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Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1994)

Episode:202
"Where Silence Has Lease"

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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.

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

Episode:215
"Pen Pals"

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

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

Episode:218
"Up the Long Ladder"

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

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

Episode:301
"Evolution"

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

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

Episode:305
"The Bonding"

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

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

Episode:318
"Allegiance"

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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.

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

Episode:502
"Darmok"

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

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

Episode:513
"The Masterpiece Society"

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

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

Episode:520
"Cost of Living"

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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"

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

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

Episode:616
"Birthright" (Part 1)

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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"

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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"

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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: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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