"Descent, Part II"
Lore orders Data to kill Picard
Jonathan Frakes (Cmdr. William Riker)
LeVar Burton (Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge)
Michael Dorn (Lieutenant Worf)
Gates McFadden (Dr. Beverly Crusher)
Marina Sirtis (Lt. Cmdr. Deanna Troi)
Brent Spiner (Lt. Commander Data)
Jonathan Del Arco (Hugh)
Alex Datcher (Ensign Taitt)
James Horan (Lt. Barnaby)
Brian Cousins (Crosis)
Benito Martinez (Transporter Tech Salazar)
Michael Reilly Burke (Goval)
Dr. Crusher uses the metaphasic shield created by Dr. Reyga in the episode "Suspicions". In the same episode, James Horan (Barnaby) played Dr. Jo'Bril.
Lore stole Data's emotion chip in the 4th season episode "Brothers". Data will finally install the emotion chip in the motion picture Star Trek: Generations.
Since they can't rejoin the Borg Collective, the renegade Borg remain on the planet as individuals trying to work together, with Hugh as their leader.
"Liaisons"
Picard introduces the Iyaarans to the senior staff
Eric Pierpoint (Ambassador Voval)
Paul Eiding (Ambassador Loquel)
Michael Harris (Ambassador Byleth)
Rickey D'Shon Collins (Eric)
Troi's favorite desert is Ktarian chocoloate puff, made of 17 varieties of chocolate.
"Interface"
La Forge sees the image of his lost mother, Silva
Ben Vereen (Dr. Edward La Forge)
Warren Munson (Admiral Marcus Holt)
Geordi has a sister, Ariana.
The U.S.S. Raman NCC-29487 is an Oberth-class science vessel. The crew of seven was accidentally killed by the subspace lifeforms.
The U.S.S. Hera NCC-62006 is a Nebula-class starship. It had a crew of 300+, mostly Vulcans. The memorial service for the Hera was to take place on Vulcan. Starfleet sent the U.S.S. Excelsior and U.S.S. Noble to search for the Hera, but they could find no trace of the ship.
Admiral Holt is stationed on space station Deep Space 3.
Madge Sinclair previously played the unnamed Captain of the U.S.S. Saratoga in Star Trek IV.
"Gambit, Part I"
Riker is captured by the mercenaries
Robin Curtis (Tallera)
Caitlin Brown (Vekor)
Cameron Thor (Narik)
Alan Altshuld (Yranac)
Bruce Gray (Admiral Chekote)
Sabrina Le Beauf (Ensign Giusti)
Stephen Lee (Bartender)
Derek Webster (Lt. Sanders)
Bruce Gray also appeared as Admiral Chekote in the DS9 episode "The Circle".
Sabrina Le Beauf, playing Data's relief at Ops, is known for playing the eldest Huxtable daughter, Sondra, on the NBC sitcom "The Cosby Show."
"Gambit, Part II"
Tallera attempts to use the weapon on the crew
Robin Curtis (Tallera)
Caitlin Brown (Vekor)
Cameron Thor (Narik)
James Worthy (Koral)
Sabrina Le Beauf (Ensign Giusti)
Martin Goslins (Minister Satok)
Picard states that Vulcan is one of the Federations founding members.
Tallera is actually a Vulcan. She claims to be T'Paal, a member of the V'Shan, the Vulcan Security agency. She is actually a member of a group of Vulcan isolationists who want the psionic resonator, a weapon that magnifies violent thoughts. After the Vulcans embraced logic, the weapon was useless.
The tall Klingon Koral is played by James Worthy, a professional basketball player for the L.A. Lakers.
This two-parter should have been consolidated into one bad episode instead of two.
"Phantasms"
''Hold very still…''
Bernard Kates (Dr. Sigmund Freud)
Clyde Kusatsu (Admiral Nakamura)
David L. Crowley (Workman)
Joyce Robinson (Ensign Gates)
In Data's dreams, Worf eats a piece of Deanna Troi Cake, which is a Cellular Peptide cake (with mint frosting). Dr. Crusher also appears drinking from a straw sticking out of Commander Riker's head.
