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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The Enterprise is exploring a nebula when it runs into a plot from an 80s children’s show.

Starfleet brat Clara has trouble making friends as her father moves around so much so she mostly plays with her imaginary friend Isabella. But when a glowy ball from the nebula comes on board, Isabella suddenly becomes real and makes Clara go to places she doesn’t want to go and starts harassing anyone who gets in her way. Troi’s hot chocolate gets horribly spilled, so she has some chocolate cake as comfort and contemplates her depth of character. Anyway, the nebula starts to damage the Enterprise and the creatures suck the energy from it because they see them as a threat or something, until Picard has a heartfelt conversation with the child and sorts out the misunderstanding.

• • ‘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’

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The Enterprise is transporting a Kriosian ambassador and his cargo to negotiate peace with their distant relatives, the Valtians. But before they can get there, they have to answer a distress call from a Ferengi shuttle, to remind viewers that they exist before Deep Space Nine premieres next season. Their accident was a ruse and they were really interested in the precious cargo – a woman! It is revealed Kamala is a metamorph who empathically senses what men around her want and becomes their perfect partner. She’s been promised to the Valtian ambassador and her personality will become fixed as she matures. Following an accident, the ambassador is seriously injured leaving Picard to carry out negotiations but he must work closely with Kamala to learn the traditions and rituals vital to the negotiation, but can he resist her charms? If only Troi was around to help with all this empath stuff.

• • ‘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’

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A wedding episode? A wedding episode featuring Lwaxana Troi? And Worf’s son Alexander? Stop Star Trek, you are spoiling us. If they go to the holodeck and meet some out of work circus performers, then this might be the best episode ever. There’s also a B plot which seems like it was leftover from season three of The Original Series which sees some weird space parasite turns computer circuits to goo. Then it all ends with Worf making a joke in the bath. Somewhere, Captain Kirk and Doctor McCoy are laughing while Spock raises an eyebrow,

• • ‘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’

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The Enterprise heads to Earth so Picard can deliver the commencement address to Starfleet Academy, but before they arrive, they receive news that Wesley has been involved in an accident during flight training which means we get to have one of those trial episodes Star Trek does so well. While Wesley is injured, his friend Joshua Albert is killed. During the enquiry, the visual evidence doesn’t stack up against Nova Squadron’s testimony with their leader Nick Locarno claiming it was all the fault of their dead teammate. But after consulting his old mentor, Boothby, Picard works out that they were trying to perform a dangerous and banned stunt. Picard tells Wesley what he knows and threatens to submit the evidence if he won’t own up. But will Wesley do the right thing in the end?

• • ‘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’

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So what is it? ‘Cause and Effect’ is an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation all about a time loop. A time loop? Yes, a time loop. It is perhaps, the greatest time loop episode of all time with the Enterprise trapped in a cycle which sees the ship being destroyed after a collision, and no one even gets the chance to exchange insurance details. But everyone is getting a bit of a sense of deja vu, including Beverly who hears the death screams of the whole crew as she downs her evening liquer. Can Data use a weird time loop messaging service to save the day? Or will we never get to that great cameo? Find out all that and more in First Contact.

• • ‘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’

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