The crew of the Enterprise is put on trial by a mysterious force called ``Q'' for all the crimes of mankind. Captain Picard argues that Q should judge mankind as it is now, and not for what it was in the past. Q agrees and says that the forthcoming events at Farpoint station will provide a suitable test.
Romance, danger and chaos result when a mysterious contaminant renders the crew of the Enterprise intoxicated and the ship incapacitated in the path of fragments from an exploding star. Introduces our friend Wesley Crusher, who, true to form, nearly destroys the Enterprise!
Kidnapped by the King of an unfamiliar species called the Ligonians, who have a strong code of honour, valiant men and women who own all the land, Tasha Yar battles for her freedom and the welfare of a diseased Federation planet.
Held captive over an unknown planet, the away teams of the USS Enterprise and Ferengi starships must pass an important inquisition by a mysterious life form known as Portal, before they are allowed to continue their journeys through space.
When an experiment with the warp engines goes wrong, teenager Wesley Crusher and a mysterious alien called the Traveler are the crew's only hope for escape from a bizarre galaxy where thoughts become real.
Passing through a series of complex energy patterns, the Enterprise crew find themselves trying to solve the mystery surrounding the murder of Assistant Chief Engineer Singh and the altered personalities of Lt. Worf, Dr. Crusher and Captain Picard.
When Wesley Crusher is sentenced to death for innocently violating a foreign planet's laws, Captain Picard is forced to chose between negotiating for Wesley's life or adhering to the Federation's Prime Directive (which prohibits interfering with another civilization's way of life).
Unfortunately, he chooses not to let Wesley die!
Picard starts suffering a blinding series of headaches and acting strangely, when a Ferengi Damon called Bok uses a thought altering device, seeking revenge on Picard for his son's death over a decade earlier when Picard was in command of the USS Stargazer, threatens the life of the Captain and the safety of the Enterprise.
(Guest stars include Lee Arenberg as Damon Bok)
The Enterprise is once again challenged by the dangerous and powerful ``Q'' who offers Will Riker god-like powers in exchange for Riker's membership in the ``Q'' continuum.
Deanna Troi is caught between her feelings for Will Riker and her devotion to family customs when she faces a prearranged marriage. In the meantime, the crew have to deal with a ship carrying a deadly plague.
When the holodeck malfunctions, Captain Picard (playing a 20th century private detective called Dixon Hill) and two crew members become trapped in San Francisco, 1941, where they are held hostage by murderous gangsters.
While visiting Data's homeworld, where Data was discovered as the lone survivor of a decimated colony some 30 years ago, the crew discover Data's android brother Lore who formulates an evil masterplan involving a crystalline entity that could destroy the Enterprise.
While the away team struggle to save male fugitives from a Federation ship that crash landed on a planet run by women, the Enterprise is ravaged by a highly infectious virus.
After arriving at a Starbase for routine maintenance, the Enterprise is hijacked by a computer-dependant alien species known as the Binars. Picard and Riker find they are alone on the ship, but the ship is in the hands of the Binars. They discover that the aliens need the ship's computer to regenerate the computers on their home planet that are expected to be damaged by a asteriod passing through the system.
The Enterprise escorts an elderly Federation Admiral to a planet to negotiate the release of hostages, but the planet's governor wants to kill him in revenge for a previous hostage crisis.
Wesley and several children from the Enterprise are kidnapped by the ancient civilization of Aldea long thought to be mythical, which has become sterile and hopes to use the children to rebuild their race.
When a terraforming project hits problems the Enterprise crew discover a powerful microscopic life form which has declared war on humans. The lifeform takes over the Enterprise's lab and computers, and threatens to destroy the ship.
While Wesley endures the grueling Starfleet Academy entrance exam, Captain Picard faces an investigation into his competency as a commander by Admiral Quinn and his obnoxious sidekick Remmick of Starfleet's deeply unpopular Internal Affairs division.
Lt. Worf is torn between his loyalty to the Enterprise and his fierce Klingon heritage when two Klingon fugitives take over the ship.
Picard and Dr Crusher are trapped on a deserted planet. Beaming down to rescue them, Riker Lt Yar, and the rest of the away team fight for their lives against the computerized weapons system that killed all the inhabitants of the planet!
The Enterprise is caught in the middle when two alien races wage a bitter battle over cargo which one of them believes they need for survival.
A rescue mission turns to tragedy when Tasha Yar is killed by the evil slime-mold Ardros, and Deanna Troi is trapped inside a shuttle craft.
Captain Picard is unexpectedly reunited with his first love in the midst of an investigation into lethal time warp experiments.
Picard and Riker travel to Earth to investigate a conspiracy in the highest ranks of Starfleet command. They meet Admiral Quinn and Lt Cmdr Remmick (see Coming of Age) and soon suspect that an alien influence is at work.
While traveling to the Neutral Zone to investigate strange occurrences, the crew discovers a ship containing three frozen Americans from the 20th century. Then a Romulan cruiser de-cloaks in front of the Enterprise - the first time the Romulans have been seen for about 60 years!
In this episode we first see a planet bearing the marks of a Borg attack although they do not appear.