Data stabbed Troi with the coil brace to kill the "mouth" on her shoulder.
Admiral Nakamura has invited Picard to the annual Admiral's Banquet on Starbase 219. He has managed to avoid it for the past six years.
The crew installed a new warp core obtained from Starbase 84 along with a new plasma conduit, which was infested with interphasic parasites, who attached to the crew to drain their cellular peptides.
Data is excited to begin weekly counseling sessions with Troi.
"Dark Page"
Deanna watches Lwaxana relive her tragedy
Norman Large (Maques)
Kirsten Dunst (Hedril)
Amick Byram (Lt. Ian Andrew Troi)
Andreana Weiner (Kestra Troi)
We learn that Deanna had a sister, Kestra, who drowned at the age of 6. Deanna was just a few months old.
This episode continues this season's theme of family. In this episode we see not only Lwaxana Troi, but we finally see her father as well as her sister.
Kirsten Dunst later starred in Interview with the Vampire.
"Attached"
Crusher and Picard make a run for the border
Lenore Kasdorf (Security Minister Lorin)
J.C. Stevens (Kes Aide)
The implant devices are designed to extract information from their minds.
Picard notes that every member of the Federation was admitted as a unified world. Kesprytt III, 75% of which is controlled by the Kes, would be the first planet to not meet this criterion.
The Kes have not had formal contact with the Prytt in over a century.
According to Dr. Crusher, the United Earth government was established in 2150.
"Force of Nature"
La Forge expresses his condolences to Rabal
Margaret Reed (Dr. Serova)
Lee Arenberg (Daimon Prak)
Joyce Robinson (Ensign Gates)
To prove her threory (and martyr herself), Serova breaches her ship's warp core and the explosion creates a subspace rift, which makes it impossible to create a warp field.
La Forge takes the warp core off-line to adjust the power conversion levels. The chief engineer of the U.S.S. Intrepid, Donald Kaplan, is competing with La Forge to increase power conversion efficiency. The Intrepid can be assumed to be the newly launched prototype (NCC-74600) of the Intrepid-class U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656.
The Federation Council imposes a speed limit of warp factor 5 during this episode, except in extreme emergencies.
This episode was meant to be an environmental statement, but ended up being a little bit silly with the restrictions and ramifactions, which will be forgotten within a few episodes.
Later starship designs, such as the the Intrepid-class U.S.S. Voyager and the Sovereign-class U.S.S. Enterprise-E, utilize new warp designs that do not damage subspace.
Spot is now a female cat.
"Inheritance"
Data says goodbye to his mother, Juliana Tainer
William Lithgow (Dr. Pran Tainer)
Brent Spiner (Dr. Noonien Soong)
Juliana tells Data that Soong created three androids before Lore, but they failed. (B-4 from Star Trek: Nemesis could be one of these.) She was afraid that Data would turn out like Lore and made Soong leave him behind when they fled Omicron Theta, a decision which she regretted all her life.
Juliana is revealed to be an android. She was created by Dr. Soong after his wife, the human Juliana, was mortally wounded in the Crystalline Entity attack on Omicron Theta.
Brent Spiner also appears as the holographic Dr. Noonien Soong.
Fionnula Flanagan also played Enina Tandro in the DS9 episode "Dax".
"Parallels"
Deanna helps her husband Worf relax
Patti Yasutake (Nurse Alyssa Ogawa)
Mark Bramhall (Gul Nador)
The Enterprise returns to the Argus Array, first seen in the episode "The Nth Degree". In one reality, the Cardassians reprogrammed it to spy on Deep Space 5, Starbase 47, Iadara Colony, and Utopia Planitia.
During the various realities Worf and Troi are married; Wesley Crusher appears as a Lieutenant on the Enterprise; Alyssa Ogawa appears as Doctor Ogawa; Geordi dies in a Bajoran attack. The shifts are triggered by Geordi's VISOR.
