 Stardate 47025.4. At Lore's Borg stronghold in the Delta Quadrant, it is learned that Lore has assumed the role of leader among a group of Borgs that gained a sense of individuality from contact with the Borg individual named Hugh. Lore's effectiveness as leader is made possible because of the emotion chip that he had stolen over two years ago from his creator, Dr. Soong, which enables him to manipulate the emotional inexperience of the Borg. Lore is also able to create powerful emotions in his brother, Data, and uses those emotions to control Data.Lore hopes to use Data and the Borgs to embark on a campaign of conquest, but he is prevented from doing so when Enterprise -D personnel assist the Borg named Hugh in resisting Lore's destructive control. Shortly thereafter, Lore is dismantled, but Data manages to recover their father's emotion chip. |
(No stardate given in episode). The Starship Enterprise -D hosts an Iyaaran delegation, the first cultural exchange between the Iyaaran people and the Federation. Enterprise -D personnel, serving as hosts for the seven-day exchange, initially find the Iyaarans' behavior puzzling, until it is learned that the Iyaarans' culture is dramatically different from many other humanoid species, and that the delegation has been attempting to learn about the concepts of eating and antagonism. Enterprise -D captain Jean-Luc Picard, on a shuttle flight to the Iyaaran homeworld, is apparently marooned after a crash-landing, but this, too, is part of an Iyaaran study, this one into the concept of love.
Stardate 47215.5. Starship Enterprise -D responds to a distress call from the science vessel Raman, finding it in orbit around the planet Marijne VII. A rescue mission using the experimental interface probe reveals that crew of the Raman had been accidentally killed by subspace beings who live in orbit of Marijne VII. One of the beings, trapped aboard the Raman, communicates a message that it is trapped aboard the Raman. At significant risk to his personal safety, Geordi La Forge uses the interface probe to return the Marijne VII beings back to their home in low orbit.
Part I: Stardate 47135.2. Evidence gathered at planet Dessica II suggests that Captain Picard had been killed by a blast from an energy weapon, and Commander William Riker receives authorization to place the Enterprise -D on detached duty to further investigate the incident. During the investigation, Riker is kidnapped by a mercenary group led by Arctus Baran. Aboard Baran's ship, he discovers Picard, who is posing as a smuggler named Galen.
Part II: Stardate 47160.1. Picard and Riker infiltrate Baran's crew in an effort to discover the reason for Baran's raids on Romulan archaeological sites. They learn that Baran has been employed by a militant Vulcan separatist group seeking to reassemble the pieces of the Stone of Gol. The ancient artifact, long thought to be mere myth, is found to be a functional psionic resonator weapon that enables the bearer to kill telepathically. Picard and Riker, with assistance from Enterprise -D personnel, are successful in apprehending Tallera, a member of the separatist group who had masterminded the operation. The psionic resonator is turned over to Vulcan security minister Satok, who promises that it will be destroyed.
Stardate 47225.7. Commander Data finds that his dream-inducing program is now generating nightmares, which he finds to be an unsettling experience. Shortly thereafter, Data finds himself having 'waking dreams', in which he is unable to control his behavior. In one such waking dream, Data stabs and severely injures Counselor Deanna Troi. It is learned that the nightmares are caused by interphasic parasites that came aboard the ship in the new warp core, and that these life-forms are making operation of the warp drive system impossible. Once the nature of the parasites is understood, they are eradicated from the ship with a high-frequency interphasic sweep.
Stardate 47254.1. Ambassador Lwaxana Troi is taken ill because of excessive use of her telepathic abilities in communicating with the Cairn delegation aboard the Enterprise -D. Treatment of Troi indicates her condition has been exacerbated by an old psychic trauma to her metaconscious. The trauma is relieved when Ambassador Troi is able to acknowledge the source of her pain, the death many years ago of her older daughter, Kestra Troi. This is a significant revelation to Deanna Troi, who had not been aware that she had a sister.
