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Season 6
126. Time's Arrow: Part II -- The Away Team returns to
the 19th century to rescue Data and save Earth from the depredations
of a strange alien life form from the planet Devida Two, which has
travelled back in time to feed on mankind's neural energy. All working
out fine until Mark Twain ends up in the 24th century.
127 Realm of Fear -- Resident Enterprise milquetoast
Barclay is attacked by a strange creature while transporting for the
first time in his life, yes he's afraid of transporting. Neat first
persons perspective effects while Barclay's being transported.
128. Man of the People -- Lumerian Ambassador Alkar uses
Counsellor Troi as the receptacle for his negative emotions while
mediating a dispute and his earlier receptacle died. Troi soon finds
her self flowing with these negative emotions becoming jumpy, loose
and jealous of everything. Good performance by Marina Sirtis in an
otherwise rather dull episode.
129. Relics -- The Enterprise rescues Montgomery Scott
suspended for 75 years in a transporter beam on board a doomed
Federation transport ship. A man out of time, Scotty proves vital in
saving the Enterprise, one last time, from destruction inside a
Dyson's sphere.
130 Schisms -- Geordi's experiments with a new scanning
system result in members of the crew being abducted and experimented
on in a distant realm of subspace by a strange alien species. Great
character moments, which serve to light up this other wise eerie
episode, include a teaser in which Data gives poetry reading while
Riker struggles to stay awake.
131 True Q -- A lively Q visit in which the omnipotent
super being reveals that Enterprise inter Amanda is actually a Q, a
plot that echoes first season's "Hide & Q". A heavy handed B-story
involves the Tagrians facing environmental disaster.
132. Rascals -- Picard, Guinan, Ensign Ro, Keiko are
transformed into children during a freak shuttle/transporter accident.
This show is against all odds a rather entertaining comedy episode, a
B-story is the Ferengi take-over off the Enterprise. There is a great
technobabble parody moment where Riker erroneously explains the
Enterprise's operations to a befuddled Ferengi.
133. A Fistful of Datas -- When the Holodeck
malfunctions, Worf, Alexander and Troi find themselves facing off
against the spectre of many gunmen when duplicates of Data take over
the computer-generated western. Great fun to watch Brent Spiner
playing six different characters in the show and a there is also a
rather nice western score by James Chattaway a NG vet.
134. Quality of Life -- Scientist Dr. Farallon, the
creator of a revolutionary method for mining using a solar particle
fountain, invents an even more miraculous tool, the Exocomp, a
computerized brain capable of learning-leading Data to the conclusion
that the mechanical devices are a life form and struggles to convince
others to recognize that.
135. Chain of Command: Part I -- When hostilities flare
with the Cardassians, Picard is reassigned on a secret mission and
Captain Edward Jellico is assigned to the Enterprise as its Captain.
Jellico immediately takes a dislike to Riker and inspires loathing
among most of the Enterprise.
136. Chain of Command: Part II -- Picard is captured
during the covert mission established in part I. He is then brutally
tortured by a Cardassian inquisitor, Gul Madred, while Captain Jellico
attempts to ascertain the Cardassian's military strategy and manages
to come up with a few good ones of his own.
137. Ship in a Bottle -- A clever script laced with wry
irony proves a wonderful sequel to second season's "Elementary Dear
Data". In the show Sherlock Holmes arch enemy Moriarty reappears from
storage and to everyone's surprise walks of the Holodeck.
138. Aquiel -- Geordi falls for the prime suspect in a
murder investigation, an opportunity for a real Geordi love story that
ultimately disappoints, thanks to it gratuitous science fiction twist.
139. Face of the Enemy -- In an atypical Star Trek
adventure, Troi awakens aboard a Romulan Warbird and finds she has
been transformed into Romulan officer, Major Rakal, a member of the
feared security force Tal Shiar, responsible for helping the defection
of several important Romulan dignitaries to the Federation. A terrific
instalment that continues the story introduced in "Unification" and
is helped by a tour de force performance by Marina Sirtis.
140. Tapestry -- It's not such a wonderful life for
Picard when Q gives him a chance to relieve his rambunctious Youth to
prevent being killed on an Away Team mission in one of the new TREK's
finest instalments. One of the most compelling and well-realised
stories ever told on TNG with magnificent performance from Stewart and
Lancie.
141. Birthright: Part I -- On a visit to Deep Space Nine,
Worf learns that his father may still be alive in a Romulan prison
camp while a power surge results in Data experiencing a mysterious
vision. A two-part episode that makes good use of the expanded format
by telling a captivating, surreal Data story while also slowly laying
the groundwork for Worf's quest.
142. Birthright: Part II -- Worf attempts to instil a
sense of heritage into the Klingons living in a Romulan
prisoner-of-war camp while trying to execute an escape. Worf most also
battle his own racial prejudice when he finds out that the Klingon
Ba'El is also a Romulan
143. Starship Mine -- During a routine Baryon particle
elimination sweep on the Enterprise, terrorists attempt to steal
trilithium from the ship's engines, leading Picard to play Bruce
Willis as he single-handedly saves himself and the vessel during a
rare Next Generation "run and jump" romp. The episode works best with
it's comic moments including Data's testing of a small-talk program.
144. Lessons -- A potentially mundane and maudlin hour in
which Picard becomes romantically involved with the new chief of the
onboard Stellar Science department, Nella Daren, avoids potential
pitfalls thanks to some extraordinary character drama courtesy of
uncredited story editor Rene Echevarria which broadens the character
of Picard and provides the most satisfying romantic entanglement
depicted on the show.
145. The Chase -- When Picard's mentor is killed the
Captain pursues an archaeological quest for DNA fragments which lead
the ship to a planet which has already attracted feuding Cardassians,
Klingons and Romulans all in a search for the secret encoded within
the DNA. A homage to "classic TREK", capturing the larger-than-life
messages which typified the now classic voyages of the original
Starship Enterprise.
146. Frame of Mind -- Beginning in the midst of an eerie
and dissonant teaser, scripter Brannon Braga crafts a dark and
brooding installment in which Riker finds himself propelled between
life aboard the Enterprise and as an inmate of an alien mental asylum.
Good performance by Jonathan Frakes.
147. Suspicions -- Beverley is relieved of duty after
investigating what she believes is the murder of a Ferengi scientist
who has created a metaphysic shield designed to take a shuttle through
a star's corona.
148. Rightful Heir -- While undergoing a spiritual
crisis, Worf visits a Klingon monastery on Boreth where the image of
the legendary Klingon warrior, Kehless appears to him, seeking to
reclaim his position as leader of the Klingon empire.
149. Second Chances -- A superb freshman directorial
outing for LeVar Burton, with Jonathan Frakes in two roles, that of
Commander Riker and Lieutenant Riker, a duplicate created in a freak
transporter accident eight years before.
150. Timescape -- The Enterprise appears to become
trapped in time in mid-battle with a Romulan Warbird, due to a strange
temporal distortion in an entertaining scientific mystery which
fizzles in its last two acts. The only mistake is to use the Romulans
in this episode, they appear to be too nice.
151. Descent -- It's all set-up and little payoff when
the Borg return to menace the Federation as vicious, individualistic
killing machines during which Data feels his first emotion, anger and
subsequently pleasure, in killing one of the metamorphosed automatons.
Full of great little moments but lacks the ominously fatalistic mood
and searing interpersonal histrionics of its Borg predecessor. Data's
personal dilemma is absorbing.