The Next Generation season 1The first season on DVD? check here: The first season episode guideEncounter at Farpoint (1) / season 1 - episode 1
Producer: Robert Lewin
Director: Corey Allen
Writers: D.C. Fontana and Gene Roddenberry
Their first mission is to explore the mystery surrounding the creation of the Farpoint station located on planet Deneb IV. While trying to negotiate a friendly agreement for Starfleet to use this energy-powered base, Captain Picard and his crew also attempt to discover how the Bandi inhabitants of Deneb IV built the station.En route to Farpoint, Captain Picard and his crew first meet "Q." The mysterious and powerful being denounces the human race as barbarians and challenges the crew of the Enterprise to disprove his belief. If Picard and his crew are not persuasive in their arguments, they will be sentenced to death.
Encounter at Farpoint (2) / season 1 - episode 2
Producer: Robert Lewin
Director: Corey Allen
Writers: D.C. Fontana and Gene Roddenberry
At the trial, Q continues to denounce humans, while Picard defends his race and convinces Q that the upcoming mission at Farpoint will be the perfect opportunity to prove his point. Q accepts the Captain's proposal but gives him only 24 hours and a reminder that failing this test will mean death for the Enterprise crew.While docked at Farpoint, Picard is introduced to his new first officer, Commander Riker, and the rest of his crew. As they begin to investigate the station, they are startled by the seemingly magical qualities of the planet where one's wish becomes reality.
The Naked Now / season 1 - episode 3
Producer: Maurice Hurley
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: J. Michael Bingham
A sequel episode to "The Naked Time" episode of the old series. The
Enterprise rendezvouses with the science vessel U.S.S. Tsiolkovsky and find the entire crew dead. Unknowingly, they bring back to the Enterprise the strange infection that caused the crew of the science vessel to go crazy.The crew of the Enterprise discover that the cure found by the first Enterprise for this disease does not work due to a mutation in the virus.
Code of Honor / season 1 - episode 4
Producer: Maurice Hurley
Director: Russ Mayberry
Writers: Katharyn Powers and Michael Baron
The Enterprise travels to Ligon II to obtain a rare vaccine needed to avert
a plague on another planet. The Logonian leader kidnaps Tasha as part ofthe traditions of his planet. Eventually she is forced to fight a battle to the death with the wife of the leader in order to gain her freedom and the vaccine.
The Last Outpost / season 1 - episode 5
Producer: Maurice Hurley
Director: Richard Colla
Writer: Herbert Wright
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.
Where No One Has Gone Before / season 1 - episode 6
Producer: Maurice Hurley
Director: Rob Bowman
Writers: Diane Duane and Michael Reaves
An engineer and his alien assistant board the Enterprise to perform an
experiment that would increase warp engine output. During the experiment, something goes wrong and the Enterprise ends up in a place where thoughtsbecome real. The assistant from a race of "travelers" with the scientific capabilities far beyond ours who tour the universe seeking those with potential. The traveler confides to Picard that Wesley is one of those beings with potential and should be guided and helped to grow. It is as a result of these comments, plus the knowledge and help that Wesley providesin Engineering that prompts Picard to make Crusher an acting ensign.
Lonely Among Us / season 1 - episode 7
Producer: Maurice Hurley
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: D.C. Fontana
While on a mission to transport emissaries of two warring races to Parliament for negotiations, the Enterprise encounters a strange cloud consisting entirely of energy. As they pass, a bolt of energy strikes Worfand passes from crewman to crewman, killing one crewman and eventuallytaking over Picard's mind.
Justice / season 1 - episode 8
Producer: Maurice Hurley
Director: James L. Conway
Writer: Worley Thorne
When Wesley is sentenced to death for innocently violating a foreign planet's customs, 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.
The Battle / season 1 - episode 9
Producer: Maurice Hurley
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: Herbert Wright
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.
Hide and Q / season 1 - episode 10
Producer: Maurice Hurley
Director: Cliff Bole
Writers: C.J. Holland and Gene Roddenberry
Again, the control of the Enterprise is seized by the mysterious alien known as Q. This time, Q transports the entire bridge crew except Picard to a desolate planet and forces them to play a deadly game. The game's true purpose is to test Riker to see if he is worthy of receiving the power of the "Q."
Haven / season 1 - episode 11
Producer: Maurice Hurley
Director: Richard Compton
Writer: Tracy Torme
Counselor Troi receives a premature wedding present from her mother and the Miller family, who, in Troi's childhood, had promised their children to one another. Lwaxana Troi, the disoriented Millers, and their mysterious son Wyatt beam aboard, preparing for a wedding that is destined to be interrupted by a shipload of interstellar lepers approaching the planet Haven.
The Big Goodbye / season 1 - episode 12
Producer: Maurice Hurley
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan
Writer: Tracy Torme
In a pastiche of Philip Marlowe's "The Long Goodbye" and other detective films of the 40's, Picard enters the holodeck and the fictional world of the detective, Dixon Hill. Picard becomes the investigator involved in his latest case. Meanwhile, an alien probe shakes the ship and damages the holodeck controls accidentally turning the fantasy world into a deadly trap. This episode won a Peabody award.
Datalore / season 1 - episode 13
Producer: Maurice Hurley
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: Robert Lewin and Gene Roddenberry
The Enterprise travels to the Omicron Theta star system, where Data was discovered years, ago in order to investigate the disappearance of a colony. In a hidden cave, they find another robot, Data's twin brother Lore, and revive him. They discover, almost too late, that Lore is a megalomaniac and out to destroy the Enterprise.
