Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 4



Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 4








Season 4, Episode 1: The Best of Both Worlds: Part 2
Original Air Date—22 September 1990
Commander Riker had no choice as acting captain but fire full force on the Borg starship, despite Picard being on board of it, altered to a Borg calling himself Locutus, both ships are damaged. Emergency repairs shouldn't take too long to make the appointment with Admiral J. P. Hanson, who announces Klingons coming to the rescue, but Picard seems lost forever: Riker is granted full command. Technology is adapted to render it unpredictable, such as randomized phaser settings. Hanson's communications are cut, the war must be going badly. To avoid musical chairs, Borg expert Lieutenant Commander Elizabeth Paula Shelby is acting XO. Locutus refuses to come to terms, separation and fire are engaged, including anti-matter spread. Data and Dorn beam into the Borg ship, overpower and get Locutus into a shuttle and beam aboard before it's shot down. If Crusher can awake Picard, he may now have decisive Borg info, but meanwhile declares himself Borg spokesman. While earth's own solar system is being invaded, Data finds out Borg mind coordination happens over frequencies; Crusher and Data try to access both man and machine, using a neuro-link to Data, still links aren't severed despite Picard reaching out, which teaches them the Borg cannot disconnect a member, Data hopes to reverse control...

Season 4, Episode 2: Family
Original Air Date—29 September 1990
After defeating the Borg, the crew of the Enterprise experiences shore leave in various ways. Captain Picard's return to his family's vineyard in France has some extraordinary repercussions following his time spent as a member of the Borg collective.

Season 4, Episode 3: Brothers
Original Air Date—6 October 1990
After an accident aboard the Enterprise leaves one of its children in grave danger, Data commandeers the Enterprise, driven to take him to an unknown origin, where an interesting figures awaits.

Season 4, Episode 4: Suddenly Human
Original Air Date—13 October 1990
On a rescue mission to an alien shipwrecked training mission, they discover one of its trainees to be a human.

Season 4, Episode 5: Remember Me
Original Air Date—20 October 1990
Dr. Crusher's fear of losing loved ones becomes real when her worries create an alternate reality.

Season 4, Episode 6: Legacy
Original Air Date—27 October 1990
The crew of the Enterprise enters into orbit around the home planet of their former crew-mate, Tasha Yar, where they encounter her sister.

Season 4, Episode 7: Reunion
Original Air Date—3 November 1990
When the head of the Klingon high council passes on, Picard finds himself in the middle of the struggle for the now-vacant position. Meanwhile, Worf re-unites with a past love, only to find he now has a son.

Season 4, Episode 8: Future Imperfect
Original Air Date—10 November 1990
Riker has to quit his birthday party during a so far uneventful patrol voyage at the Neutral Zone to head an away team when a Romulan secret base is found on a planet which was believed uninhabited. He awakes 16 years later, as widowed captain of the Enterprise, just cured after 9 years of viral amnesia, with a son Jean-Luc. Even Picard, now an admiral who came to conduct with Riker, given his forgotten dealing with them, historical peace negotiations with the Romulans, loses all authority over him when he finally finds his late wife's image on the strangely slow-responsive computer...

Season 4, Episode 9: Final Mission
Original Air Date—17 November 1990
Before leaving for Starfleet Academy, Wesley Crusher accompanies Captain Picard on a dangerous mission.

Season 4, Episode 10: The Loss
Original Air Date—29 December 1990
As an unknown force drags the Enterprise, Deanna Troi struggles with the loss of her powers.

Season 4, Episode 11: Data's Day
Original Air Date—5 January 1991
Data tries to comprehend the complex emotions between O'Brien and Keiko, who are about to be married.

Season 4, Episode 12: The Wounded
Original Air Date—26 January 1991
After being fired upon by a Cardassian vessel, Picard races against time to find out the facts behind the Cardassian commander's claim that the Federation attacked one of their outposts.

Season 4, Episode 13: Devil's Due
Original Air Date—2 February 1991
While answering a distress call, Picard finds himself not sure of exactly who he is dealing with, but he's sure he's NOT dealing with the planet's version of The Devil, as she claims to be.

Season 4, Episode 14: Clues
Original Air Date—9 February 1991
Effects of passing through a wormhole give the Enterprise crew a sense that they were unconscious for more than the thirty seconds they've been led to believe.

Season 4, Episode 15: First Contact
Original Air Date—16 February 1991
Commander William Riker has been on an acculturation mission under an alias for months on the Arkonian planet, surgically altered to appear like a local, but he gets badly wounded, beyond their medical skills because his internal organs are unknown to them. Captain Jean-Luc Picard decides to speed up his official diplomatic approach, formally the First Contact, and intercede on Riker's behalf, but they are told by a fascinated open-minded Atkonian scientist that her planet's culture is particularly xenophobic so they reject any alien being as being unequal to them. The Arkonian government keeps the matter secret but is internally divided: while the chancellor Durken is in favor of Riker's release without the people finding out and establishing friendly relations with the Federation, his powerful security minister Krola is prepared to go to any length to preserve their traditional way of life, so he finds Riker and fakes his own murder....

