Star Trek Viewing Guide

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New Frontiers and Foundations

2369–2370 · 96 stops

The Next GenerationDeep Space NineEnterprise

This site is NOT a chronology - it is a viewing guide that will assist you through watching the entire franchise in in-universe story order, all the way from the 21st to the 43rd centuries, while making adjustments as needed to ensure an enjoyable viewing experience.  It is not rigid - some episodes are shifted in the order to keep things as clear and fun as possible. The guide is updated regularly to stay current with new episodes.

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The Next Generation S6 · E2

Realm of Fear

A young Enterprise engineer is forced to confront his paralyzing fear of being transported.

First aired September 28, 1992

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The Next Generation S6 · E3

Man of the People

Troi is drastically transformed when a visiting ambassador secretly uses her to achieve his aims.

First aired October 5, 1992

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The Next Generation S6 · E4

Relics

Trapped in limbo for 75 years, "Star Trek's" Scotty awakens to join the "Next Generation" in the 24th century.

First aired October 12, 1992

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The Next Generation S6 · E5

Schisms

The Enterprise crew suffers bizarre consequences following a secret, unwelcome alien visit.

First aired October 19, 1992

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The Next Generation S6 · E6

True Q

The crew welcomes a new member aboard, a young girl named Amanda. A visitor arrives on board and reveals that Amanda is a Q. When disaster strikes an alien planet, Amanda is forced to choose between living with her new friends on the Enterprise and life as a Q.

First aired October 26, 1992

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The Next Generation S6 · E7

Rascals

A bizarre transporter mishap transforms Picard and three other staff members into children just as Ferengis invade and disable the ship.

First aired November 2, 1992

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The Next Generation S6 · E8

A Fistful of Datas

A Holodeck fantasy goes awry, sending Worf and his son into a Wild West showdown with a villain who's a dead ringer for Data.

First aired November 9, 1992

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The Next Generation S6 · E9

The Quality of Life

Data risks Picard and Geordi's lives in order to protect another "living" machine.

First aired November 16, 1992

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The Next Generation S6 · E10

Chain of Command, Part 1

After resigning his command to participate in a dangerous secret mission, Captain Picard is taken hostage by the Cardassians.

First aired December 14, 1992

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The Next Generation S6 · E11

Chain of Command, Part 2

While under the command of an unfeeling new captain the Enterprise attempts to rescue Picard from the Cardassians.

First aired December 21, 1992

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Joining the guide

First aired January 3, 1993

Deep Space Nine S1 · E1–2

The Emissary

In 2369, Cardassian forces finally withdraw from 70 years of Bajoran occupation -- leaving the planet, the people and an old orbiting mine station stripped and depleted.

First aired January 3, 1993

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Why is this here?

DS9 pretty much works just fine in aired order without any need to be creative. This series ran, and took place concurrently, with both TNG and VOY. I tend to switch back and forth between them in the viewing guide based on airdates, but I do occasionally bend or break that to avoid interrupting a two-parter or a cohesive arc, especially as the physical distance between the two story settings means that adjusting slightly doesn’t cause continuity issues.

Deep Space Nine S1 · E3

Past Prologue

Kira has barely gotten to know her new DS9 colleagues or settled in as a "legitimate" officer of post-occupation Bajor when she has to confront an old fellow freedom-fighter who can't give up the fight -- and the infamous Duras sisters from TNG are a surprise part of his plans.

First aired January 10, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S1 · E4

A Man Alone

Odo, the station's mysterious, gruff and yet incredibly fair shape-shifter constable, falls under suspicion for a Bajora's baffling murder -- and xenophobic hatred rears its ugly head in the station's rush to judgment.

First aired January 17, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S1 · E5

Babel

An aphasia-like virus planted in DS9's food replicator system by the Bajoran underground against their onetime oppressors lies dormant until being activated during refurbishment.

