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.

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