Star Trek The Next Generation: Season 5

Star Trek The Next Generation: Season 5

Paramount Pictures (1991)
Adventure, Science Fiction
USA / English / Color / 1183 min
8.7
Cast View More ↓
Patrick Stewart Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes Wm. Riker
Brent Spiner Data
Marina Sirtis Deanna Troi
Gates McFadden Beverly Crusher
Michael Dorn Worf
LeVar Burton Geordi Laforge
Wil Wheaton Wesley Crusher
Colm Meaney Chief Miles O'Brien
Whoopi Goldberg Guinan
Michelle Forbes Ensign Ro Laren
Crew View More ↓
Director Cliff Bole, Corey Allen, David Carson, Gabrielle Beaumont, Chip Chalmers, Peter Lauritson
Writer Gene Roddenberry
Producer Hans Beimler, Burton Armus, Ira Steven Behr, Maurice Hurley
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Plot
A century after Captain Kirk's five year mission, the next generation of Starfleet officers begins their journey aboard the new flagship of the Federation.

Commanded by Captain Jean-Luc Picard the Galaxy class starship Enterprise NCC-1701-D will seek out new life and new civilizations - to boldly go where no one has gone before.
Episodes
1
Redemption (2)
60 min 1991-09-23
Stardate: 45020.4 - Picard suspects a Romulan influence in the recent Klingon civil war, and must force the Federation to intervene before the Empire collapses.
Director: David Carson
Writer: Ronald D. Moore
Guest starring: Denise Crosby, Tony Todd, Barbara March, Gwynyth Walsh, JD Cullum, Robert O'Reilly, Michael G. Hagerty, Fran Bennett, Nicholas Kepros, Timothy Carhart, Jordan Lund, Clifton Jones
2
Darmok
60 min 1991-09-30
Stardate: 45047.2 - Picard must find a way to communicate with the newly discovered Tamarians, who speak entirely in metaphors, when a Tamarian Captain is brutally killed.
Director: Philip LaZebnik, Winrich Kolbe, Joe Menosky
Writer: Joe Menosky
Guest starring: Paul Winfield, Richard James, Ashley Judd
3
Ensign Ro
60 min 1991-10-07
Stardate: 45076.3 - Picard exposes a planned genocidal attack on the Bajorans with the help of a new officer, Ensign Ro Laren.
Director: Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Les Landau
Writer: Michael Piller
Guest starring: Scott Marlowe, Frank Collison, Jeffrey Hayenga, Harley Venton, Ken Thorley, Cliff Potts
4
Silicon Avatar
60 min 1991-10-14
Stardate: 45122.3 - Picard attempts communications with the Crystalline Entity - a life form responsible for hundreds of deaths throughout the Alpha Quadrant. However, a scientist on board the Enterprise has plans of revenge over the death of her only son at the hands of the Entity.
Director: Cliff Bole, Lawrence V. Conley
Writer: Jeri Taylor
Guest starring: Ellen Geer, Susan Diol
5
Disaster
60 min 1991-10-21
Stardate: 45156.1 - A natural disaster leaves Troi in command of the Enterprise, Picard stuck in a turbo lift with three small children and Keiko O'Brien stuck in Ten-Forward giving birth with an anxious Worf.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont, Ron Jarvis, Philip A. Scorza
Writer: Ronald D. Moore
Guest starring: Erika Flores, John Christian Graas, Max Supera, Cameron Arnett, Jana Marie Hupp, Rosalind Chao
6
The Game
60 min 1991-10-28
Stardate: 45208.2 - An addictive game is distributed among the crew of the Enterprise, however, it appears that this game interferes with a person's logic and reason, which leaves the crew open to manipulation. Only a young Ensign and a vacationing Wesley Crusher are able to think for themselves, and must find a way to reverse the damage before the ship falls into the wrong hands.
Director: Brannon Braga, Fred Bronson, Susan Sackett, Corey Allan
Writer: Brannon Braga
Guest starring: Ashley Judd, Katherine Moffat, Diane M. Hurley
7
Unification (1)
60 min 1991-11-04
Ambassador Spock has dissapeared and intelligence finds him on Romulus. Captain Picard is sent to Romulus to find Spock. Meanwhile Riker and the rest of the crew investigate the fragments of a Vulcan ship discovered in the wreck of a Ferengi vessel.
Director: Rick Berman, Michael Piller, Les Landau
Writer: Jeri Taylor
Guest starring: Leonard Nimoy, Mark Lenard, Stephen D. Root, Graham Jarvis, Malachi Throne, Norman Large, Erick Avari, Karen Hensel, Mimi Cozzens, Stephen Root, Daniel Roebuck
8
Unification (2)
60 min 1991-11-11
Stardate: 45245.8 - Picard and Data find Spock and discover the reason behind the secret meetings. However, a darker scheme planned by the Romulans is also uncovered in the process.
