Jack's Rating:
The Borg are being led by Lore. Data falls under his control by being fed negative emotions.
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The Borg
Stardate: 47025.4
Air Date: 09/20/93
Director: Alexander Singer
Jack's Review
A worthy conclusion to the two-part season finale. Great performances overall and some terrific dialog between Alex Datcher and James Horan leading up to a great moment for Beverly in command.
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Worf and Troi reluctantly play host to two Lyraan ambassadors, while Picard crashes in a shuttle with another Lyraan. He is rescued by a human female who exhibits strange behavior.
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Stardate: Unknown
Air Date: 09/27/93
Director: Cliff Bole
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Geordi tries to rescue his mother's starship via a remotely controlled probe.
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Stardate: 47215.5
Air Date: 10/04/93
Director: Robert Wiemer
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The Enterprise crew investigate the apparent murder of Captain Picard during an archaeological trip. Riker is kidnapped by mercenaries and finds Picard working as part of their crew.
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Stardate: 47135.2
Air Date: 10/11/93
Director: Peter Lauritson
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Picard and Riker help mercenaries collect archaeological artifacts to prevent an ancient Vulcan weapon falling into the wrong hands.
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Stardate: 47160.1
Air Date: 10/18/93
Director: Alexander Singer
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Data experiences strange dreams, while the Enterprise has issues with its new Warp-core. But all is not as it seems.
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Stardate: 47225.7
Air Date: 10/25/93
Director: Patrick Stewart
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A psychic breakdown puts Lwaxana Troi in a coma, and Deanna works to save her life.
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Stardate: 47254.1
Air Date: 11/01/93
Director: Les Landau
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Reclusive aliens imprison Picard and Dr. Crusher on charges of espionage, and experimental implants linking their minds telepathically cause them to face their latent feelings for each other.
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Stardate: 47304.2
Air Date: 11/08/93
Director: Jonathan Frakes
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A pair of scientists show that warp drives are harming the fabric of space.
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The Ferengi
Stardate: 47310.2
Air Date: 11/15/93
Director: Robert Lederman
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Data encounters a woman claiming to be his "mother".
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Stardate: 47410.2
Air Date: 11/22/93
Director: Robert Scheerer
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Worf finds himself randomly shifting between alternate realities.
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Time Travel
Stardate: 47391.2
Air Date: 11/29/93
Director: Robert Wiemer
Jack's Review
Yet another of TNG's finest episodes. The inclusion of a possible relationship between Worf and Deanna is very fun as well.
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Riker's former Captain boards the Enterprise to retrieve the USS Pegasus. Picard investigates the circumstances of its loss and finds that there has been a cover-up.
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The Romulans
Stardate: 47457.1
Air Date: 01/10/94
Director: LeVar Burton
Jack's Review
One of the best TNG episodes without question. The plot elements are as deep as any Trek episode and Terry O'Quinn's performance as Admiral Pressman is just fantastic. However, we have yet another Starfleet admiral with a skewed moral compass. Perhaps Starfleet should rethink their flag officer training methods.
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Worf's human stepbrother violates the Prime Directive to save a doomed primitive race.
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The Holodeck
Stardate: 47423.9
Air Date: 01/17/94
Director: Alexander Singer
Jack's Review
I recall not liking this one much when it first aired. I mean, season 7 has its share of stinkers (Sub Rosa, Dark Page, Masks, Emergence, Journey's End, etc.) but after several viewings, I really like this one. Paul Sorvino is wonderful and the care and compassion shown to the people they save is really well done. The only bad thing is that Nikolai Rozhenko feels like a throw-away character. He should have been Worf's uncle because of the age disparity too.
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Dr. Crusher attends her grandmother's funeral, and takes on an unusual family tradition.
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Stardate: 47423.9
Air Date: 01/31/94
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Jack's Review
Oof. While the acting is the only thing that keeps this one afloat, the story just doesn't belong in Trek.