First aired January 24, 1993

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The Next Generation S6 · E12

Ship in a Bottle

A calculating Sherlock Holmesian character traps Picard and others in a holodeck simulation.

First aired January 25, 1993

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The Next Generation S6 · E13

Aquiel

Geordi is enamored with a beautiful and mysterious Starfleet lieutenant accused of murder.

First aired February 1, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S1 · E6

Captive Pursuit

The first two species to visit through the wormhole are hardly ceremonial: one, described only as "Tosk," is being hunted in a formal, ritualized sport that both he and his pursuers enjoy

First aired January 31, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S1 · E7

Q-Less

Famed for their encounters with Capt. Picard, John deLancie guest stars as pesky super-alien "Q" and Jennifer Hetrick reprises her romantic rogue archeologist Vash -- last seen on TNG headed for the Gamma Quadrant.

First aired February 7, 1993

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The Next Generation S6 · E14

Face of the Enemy

Forced to impersonate a Romulan Intelligence official, Counselor Troi becomes a pivotal part of an elaborate defection scheme.

First aired February 8, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S1 · E8

Dax

The nature of Trill symbiosis is explored when a Klaestron commando legal team tries to kidnap Jadzia Dax for alleged treason committed by Curzon, the prior Dax host.

First aired February 14, 1993

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The Next Generation S6 · E15

Tapestry

After Picard loses his life in a surprise attack, Q gives him the chance to change his destiny.

First aired February 15, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S1 · E9

The Passenger

The master Kobliad criminal-scientist Rao Vantika is presumed dead after an inmate transport fire, but his wily pursuer Ty Kajada is not so sure.

First aired February 21, 1993

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The Next Generation S6 · E16

Birthright, Part 1

Worf and Data embark on unusual journeys to seek out their fathers.

First aired February 22, 1993

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The Next Generation S6 · E17

Birthright, Part 2

Imprisoned in a society of peaceful Klingons and Romulans, Worf risks his life to show the younger Klingons their lost heritage and inspire them to claim their honor.

First aired March 1, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S1 · E10

Move Along Home

If the Tosk and Hunters were surprise guests from the Gamma Quadrant, the first formal delegation is just as unorthodox.

First aired March 14, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S1 · E11

The Nagus

Grand Nagus Zek, the leader of the Ferengi Alliance, pays a surprise visit to lowly Quark's Bar to host a conference on exploiting the Gamma Quadrant -- and names Quark, not his own son, as his successor.

First aired March 21, 1993

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The Next Generation S6 · E18

Starship Mine

While the Enterprise is bombarded with lethal rays, Picard is trapped on board with a band of interstellar thieves.

First aired March 29, 1993

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The Next Generation S6 · E19

Lessons

Picard is torn between love and duty when he is forced to send the woman he loves on a potentially deadly mission.

First aired April 5, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S1 · E12

Vortex

A suspicious Odo is still intrigued by Rakhari fugitive Croden's claims of clues to the constable's shape-shifting roots back near Croden's Gamma Quadrant home.

First aired April 18, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S1 · E13

Battle Lines

Kai Opaka's glimpse of the wormhole and Gamma Quadrant turns tragic when she dies in a Runabout crash on a prison moon.

First aired April 25, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S1 · E14

The Storyteller

Chief O'Brien is reluctantly "adopted" as spiritual leader by a Bajoran village that annually follows the "Storyteller" to fight a demon of the town's collective fears.

First aired May 2, 1993

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The Next Generation S6 · E20

The Chase

Picard finds himself in a race with Cardassians, Klingons, and Romulans to solve a four billion year old genetic puzzle.

First aired April 26, 1993

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The Next Generation S6 · E21

Frame of Mind

Trapped in an alien mental hospital, with little memory of the past, Riker is convinced he is going insane.

First aired May 3, 1993

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The Next Generation S6 · E22

Suspicious

Beverly risks her career to solve the murder of a pioneering Ferengi scientist.

