 Stardate 41153.7. U.S.S. Enterprise -D assigned to study Farpoint Station at planet Deneb IV. Farpoint is a new starbase recently built by the Bandi for possible use as a Starfleet facility. Investigation reveals the station to have been built with the unwilling help of a spacefaring life-form capable of assuming virtually any shape or form, in this case, that of the station itself. The creature is allowed to return to deep space.First contact with extradimensional life-form called the Q, a visitor from what it calls the Q continuum. This entity demonstrates extraordinary power to manipulate space and matter, and interferes with the execution of the Farpoint investigation mission, placing Enterprise -D personnel on trial, charged with being a 'dangerous, savage, child-race'. Commander William T. Riker, previously assigned to the U.S.S. Hood under the command of Captain Robert DeSoto, joins U.S.S. Enterprise -D crew at Farpoint Station and assumes duties of executive officer. Lieutenant (Junior Grade) Geordi La Forge joins the Enterprise -D crew at Farpoint Station, assumes duties of flight controller (conn). Dr. Beverly Crusher also joins the Enterprise -D crew at Farpoint Station, assumes duties of chief medical officer, effective stardate 41154. Also taking up residence aboard the Enterprise -D is her 15-year-old son, Wesley. Dr. Crusher had been married to Starfleet officer Jack Crusher, who at the time of his death was serving aboard the U.S.S. Stargazer under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Starfleet Admiral Leonard McCoy, traveling on starship U.S.S. Hood, makes inspection visit of new U.S.S. Enterprise -D. Editors' Note: The stardate of Beverly Crusher's assignment to the Enterprise -D was established as 41154 in 'Remember Me' (TNG). Picard's reluctance to accept Beverly as chief medical officer is learned, in 'Attached' (TNG) to be because he felt guilt at his feelings of love for his best friend's widow. During the Farpoint mission, Geordi La Forge tells a joke to Data on the bridge, but Data, lacking emotions, is unable to understand the concept of human humor. Star Trek: Generations. Data got the punch line seven years later. The Q continuum does not render a verdict in its trial of humanity. Rather, it continues to observe humanity's representatives aboard the Starship Enterprise -D, looking for evidence that human kind have some capacity for growth. 'All Good Things ...' (TNG). After the events in 'Encounter at Farpoint' (TNG). |
Stardate 41209.2. U.S.S. Enterprise -D assigned to rendezvous with science vessel Tsiolkovsky, which had been monitoring the collapse of a red giant star. A strange series of messages from the Tsiolkovsky suggests severe psychological disorders are threatening the crew. By the time the Enterprise -D reaches the rendezvous, all 80 crew personnel aboard the science vessel are dead. Investigation determines Tsiolkovsky crew suffered from a virus similar to the Psi 2000 disease that affected the crew of an earlier Enterprise in 2266. Contamination from the away team causes the virus to spread among the Enterprise -D crew until an appropriate treatment is developed.
Stardate 41235.25. U.S.S. Enterprise -D on diplomatic mission to establish treaty with planet Ligon II and acquire a rare vaccine needed to treat the plague on planet Stryris IV. Enterprise -D security officer Yar becomes a pawn in a power struggle between Ligonian leader Lutan and his political rivals, who are ultimately successful in deposing Lutan.
Stardate 41294.5. Enterprise -D en route to planet Haven in the Beta Cassius system for shore leave, but is interrupted by urgent call for assistance. Electorine Valeda Innis of Haven, requesting Federation intervention to prevent landing of a Tarellian ship recently detected on course for Haven, explains that diplomatic efforts have failed to dissuade the Tarellians from a plan to disembark on Haven to die. Innis expresses a fear that the Tarellians, the last eight survivors of terrible biological warfare on their planet, will infect Haven with the deadly virus.
Stardate 41263.1. U.S.S. Enterprise -D rendezvous with Starship Fearless for transfer of Kosinski and his assistant, an inhabitant of planet Tau Alpha C.
Stardate 41386.4. U.S.S. Enterprise -D in pursuit of Ferengi spacecraft, attempting to recover T-9 energy converter. Upon entering the Delphi Ardu star system, both ships are incapacitated by a powerful energy beam, apparently emanating from an outpost of the long-dead Tkon Empire. Diplomatic efforts are later successful in freeing both ships, with Ferengi DaiMon Taar agreeing to return the stolen energy converter.