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Junior officers buck for promotion as one of them is assigned the dangerous task of helping a Cardassian spy.
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Stardate: 47566.7
Air Date: 02/07/94
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Jack's Review
Without question, one of the top ten episodes of TNG...Heck, top 25 in all of Trek, easily! A terrific look at some of the rank and filers aboard the Enterprise - bringing back Sito Jaxa from The First Duty. There was a plan to bring her back on DS9....I wish they had followed through with that.
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Data loses his memory after retrieving radioactive fragments on a planet's surface and endangers the primitive natives he encounters, while Deanna studies to become a bridge officer.
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Stardate: 47611.2
Air Date: 02/14/94
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Jack's Review
This is one of the best Data-centric episodes in the series. The interplay between Data and Ronnie Claire Edwards' Talur is just fantastic and the story is something that would have worked in TOS with Spock - with some modifications to the story, of course. The promotion of Troi to Commander is very fun but it feels a tad too late this deep into the last season. If they had done it a season or two prior it could have led to some interesting and fun episodes with her in command of the ship.
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The Enterprise finds an ancient library that recreates its civilization by taking possession of Data and transforming the ship.
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Stardate: 47615.2
Air Date: 02/21/94
Director: Robert Wiemer
Jack's Review
The story is absurd in the extreme. Easily one of the worst episodes of the series - Brent Spiner's acting prowess notwithstanding.
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Deanna investigates the suicide of a crewman and uncovers a murder that took place during construction of the Enterprise.
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Stardate: 47622.1
Air Date: 02/28/94
Director: Cliff Bole
Jack's Review
Two things never happened again after that. The Sisters never laid a finger on Andy again... and Bogs never walked again. They transferred him to a minimum security hospital upstate. To my knowledge, he lived out the rest of his days drinking his food through a straw.
I can't see Mark Rolston without thinking about Shawshank Redemption. Anyway....an interesting if off-putting episode.
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A routine medical treatment inadvertently creates a virus that begins to de-evolve the Enterprise crew while Picard and Data are on an away mission.
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Stardate: 47653.2
Air Date: 03/21/94
Director: Gates McFadden
Jack's Review
Just plain goofy fun. I know this one gets picked on a lot and it certainly is a filler episode....but it is just so much fun.
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Wesley considers his future, as the Enterprise is ordered to remove Native American colonists from a planet that is about to fall under Cardassian jurisdiction.
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Stardate: 47751.2
Air Date: 03/28/94
Director: Corey Allen
Jack's Review
Words cannot express the anger I feel while watching this episode. They ruined the character they created seven years prior on a preachy and formulaic episode.
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Worf attempts to convince his son Alexander to embrace his warrior heritage.
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The Klingons Time Travel
Stardate: 47779.4
Air Date: 04/25/94
Director: Jonathan West
Jack's Review
A terrific fun episode once again showcasing why James Sloyan is the king of Trek guest stars.
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DaiMon Bok returns to exact revenge on Picard, by trying to kill the son Picard never knew he had.
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Stardate: 47829.1
Air Date: 05/02/94
Director: Les Landau
Jack's Review
Not a bad episode but totally just another filler trying to get us to the end of the season.
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The Enterprise becomes an emergent intelligence.
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The Holodeck
Stardate: 47869.2
Air Date: 05/09/94
Director: Cliff Bole
Jack's Review
Terrific acting keeps this one from sinking to the bottom of the pond. It's just so strange. In honesty, the good writers had all moved on to DS9 by this point, so they can't all be "The Inner Light".
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Ensign Ro graduates from advanced tactical training, and is sent by Picard to lure Maquis terrorists into a trap.
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Stardate: 47941.7
Air Date: 05/16/94
Director: Patrick Stewart
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Picard finds himself alternating between three time periods thanks to Q, with a spacetime distortion that threatens to destroy humanity growing larger in the past, and smaller in the future.
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Time Travel The Q Entity
Stardate: 47988.1
Air Date: 05/23/94
Director: Winrich Kolbe