Notes on Season 1
Encounter at Farpoint
has scrolling end titles instead of the changing
captions used in later episodes.
DeForest Kelly appears as an elderly Admiral - unnamed but presumably McCoy.
Although last seen in the episode
Skin of Evil ,
Denise Crosby
remained
in the opening credits for the remainder of the season.
The BBC edited out a scene from
Conspiracy
in which
Lt Cmdr Remmick's
head explodes;
when BSkyB repeated the episode they showed the cut version at
5:30pm and the full version at 10:30pm.
Episode Details
The crew of the Enterprise is put on trial by a mysterious force called
``Q''
for all the crimes of mankind.
Captain Picard
argues that Q should judge mankind as it is now, and not for what
it was in the past. Q agrees and says that the forthcoming events at
Farpoint station will provide a suitable test.
Romance, danger and chaos result when a mysterious contaminant renders the
crew of the Enterprise intoxicated and the ship incapacitated in the path
of fragments from an exploding star.
Introduces our friend
Wesley Crusher,
who, true to form, nearly destroys the Enterprise!
Kidnapped by the King of an unfamiliar species called
the Ligonians, who have a strong code of honour, valiant men and
women who own all the land,
Tasha Yar
battles for her freedom and the welfare
of a diseased Federation planet.
Held captive over an unknown planet, the away teams of the USS Enterprise and
Ferengi
starships must pass an important inquisition by a mysterious
life form known as Portal, before they are allowed to continue their
journeys through space.
When an experiment with the warp engines goes wrong, teenager
Wesley Crusher
and a mysterious alien called the
Traveler
are the crew's only hope for
escape from a bizarre galaxy where thoughts become real.
Passing through a series of complex energy patterns, the Enterprise crew
find themselves trying to solve the mystery surrounding the murder of
Assistant Chief Engineer Singh and the altered personalities of
Lt. Worf,
Dr. Crusher
and
Captain Picard.
When
Wesley Crusher
is sentenced to death for innocently violating a foreign
planet's laws,
Captain Picard
is forced to chose between negotiating for
Wesley's
life or adhering to the Federation's Prime Directive (which
prohibits interfering with another civilization's way of life).
Unfortunately, he chooses not to let Wesley die!
Picard
starts suffering a blinding series of headaches and acting strangely,
when a Ferengi
Damon called Bok uses a thought altering device,
seeking revenge on
Picard
for his son's death over a decade earlier when Picard was in command of the
USS Stargazer,
threatens the life of the Captain and the safety of the Enterprise.
(Guest stars include Lee Arenberg as Damon Bok)
The Enterprise is once again challenged by the dangerous and powerful
``Q''
who offers
Will Riker
god-like powers in exchange for Riker's membership in the
``Q'' continuum.
Deanna Troi
is caught between her feelings for
Will Riker
and her devotion to
family customs when she faces a prearranged marriage.
In the meantime, the crew have to deal with a ship carrying a deadly plague.
When the holodeck malfunctions,
Captain Picard
(playing a 20th century private detective called Dixon Hill)
and two crew members become
trapped in San Francisco, 1941, where they are held hostage by murderous
gangsters.
While visiting
Data's
homeworld, where Data was discovered as the lone survivor of a decimated
colony some 30 years ago, the crew discover Data's android brother
Lore
who formulates an evil masterplan involving a
crystalline entity that could destroy the Enterprise.
While the away team struggle to save male fugitives from a Federation ship
that crash
landed on a planet run by women, the Enterprise is ravaged by a highly
infectious virus.
After arriving at a Starbase for routine maintenance,
the Enterprise is hijacked
by a computer-dependant alien species known as the Binars.
Picard
and
Riker
find they are alone on the ship, but the ship is in the hands of
the Binars. They discover that the aliens need the ship's computer to
regenerate the computers on their home planet that are expected to be damaged
by a asteriod passing through the system.
The Enterprise escorts an elderly Federation Admiral to a planet to
negotiate the release of hostages, but the planet's governor wants
to kill him in revenge for a previous hostage crisis.
Wesley
and several children from the Enterprise are kidnapped by the ancient
civilization of Aldea long thought to be mythical, which has become sterile and
hopes to use the children to rebuild their race.
When a terraforming project hits problems the Enterprise crew discover
a powerful microscopic life form which has declared war on humans.
The lifeform takes over the Enterprise's lab and computers, and threatens
to destroy the ship.
While
Wesley
endures the grueling Starfleet Academy entrance exam,
Captain Picard
faces an investigation into his competency as a commander by
Admiral Quinn
and his obnoxious sidekick
Remmick
of Starfleet's deeply unpopular Internal Affairs division.
Lt. Worf
is torn between his loyalty to the Enterprise and his fierce
Klingon
heritage when two Klingon fugitives take over the ship.
Picard
and
Dr Crusher
are trapped on a deserted planet. Beaming down to rescue them,
Riker
Lt Yar,
and the rest of the away team fight for their lives against
the computerized weapons system that killed all the inhabitants of the planet!
The Enterprise is caught in the middle when two alien races wage a bitter
battle over cargo which one of them believes they need for survival.
A rescue mission turns to tragedy when
Tasha Yar
is killed by the evil slime-mold Ardros,
and
Deanna Troi
is trapped inside a shuttle craft.
Captain Picard
is unexpectedly reunited with his first love in the midst
of an investigation into lethal time warp experiments.
Picard
and
Riker
travel to Earth to investigate a
conspiracy in the highest ranks of Starfleet command.
They meet
Admiral Quinn
and
Lt Cmdr Remmick
(see
Coming of Age)
and soon suspect that an alien influence is at work.
While traveling to the Neutral Zone to investigate
strange occurrences,
the crew discovers a ship containing three frozen Americans from
the 20th century.
Then a
Romulan
cruiser de-cloaks in front of the Enterprise - the first time the
Romulans have been seen for about 60 years!
In this episode we first see a planet bearing the marks of a
Borg
attack although they do not appear.
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D.White@mcs.surrey.ac.uk
31st January 1994