At the end of the episode, Worf invites Troi to stay for dinner and they celebrate his birthday with champagne. This marks the beginning of their short "relationship."
"The Pegasus"
The U.S.S. Pegasus NCC-53847
Nancy Vawter (Admiral Margaret Blackwell)
Michael Mack (Commander Sirol)
Joyce Robinson (Ensign Gates)
The Treaty of Algeron, signed in 2311, ended hostilities between the Federation and Romulans, re-defined the Romulan Neutral Zone, and prohibited the Federation from developing cloaking technology.
This episode will be featured in the story line of the Enterprise season finale, "These Are The Voyages...".
Terry O'Quinn previously played The Stepfather in The Stepfather horror movies and more recently played Darius Michaud in The X-Files: Fight the Future, and would later go on to play John Locke in "Lost".
"Homeward"
Worf leaves his brother Nikolai on Vacca IV
Penny Johnson (Dobara)
Brian Markinson (Vorin)
Edward Penn (Kateras)
Susan Christy (Tarrana)
Joyce Robinson (Ensign Gates)
Dobara is pregnant with Nikolai's child.
After accidentally leaving the holodeck and faced with returning to his people after what he has seen, Vorin kills himself.
Penny Johnson went on to play Kassidy Yates on Deep Space Nine.
"Sub Rosa"
Beverly confronts Ronin in the cemetary
Shay Duffin (Ned Quint)
Michael Keenan (Governor Maturin)
Ellen Albertini Dow (Felisa Howard)
The Caldos Colony was one of the Federation's first terraforming projects, created nearly a century ago. The cornerstone of every building was brought from Edinburgh, Glasgow or Aberdeen in Scotland.
Beverly discovers Ronin is not a ghost, but an anaphasic lifeform that has been using the women in her family to stay alive.
After Quint is killed by Ronin, Beverly has his body sent to the ship for Dr. Selar to examine.
Duncan Regehr also plays Bajoran First Minister Shakaar Edon on Deep Space Nine.
Michael Keenan also played Hrothgar in the Voyager episode "Heroes and Demons" and Patrick in the DS9 episode "Statistical Probabilities".
"Lower Decks"
The junior officers play a game of poker
Shannon Fill (Ensign Sito Jaxa)
Alexander Enberg (Ensign Taurik)
Bruce Beatty (Ben)
Patti Yasutake (Nurse Alyssa Ogawa)
Don Reilly (Joret Dal)
Joyce Robinson (Ensign Gates)
Ben has apparently taken over for Guinan in Ten Forward.
Cardassian Joret Dal is a Federation operative. The mission is to have Joret pretend to "hijack" a shuttlecraft and have Sito, a Bajoran, pose as his prisoner to get past the border. Later, they find the remains of an escape pod and Sito is declared lost in the line of duty. (Jeri Taylor mentioned that Sito may show up later on DS9, but it never worked out.)
Nurse Ogawa is promoted from Ensign to Lieutenant (junior grade), as is Lavelle.
Ogawa had been seeing Andrew Powell and announced to Beverly that they are getting married.
Ensign Sito was a member of Nova Squadron with Wesley Crusher (see "The First Duty") and was posted to the Enterprise because Picard wanted her to have a fair chance.
Alexander Enberg is Trek writer/producer Jeri Taylor's son. Alexander later played recurring Vulcan character Ensign Vorik on Voyager, who first appeared in the episode "Fair Trade".
"Thine Own Self"
''Jayden'' cures Gia of radiation sickness
Michael Rothhaar (Garvin)
Kimberly Cullum (Gia)
Michael G. Hagerty (Skoran)
Andy Kossin (Apprentice)
Richard Ortega-Miro (Ensign Rainer)
Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)
Deanna returns from her class reunion and decides to go for a promotion to keep up with her classmates.
Dr. Crusher commands the bridge on night shift while Data is away. She enjoys volunteering from time to time to keep up on operations and tactical procedures.
