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Star Trek:  The Next Generation 
Season Two Episode Summaries
The Child 
Where Silence Has Lease 
Elementary, Dear Data 
The Outrageous Okona 
Loud as a Whisper 
The Schizoid Man 
Unnatural Selection 
A Matter of Honor 
The Measure of a Man 
The Dauphin 
Contagion 
The Royale 
Time Squared 
The Icarus Factor 
Pen Pals 
Q Who?  
Samaritan Snare 
Up the Long Ladder 
Manhunt 
The Emissary 
Peak Performance 
Shades of Gray 
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 for season 2) 
Miles O’Brien:  Colm Meaney 
Dr. Katherine Pulaski:  Diana Muldaur (joins in season 2) 
Ensign Ro:  Michelle Forbes (joins in season 5) 
The Child 
GUEST STARS: 
Lieutenant-Commander Hester Dealt:  Seymour Cassel 
Ian Andrew Troi: R.J. Williams 
Miss Gladstone:  Dawn Arnemann 
Young Ian:  Zachary Benjamin 
The U.S.S. Enterprise-D tries to free the Rachelis system from a deadly plague, and Counselor Troi shocks everyone with the news that she's pregnant. 
 Where Silence Has Lease 
GUEST STARS: 
Naglium:  Earl Boen 
Ensign Haskell:  Charles Douglass 
Picard is forced to make the most difficult decision of his career when the Enterprise enters a mysterious "hole" with no dimensions recognizable to humans. 
Elementary, Dear Data 
GUEST STARS: 
Professor Moriarty:  Daniel Davis 
Lestrade:  Alan Shearman 
Assistant Engineer Clancy:  Anne Elizabeth Ramsey 
During some unexpected time off, Data and Geordi book onto the holodeck and travel back to Victorian England to pay homage to Data's hero, Sherlock Holmes. The Outrageous Okona 
GUEST STARS: 
Captain Thadiun Okona:  William O. Campbell 
Debin:  Douglass Rowe 
Kushell:  Albert Stratton 
Yanar:  Rosalind Ingledew 
Benzan:  Kiernan Mulroney 
Lieutenant J.G. Robinson:  Teri Hatcher 
The Comic:  Joe Piscopo 
The Enterprise takes a disabled ship under its wing but doesn't realize the ship's only resident, Captain Okona, will put them in the middle of a love triangle.  Data attempts to conquer another human trait:  humor. 
Loud as a Whisper 
GUEST STARS: 
Riva:  Howie Seago 
Warrior/Adonis:  Leo Damian 
Woman:  Marnie Mosiman 
The Scholar:  Thomas Oglesby 
The Away Team escorts a well-known deaf mediator to end an ancient conflict on Solaris Five, but tragedy strikes when a disgruntled soldier shoots without warning. 
The Schizoid Man 
GUEST STARS: 
Lieutenant Selar:  Suzie Plakson 
Kareen Brianon:  Barbara Alyn Woods 
Dr. Ira Graves:  W. Morgan Sheppard 
A brilliant scientist dies but his spirit lives on--by taking over Data's mind and body.  Instead of being an academic boon, the ghostly presence turns Data violently jealous. 
Unnatural Selection 
GUEST STARS: 
Dr. Sara Kingsley:  Patricia Smith 
Captain Taggert:  J. Patrick McNamara 
The Enterprise resonds to a distress call from a Federation supply ship only to find the entire crew has died of old age. A Matter of Honor 
GUEST STARS: 
Ensign Mendon:  John Putch 
Captain Kargan:  Christopher Collins 
Klag:  Brian Thompson 
Tactics Officer:  Peter Parros 
Vekma:  Laura Drake 
Commander Riker is given an opportunity to serve as the first Starfleet officer to be posted to a Klingon ship, but a misunderstanding leads to a showdown between Riker and the Enterprise. The Measure of a Man 
GUEST STARS: 
Captain Phillipa Louvois:  Amanda McBroom 
Admiral Nakamura:  Clyde Kusatsu 
Commander Bruce Maddox:  Brian Brophy 
Data finds his future on trial when the chief of a new starbase orders the android to be disassembled for research.  Picard is forced to defend Data against Riker, who's put into a prosecution role. The Dauphin 
GUEST STARS: 
Salia:  Jamie Hubbard 
Anya:  Paddi Edwards 
Anya as girl:  Mädchen Amick 
Anya as Animal:  Cindy Sorenson 
Ensign Gibson:  Jennifer Barlow 
The Enterprise escorts a young ruler and her domineering guardian to Daled IV without realizing their dangerous metamorphic powers. 
