:  Dan Kern 
Edouard:  Jean-Paul Vignon 
Transporter Chief Herbert:  Lance Spellerberg 
A scientist endangers his own life when his experiments cause a rip in the fabric of time and open up a new dimension.  Meanwhile, Picard tries to deal with his feelings for the man's wife, who happens to be the first woman he fell in love with. 
 Conspiracy 
GUEST STARS: 
Admiral Savar:  Henry Darrow 
Admiral Quinn:  Ward Costello 
Lieutenant Commander Dexter Remmick:  Robert Schenkkan 
Admiral Aaron:  Ray Reinhardt 
Captain Walker Keel:  Jonathan Farwell 
Captain Riix:  Michael Berryman 
Captain Tryla Scott:  Ursaline Bryant 
Picard suspects there is something rotten eating away at the Federation when he notices strange behavior in Starfleet's top brass. 
The Neutral Zone 
GUEST STARS: 
Commander Tebok:  Marc Alaimo 
Sub-Commander Thei:  Anthony James 
"Sonny" Clemonds:  Leon Rippy 
Clare Raymond:  Gracie Harrison 
Ralph Offenhouse:  Peter Mark Richman 
Three cryogenically-preserved bodies are found on a 20th-century Earth satellite just as the Enterprise is ordered to the Neutral Zone to confront Romulans.
 
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