Director: Cliff Bole, Rick Berman, Michael Piller
Writer: Michael Piller
Guest starring: Leonard Nimoy, Denise Crosby, Stephen D. Root, Malachi Throne, Norman Large, William Bastiani, Vidal Peterson, Harriet Leider, Stephen Root, Daniel Roebuck
9
A Matter of Time
60 min 1991-11-18
Stardate: 45349.1 - While on a mission to help a planet recently struck by an asteroid, the Enterprise is payed a visit by a man who claims to be from the future.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Rick Berman
Guest starring: Matt Frewer, Stefan Gierasch, Shelia Franklin, Shay Garner
10
New Ground
60 min 1992-01-06
Stardate: 45376.3 - Worf's son, Alexander, unexpectedly arrives on the Enterprise to stay with his father. However, Alexander wants to stay permanently.
Director: Robert Scheerer, Stu Charno, Sara Charno
Writer: Grant Rosenberg
Guest starring: Georgia Brown, Richard McGonagle, Jennifer Edwards, Shelia Franklin
11
Hero Worship
60 min 1992-01-27
Stardate: 45397.3 - The Enterprise investigates the cause of an explosion which destroyed a small ship and its entire crew, except for a small boy.
Director: Patrick Stewart, Hilary J. Bader
Writer: Joe Menosky
Guest starring: Joshua Harris, Harley Venton, Shelia Franklin, Steven Einspahr
12
Violations
60 min 1992-02-03
Stardate: 45419.3 - While escorting a group of telepaths, crew members on board the Enterprise suddenly start to slip into comas.
Director: Robert Wiemer, Shari Goodhartz
Writer: Jeri Taylor, Pamela Gray
Guest starring: Ben Lemon, David Sage, Rick Fitts, Eve Brenner, Doug Wert, Craig Benton, Rosalind Chao
13
The Masterpiece Society
60 min 1992-02-10
Stardate: 45470.1 - A natural disaster in the core of a system's sun threatens to destroy a colony of genetically engineered people on an otherwise desolate planet. However, the crew's intervention may cause more harm than good.
Director: Winrich Kolbe, James Kahn, Adam Belanoff
Writer: Michael Piller, Adam Belanoff
Guest starring: John Snyder, Dey Young, Ron Canada, Ensign Felton
14
Conundrum
60 min 1992-02-17
Stardate: 45494.2 - The Enterprise crew unknowingly receives a new first officer who claims that the Federation is at war with another species.
Director: Les Landau, Paul Schiffer
Writer: Barry M. Schkolnick
Guest starring: Erich Anderson, Liz Vassey, Erick Weiss
15
Power Play
60 min 1992-02-24
Stardate: 45571.2 - While en route to the source of a subspace distress signal coming from a desolate moon, Data, Troi and O'Brien take over the bridge and force the ship to change course.
Director: Brannon Braga, Maurice Hurley, David Livingston, Paul Ruben
Writer: Brannon Braga, Rene Balcer, Herbert Wright
Guest starring: Ryan Reid, Patricia Tallman, Rosalind Chao
16
Ethics
60 min 1992-03-02
Stardate: 45587.3 - When Worf is paralysed in an accident he must undergo drastic back surgery. However, this experimental technique may cost him his life.
Director: Chip Chalmers, Stu Charno, Sara Charno
Writer: Ronald D. Moore
Guest starring: Caroline Kava
17
The Outcast
60 min 1992-03-16
Stardate: 45614.6 - While investigating the disappearance of a J'naii shuttlecraft, the crew finds reason to believe the missing ship is stranded in an abnormal pocket called "null space." Riker and Soren, a member of the J'naii race, begin preparing to rescue the craft, and the two strike up a friendship. Their relationship develops quickly as the pair question each other about mating habits, since the J'naii are androgynous and do not identify themselves as either male or female. Despite this difference, sparks begin to fly between them.
Director: Robert Scheerer
Writer: Jeri Taylor
Guest starring: Melinda Culea, Callan White, Megan Cole
18
Cause and Effect
60 min 1992-03-23
Stardate: 45652.1 - While exploring the Typhon Expanse, the Enterprise is caught in a time warp in which they are repeatedly destroyed while colliding with another starship.
Director: Jonathan Frakes
Writer: Brannon Braga
Guest starring: Kelsey Grammer
19
The First Duty
60 min 1992-03-30
Stardate: 45703.9 - Wesley is involved in a cover-up at Starfleet Academy when a cadet is killed and five shuttles are destroyed during a forbidden maneuver performed by Starfleet Academy's best cadets.
