After doing some space stuff to bulk out the Captain’s log, the Enterprise encounters a probe of unknown origin. It emits a pulse which hits Captain Picard. He awakens on an unfamiliar world and is told his name is Kamin, an iron weaver recovering from a fever on a pre-warp planet called Kataan, and he’s married to Eline. Picard is initially is reluctant to accept this as truth but finds the people to be peaceful and friendly. As the years pass, he comes to accept his new life, has children with his wife and finds solace in playing his flute, but he has concerns about the future of the planet due to the ongoing drought. Over the years, he investigates the cause all while losing friends and family. He eventually discovers that the planet is dying due to the changes in its sun. A probe is launched… the probe the Enterprise encountered right at the beginning of the episode. Picard wakes up back on the Enterprise with a lifetime of memories, forever a changed man… until next week.

• ‘Darmok’
• ‘Ensign Ro’
• ‘Silicon Avatar’
• ‘Disaster’
• ‘The Game’
• ‘Unification’
• ‘A Matter of Time’
• ‘New Ground’
• ‘Hero Worship’
• ‘Violations’
• ‘The Masterpiece Society’
• ‘Conundrum’
• ‘Power Play’
• ‘Ethics’
• ‘The Outcast’
• ‘The First Duty’
• ‘Cost of Living’
• ‘The Perfect Mate’
• ‘Imaginary Friend’
• ‘I, Borg’
• ‘The Next Phase’

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Geordi and Ro are killed in a transporter accident as the Enterprise tries to help a stranded Romulan vessel. But are they really dead? They’re both still around but no one can see them. Ro thinks she’s a ghost but Geordi thinks it would be weird to be dead and have a VISOR and clothes. However, he decides to keep them on anyway. Due to some weird Romulan science, it turns out they’re actually cloaked, but a new kind which means they can pass through matter. Meanwhile the Romulans are plotting to blow up the Enterprise for some reason, and only the ghost people know. And it’ll blow as soon as they go to warp. Can they get solidified again before the Enterprise gets there? Or at least before Riker has to deliver a eulogy?

• • ‘Darmok’
  • ‘Ensign Ro’
  • ‘Silicon Avatar’
  • ‘Disaster’
  • ‘The Game’
  • ‘Unification’
  • ‘A Matter of Time’
  • ‘New Ground’
  • ‘Hero Worship’
  • ‘Violations’
  • ‘The Masterpiece Society’
  • ‘Conundrum’
  • ‘Power Play’
  • ‘Ethics’
  • ‘The Outcast’
  • ‘The First Duty’
  • ‘Cost of Living’
  • ‘The Perfect Mate’
  • ‘Imaginary Friend’
  • ‘I, Borg’

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While scouting a system for colonisation, the Enterprise here’s a distress call. Upon answering, they find a lone surviving Borg, Third of Five. Against protests, Crusher insists on trying to help him, eventually bringing him on board the Enterprise. Troi thinks Picard may experience trauma with a Borg on board but he insists that he’s fine, but decides to use the Borg to send a virus into the collective and wipe them out for good. However, while studying him, Geordi bonds with him, even naming him Hugh, and he begins to show signs of becoming an individual and understanding life beyond being a Borg. Even established Borg hater Guinan starts to think he’s a fairly decent dude. Can they really send him back to his demise? Or even worse, to return in a disappointing season six episode?

• • ‘Darmok’
  • ‘Ensign Ro’
  • ‘Silicon Avatar’
  • ‘Disaster’
  • ‘The Game’
  • ‘Unification’
  • ‘A Matter of Time’
  • ‘New Ground’
  • ‘Hero Worship’
  • ‘Violations’
  • ‘The Masterpiece Society’
  • ‘Conundrum’
  • ‘Power Play’
  • ‘Ethics’
  • ‘The Outcast’
  • ‘The First Duty’
  • ‘Cost of Living’
  • ‘The Perfect Mate’
  • ‘Imaginary Friend’

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