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25 episodes

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 1

First aired Sep 28, 1987Season 1

Picking up decades after the original Star Trek series, season one begins the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.

Episodes

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Episode 1

Encounter at Farpoint

6.8
Sep 28, 198791 min102 votes

Stardate: 41153.7. The new commander of the recently built U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC1701-D), Captain Jean-Luc Picard takes the crew on their first mission to discover the secret of Farpoint Station. During their journey, they encounter an omnipotent being known as Q. Q accuses humanity of barbarism, and places humanity on trial. Jean-Luc must prove otherwise or the human race will be annihilated.

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Episode 2

The Naked Now

6.5
Oct 5, 198746 min80 votes

Stardate: 41209.2. The crew of the Enterprise are infected with a virus contracted by the away team while they were investigating the mysterious deaths of the entire crew of the Starship Tsilkovsky.

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Episode 3

Code of Honor

5.2
Oct 12, 198746 min76 votes

Stardate: 41235.25. Tasha Yar must fight for her life and a vaccine to save a race of people when she is kidnapped and forced to battle with her abductor's wife.

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Episode 4

The Last Outpost

6.2
Oct 19, 198746 min71 votes

Stardate: 41386.4. A powerful entity disables the Enterprise and a Ferengi ship. Their only means of escape is if they can correctly answer the riddles he asks.

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Episode 5

Where No One Has Gone Before

7.3
Oct 26, 198746 min75 votes

Stardate: 41263.1. The Enterprise is flung across space into a distant galaxy billions of light years away when a propulsion engineer and his mysterious companion, attempt to re-design the ship's engine systems.

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Episode 6

Lonely Among Us

6.1
Nov 2, 198746 min68 votes

Stardate: 41249.3. Picard's mind is taken over by an energy field that the Enterprise passes through.

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Episode 7

Justice

5.9
Nov 9, 198746 min68 votes

Stardate: 41255.6. Picard is forced to choose between friendship and the Prime Directive when Wesley Crusher is sentenced to death for accidentally breaking the law on Rubicon III.

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Episode 8

The Battle

6.5
Nov 16, 198746 min65 votes

Stardate: 41723.9. The Ferengi hand over an old ship which Picard once captained, the U.S.S. Stargazer. The Ferengi have installed a mind altering device that alters Picard's mind to make him think that he is reliving a past battle, and the target is the Enterprise.

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Episode 9

Hide and Q

6.9
Nov 23, 198746 min65 votes

Stardate: 41590.5. Q places the senior crew of the Enterprise in a war game that pits them against a boar-faced, Napoleonic enemy.

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Episode 10

Haven

6.1
Nov 30, 198746 min65 votes

Stardate: 41294.5. The mother of Deanna Troi, Lwaxana, pays a surprise visit to the Enterprise and announces the prearranged marriage of Deanna to the son of her mother's late husband's best friend.

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Episode 11

The Big Goodbye

6.8
Jan 11, 198846 min69 votes

Stardate: 41997.7. Picard, Dr. Crusher and Data are placed in great danger when the holodeck malfunctions while they are running a Dixon Hill program, which pits them against 1940's mobsters.

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Episode 12

Datalore

7.3
Jan 18, 198846 min70 votes

Stardate: 41242.4. While exploring his homeworld, the crew of the Enterprise find android parts that are identical to Data's. When assembled, an 'evil' twin of Data named Lore is revived.

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Episode 13

Angel One

5.8
Jan 25, 198846 min65 votes

Stardate: 41636.9. The Enterprise discovers the male crew of a crashed Federation freighter are hiding as fugitives on the planet Angel One, which is dominated and ruled by women.

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Episode 14

11001001

7.2
Feb 1, 198846 min68 votes

Stardate: 41365.9. While undergoing repairs, the Bynar Engineers steal the Enterprise to save their planet from destruction.

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Episode 15

Too Short a Season

6.4
Feb 8, 198846 min65 votes

Stardate: 41309.5. The aging and terminally ill Starfleet Admiral Mark Jameson, who is negotiating the release of hostages, suddenly begins growing younger through an unexplained phenomenon.

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Episode 16

When the Bough Breaks

6.3
Feb 15, 198846 min64 votes

Stardate: 41509.1. The children of the Enterprise, including Wesley Crusher, are abducted by a race of sterile people who are unable to have children of their own.

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Episode 17

Home Soil

6.8
Feb 22, 198846 min62 votes

Stardate: 41463.9. The members of an away team investigating the death of an engineer encounter vengeful microscopic life forms.

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Episode 18

Coming of Age

6.8
Mar 14, 198846 min66 votes

Stardate: 41416.2. While Wesley takes the entrance exam to Starfleet Academy, the Enterprise is investigated by the Inspector General's office and Picard's competency is questioned.

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Episode 19

Heart of Glory

7.0
Mar 21, 198846 min64 votes

Stardate: 41503.7. Two Klingons, rescued by the Enterprise, try to take over the ship.

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Episode 20

The Arsenal of Freedom

6.9
Apr 11, 198846 min69 votes

Stardate: 41798.2. The crew encounters bizarre phenomena while searching for the missing U.S.S. Drake.

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Episode 21

Symbiosis

6.8
Apr 18, 198846 min66 votes

Stardate: Unknown. Picard attempts to break an ancient co-dependency between two species on one planet without violating the Prime Directive.

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Episode 22

Skin of Evil

6.6
Apr 25, 198846 min68 votes

Stardate: 41601.3. When Troi's shuttle crashes on an alien planet, a new being is discovered: an entity that thrives on the suffering of others.

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Episode 23

We'll Always Have Paris

6.4
May 2, 198846 min60 votes

Stardate: 41697.9. Picard meets an old flame, whose husband has created a haywire dimensional experiment.

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Episode 24

Conspiracy

7.4
May 9, 198846 min71 votes

Stardate: 41775.5. The strange behavior of high-ranking officers leads Picard to uncover a twisted alien conspiracy within Starfleet.

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Episode 25

The Neutral Zone

7.2
May 16, 198846 min69 votes

Stardate: 41986.0. A derelict satellite is found with cryonically frozen humans aboard as the USS Enterprise is sent to investigate the destruction of outposts near Romulan space.