Season 4

74.  The Best of Both Worlds: Part II -- Having recruited Captain Picard and made him one of their one, the Borg are on course for Earth. A hastily assembled fleet of Starships is ready to do combat. The final confrontation with the unstoppable Borg is imminent.



75.  Family -- With the Enterprise in dry dock for repairs after the Borg attack, Picard, full of doubts about himself and his abilities, beams down to Earth to visit his family's French vineyards. Meanwhile, Worf's receives a visit from his foster parents and Wes gets to know his father.

76.  Brothers -- Data inexplicably malfunctions and isolates himself on the bridge and changes course. It turns out that Data has been automatically and unknowingly "called home" to the lab world of his reclusive creator, Dr. Noonian Soong.

77.  Suddenly Human -- The Enterprise discovers a failed Talarian craft adrift with five unconscious teenage boys, one of them human. Raised a Talarian and known as Jono, the human checks out as Jeremiah Rossa, kidnapped a decade earlier when his parent were killed and his colony attacked by Talarians.

78.  Remember Me -- After welcoming her mentor, Dr. Quaice, Dr. Crusher visits her son in the engineering department. Wesley is working on a warp field experiment. As Beverly watches, the project aborts in a brief flash of light. The moment is forgotten until, one by one, Quaice, her staff, and even the senior bridge officers begin to disappear and no one seems to know anything about the vanished.

79.  Legacy -- The Enterprise attempts to rescue two Federation engineers lost on the late Tasha Yar's planet, Turkana IV. There they are surprised to discover her sister, Ishara, involved with one of two warring factions.

80.  Reunion -- Ambassador K'Ehleyr beams aboard the Enterprise with two pieces of shocking news: Klingon leader K'mpec has been poisoned, and the young boy with her is her and Worf's son. K'mpec want Picard to help him perform the ritual selecting of a new leader and to discover who has poisoned him.

81.  Future Imperfect -- After having passed out during a mission to Alpha Onias III, Riker awakens to an unbelievable scene: sixteen years have passed. He's now captain of the Enterprise and a widower with a teenage son.

82.  Final Mission -- Wesley has finally been accepted into Starfleet Academy, but before he leaves, he is to accompany Captain Picard on one last mission.

83.  The Loss -- The Enterprise finds it cannot resume course after stopping to check out what appeared to be images in its path. At the same moment, Troi, discovers her empathic powers have completely disappeared.

84.  Data's Day -- Data's understanding of human behaviour is put to the test when his friend Keiko Ishikawa gets cold feet on the eve of her wedding to O'Brien and calls off the ceremony. The episode really follows into life on the Enterprise and in particular an ordinary day in Data's life, hence the title.

85.  The Wounded -- Picard is shocked to learn a renegade Federation starship under the command of Captain Benjamin Maxwell is destroying Cardassian ships, threatening the fragile peace that the Federation and the Cardassian Empire have achieved after years of skirmishes.

86.  Devil's Due -- An emergency transmission from a Federation science station sends the Enterprise to Ventax II, where Picard and crew discover a peaceful but meek people about to hand over their world to a woman who claims she is the planet's devil Ardra.

87.  Clues -- As the Enterprise is on its way to investigate a mysterious planet, a wormhole suddenly appears in the ship's path, knocking the crew unconscious. As they begin to come to, Data, who is immune to the wormhole's effects, tells them only thirty seconds have passed. But son evidence mounts that the crew was out for much longer.

88.  First Contact -- A first contact mission on the planet Malcoria III goes awry when Commander Riker (in native disguise) is injured and taken to a native hospital. There, Malcorian doctors soon uncover his true identity. To prevent worldwide panic, Picard and Troi beam down to meet with the astonished planet's leader.



89.  Galaxy's Child -- La Forge's joy at finally meeting Dr. Leah Brahms, the Galaxy class engine designer, whose holodeck image he once fell in love with, turns to ashes when she finally comes aboard the Enterprise. The real Dr. Brahms is cold and highly critical of the field changes Geordi has made to her ship. Meanwhile, the discovery of a new alien life-form ends in tragedy when the creature is accidentally killed, but soon the crew realise that the entity was pregnant.

90.  Night Terrors -- The Enterprise finds the starship Brattain, missing for several weeks, adrift in space. The entire crew save the ship's Betazoid counselor, is dead.

91.  Identity Crisis -- La Forge is disturbed to hear from former shipmate Susanna Leitjen that they are the only two members remaining from an away team sent to Trachannen III five years ago. The others are disappearing and apparently headed for the planet, initially investigated after a small colony disappeared there without a trace. On the surface, three shuttles but no life signs are found.

