Episode:202
Where Silence Has Lease

Jack's Rating:

The Enterprise becomes trapped in a "hole in space", where the crew encounter strange spatial phenomena and crewless ships materialising in and out of existence. The crew suspect they are akin to lab rats.

Features:
Stardate: 42193.6
Air Date: 11/28/88
Director: Winrich Kolbe

Jack's Review
A terrific episode that shows off the quality of what this series would be capable of in the coming years. Plenty of thought-provoking dialogue with an interesting mystery. I would have loved to see Nagilum show up again in a later season.

Episode:215
Pen Pals

Jack's Rating:

Data befriends a child from a doomed planet, breaking the Prime Directive.

Features:
Stardate: 42695.3
Air Date: 05/01/89
Director: Winrich Kolbe

Jack's Review
This is actually a beautiful episode - Star Trek at its best. It also contains the only curse word in the series - even if it is spoken in French.

Episode:218
Up the Long Ladder

Jack's Rating:

Picard must find a way to bring two radically incompatible cultures together, lest both of them face extinction.

Features:
Stardate: 42823.2
Air Date: 05/22/89
Director: Winrich Kolbe

Jack's Review
A goofy episode for sure! It is, however, worth watching just for the scene in the screencap.

Episode:301
Evolution

Jack's Rating:

Nanites escape Wesley's lab and form a collective intelligence, threatening an astrophysicist's only chance at performing a stellar experiment.

Features:
Stardate: 43125.8
Air Date: 09/25/89
Director: Winrich Kolbe

Episode:305
The Bonding

Jack's Rating:

A mysterious entity seeks to comfort a boy who has lost his mother in an accident on its planet.

Features:
Stardate: 43198.7
Air Date: 10/23/89
Director: Winrich Kolbe

Episode:318
Allegiance

Jack's Rating:

Aliens kidnap Picard and replace him with a duplicate, who sends the Enterprise to a pulsar. Meanwhile, the real Picard and three other captives try to escape from their prison, but one of them turns out to be Picard's captor.

Features:
Stardate: 43714.1
Air Date: 03/26/90
Director: Winrich Kolbe

Episode:502
Darmok

Jack's Rating:

Picard must learn to communicate with an alien captain who speaks in metaphors before a dangerous beast kills them both.

Features:
Stardate: 45047.2
Air Date: 09/30/91
Director: Winrich Kolbe

Episode:513
The Masterpiece Society

Jack's Rating:

The Enterprise helps a far-flung eugenic human colony avoid destruction, but upsets its delicate balance by ending 200 years of isolation.

Features:
Stardate: 45470.1
Air Date: 02/10/92
Director: Winrich Kolbe

Episode:520
Cost of Living

Jack's Rating:

Deanna's mother, Lwaxana, arrives to marry a man she has never met. Worf has difficulty rearing Alexander, which is exacerbated when Lwaxana takes the boy under her wing.

Features: The Holodeck
Stardate: 45733.6
Air Date: 04/20/92
Director: Winrich Kolbe

Episode:603
Man of the People

Jack's Rating:

A psychic ambassador uses Deanna's mind to influence the outcome of his mission.

Features:
Stardate: 46071.6
Air Date: 10/05/92
Director: Winrich Kolbe

Episode:616
Birthright (Part I)

Jack's Rating:

Worf is told on Deep Space Nine his father is alive, and being held prisoner by the Romulans. Meanwhile an engineering experiment accidentally results in Data's first dream.

Features: The Klingons The Romulans
Stardate: 46578.4
Air Date: 02/22/93
Director: Winrich Kolbe

Episode:623
Rightful Heir

Jack's Rating:

Worf experiences a crisis of faith, and travels to a Klingon holy site where the mythic figure Kahless returns to lead the Klingon people.

Features: The Klingons
Stardate: 46852.2
Air Date: 05/17/93
Director: Winrich Kolbe

Episode:716
Thine Own Self

Jack's Rating:

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.

Features:
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 the him and science-lady 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.

Episode:725 & 726
All Good Things...

Jack's Rating:

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.

Features: Time Travel The Q Entity
Stardate: 47988.1
Air Date: 05/23/94
Director: Winrich Kolbe