The Next Generation season 7The seventh season on DVD? check: The seventh season episode guideDescent (2) / season 7 - episode 1 Producers: Ronald D. Moore, Peter Lauritson Writer: Rene Echevarria Director: Alexander Singer In this conclusion to the cliffhanger finale of the sixth season, Troi, Picard, and Geordi are captured by the Borg and Data's brother Lore who is the leader of this group of renegade Borg. Lore plans, with Data's help to create a new race of beings to become masters of the universe. Meanwhile, Riker, Worf and most of the crew of the Enterprise follow Picard down to the planet to try and locate the missing members of the away team leaving Dr. Crusher in command of the Enterprise.
Liasons / season 7 - episode 2 Producers: Ronald D. Moore, Peter Lauritson Teleplay: Jeanne Carrigan Fauci, Lisa Rich Story: Roger Eschbacher, Jaq Greenspon Director: Cliff Bole The Enterprise hosts Iyaaran ambassadors in their first contact with the Federation. Troi is assigned to host LoQuell who seems to take pleasure in lots of different things, including dessert. Originally, Riker was supposed to chaperone Byleth but the ambassador insists on Worf being his escort instead and, throughout their visit, Byleth orders the frustrated Klingon around seemingly intent on provoking the warrior.
Interface / season 7 - episode 3 Producers: Ronald D. Moore, Peter Lauritson Writer: Joe Menosky Director: Robert Wiemer The Enterprise is sent on a rescue mission to assist the scientific ship Raman which was investigating a gas giant. The crew uses a new technique of integrating a human nervous system with a probe to investigate in hazardous environments. Because of Geordi's implants, he is the best candidate for using the new device. While investigating on board the Raman, Geordi believes he sees his mother whose ship was lost 300 light years away.
Gambit (1) / season 7 - episode 4 Producers: Ronald D. Moore, Peter Lauritson Teleplay: Naren Shankar Story: Christopher Hatton, Naren Shankar Director: Peter Lauritson The crew of the Enterprise search for their missing captain who was apparently killed in a bar on some remote planet. While investigating the captain's disappearance, the Enterprise encounters mercenaries who are stealing artifacts from archaeological digs. The mercenaries capture Riker leaving Data in command of the Enterprise now in pursuit of their missing comrade.
Gambit (2) / season 7 - episode 5 Producers: Ronald D. Moore, Peter Lauritson Teleplay: Ronald D. Moore Story: Naren Shankar Director: Alexander Singer In the conclusion to the story line started in the previous episode, Picard and Riker, having become members of the mercenary crew, attempt to find out what artifact the mercenaries are searching for and keep them from destroying the Enterprise in the process.
Phantasms / season 7 - episode 6 Producers: Ronald D. Moore, Peter Lauritson Writer: Brannon Braga Director: Patrick Stewart Data begins experiencing problems with his dream program which first leads to strange nightmares, then to hallucinations and finally to attacking Troi.
Dark Page / season 7 - episode 7 Producers: Ronald D. Moore, Peter Lauritson Writer: Hilary J. Bader Director: Les Landau Lwaxana Troi returns to the Enterprise as a language tutor for a delegation from a telepathic species known as the Cairn. However, she suffers a breakdown and Troi must enter her mother's mind to save her life.
Attached / season 7 - episode 8 Producers: Ronald D. Moore, Peter Lauritson Writer: Nicholas Sagan Director: Jonathan Frakes The Enterprise is sent to KesPrit, a world divided into two factions - the Kes and the Prit. The Kes have applied to enter the Federation but the Prit are xenophobic. Dr. Crusher and Captain Picard beam down to open discussion with the Kes but are kidnapped by the Prit and find themselves able to read each other's minds by means of a surgical implant.
Force of Nature / season 7 - episode 9 Producers: Ronald D. Moore, Peter Lauritson Writer: Naren Shankar Director: Robert Lederman While searching for a missing vessel in the Hekarran Corridor, the Enterprise is boarded by two scientists who claim that warp drive is destroying their planet.
Inheritance / season 7 - episode 10 Producers: Ronald D. Moore, Peter Lauritson Teleplay: Dan Koeppel, Rene Echevarria Story: Dan Koeppel Director: Robert Scheerer Data encounters a woman who claims to be Noonian Soong's wife, and Data's mother.
Parallels / season 7 - episode 11 Producers: Ronald D. Moore, Peter Lauritson Writer: Brannon Braga Director: Robert Wiemer Worf returns to the Enterprise from a Klingon competition only to find that reality is changing around him and he's the only one who realizes it.
The Pegasus / season 7 - episode 12 Producers: Ronald D. Moore, Peter Lauritson Writer: Ronald D. Moore Director: LeVar Burton Riker's first commander, now an admiral, joins the Enterprise for a search mission to find the Pegasus. The Pegasus was the ship commanded by Adm. Pressman on which the crew mutineed shortly before Pressman, aided by a young Ensign Riker and some others, escaped. Their mission now is to find the ship, and the secret it carries, before the Romulans find it or the secret that Adm. Pressman has hidden onboard.
Homeward / season 7 - episode 13 Producers: Ronald D. Moore, Peter Lauritson Teleplay: Naren Shankar Story: Spike Steingasser Based on Material by: William N. Stape Director: Alexander Singer The inhabitants of Baraal II, a non-technological society are being studied by a Federation research team led by Worf's adoptive brother, Nicholai Roshenko, when the planet undergoes severe storms that will destroy life on the planet. The Enterprise is sent to rescue the research team but find that Nicholai has violated the Prime Directive in an attempt to save the inhabitants. Picard and crew must find a way to relocate them without further breaking the Prime Directive.