Stardate 41249.3. Starship Enterprise -D on diplomatic mission to transport delegates from planets Antica and Selay in the Beta Renner system to an interstellar conference on the neutral planetoid Parliament in hope of resolving conflicts between the two antagonistic planets, both of which have applied for membership in the Federation.
Stardate 41255.6. U.S.S. Enterprise -D personnel, on shore leave at planet Rubicun III, accidentally violate local laws. Acting Ensign Wesley Crusher commits an apparently minor transgression, but local authorities impose a death sentence for the act in accordance with planetary law. Attempts to negotiate a release for Crusher are unsuccessful because of the presence of a powerful noncorporeal spaceborne entity which the Edo worship as their god. Enterprise -D captain Picard violates the Prime Directive of noninterference by violating local laws to secure Crusher's release.
Stardate 41723.9. Ferengi DaiMon Bok, aboard a Ferengi ship at the Xendi Sabu rendezvous site, offers a gift to Enterprise -D captain Picard: The hulk of Picard's former command, the U.S.S. Stargazer. Examination of records aboard the Stargazer reveals apparently damning evidence suggesting Picard had attacked a Ferengi spacecraft some nine years ago in 'The Battle of Maxia' in which the Stargazer was believed destroyed. The gift is found to be an elaborate ploy by Bok to gain revenge on Picard for the latter's involvement in the Battle of Maxia, during which Bok's son was killed. Bok is also discovered to have falsified the Stargazer records and to have attempted to injure Picard through the use of a Ferengi mind control device.
Stardate 41309.5. Enterprise -D at planet Persephone V to pick up Admiral Mark Jameson and his wife, Anne, for transport to planet Mordan IV to negotiate the release of Federation hostages. Upon arrival at Mordan IV, Jameson reveals that his celebrated negotiations (which led to release of other Federation hostages by Karnas some 45 years ago) was in fact a weapons-for-hostages deal that resulted in a bloody civil war. This conflict ended only five years ago, and it is learned that Karnas has staged the entire hostage crisis as a means of exacting retribution on Jameson for his role in exacerbating the war. Jameson, suffering from the effects of a youth drug obtained on planet Cerebus III, dies at Mordan IV after convincing Karnas to release the hostages.
Stardate 41997.7. U.S.S. Enterprise -D assigned to make diplomatic contact with the reclusive race known as the Jarada. The mission is somewhat delayed when a holodeck malfunction traps Captain Picard and other Enterprise -D personnel in an ongoing simulation program. The contact is ultimately successful in large part because of Captain Picard's precise enunciation of a formal Jaradan greeting.
Stardate 41242.4. U.S.S. Enterprise -D, at Omicron Theta system, takes side trip to planet where Lieutenant Commander Data was discovered. Investigation reveals remains of a Federation colony, apparently destroyed and all inhabitants killed by a powerful spaceborne Crystalline Entity of unknown origin.
Stardate 41636.9. Investigation of probable flight path of Odin escape pods leads to planet Angel I. Survivors of the Odin are found to be alive on the planet's surface, having integrated themselves into the society. Local authorities request removal of survivors on the grounds they are interfering with planetary authority, but Enterprise -D captain Picard rules that the survivors have become a legitimate part of the social system and are thus immune to Prime Directive constraints.
Stardate 41365.9. U.S.S. Enterprise -D at Starbase 74, orbiting Tarsas III for scheduled maintenance layover. Service and upgrades are performed by a special team from planet Bynaus. While in dock, a malfunction is reported, threatening a potentially catastrophic failure of the Enterprise -D's antimatter containment fields. As a result, all Enterprise -D personnel are evacuated, and the ship is removed from the starbase. The incident is later learned to have been engineered by the Bynars in an effort to appropriate the ship for use in restarting their home planet's main computer system in the Beta Magellan system. The Bynar planetary computer had been damaged when Beta Magellan went supernova.
Stardate 41463.9. U.S.S. Enterprise -D mapping assignment at Pleiades cluster is interrupted by a Federation request to investigate a loss of communication with the Federation terraforming team on planet Velara III. The Enterprise -D away team discovers that terraforming activity had been inadvertently disrupting a life- form indigenous to Velara III. This inorganic life-form exists in the narrow electrically conductive zone above the planet's water table, and was threatened by the terraforming process. The life-form is discovered to be intelligent when it responds by seizing control of the Enterprise -D computer. The crew believes that project director Mandl was aware of the intelligent nature of the Velara life-forms and that he authorized the continuation of the terraforming despite that knowledge.