Season 4, Episode 16: Galaxy's Child
Original Air Date—9 March 1991
While the Enterprise is in a star-base, Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge gets a very special visitor, brilliant engineering designer Dr. Leah Brahms, who he feels to know almost intimately as a 'hologram version' of herself with 'whom' he bonded. However the real Brahms proves icy and arrogantly unwilling to consider any of Gordi's empirical findings could conceivably stand against her theoretically impermeable truth. They take on the challenge to collaborate and learn to know each-other better, but when Gordi shows her his hologram version of her, Brahms feels almost pornographically 'abused', one prejudiced insult too many for him. Meanwhile Picard, his bridge officers and Dr. Crusher have a very different problem, a strange life form which approaches, but dies, however is found to have 'given birth' to a baby version inside its corps, which must be separated to stand a chance of survival and contact with the Federation. When that succeeds, 'junior' instinctively identifies the Enterprise as its mother, and locks on, draining energy trough the hull, which is only safely sustainable for a few hours; only after Gordi and Brahms join the bridge, its relevant normal mode of life in an asteroid field is revealed and the duo comes up with an idea...

Season 4, Episode 17: Night Terrors
Original Air Date—16 March 1991
The Enterprise has finally tracked the missing starship USS Britain. Counselor Deanna Troi senses trouble with the life on board and joins Riker's boarding party. The crew was slashed to death; the only survivor, Betazoid Ensign Peeples, is in shock. Doctor Beverly Crusher 's autopsy concludes 34 crewmen killed each-other with phasers and other weapons, even bare hands; a tape recorded a paranoiac fear among them. While the Enterprise tows the Britain to the nearest star-base, its own crewmen starts sensing another presence and experiencing rising fear, plausibly working up to dangerous paranoia. The ship itself gets stuck in a rift in space; Data finds the Britain tried to escape from the same with a blast, the technicians have a hard time finding a better alternative, at Picard's request with (fear-immune android) Data temporarily in command. Meanwhile Dr. Crusher gets nightmarish hallucinations herself but concludes from a chemical imbalance that all the humans have stopped getting REM sleep and therefore dreams (only Betazoids Troi and the survivor have nightmares), which is driving them insane, Worf is the first to nearly commit suicide. Then Troi finds her vision of eyes in the dark is identical to the surviving ensign Peeples's, not a nightmare but a message from other victims; she hopes to communicate with them by 'directed dreaming'...

Season 4, Episode 18: Identity Crisis
Original Air Date—23 March 1991
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge and an old friend fight to defeat a parasite that is trying to transform them into another species.

Season 4, Episode 19: The Nth Degree
Original Air Date—30 March 1991
When assigned to investigate an unknown probe, Lt. Barclay is electrocuted through a shuttlecraft's computer, where he receives an unexplainable boost of confidence and a vast increase in his knowledge.

Season 4, Episode 20: Qpid
Original Air Date—20 April 1991
The Enterprise is at Tegus 3, to host the Federation archaeologists council's annual symposium, where Picard is to give the key-note lecture on its enigmatic ruins, now forbidden to outsiders. To his surprise he's visited by Vash, a flirtatious girl-friend, displeased to learn he never mentioned her to any crew-member, who is now on the council. Another visit gets the coldest welcome: almost almighty Q, who ridicules Picard's speech and decides to 'repay' saving his life and Continuum membership by transforming Picard and his accompanying crew-members during the speech into Robin Hood and his merry men, challenged to save maid Marian -Varsh- from execution ordered the next morning by Sir Guy Gisbourne, as Q declares as high sheriff. Picard engages in rescue from Nottingham castle, but soon finds his modern maid is no passive damsel in distress, even takes to the game far better then him...

Season 4, Episode 21: The Drumhead
Original Air Date—27 April 1991
A retired admiral boards the Enterprise in an effort to determine the actions aboard the ship surrounding and act of sabotage and possible treason.

Season 4, Episode 22: Half a Life
Original Air Date—4 May 1991
Counselor Troi's mother visits the Enterprise and becomes infatuated with a man who's culture forces him into a suicidal ritual called "The Resolution."

Season 4, Episode 23: The Host
Original Air Date—11 May 1991
Dr. Crusher falls for someone who's not at all what she expects him to be.

Season 4, Episode 24: The Mind's Eye
Original Air Date—25 May 1991
Geordi is brainwashed by the Romulans to assassinate a Klingon ambassador.

Season 4, Episode 25: In Theory
Original Air Date—1 June 1991
When a female crew member is infatuated with Lieutenant Commander Data, he decides to give a romantic relationship a try. Also, the Enterprise finds itself having to maneuver through a dangerous nebula.

Season 4, Episode 26: Redemption: Part 1
Original Air Date—15 June 1991
Both Capt. Picard and Lt. Worf must decide where their priorities lie as the Klingon Empire descends into civil war.