Deanna was in command of the bridge during the quantum filament disaster in "Disaster".
Deanna does well on all the tests (Diplomatic Law, First Contact, Bridge Operations) except the Engineering Qualification, which she had to re-take 4 times. (She had to send a crewman - Geordi - to his death in order to save the ship. "A bridge officer's first duty is to the ship.") Deanna passes, allowing her bridge command duty. She is also promoted to Commander.
Will refers to Deanna as his "imzadi", which we haven't heard since the 4th season in "The Loss".
Patrick Stewart only appears briefly at the end with one line. He was away performing in "A Christmas Carol."
Ronnie Claire Edwards also played Corabeth Godsey on "The Waltons."
"Masks"
The sun god Masaka takes over Data
"Eye of the Beholder"
Worf stops Deanna from jumping
Mark Rolston (Lt. [j.g.] Walter J. Pierce)
Nancy Harewood (Lt. [j.g.] Nara)
Johanna McCloy (Ensign Maddy Calloway)
Nora Leonhardt (Ensign Marla E. Finn)
Dugan Savoye (Lt. William Hodges)
We get to see the inside of a warp nacelle tube in this episode.
Starfleet gives the Enterprise permission to break the warp 5 speed limit in this episode. (See the episode "Force of Nature".)
Mark Rolston also played Private Drake in the movie Aliens.
Utopia Planitia on Mars is Starfleet's starship development facility.
"Genesis"
Crusher gives Barclay his test results
Patti Yasutake (Lt. Alyssa Ogawa)
Carlos Ferro (Ensign Dern)
This is the first episode where we see Deanna on bridge duty since her promotion to Commander in the episode "Thine Own Self".
Dr. Crusher is incapacitated by Worf fairly early on to give Gates McFadden less on-screen time for directing.
Dr. Crusher gives Barclay a synthetic T-Cell to activate an intron (dormant gene) to fight his flu, but it mutates into an intron virus and infects the entire crew. Dr. Crusher names the disease "Barclay's Protomorphosys Syndrome."
Data uses Alyssa's amniotic fluid to create an retro-virus antidote.
Continuing their romance, Worf and Deanna have a lunch date in Ten Forward.
Worf regresses into a Klingon animal, who sees Deanna as his mate. Deanna regresses into an amphibian. Barclay regresses into an arachnid. Riker regresses into a proto-human australopithecine. Picard begins de-evolving into a monkey (lemur or pigmy marmoset).
Barclay was introduced in Season 3's "Hollow Pursuits".
Dr. Crusher mentions Vulcan Dr. Selar.
"Journey's End"
Wesley says goodbye to Beverly and Picard
Eric Menyuk (The Traveler)
Ned Romero (Lakanta)
Tom Jackson (Anthwara)
Richard Poe (Gul Evek)
George Aguilar (Wasaka)
Natalija Nogulich (Vice Admiral Alynna Nechayev)
Doug Wert (Jack R. Crusher)
Dorvan V was given to the Cardassians as a result of the Federation-Cardassian Treaty of 2370, which is a result of the negotiations that took place after the Federation-Cardassian Armistice of 2367. (See "Chain of Command, Part II".)
The colony decides to give up Federation citizenship and to live under Cardassian jurisdiction.
This was originally going to be a "Wesley Crusher joins the Maquis" episode, but the producers decided on the Traveler theme instead, and gave the Maquis theme to Ro Laren in "Preemptive Strike".
Dorvan V is implied to be the homeworld of Voyager's Commander Chakotay.
The Traveler was introduced in the episode "Where No One Has Gone Before".
"Firstborn"
Worf discovers K'mtar's identity
James Sloyan (K'mtar)
Gwynyth Walsh (B'Etor)
Barbara March (Lursa)
Armin Shimerman (Quark)
Joel Swetow (Gorta)
Colin Mitchell (Yog)
Deep Space Nine's Quark makes a guest appearance via the viewscreen.