Contagion 
GUEST STARS: 
Captain Donald Varley:  Thalmus Rasulala 
Sub-Commander Taris:  Carolyn Seymour 
The Away Team races against time to destroy an eerie power source that has infected the ship's computers, eaten away at Data's software, and left the Enterprise open to a Romulan attack. The Royale 
GUEST STARS: 
Texas:  Noble Willingham 
Assistant Manager:  Sam Anderson 
Vanessa:  Jill Jacobson 
The Bellboy:  Leo Garcia 
Mickey D.:  Gregory Beecroft 
In an uncharted solar system, the Away Team gets trapped in a never-ending story where aliens have replicated human life based on a dramatic novel, "The Hotel Royale." 
Time Squared 
Picard begins to doubt his leadership when the Enterprise finds an out-of-control shuttlecraft with the captain's distraught double inside--from six hours in the future. 
The Icarus Factor 
GUEST STARS: 
Kyle Riker:  Mitchell Ryan 
Transporter Operator Herbert:  Lance Spellerberg 
When he is promoted to captain of another Federation ship, Riker is eager to get started -- until he discovers that he's to be briefed by his estranged father. Pen Pals 
GUEST STARS: 
Davies:  Nicholas Cascone 
Sarjenka:  Nikki Cox 
Hildebrandt:  Anne H. Gillespie 
Alans:  Whitney Rydbeck 
Wesley cuts his teeth as a Starfleet ensign when he's instruced to discover what's causing the earthquakes and volcanic eruptions on Drema IV where Data's young pen pal lives. 
Q Who? 
GUEST STARS: 
Q:  John DeLancie 
Ensign Sonya Gomez:  Lycia Naff 
The Enterprise is attacked by the Borg after being hurled into a distant part of the galaxy by an angry Q.  As the aliens close in for the kill, Q returns and offers his help -- if Picard swallows his pride. Samaritan Snare 
GUEST STARS: 
Grebnedlog:  Christopher Collins 
Reginod:  Leslie Morris 
Surgeon:  Daniel Benzali 
Ensign Sonya Gomez:  Lycia Naff 
Biomolecular Physiologist:  Tzi Ma 
As Captain Picard lies near death on an operating table, the crew tries to outsmart the dim-witted Pakleds who are holding Geordi hostage. 
Up the Long Ladder 
GUEST STARS: 
Danilo Odell:  Barrie Ingham 
Granger:  Jon de Vries 
Brenna Odell:  Rosalyn Landor 
Picard must convince two dying civilizations that their only chance for survival lies in cohabitating.  But one of the cultures would much rather clone Riker and Dr. Pulaski. Manhunt 
GUEST STARS: 
Lwaxana Troi:  Majel Barrett 
Slade Bender:  Robert Costanza 
Mr. Homn:  Carel Struycken 
Rex:  Rod Arrants 
Scarface:  Robert O'Reilly 
Madeline:  Rhonda Alrich 
Antidean Dignitary:  Mick Fleetwood 
Transport Pilot:  Wren T. Brown 
On her way to a Federation conference, Lwaxana Troi, Counselor Troi's mother, searches for a man to satisfy her insatiable appetite. 
The Emissary 
GUEST STARS: 
K'Ehleyr:  Suzie Plakson 
K'Temoc:  Lance le Gault 
Admiral Gromek:  Georgann Johnson 
Ensign Clancy:  Anne Elizabeth Ramsey 
Tactical Crewman:  Dietrich Bader 
Worf is reluctantly reunited with a past lover when the Enterprise is ordered to intercept a Klingon ship whose crew has been in stasis for 100 years. Peak Performance 
GUEST STARS: 
Sirna Kolrami:  Roy Brocksmith 
Bractor:  Armin Shimerman 
Ferengi Tactician:  David L. Lander 
Ensign Nagel:  Leslie Neale 
Ensign Burke:  Glenn Morshower 
Commander Riker and Captain Picard compete in a Starfleet battle simulation program.  But the fun ends when a Ferengi warship stumbles across the game and starts firing on them for real. Shades of Gray 
In this flashback-filled episode, Riker is infected with an alien organism that quickly takes control of his brain.  To fight the fatal bug, Dr. Pulaski must lead Riker's mind back to its most primitive memories of survival.
 
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