First aired May 10, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S1 · E15

Progress

Bajor's fifth moon Jeraddo must be evacuated to make way for a much-needed power plant for the home planet, but one old codger refuses to evacuate. Brian Keith guest stars as Mullibok, who forces Kira to realize just how much she and Bajor have changed in a few short months.

First aired May 9, 1993

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The Next Generation S6 · E23

Rightful Heir

Worf finds his faith sorely tested when it appears that the greatest Klingon warrior of all time has returned from the dead to reclaim the empire.

First aired May 17, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S1 · E16

If Wishes Were Horses

It's harder to decide what's more incredible: little Molly O'Brien's storybook Rumpelstiltskin coming to life, or Jadzia Dax as a sex kitten.

First aired May 16, 1993

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The Next Generation S6 · E24

Second Chances

Returning to the site of an eight-year-old mission, Riker encounters an identical double of himself, who tries to rekindle a relationship with Troi.

First aired May 24, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S1 · E17

The Forsaken

Dreary diplomatic baby-sitting seems to swallow up Dr. Bashir when three of four obnoxious ambassadors come for a tour of the station.

First aired May 23, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S1 · E18

Dramatis Personae

Acting out roles both melodramatic and deadly, the DS9 staff is infected by a viral historical incident archive from an alien culture within the Gamma Quadrant.

First aired May 30, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S1 · E19

Duet

Kira is forced to re-examine her post-occupation prejudices about Cardassians when she encounters a jailed man claiming to be a notorious death camp leader.

First aired June 13, 1993

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The Next Generation S6 · E25

Timescape

The Enterprise is frozen in time on the brink of total annihilation, and Picard must figure out how to rescue it without destroying it.

First aired June 14, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S1 · E20

In the Hands of the Prophets

A bombing at Keiko's school and a would-be sleeper assassination haunts DS9 amid the rise of a fundamentalist faction of the Bajoran faith.

First aired June 20, 1993

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The Next Generation S6 · E26

Descent, Part 1

When the Borg return to do battle with the Federation, they boast a new individuality - and tempt Data when they help him feel his first emotion.

First aired June 21, 1993

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The Next Generation S7 · E1

Descent, Part 2

Picard, Troi, and Geordi are held prisoner by Data, who has left the Enterprise to join his evil brother Lore as leaders of the Borg.

First aired September 20, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E1

The Homecoming

Kira and O'Brien try to rescue a famed Bajoran resistance fighter from a Cardassian slave-labour colony in an attempt to bring peace to the warring Bajoran factions.

First aired September 26, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E2

The Circle

After she is relieved of her post aboard, Deep Space Nine, Kira tries to expose the leaders of the terrorist group known as 'The Circle.'

First aired October 3, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E3

The Siege

Sisko is forced to evacuate the station when the war escalates and turns in favour of the terrorists.

First aired October 10, 1993

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The Next Generation S7 · E2

Liaisons

While the crew plays host to ambassadors from an alien race, Picard is stranded on a barren planet with a woman who falls desperately in love with him.

First aired September 27, 1993

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The Next Generation S7 · E3

Interface

Geordi defies Picard's commands and risks his life in what appears to be a futile attempt to rescue his missing mother.

First aired October 4, 1993

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The Next Generation S7 · E4

Gambit, Part 1

Riker is shocked to find Picard, who has been missing and presumed dead, posing as a mercenary on an alien ship.

First aired October 11, 1993

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The Next Generation S7 · E5

Gambit, Part 2

Picard and Riker masquerade as mercenaries in order to retrieve a potentially lethal Vulcan artifact.

First aired October 18, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E4

Invasive Procedures

An unjoined Trill stages a takeover of the station. Holding the crew hostage, he removes the Dax symbiont from Jadzia to implant into himself.

First aired October 17, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E5

Cardassians

A custody battle emerges over an orphaned Cardassian boy who was raised by Bajorans.