92.  The Nth Degree -- An energy surge from a probe knocks out La Forge and Lieutenant Barclay, who have been sent to study it from a shuttle. When they come to, both officers seem to be fine, but Barclay soon begins making leaps of insight and showing abilities he never had before. A scan of the lieutenant's brain tissue reveals an underlying physiological reason for his new abilities: He is rapidly evolving into the most advanced human ever seen.



93.  Qpid -- Picard is nervous enough while preparing his speech for the Federation Archaeology Council. Then in quick order he's visited by Vash and then by the pesky super being Q. Q decided to return the favor Picard did him a year ago by getting the stubborn lovers, Picard and Vash, to admit their feelings for each other, in a special simulation of Sherwood Forest with Picard as none other than Robin Hood.

94.  The Drumhead -- An explosion in the Enterprise's dilithium chamber begins a trail of intrigue that leads Worf to suspect a Klingon exchange officer. Noted investigator Admiral Norah Satie comes to help conduct a probe of the incident. And what began as a simple investigation turns into a witch hunt.

95.  Half a Life -- Picard is nervous when Troi's mother returns for a visit. But this time Lwaxana has set her sights on Dr. Timicin, a quiet scientist who's abroad to test stellar ignition theories that may enable him to save his world's dying star. He is crushed when is experiment fails because he is nearly sixty, the age of the ritual resolution: a ritual suicide to save children the burden of their parent's aging.

96.  The Host -- Dr. Crusher falls in love with Odan, a Trill mediator en route to settle a bitter dispute. But while shuttling down to the surface he is mortally wounded by a marauding ship, in surgery Beverly is shocked to find a parasite living inside him. Her surprise is compounded when she learns that Odan himself is the parasite occupying the host body in a joint symbiotic arrangement the Trill have used for generations.

97.  The Mind's Eye En route to an artificial intelligence conference on Risa, Geordi, alone in a shuttlepod, is kidnapped by Romulans, who send a "copy" of him to Risa. Under the supervision of a female Romulan who remains in shadows at all times, Geordi is tortured and brainwashed to obey, without question, instructions transmitted on a certain wavelength to his VISOR. When he returns to the Enterprise - with "memories" of his trip implanted into his mind - Picard deals with a belligerent Klingon colony governor who accuses the Federation of assisting a rebel political faction. In fact, however, there is another Klingon responsible for this, and he is relaying Romulan instructions to Geordi, who may unwittingly become an assassin.

98.  In Theory During the Enterprise's investigation of a dark-matter nebula, Lt. Jenna D'Sora, recently having broken up with a long-time boyfriend, becomes attached to Data, who at first protests that he has no human feelings, and then attempts to emulate emotions. In the meantime, the density of the matter in the nebula pulls off an astonishing disappearing act - making an entire class-M planet fade from existence. And whatever caused that is in the path of the Enterprise.

99.  Redemption, Part I The Enterprise is summoned to the Klingon homeworld so Picard may fulfill his final duty as arbiter of the succession of power there. Gowron intercepts the Enterprise before it arrives, warning Picard that Klingon civil war is brewing. Gowron, about to take control of the empire, is challenged by Lursa and B'etor, the sisters of Duras, who offer his son Toral as an alternative candidate for the throne. Picard, attempting to remain completely neutral in order to avoid accusations that the Federation is taking a hand in Klingon politics, denies Toral's challenge. Those who would the family of Duras attack Gowron's ship as he and Worf discuss the redemption of Worf's family honor. Worf's brother, Kurn, who now leads four squadrons of Klingon ships, saves Gowron from the attackers, but the victory is only temporary. With the revelation that Kurn is also a member of Worf's family, Gowron returns Worf's honor to him. Gowron then requests Federation assistance from Picard, who refuses, citing the recent attack as strictly internal Klingon matters to be dealt with only by the Empire, without Federation interference. Worf requests a leave of absence to stay temporarily on Gowron's ship. When Picard denies permission to do this, Worf resigns from Starfleet and leaves anyway. After Worf departs, the Enterprise leaves the Klingon homeworld to avoid any further involvement. But on the Klingon planet, in the quarters of Lursa and B'etor, a Romulan officer in the shadows steps forth and predicts that Picard may return because "humans have a way of showing up when you least expect them." And this is very true, for the words come from a woman who bears a very strong resemblance to Tasha Yar...in Romulan uniform.

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