Showing posts with label Star Trek: The Next Generation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Star Trek: The Next Generation. Show all posts

Thursday, August 27, 2026

Star Trek: The Next Generation 7.20

Journey's End

A peace treaty has been finalized between the Federation and the Cardassians. A small colony of Native Americans settled on Dorvan V, which according to the treaty is now part of Cardassian space. Captain Picard receives orders from Admiral Nechayev to get the colonists out of there, whether they like it or not.

Wesley gets some time off from Starfleet Academy and visits his mother and the Enterprise. Something weighs on him emotionally. He snaps at people whom he considers to be friends. 

Friday, July 31, 2026

Star Trek: The Next Generation 5.21

The Perfect Mate

The Enterprise transports Ambassador Briam of Krios to a ceremony between the Valtese and the Briosians. Two Ferengi are taken on board during the trip when their ship reaches a critical state. The Ferengi interfere with a gift from the Kriosians to the Valtese. The gift was Kamala, an empathic metamorph who was in stasis until one of the Ferengi interfered with the stasis field.

Kamala is to be the mate of Alrik of Valt. Her physiognomy makes her extremely attractive to men with whom she comes in contact. Ambassador Briam insists that she stay in her quarters. Captain Picard, prodded by Doctor Crusher, allows her out of her quarters but then has to rescind that order when she proves to be too distracting for any man with whom she comes in contact.

Thursday, June 25, 2026

Star Trek: The Next Generation 4.22

Half a Life

Lwaxana Troi, Counselor Deanna Troi's mother, is aboard the Enterprise when Timicin, a scientist from Kaelon II boards the starship. She immediately attaches herself to him and a bond develops between them. Timicin conducts tests while aboard the Enterprise in the hope that they will result in a viable way to save the star around which Kaelon II orbits. The tests prove unsuccessful.

Timicin is approaching 60 years of age. He is duty bound to return home and experience Resolution, ritual death. All people on Kaelon II regardless of their condition at age 60 are compelled to experience Resolution. Timicin accepts the practice but Lwaxana does not. She argues valiantly against his intent to return home to experience Resolution.

Something Lwaxana says finally says gets through to Timicin and he briefly decides to request asylum aboard the Enterprise. His people apply different kinds of pressure and eventually Timicin decides that he will return home for Resolution.

Saturday, May 23, 2026

Star Trek: The Next Generation 1.08

The Battle

Captain Picard starts to experience headaches just before an encounter with a Ferengi vessel. Dr. Ceusher checks him out but can't figure out what is wrong with him.

DaiMon Bok plus his first and second officers beam over to the bridge of the Enterprise. Bok explains that they have something for Picard, the USS Stargazer, his old ship. The ship was believed lost after a battle nine years earlier in which the Stargazer blew up a Ferengi ship that opened fire on it. The Ferengi want Picard to accept it as a gift and ask for nothing in return.

Saturday, May 9, 2026

Star Trek: The Next Generation 5.17

The Outcast

The crew of the Enterprise assists the J'Naii in locating a shuttlecraft that seems to have vanished. Commander Riker works closely with Soren a J'Naii scientist. The J'Naii are an androgynous, humanoid race. Soren has lots of questions for Riker about human sexuality, while they are working on locating the missing shuttlecraft. They discover that it is trapped within a null space. Together, in one of the Enterprise's shuttlecraft, Riker and Soren chart what can be perceived of the dimensions of the null space.

Thursday, April 30, 2026

Star Trek: The Next Generation 2.20

The Emissary

The Enterprise is sent to intercept the T'Ong, a Klingon vessel whose crew is expected to come out of deep sleep within a matter of days. The crew of the T'Ong went to sleep while the Klingon Empire was still at war with the Federation. A special emissary is sent to help the crew of the Enterprise deal with the situation. Her name is K'Ehleyr. She is half human and half Klingon. She and Worf have a history and he is not happy to see her again.

Captain Picard assigns Worf to work with K'Ehleyr. He objects to the assignment but quickly rescinds his objection after it becomes clear that his objection to working with her is purely personal. Worf works with K'Ehleyr but they fail to agree on the best course of action. She returns to her quarters and, frustrated with how things are going with Worf, smashes a glass top table. Counselor Troi recommends a workout in the Holodeck.

