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ST:TNG Season 6
Notes
The main title sequence reverted to the older non-3-D design used in
seasons 3 & 4.
In Relics,
James Doohan as Scotty
becomes the third of the original
series cast members to appear.
In Second Chances,
LeVar Burton takes the director's chair for the first time.
Episode Details
Taken back through time, Picard and the others must find Data and
stop the alien incursions into Earths past.
The crew return to the 24th century and discover they have left
Picard behind but have a visitor from the 19th Century who most
definitely should not be there.
Reg Barclay is terrified of the transporter. When finally encouraged
to use it, he discovers the horrors he always feared seem very real.
A peace envoy places a fatal grip on Counselor Troi.
When challenged he refuses to release her - can the crew save her
from a premature death?
The Enterprise discovers an old Federation craft lost 70 years before
crashed on the surface of a Dysan sphere. The transporter appears to
have a pattern locked inside it, and when they cause it to rematerialise
Captain Montgomery Scott (Scotty) appears.
Later on Geordi and Scotty return to the crashed ship to try and
recover data from its computer core, and are alarmed when the Enterprise
disappears.
The Enterprise crew suffers bizarre
consequences following a secret, unwelcome alien visit.
A medical examination reveals that Riker's arm has been cut off and
then re-attached.
Q appears with a fatal interest in a young student who is visiting
the Enterprise. Is she really a member of the Q continuum and can
she be trusted with her powers?
A bizarre transporter mishap transform
Picard and three other staff members into children just as a band of
renegade Ferengi attack and take control of the ship.
Worf, Alexander and Troi are trapped on the holodeck when an experiment
linking Data to the main computer goes wrong.
Suddenly all the Holodeck characters take on the appearance and characteristics
of Data and there's no escape.
Data risks Picard and Geordi's lives in order to protect
other ``living'' machines, the Exocomps, when Riker orders their
destruction in order to save an experimental mining project
that is going wrong.
After resigning his command to participate in a dangerous secret mission
to investigate a metagenic weapon rumoured to be in development at a secret
base deep in enemy territory, Captain Picard is taken hostage by the
Cardassians.
While under the command of an unfeeling new captain, the Enterprise attempts
to rescue Picard from the Cardassians.
Meantime Picard is tortured by the Cardassians in the belief that he knows
the Starfleet plans for defending a star system near the Federation border
that they intend to invade.
A calculating Sherlock Holmesian character
- Moriaty from
Elementary, Dear Data
- traps Picard and others
in a holodeck simulation.
During an investigation into the disappearance of the crew of a monitoring
station, Geordi becomes enamored with a beautiful and mysterious Starfleet
lieutenant accused of murder.
Forced to impersonate a Romulan Intelligence officer, Counselor Troi becomes
a pivotal part of an elaborate defection scheme.
In the meantime, the Enterprise plays host to a man who was once a starfleet
ensign but defected to the Romulans but has returned claiming to carry a
message from Ambassador Spock.
After Picard loses his life in a surprise attack, Q gives him the chance
to change his destiny, and avoid the brawl in which he was stabbed through
the heart.
But will Picard be the same man he was if history is re-written?
Worf is accosted on the promenade of Deep Space Nine
by an Alien who claims
his father, Mogh is still alive. Worf is angry at the prospect that his
father might be alive and thus bring dishonour upon his whole family.
Meantime a freak acident causes Data embark on a journey of self-discovery
after an alien probe gives him a vision of his father, Dr Noonian Soon.
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.
The Enterprise is evacuated while it is purged of accumulated radiation.
Returning to collect his saddle from his quarters, Picard discovers that
the ground crew installing protective field generators around key equipment
are not all they seem.
Picard falls in love with the head of Astro-physics and must face up
to the reality of the conflict between his emotions and making unbiased
command decisions.
When Picard's old archeology Professor comes on board and invites him to
join the search for a great mystery, Picard is severely tempted but says no.
When the Professor's shuttle is attacked soon after leaving the Enterprise,
Picard finds himself in a race with Cardassians, Klingons, and
Romulans to solve a four-billion-year old genetic puzzle.
But will solving it unleash the galaxy's most dangerous secret?
Riker is playing a leading role in a play about a patient in a mental
hospital, Riker finds that reality and fantasy have become intermingled.
Apparently trapped in an alien mental hospital, with little memory of the
past, Riker becomes convinced he is going insane.
After his experimental craft fails and the pilot is killed, a pioneering
Ferengi scientist is found dead, and Beverly risks her
career to prove he was murdered.
Soon she becomes so enravelled in the mystery that she disobeys a direct
order from Captain Picard and sparks off a major diplomatic incident.
Desperate, she decides to try the fatal experimental for flight herself.
Worf finds his faith sorely tested when it appears that the greatest
Klingon warrior of all time (Kahless) has returned from the dead to reclaim
the empire.
Returning to the site of an eight-year-old mission, Riker encounters an
identical double of himself created by a transporter failure, who tries to
rekindle his relationship with Troi.
Personalities clash when Lt Riker and Cmdr Riker must go on a mission
together to extract data from the computer core of the deserted research
station.
The Enterprise is frozen in time on the brink of total annihilation,
and Picard must figure out how to rescue it without destroying it.
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.
B.King@ee.surrey.ac.uk & D.White@ee.surrey.ac.uk
31st January 1994