First aired October 24, 1993

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The Next Generation S7 · E6

Phantasms

Data's first bad dream turns into a real-life nightmare for the rest of the Enterprise crew.

First aired October 23, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E6

Melora

Bashir falls in love with a wheelchair-bound woman, who is unable to walk in Deep Space Nine's level of gravity.

First aired October 31, 1993

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The Next Generation S7 · E7

Dark Page

Troi must probe her mother's psyche when a traumatic secret causes a psychic breakdown that threatens Lwaxana's life.

First aired November 1, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E7

Rules of Acquisition

A female Ferengi disguises herself as a male in order to help Quark with business deals in the Gamma Quadrant.

First aired November 7, 1993

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The Next Generation S7 · E8

Attached

Imprisoned and telepathically joined by an alien race, Picard and Beverly are forced to face the feelings they have always had for each other.

First aired November 8, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E8

Necessary Evil

Quark is injured in an attack which Odo suspects is related to a murder committed five years before, in which Kira was the prime suspect.

First aired November 14, 1993

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The Next Generation S7 · E9

Force of Nature

An alien brother and sister resort to desperate measures to prove their theory that warp drive is destroying the universe.

First aired November 15, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E9

Second Sight

For the first time since the death of his wife, Sisko falls in love. However, his new interest seems to suffer from a bizarre form of split personality.

First aired November 21, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E10

Sanctuary

A group of refugees from the Gamma Quadrant claims that Bajor is their long-lost homeland.

First aired November 28, 1993

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The Next Generation S7 · E10

Inheritance

A routine mission to save an endangered planet brings Data face-to-face with a woman who claims to be his mother.

First aired November 22, 1993

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E11

Rivals

A con artist opens a bar with a gambling machine that can alter the laws of probability.

First aired January 2, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E12

The Alternate

Dr. Mora Pol, who first studied Odo as an infant, announces that he may have found Odo's homeworld in the Gamma Quadrant.

First aired January 9, 1994

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The Next Generation S7 · E11

Parallels

Returning to the Enterprise from a competition, Worf finds reality changing, and is troubled when no one else seems to notice.

First aired November 29, 1993

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The Next Generation S7 · E12

The Pegasus

Riker is torn when his former commander, now an admiral, orders him to hide the real purpose of a risky mission from Picard.

First aired January 10, 1994

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Enterprise S4 · E22

These are the Voyages

Commander William Riker of the Enterprise-D is torn between his loyalty to Captain Picard and his duty to a former captain.

First aired May 13, 2005

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Why is this here?

And, of course, that brings us to “These are the Voyages,” the much-maligned finale which uses the framing of a TNG episode to tell an ENT story. I’ve moved this to appear after the TNG episode it is supposed to take place during, as that makes the most sense, even though that does rather emphasize some ways they don’t QUITE line up as well as you might think if you don’t watch them back-to-back. This also has the advantage of making the Demons-Terra Prime two-parter into the de facto season finale, which I think is a much stronger way to end Enterprise (for now).

The Next Generation S7 · E13

Homeward

Worf's foster brother violates the Prime Directive in an effort to save a doomed alien race.

First aired January 17, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E13

Armageddon Game

Bashir and O'Brien come under attack from the people they are trying to help on a warring planet.

First aired January 30, 1994

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The Next Generation S7 · E14

Sub Rosa

Shortly after her grandmother's death, Beverly falls under the spell of a ghost lover who has been in her family for generations.

First aired January 31, 1994

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The Next Generation S7 · E15

Lower Decks

While enduring the Enterprise's promotion evaluation process, four junior officers find themselves involved in a top-secret mission.

First aired February 7, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E14

Whispers

O'Brien returns from an away mission to discover that he has been locked out of every security system on the station, and that everyone has turned against him, including his wife.