Tuesday, April 21, 2026

Star Trek: The Next Generation 3.24

Ménage à Troi

Commander Riker and Counselor Troi and her mother are abducted by Ferengi captain Daimon Tog. Lwaxana Troi finds Tog repulsive but he is infatuated with her and her telepathic abilities which he hopes to use to make money. She has no interest in changing her mind but in the interest of getting herself, her daughter, and Commander Riker away from the Ferengi ship on which they are being held against their will, Lwaxana feigns interest in Tog.

Wednesday, April 8, 2026

Star Trek: The Next Generation 2.17

Samaritan Snare

Wesley Crusher and Captain Picard travel together to Starbase 515 in a shuttlecraft. Wesley is going to take Starfleet exams. Captain Picard is going because he needs an operation on his heart. Doctor Pulaski offers to perform the operation aboard the Enterprise but Captain Picard would rather not have everyone aboard the ship learn of his cardiac condition.

The Enterprise gets a distress calls, while Wesley and the Captain are gone, from a Pakled ship. Geordi figures that he can get the Pakled ship up and running in no time at all. Commander Riker gives the go ahead so Geordi beams over and gets to work.

Tuesday, March 31, 2026

Star Trek: The Next Generation 1.04

The Last Outpost

The Enterprise pursues a Ferengi ship whose crew has been accused of stealing a piece of technology from Gamma Tauri IV. The Ferengi ship fires on the Enterprise. The Enterprise is unable to return fire but the Ferengi stop shooting at them. Something immobilizes most of the Enterprises computer systems. Captain Picard is ready to surrender to the Ferengi when it becomes clear that the Ferengi are suffering from similar problem.

Wednesday, January 7, 2026

Star Trek: The Next Generation 7.01

Descent - Part Two

Lore and Data, but mostly Lore, explain in vague terms how things have changed. They also reiterate their intent to wipe out the Federation. 

The Enterprise, under the command of Doctor Crusher, starts beaming up away teams. They get most of the crew back aboard when the Borg ship attacks. The Enterprise returns fire and starts to leave the area and head back to Federation space. Worf and Riker remain behind on the surface of the planet.

Doctor Crusher plans with her crew to see how they can covertly return to the planet.

Tuesday, December 30, 2025

Star Trek: The Next Generation 6.26

Descent

Data rushes from a game of poker with Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawkings on the Holodeck to the bridge after he receives a summons. Commander Riker leads an away team that includes Data and Worf down to Ohniaka III. Everyone there seems to be dead One of the killers, a Borg, is found behind a locked door. 

A fight breaks out between Riker’s team and the Borg. A few more Borg quickly join the one that Data found. Most of the Borg are killed thanks in large part to Data who gets angry in the midst of the fight. The last remaining Borg transports all the neutralized Borg and himself off the planet and back to their ship. The Borg ship evades the Enterprise and quickly departs the star system.

Wednesday, December 24, 2025

Star Trek: The Next Generation 6.15

Tapestry

Captain Picard dies and is welcomed into the afterlife by Q. Picard rejects the idea that he is dead. Q explains that it was Picard’s artificial heart that was to blame for his death.

Q gives Picard a chance at redemption. He takes him back to when he was an ensign, two days before he got into the fight in which he was so badly injured that he had to have his heart replaced with an artificial one. If Picard can avoid the fight then Q will restore him to life, otherwise he will be doomed to spend eternity with Q.

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Star Trek: The Next Generation 4.02

Family

The Enterprise remains in orbit around Earth while it undergoes repairs. Captain Picard prepares for a trip to his home village. Worf learns that his adoptive parents will be visiting him aboard the Enterprise. 

Worf’s parents beam aboard the Enterprise and waste no time in embarrassing him. Jean-Luc meets his nephew Rene and sister-in-law Marie for the first time. His brother Robert isn’t as welcoming as his wife and son are.

Worf takes his parents to Engineering where Geordi gives them a tour. They embarrass him by telling stories about what he was like as a child. Old arguments emerge at dinner between Jean-Luc and Robert.

