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Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994)

Episode:701
"Descent" (Part 2)

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The Borg are being led by Lore. Data falls under his control by being fed negative emotions.

Features: The Borg
Stardate: 47025.4
Air Date: 09/20/93
Director: Alexander Singer

Episode:702
"Liaisons"

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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

Episode:703
"Interface"

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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

Episode:704
"Gambit" (Part 1)

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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

Episode:705
"Gambit" (Part 2)

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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

Episode:706
"Phantasms"

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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

Episode:707
"Dark Page"

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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

Episode:708
"Attached"

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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

Episode:709
"Force of Nature"

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A pair of scientists show that warp drives are harming the fabric of space.

Features: The Ferengi
Stardate: 47310.2
Air Date: 11/15/93
Director: Robert Lederman

Episode:710
"Inheritance"

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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

Episode:711
"Parallels"

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Worf finds himself randomly shifting between alternate realities.

Features: Time Travel
Stardate: 47391.2
Air Date: 11/29/93
Director: Robert Wiemer

Episode:712
"The Pegasus"

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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.

Features: The Romulans
Stardate: 47457.1
Air Date: 01/10/94
Director: LeVar Burton

Episode:713
"Homeward"

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Worf's human stepbrother violates the Prime Directive to save a doomed primitive race.

Features: The Holodeck
Stardate: 47423.9
Air Date: 01/17/94
Director: Alexander Singer

Episode:714
"Sub Rosa"

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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

Episode:715
"Lower Decks"

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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

Episode:716
"Thine Own Self"

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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

Episode:717
"Masks"

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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

Episode:718
"Eye of the Beholder"

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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

Episode:719
"Genesis"

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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

Episode:720
"Journey's End"

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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

Episode:721
"Firstborn"

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Worf attempts to convince his son Alexander to embrace his warrior heritage.

Features: The Klingons Time Travel
Stardate: 47779.4
Air Date: 04/25/94
Director: Jonathan West

Episode:722
"Bloodlines"

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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

Episode:723
"Emergence"

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The Enterprise becomes an emergent intelligence.

Features: The Holodeck
Stardate: 47869.2
Air Date: 05/09/94
Director: Cliff Bole

Episode:724
"Preemptive Strike"

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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

Episode:725 & 726
"All Good Things..." (Parts 1 and 2)

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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.

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

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