Angel One / season 1 - episode 14
Producer: Maurice Hurley
Director: Michael Rhodes
Writer: Patrick Barry
The Enterprise travels to a planet controlled entirely by women in order to search for survivors from a Federation ship which disappeared in that sector seven years earlier. The away team is thwarted in their efforts by the female-run government. Meanwhile, a highly contagious virus plagues the Enterprise.
11001001 / season 1 - episode 15
Producer: Maurice Hurley
Director: Paul Lynch
Writers: Maurice Hurley and Robert Lewin
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.
Too Short a Season / season 1 - episode 16
Producer: Maurice Hurley
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: Michael Michaelian and D.C. Fontana
Admiral Mark Jameson, requested by Governor Karnas of the "beseiged" planet Mordan IV, is being transported to a planet he started a war on forty years ago. Picard finds that the elderly Admiral has overdosed on an illicit alien youth drug, anticipating that he will need to be youthful and vigorous to combat terrorists. But he doesn't expect the side effects of the substances, which only appear once Jameson has already gotten Picard and his away team into deep trouble.
When The Bough Breaks / season 1 - episode 17
Producer: Maurice Hurley
Director: Kim Manners
Writer: Hannah Louise Shearer
The Enterprise discovers the legendary planet of Aldea and the advanced civilization that lives there. The inhabitants have extraordinary technology including the ability to cloak their entire planet, but lack the capacity to have children. When the crew of the Enterprise refuse to trade some of the children from the ship for technology, the Aldeans kidnap Wesley and six other children from the ship.
Home Soil / season 1 - episode 18
Producer: Maurice Hurley
Director: Corey Allen
Writer: Robert Sabaroff
The Enterprise visits a terraforming station on Velara III where they encounter a new life form which, after being beamed up to the Enterprise for examination, attempts to take over the Enterprise.
Coming of Age / season 1 - episode 19
Producers: Robert Lewin and Herbert Wright
Director: Michael Vejar
Writer: Sandy Fries
The Enterprise travels to Relva 7 where Wesley takes his entrance exams toenter Starfleet Academy. Meanwhile, an old friend of Picard's, now an admiral, arrives with an aide from the Inspector General's office to investigate the ship and its crew on the pretext that something is wrong on the Enterprise.
Heart of Glory / season 1 - episode 20
Producer: Robert Lewin, Herbert Wright
Director: Rob Bowman
Writer: Maurice Hurley
In the Neutral Zone, the Enterprise finds a Talarian ship with threeKlingons aboard. The Klingons claim to be have been passengers on the ship but turn out to be dissidents, opposed to the Federation-Klingon peace. They attempt to get Worf to help them when a Klingon cruiser enters the area and demands the return of the criminals.
The Arsenal of Freedom / season 1 - episode 21
Producers: Robert Lewin and Herbert Wright
Director: Les Landau
Writers: Richard Manning and Hans Beimler
The Enterprise arrives at Minos, a planet once inhabited by weapons manufacturers who have been destroyed by their own creations.Automated salesmen and weapons display systems still function and the away team isforced to fight for their lives against weapons that keep getting more sophisticated and intelligent as time passes. Meanwhile, in orbit around the planet, Geordi in command of the Enterprise is forced to fight another weapons system with the capability to cloak itself.
Symbiosis / season 1 - episode 22
Producer: Robert Lewin
Director: Win Phelps
Writer: Robert Lewin, Richard Manning and Hans Beimler While investigating a sun with very strong magnetic-field fluctuations, the Enterpise intercepts a distress call and rescues a nearby freighter. Safely on board the Enterprise with their cargo, four of the inhabitants fight over ownership of the cargo - a very addictive narcotic.
Skin of Evil / season 1 - episode 23
Producers: Robert Lewin and Herbert Wright
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan
Writers: Joseph Stefan and Hannah Louise Shearer
A shuttle containing Troi and a pilot is returning from a conference when it crash-lands on Vagra II. When the Enterprise locates the shuttle interference prevents them from using their sensors or transporters to beam up the two occupants. The away team find an alien named Armus which appears like an oil slick but is able to assume humanoid shape at will. Armus blocks their path and prevents them from rescuing their comrades. During the encounter, Armus taunts the crew as they attempt to reach the shuttle.
We'll Always Have Paris / season 1 - episode 24
Producer: Robert Lewin
Director: Robert Becker
Writers: Deborah Dean Davis and Hannah Louise Shearer
The Enterprise encounters a time loop which leads them to a scientist performing lethal time warp experiments. To close a rift to another dimension accidentally opened by the experiments, the away team must shutdown the experiment by dropping a specific amount of antimatter into the rift at a specific time. The scientist's wife turns out to be one of Picard's old lovers whom Picard failed to meet at a rendezvous in Paris 22 years ago.
Conspiracy / season 1 - episode 25
Producer: Robert Lewin
Director: Cliff Bole
Writer: Tracy Torme
The Enterprise is diverted from a mission by a special transmission for Picard's eyes only. The message is from Keel, an old friend of Picard's who asks to meet him on a nearby mining planet. Picard beams down to findthe captains of several ships waiting there. Keel and the other captains,after ascertaining Picard is who they think he is, tells him about a suspected conspiracy within Starfleet citing a strange pattern of orders from Command as evidence. They urge him to be careful. After leaving theplanet, the Enterprise comes upon the debris of Keel's ship. Picard asksData to review the last few months of orders issued by Starfleet. Data reports that there has been an unusual amount of changing of people withinthe command areas of Starfleet. Picard orders the ship back to Earth wherethey discover several admirals, including Picard's friend Quinn have been infected by parasitic creatures.
The Neutral Zone / season 1 - episode 26
Producer: Robert Lewin
Director: James L. Conway
Writer: Maurice Hurley
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!
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