Friday, November 21, 2025

Star Trek: The Next Generation 4.01

The Best of Both Worlds, Part II

The Enterprise tries using the weapon that Geordi developed but it proves to be useless. Locutus explains that the Borg now have all the knowledge that Picard had.

The senior bridge staff have a conference call with Admiral Hansen. Riker is given a field promotion to the rank of captain and given command of the Enterprise. Repairs begins right away on the Enterprise. The Federation plans to make a stand near Wolf 359.

Wednesday, November 19, 2025

Star Trek: The Next Generation 2.19

Manhunt

The Enterprise takes on board two members of the Antedian delegation who (despite being in a state of hibernation) are on their way to the peace conference on Pacifica. Another vessel hails the Enterprise as it is getting ready to leave for Pacifica. It has another passenger for them, Ambassador Lwaxana Troi.

Captain Picard begrudgingly welcomes Ambassador Troi aboard the Enterprise. She invites him to dinner. He thinks that all of the senior bridge crew will be in attendance but when he gets there he finds out that he is the only guest.

Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Star Trek: The Next Generation 6.12

Ship in a Bottle

Reginald Barkley is trying to repair the Holodeck when he encounters Professor Moriarty. Barkley tells Data and Geordie about what happened. Meanwhile, the Enterprise arrives in the Detrian system to observe the collusion of two planets and the creation of a new star.  

Together, with Captain Picard, Data and Reg return to the Holodeck. Picard tries to explain to Moriarty that he can’t leave the Holodeck but Moriarty insists that he must. Moriarty walks out of the Holodeck, something he should not be able to do.

Wednesday, November 5, 2025

Star Trek:The Next Generation 2.21

Peak Performance

Starfleet sends the Enterprise to the Braslota system where it will be tested in battle simulations devised by Kolrami, the Zakdorn master strategist. 

Picard selects Riker to command the Hathaway, the opposing vessel. Riker selects La Forge, Worf, and Wesley to be part of his team aboard the Hathaway. Riker challenges Kolrami to a game of Stratagema before the battle simulation begins. Kolrami beats Riker fairly quickly. 

Riker and the 40-person crew he’s selected beam aboard the Hathaway. They have 48 hours to get it ready for the simulated battle with the Enterprise. Wesley beams back aboard the Enterprise briefly to shutdown a science experiment that he forgot to shut down. His trip back to the Enterprise is a ploy which he manages to conceal from everyone, until he is back aboard the Hathaway. 

Sunday, October 26, 2025

Star Trek: The Next Generation 3.26

The Best of Both Worlds

The Enterprise arrives at Jouret IV after receiving a distress call from the colony located on the planet. Commander Riker beams down with Lieutenant Commander La Forge, Lieutenant Commander Data, and Lieutenant Worf only to discover that the Starfleet colony is gone.

Lieutenant Commander Shelby, an expert in the Borg, joins the investigation into what happened. She settles in on the Enterprise and takes part in a poker game hosted by Commander Riker. The next day she gets on Riker’s nerves when she and Data beam down to Jouret IV without telling Riker. She and Data find evidence that confirms that the Borg have been on Jouret IV.

Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Star Trek: The Next Generation 6.06

True Q

The Enterprise is picking up supplies at Starbase 112 when Amanda Rogers, the Enterprise’s newest intern, boards joins the crew. They are headed for Tagra IV, a planet with serious environmental issues.

Amanda gets to know the Enterprise as she interacts with Dr. Crusher, Commander Riker, Lieutenant Commander La Forge, and Lieutenant Commander Data. Without anyone knowing it she saves Riker from injury by preventing a large container from falling on him. The ship’s engines go critical while Amanda is visiting Engineering. She does something that resets the engine back to normal but this time Geordi and Data witness what she does.

Friday, October 3, 2025

Star Trek: The Next Generation 1.25

The Neutral Zone

Data and Worf investigate an old spaceship from 20th century Earth while Captain Picard attends a meeting on Starbase 718.  Data and Worf find three humans in suspended animation on the spaceship. They bring them back to the Enterprise where Dr. Crusher examines them and then revives them. She cures them of medical problems before reviving them.