Stardate 47304.2. Enterprise -D captain Jean-Luc Picard and Chief Medical Officer Beverly Crusher are abducted while beaming down on to Kesprytt III, apparently by the Prytt government. Initial diplomatic efforts by Executive Officer William Riker to work with both the Kes and the Prytt government to secure the release of both officers are unsuccessful, although their freedom is secured through covert means.
Stardate 47310.2. Starship Enterprise -D investigates the disappearance of the U.S.S. Fleming somewhere in the Hekaras Corridor, a region of space characterized by unusually intense tetryon fields. It is learned that the Fleming, and other vehicles disabled in the area, were disabled by Hekaran scientists who sought to gain the attention of the Federation to their findings that the continued use of warp drive was causing serious damage to the fabric of space.
Stardate 47410.2. Enterprise -D personnel work with Atrean scientists to devise a means to infuse plasma energy into the core of Atrea IV so that stability can be restored to the planet. The plan is executed with only minimal problems.
Stardate 47391.2. Worf's birthday. Starship Enterprise -D is assigned to return to the Argus Array to investigate another apparent malfunction in the subspace telescope.
Stardate 47457.1. The children aboard the Starship Enterprise -D celebrate 'Captain Picard Day', to the acute embarrassment of the ship's commanding officer.
Stardate 47423.9. The Starship Enterprise -D, at planet Boraal II, finds intense plasmonic reactions about to destroy the planet's atmosphere within 38 hours. Federation cultural observer Rozhenko recommends that the Enterprise -D use its resources to rescue some of the indigenous humanoids from Boraal II, but Captain Jean-Luc Picard refuses on Prime Directive grounds. Rozhenko, acting against orders, surreptitiously beams one tribe to one of the ship's holodecks, where he has created a simulation of their planet's environment so that they are unaware that they have left their home. While the Boraals are in the holodeck, the Enterprise -D travels to Vacca VI, a Class-M planet in the Cabral sector, where they are transplanted to their new homes, still unaware that they had been aboard a starship. There is one Boraal casualty, the village chronicle, named Vorin, who accidentally left the holodeck and could not cope with the Federation's technology.
Stardate 47423.9. Following the funeral for her grandmother at the Caldos colony, Beverly Crusher learns that Felisa Howard had a mysterious lover named Ronin for much of her life. Beverly further finds that he is an anaphasic energy life-form, who, in the body of Ronin, had been the lover of Howard women for nearly eight centuries. So powerful is Ronin's attraction that Beverly initially chooses to resign from Starfleet so that she can be with him, but Beverly soon realizes that Ronin's love is a narcotic, and she is forced to destroy him.
Stardate 47566.2. Starship Enterprise -D executive officer William T. Riker and Counselor Deanna Troi prepare their Crew Evaluation Report, recommending promotions and new staff assignments.
Stardate 47611.2. Commander Data, on the surface of Barkon IV, is damaged by exposure to a power surge from the remains of the deep space probe. Although the power surge causes a loss of memory in Data's positronic brain, Data is successful in protecting the inhabitants of Barkon IV from radiation from the probe's casing.
Stardate 47615.2. Sensor scan of the rogue comet reveals an alien artifact in the nucleus, apparently originating in the D'Arsay system some 87 million years ago. During the scan, information from the artifact downloads itself into the Enterprise -D computers, causing the ship's systems to re-create elements of ancient D'Arsay mythology.
Stardate 47623.2. Enterprise -D engineering staff member Dan Kwan commits suicide by jumping into the plasma stream in one of the ship's warp drive nacelles. Investigating the incident, Councilor Deanna Troi experiences a powerful empathic hallucination. It is learned that Kwan's suicide and Troi's hallucination were caused by exposure to an empathic pattern that had been imprinted onto a bulkhead in the nacelle interior. These patterns are determined to have been created eight years ago when three engineers at Starfleet's Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards were involved in a romantic triangle in which a jealous partner killed his lover and rival, then committed suicide by throwing himself into the nacelle's plasma stream.
Stardate 47653.2. U.S.S. Enterprise -D personnel conducting field tests of new tactical systems and weapons upgrades. A series of minor problems, including a stray photon torpedo, plague the tests.