K'mtar reveals that he is Alexander, and has come from the future. K'mtar explains that he grew up to be a diplomat instead of a warrior, and Worf was murdered 40 years later. He decided to transport back in time and either change Alexander's ways or kill him.
This is the last time we see Alexander until the DS9 6th season episode "Sons and Daughters", where he appears as a teenager. Worf apparently sends Alexander back to Earth to live with his grandparents sometime between this episode and Star Trek: Generations.
"Bloodlines"
Picard discovers that Jason is his son
Ken Olandt (Jason Vigo)
Peter Slutsker (DaiMon Birta)
Amy Pietz (Sandra Rhodes)
Michelan Sisti (Tol)
Bok resequenced Jason's DNA to make it appear that Picard was his father.
"Emergence"
The crew boards the Orient Express
Vinny Argiro (The Hitman)
Thomas Kopache (The Engineer)
Arlee Reed (Hayseed)
In the opening sequence, Picard helps Data rehearse Shakespeare's "The Tempest" on the holodeck.
"Preemptive Strike"
Ro Laren returns to the Enterprise
John Franklin-Robbins (Macias)
Natalija Nogulich (Vice Admiral Alynna Nechayev)
Richard Poe (Gul Evek)
William Thomas, Jr. (Santos)
Shannon Cochran (Kalita)
Joyce Robinson (Ensign Gates)
Michelle Forbes had turned down the transfer to DS9 and then left TNG to pursue a movie career. However, she liked this story and agreed to do it.
The Lieutenant Commander at Starfleet Security Ro speaks of, who resigned to join the Maquis, is assumed to be Chakotay from Star Trek: Voyager. Voyager was to premiere in January 1995 and the producers wanted a new Maquis story to help with the premiere.
The Maquis were introduced in the Deep Space Nine episode "The Maquis, Part I".
Shannon Cochran as Kalita will also later appear in the DS9 episode "Defiant" as part of Tom Riker's Maquis crew. She also played General Martok's wife Sirella in the DS9 episode "You Are Cordially Invited".
"All Good Things..."
Q passes judgement on humanity
Denise Crosby (Lt. Tasha Yar)
Colm Meaney (Chief Miles O'Brien)
Andreas Katsulas (Commander Tomalok)
Clyde Kusatsu (Admiral Nakamura)
Patti Yasutake (Lt. Alyssa Ogawa)
Pamela Kosh (Jessel)
Tim Kelleher (Lieutenant Gaines)
Alison Brooks (Ensign Nell Chilton)
Stephen Matthew (Ensign Garvin)
Joyce Robinson (Ensign Gates)
Majel Barrett (Computer Voice)
Picard took command of the Enterprise on stardate 41148. Encounter at Farpoint takes place on 41153.7.
Lt. Tasha Yar and Chief O'Brien appear in Picard's past, which takes place just before the Farpoint mission. Deanna is also wearing the mini-skirt with boots "Cosmic Cheerleader" outfit. O'Brien is incorrectly wearing Ensign rank and Data is incorrectly wearing Lieutenant Junior Grade rank (unless he was promoted from Lieutenant J.G. to Lieutenant to Lt. Commander between the time he boarded the Enterprise until the pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint").
Only Data appears in all three time periods, not counting Picard or Q, of course.
In Picard's future, the Klingons have conquered the Romulans and closed their borders to the Federation. Picard is diagnosed with the mental disease Irumodic Syndrome, Captain Beverly Picard is the commanding officer of the medical ship U.S.S. Pasteur, Data is the Dean of Cambridge University, Worf is the governor of the Klingon colony H'Atoria, Deanna is dead, and Admiral Riker is a bitter old commander on Starbase 247.
The present-day Data states that there are 3 tachyon pulses converging at a single point with the same signature as if all 3 originated from the Enterprise. However, the future-pulse originated from the Pasteur not the Enterprise. The 3 tachyon pulses caused the temporal anomaly (an eruption of "anti-time") in the Devron System.
