“The Offspring” Data builds an android, his “child” whom he names Lal - Hindi for “beloved”. Out of multiple possibilities, Lal chooses a female human form. Admiral Haftel of Starfleet Research comes aboard and insists that Lal should grow up in a lab rather than aboard a ship. Lal, however, has already developed too quickly. […]
“Yesterday’s Enterprise” The Enterprise-C was lost with all hands 22 years ago when the ship defended the Klingon outpost at Narendra III against the Romulans. Now the ship appears from a temporal rift, and reality on the Enterprise-D changes. Worf is gone, but Tasha Yar is alive. The Federation is now at war with the […]
“A Matter of Perspective” Just as Riker returns from a routine visit to the scientist Dr. Nel Apgar who is working on generating Krieger waves, the space station with the laboratory explodes, killing Apgar. Because Apgar’s wife, Manua, claims that Will tried to seduce her and apparently a phaser beam was fired at the reactor […]
“Deja Q” While the crew is trying to keep Bre’el IV’s moon from crashing into the planet, Q shows up, apparently stripped of all his power by the Q continuum. He is now chased by the Calamarain, a gaseous lifeform that wants to take revenge on him. In an unusually unselfish act Q leaves in […]
“The High Ground” During a humanitarian mission on the nonaligned world Rutia IV, Beverly is taken hostage by the terrorist Kyril Finn who is fighting for the independence of his people, the Ansata. They are using an untraceable dimension-shift transporter, whose secondary effect is that it gradually breaks down body chemistry the more often it […]
“The Hunted” During a visit to Angosia III, a planet which has just applied for Federation membership, the alleged criminal Roga Danar escapes from his prison and is taken to the Enterprise. Picard delays the extradition when he learns that Danar is actually a genetically altered former soldier who has been imprisoned only because he […]