Sub Rosa / season 7 - episode 14 Producer: Ronald D. Moore Teleplay: Brannon Braga Story: Jeri Taylor Based on Material by: Jeanna F. Gallo Director: Jonathan Frakes Dr. Crusher's grandmother dies and at the funeral, she spots a handsome young man who was apparently her grandmother's lover...and a ghost.
Lower Decks / season 7 - episode 15 Producer: Ronald D. Moore Teleplay: Rene Echevarria Story: Ronald Wilkerson, Jean Louise Matthias Director: Gabrielle Beaumont A unique look at how the Enterprise crew trains, rates and promotes Ensigns on board ship. And how the ensigns deal with their situation, no matter how tough their commanding officers' demands are.
Thine Own Self / season 7 - episode 16 Producer: Ronald D. Moore Teleplay: Ronald D. Moore Story: Christopher Hatton Director: Winrich Kolbe Data is sent to a technology poor planet to recover some radioactive material that fell onto the planet. Although he was not supposed to encounter any of the natives (and thereby not violate the Prime Directive) he wanders into the nearest village suffering from amnesia. Meanwhile, Deanna Troi decides she wants to take the necessary tests to achieve promotion to command level.
Masks / season 7 - episode 17 Producer: Ronald D. Moore Writer: Joe Menosky Director: Robert Wiemer The Enterprise finds a data archive from a long-dead culture inside a comet. While probing the comet, the Enterprise is assaulted by a sensor echo and the ship begins slowly transforming into an alien city. Meanwhile Data becomes inflicted with multiple personalities - apparently entities from the ancient civilization.
Eye of the Beholder / season 7 - episode 18 Producer: Ronald D. Moore Teleplay: Rene Echevarria Story: Brannon Braga Director: Cliff Bole Lt. Kwan's suicide on board the Enterprise sparks some interesting results when Troi and Worf begin to investigate.
Genesis / season 7 - episode 19 Producer: Ronald D. Moore Teleplay: Brannon Braga Director: Gates McFadden In one of the most contrived and all around worst of the episodes of its long run, the crew of the Enterprise, except for Picard and Data, devolve into primitive creatures due to an injection Dr. Crusher gives Lt. Barclay.
Journey's End / season 7 - episode 20 Producer: Ronald D. Moore Writer: Ronald D. Moore Based on Material by: Shawn Piller and Anatonia Napoli Director: Corey Allen Wesley Crusher, about to graduate from the academy, comes for a short vacation to the Enterprise. He is moody and obviously troubled and unhappy with life at the Academy and in Starfleet. Meanwhile, a peace treaty and new border alignment with the Cardassians has left several Federation colonies inside Cardassian territory and the Enterprise is given the task of relocating a colony of Native Americans who don't want to leave their new homeland.
Firstborn / season 7 - episode 21 Producer: Ronald D. Moore Teleplay: Rene Echevarria Story: Mark Kalbfeld Director: Jonathan West Worf wants his son Alexander to become a Klingon warrior but Alexander doesn't want to be a warrier. Worf takes him to see a Klingon festival so he will understand what it means to be a warrior. There, Worf finds an old friend of the family who, for some reason, is determined to make Alexander a warrior.
Bloodlines / season 7 - episode 22 Producer: Ronald D. Moore Writer: Nicholas Sagan Director: Les Landau Picard's old enemy Bok returns seeking revenge on Picard for killing his son when Picard was in command of the Stargazer. Bok's plan is to kill Picard's son Jason - a son Picard never knew he had until now.
Emergence / season 7 - episode 23 Producer: Ronald D. Moore Teleplay: Joe Menosky Story: Brannon Braga Director: Cliff Bole The Enterprise begins behaving strangely and the crew finds unusual wiring among the usual circuitry. The only clue to what's happening and how to save the ship is a train full of passengers on the holodeck.
Pre-emptive Strike / season 7 - episode 24 Producer: Ronald D. Moore Teleplay: Rene Echevarria Story: Naren Shankar Director: Patrick Stewart Ro, now promoted to Lt. returns to the Enterprise after extensive training at Starfleet. She is asked to infiltrate the Maquis and try to stop the war that they are trying to start with the Cardassians in the newly created neutral zone.
All Good Things... (1) / season 7 - episode 25 Producer: Ronald D. Moore Writers: Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga Director: Winrich Kolbe On the planet Earth, the crucial moment in which life is sparked in primeval chemicals fails to occur. The planet remains uninhabited and the human race never comes into existence. A vaguely disoriented Captain Jean-Luc Picard arrives aboard the starship Enterprise to take command, shortly after which he suddenly orders a red alert.
All Good Things... (2) / season 7 - episode 26 Producer: Ronald D. Moore Writers: Ronald D. Moore, Brannon Braga Director: Winrich Kolbe A retired Jean-Luc Picard, suffering from a degenerative neurological disorder, has settled in France to tend to the family vineyards. Geordi, now a writer, visits Picard, who complains of unsettling images from nearly three decades ago. In the course of tracking down the cause of Picard's visions, nearly all of his old crewmates are recruited in the quest, made difficult by strained relations between the Federation and the Klingon Empire, as well as those among the crew.
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