First aired February 6, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E15

Paradise

Sisko and O'Brien are stranded on a planet where a colony of humans has made their home. Because no technology can function on the planet, they have ruled it out of their lives.

First aired February 13, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E16

Shadowplay

Odo and Dax discover a village where the inhabitants are disappearing one at a time.

First aired February 20, 1994

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The Next Generation S7 · E16

Thine Own Self

Having completely lost his memory, Data is stranded on a primitive planet where the inhabitants fear he is carrying a deadly plague.

First aired February 14, 1994

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The Next Generation S7 · E17

Masks

While an alien archive transforms the Enterprise into its ancient society, Data is taken over by several different personalities from the extinct civilization.

First aired February 21, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E17

Playing God

While evaluating a Trill initiate for the first time, Lieutenant Dax accidentally discovers a proto-universe whose rapid expansion threatens not only the station, but the entire Alpha Quadrant and beyond.

First aired February 27, 1994

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The Next Generation S7 · E18

Eye of the Beholder

While experiencing empathic visions after an officer's mysterious suicide, Troi becomes romantically involved with Worf.

First aired February 28, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E18

Profit and Loss

Quark puts everything at stake to win back his long love Natima Lang, a Cardassian woman suspected of terrorism on Cardassia

First aired March 20, 1994

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The Next Generation S7 · E19

Genesis

Picard and Data return to the Enterprise to discover that the entire crew has de-evolved into prehistoric beings.

First aired March 21, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E19

Blood Oath

Three Klingons arrive on the station that Curzon Dax took a Klingon blood oath with after their young sons were murdered.

First aired March 27, 1994

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The Next Generation S7 · E20

Journey’s End

Picard is forced to relocate American Indians from a planet they have settled, while a colonist causes Wesley to re-examine his future.

First aired March 28, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E20

The Maquis, Part 1

A band of Cardassian-hating militants known as the 'Maquis' starts attacking Cardassian ships.

First aired April 24, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E20

The Maquis, Part 2

Sisko's friend, Commander Cal Hudson, resigns from Starfleet to join the Maquis in their fight against the Cardassians.

First aired May 1, 1994

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The Next Generation S7 · E21

Firstborn

A mysterious family friend arrives to help transform Worf's reluctant son Alexander into a warrior.

First aired April 25, 1994

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The Next Generation S7 · E22

Bloodlines

Picard learns that he has a son, and that the young man has been targeted for murder by an old enemy in search of revenge.

First aired May 2, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E22

The Wire

Bashir tries to save Garak from a bizarre illness that is soon discovered to be a strange addiction.

First aired May 8, 1994

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The Next Generation S7 · E23

Emergence

The lives of the Enterprise crew are endangered when the ship suddenly develops its own intelligence.

First aired May 9, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E23

Crossover

An accident, which occurs while traveling through the wormhole, leaves Kira and Bashir stranded in an alternate universe where humans are slaves.

First aired May 15, 1994

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The Next Generation S7 · E24

Preemptive Strike

Ro Laren is forced to choose between her loyalty to Picard and her hatred toward Cardassia when she accepts an assignment to infiltrate the Maquis.

First aired May 16, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E24

The Collaborator

Kira discovers that the man she loves, Vedek Bareil, may have been responsible for the death of 43 Bajoran freedom fighters.

First aired May 22, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E25

Tribunal

As Miles and Keiko O'Brien head off on their first vacation in years, the chief is detained and arrested by Cardassian military forces and forced to stand trial with death being his sentence.

First aired June 5, 1994

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Deep Space Nine S2 · E26

The Jem’hadar

While supervising Jake and Nog during a school field trip to the Gamma Quadrant, Commander Sisko and Quark are captured by the soldiers of the Dominion: The Jem'Hadar.

First aired June 12, 1994

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The Next Generation S7 · E25–26

All Good Things

Picard finds himself traveling between the past, present, and future while attempting to prevent the destruction of humanity... by his own actions.

First aired May 23, 1994

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