Stardate 41509.1. U.S.S. Enterprise -D discovers the mythical planet of Aldea, which had been shielded from visibility in the Epsilon Mynos system. The planet's inhabitants, found to be a technologically advanced society of artisans, use their sophisticated transporter technology to abduct several children of Enterprise -D crew members. This is discovered to be an effort by the Aldeans to reestablish their race, rendered infertile due to radiation exposure caused by damage to their ozone layer.
Stardate 41416.2. Lieutenant Commander Dexter Remmick of the Starfleet inspector general's office conducts a thorough investigation of the U.S.S. Enterprise -D while the ship is at the Relva VII Starfleet facility. Remmick's assignment to uncover unspecified problems aboard the Enterprise -D is later explained to be a probe of Captain Picard by Admiral Gregory Quinn, a prelude to Picard's being offered the job of commandant of Starfleet Academy. Quinn's offer to Picard is coupled with a plea based on Quinn's suspicions that problems exist within the structure of Starfleet itself. Picard declines the offer, citing his belief that he can better serve the interests of the Federation as captain of the Enterprise -D.
Stardate 41503.7. U.S.S. Enterprise -D responds to a distress call from the freighter Batris, a damaged Talarian freighter. Three survivors, Klingon warriors, are rescued from the Batris before it explodes, although one warrior dies shortly thereafter. Investigation identifies the survivors, Korris and Konmel, to be militants opposing the Klingon government. They attempt to seize control of the Enterprise -D, but are thwarted.
Stardate 41798.2. U.S.S. Enterprise -D at Lorenze Cluster to investigate the disappearance of the U.S.S. Drake at planet Minos. Although the planet Minos had been inhabited in the past, recent probes indicated no intelligent life currently on the planet. Nevertheless, Enterprise -D personnel encounter technically sophisticated weapons systems that threaten both an away team on the planet's surface, and the Enterprise -D itself. Further investigation indicates these weapons systems, still functional, were responsible for the destruction of the Drake, as well as for the entire Minosian culture.
(No stardate given in episode.) U.S.S. Enterprise -D responds to a distress call while studying solar flares at the Delos system. The distress call is found to have originated from the Sanction, a disabled Ornaran interplanetary freighter. Although Enterprise -D personnel are unable to save the freighter, the Sanction's cargo and part of its crew are successfully rescued. It is learned that the Sanction had been transporting medical supplies of felicium from planet Brekka to Ornara in order to keep a 200-year-old plague in check.
Stardate 41601.3. Shuttlecraft 13, carrying Deanna Troi and pilot Ben Prieto on a return flight to the Enterprise -D, is forced to make a crash-landing on planet Vagra II. Investigation by an Enterprise -D away team determines the crash to have been caused by an entity that calls itself Armus. During the investigation, Enterprise -D security chief Tasha Yar is killed by Armus.
Stardate 41697.9. U.S.S. Enterprise -D is en route to planet Sarona VIII, when the ship encounters a brief temporal distortion. This phenomenon is also reported by the freighter Lalo and the Ilecom star system. Shortly thereafter, the Enterprise -D responds to a distress call from a science laboratory on planetoid Vandor IV. Investigation determines the temporal distortions to have been created by Dr. Paul Manheim, studying the relationship between time and gravity. Manheim suffers neurochemical injury caused by the temporal distortions, until Data is successful in repairing the temporal anomaly caused by Manheim's experiments.
Stardate 41775.5. Mission to Pacifica is interrupted when Captain Picard receives an urgent request from Starship Horatio captain Walker Keel for a covert meeting at planetoid Dytallix B. Also present at this meeting are Captain Tryla Scott of the U.S.S. Renegade, and Captain Rixx of the U.S.S. Thomas Paine. At the planetoid, Keel informs Picard of his suspicion that unknown threat forces have infiltrated Starfleet Command and are responsible for recent unusual activity. Shortly thereafter, the Horatio is destroyed with the loss of all personnel, including Walker Keel.
Stardate 41986.0. Awaiting Picard's return from a Starfleet conference, Lieutenant Commander Data discovers an apparently derelict spacecraft. Investigation determines the spacecraft to contain the cryogenically preserved remains of several humans who died in the late 20th century. Three of these individuals are successfully revived because medical advances in the intervening years have rendered their maladies curable. These individuals, named Claire Raymond (who was a homemaker prior to her death), Sonny Clemons (an entertainer), and Ralph Offenhouse (a business executive), are later returned to Earth aboard the U.S.S. Charleston.