Stardate 47751.2. U.S.S. Enterprise -D travels to planet Dorvan V to carry out Admiral Necheyev's order of evacuating the Federation colonists, in compliance with the new border treaty with the Cardassians. Enterprise -D captain Picard meets with colony leaders in an attempt to negotiate their departure, but the colonists are adamant about remaining in their new homeworld. The situation is made more volatile when the Cardassian warship Vetar, under the command of Gul Evek, arrives early on a survey mission, further increasing the militant resolve of the colonists. Picard is successful in working with the colony leadership and the Cardassian government to develop a highly unorthodox solution. Under this new agreement, the Native American colonists of planet Dorvan V will relinquish their Federation citizenship and agree to live under Cardassian jurisdiction. Colony leader Anthwara indicates to Picard that his role in making it possible for Anthwara's people to remain on their chosen homeworld somehow atones for a crime against Native Americans committed by one of Picard's ancestors centuries ago.
Stardate 47779.4. The rendezvous with the Kearsarge is delayed for four days, making it possible for Enterprise -D to conduct additional studies of the Vodrey Nebula while the ship travels to planet Maranga IV. Lieutenant Worf takes personal leave to take his son, Alexander, to the Klingon Kot'baval festival on Maranga IV, in hopes of kindling the boy's appreciation for his Klingon heritage. Also during the delay, Captain Jean-Luc Picard takes a side trip to the Hatarian system to view the ancient ruins being excavated there.
Stardate 47829.1. The robotic probe delivers a personal message to Enterprise -D captain Jean-Luc Picard from former DaiMon Bok. It is a threat against a person named Jason Vigo, who Bok claims is Picard's son. Picard investigates the threat, finding evidence that Vigo is indeed Picard's son, but further investigation shows Vigo to be the victim of genetic tampering by Bok. Vigo is, in fact, not Picard's son, but the threat and the faked genetic evidence was an effort by Bok to win vengeance on Picard for having caused the death of Bok's son in the Battle of Maxia in 2355.
Stardate 47869.2. Starship Enterprise -D experiences what initially appears to be a malfunction in its computer control systems. Diagnostic analysis of the malfunction reveals the presence of a number of abnormal circuit nodes imbedded into the ship's systems, apparently caused by the magnascopic storm in the Mekorda sector. These nodes transform the ship's computer systems into an emergent life-form that absorbs the programming of the ship's computers and uses its systems to give birth to a new space borne entity near the MacPherson nebula. While under control of the emergent life-form, the ship's holodeck programs appear to merge, providing a means by which the life-form attempts to communicate with the ship's crew.
Stardate 47941.7. Admiral Necheyev assigns Lieutenant Ro to a covert mission to infiltrate the Maquis near the Demilitarized Zone. Ro poses as a fugitive from Starfleet who is wanted for killing a Cardassian soldier and is subsequently invited to join a Maquis cell near the Demilitarized Zone. Ro learns of an impending Maquis preemptive strike against a rumored shipment of Cardassian biogenic weapons. Ro attempts to demonstrate her trustworthiness to her Maquis comrades by conducting a raid on the Starship Enterprise -D to secure badly needed medical supplies. The ploy is successful, and Ro is subsequently assigned to lure a Maquis force into a trap so that they can be captured. At the last moment, Ro feels remorse at betraying her new friends. She aborts the operation, escaping with her Maquis comrades, effectively ending her Starfleet career.
Stardate 47988.1. Enterprise -D captain Jean-Luc Picard reports that he has experienced time shifts between the present day, seven years in the past, and twenty-five years in the future. According to Picard, the time shifts were caused by Q, who did so to give Picard the opportunity to stop a temporal anomaly from destroying all life on Earth. Picard further indicates that he had evidently been directly responsible for creating this anomaly, but this was in fact the work of the Q continuum, rendering a verdict in the trial begun seven years ago. Nevertheless, Picard credits Q with having lent a helping hand, making it possible to save humanity from total annihilation. Picard, believing that normal prohibitions against altering the timeline do not apply in this case, informs his friends of their possible futures, giving them an opportunity to shape their own destinies.