Director: Naren Shankar, Ronald B. Moore
Writer: Paul Lynch
Guest starring: Ray Walston, Robert Duncan McNeill, Ed Lauter, Richard Fancy, Walker Brandt, Channon Fill, Shannon Fill
20
Cost of Living
60 min 1992-04-20
Stardate: 45733.63 - Deanna's mother pays a surprise visit to the Enterprise with even more surprising news: she plans to marry a man she has never met. After destroying an asteroid, the ship becomes infected with parasites that eat away at the ship's hull.
Director: Winrich Kolbe
Writer: Peter Allan Fields
Guest starring: Tony Jay, Carel Struycken, David Oliver, Albie Selznick, Patrick Cronin, Tracey D'Arcy, George Edie, Christopher Halste
21
The Perfect Mate
60 min 1992-04-27
Stardate: 45761.3 - The Ferengi try to abduct an empathic Metamorph who could bring peace between two warring worlds.
Director: Cliff Bole, René Echevarria
Writer: Michael Piller, Gary Percante
Guest starring: Famke Janssen, Tim O'Connor, Max Grodenchik, Mickey Cottrell, Michael Snyder, April Grace
22
Imaginary Friend
60 min 1992-05-04
Stardate: 45832.1 - While exploring a strange form of energy in a region of space, a little girl's imaginary friend becomes real and places the Enterprise in great danger.
Director: Gabrielle Beaumont, Ronald Wilkerson, Richard Fliegel, Jean Matthias
Writer: Brannon Braga, Edithe Swensen, Ron Wilkerson
Guest starring: Shay Astar, Jeff Allin, Noley Thornton, Shelia Franklin
23
I, Borg
60 min 1992-05-11
Stardate: 45832.1 - An injured Borg is discovered and brought back to the Enterprise where he is 'repaired' by Dr. Crusher and befriended by Geordi, who names him 'Hugh.' Soon, Hugh starts showing signs of individuality while Picard must choose between destroying him or returning him to the collective.
Director: Robert Lederman
Writer: René Echevarria
Guest starring: Jonathan Del, Jonathan Del Arco
24
The Next Phase
60 min 1992-05-18
Stardate: 45092.4 - While the Enterprise helps a Romulan science vessel, an accident occurs which forces Geordi LaForge and Ro Laren slightly out of 'phase', causing them to become undetectable to everyone but each other. As a result, the crew thinks they are dead and make arrangements for their funerals, even though they are closer than the crew realise.
Director: Robert Lederman
Writer: Ronald D. Moore
Guest starring: Thomas Kopache, Susanna Thompson, Shelby Leverington, Brian Cousins, Ken Marshall
25
The Inner Light
60 min 1992-06-01
Picard is struck by an energy beam from an alien probe, which renders him unconscious and places him in the life of a citizen on the planet Kataan, with his memory of the Enterprise intact. Although he searches for a way to return, he finally decides to live his life with his Kataan wife, have children & grandchildren, learning to play a flute and completely immersing in the Kataan culture. He finds the planet is dying due to an imbalance of its sun. With no way to evacuate the planet's people, the government builds a probe which will tell others how they lived. The same probe that Picard met. Picard wakes to find himself back on the Enterprise having lived an entire lifetime in just minutes. The probe, having disgorged its memories, gives one last gift: the flute (which shows up in later episodes.)
Director: Peter Lauritson, Morgan Gendel
Writer: Morgan Gendel, Peter Allan Fields
Guest starring: Margot Rose, Richard Riehle, Scott Jaeck, Jennifer Nash, Daniel Stewart
26
Time's Arrow (1)
60 min 1992-06-15
Stardate: 45959.1 - Data's head is uncovered in an archaeological dig on Earth, where evidence is also found that aliens may have been on Earth as early as the 19th Century. Using modified technology, an away team follows Data into the late 1890s to investigate.
Director: Les Landau, Joe Menosky
Writer: Michael Piller, Joe Menosky
Guest starring: Jerry Hardin, Michael Aron, Barry Kivel, Ken Thorley, Sheldon Peters, Marc Alaimo, Milt Tarver, Michael Hungerford, John M. Murdock
Editions
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097360813449 1 2002-11-05 Collector's Series
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097360813425 1 2002-11-05
5014437903334 2 2006-05-22 Slimline Edition
5014437821737 2 2002-11-18
8714865557396 2 2002-11-05
8714865552629 2 2006-09-14
9324915052185 4 2002-11-05
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7312065004477 2002-11-18
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