http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Contrib/SciFi/StarTrek/STTNG/season7.html (Einblicke ins Internet, 10/1995)
Notes
Patrick Stewart directed Phantasms,
Jonathan Frakes directed Interface
and Sub Rosa,
Levar Burton directed The Pegasus,
and Gates McFadden directed Genesis.
Filming started early in order to complete all 26 episodes in time for
filming to start on the Next Generation movie such that it can be ready
by Christmas 1994.
Episode Details
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.
(Guest stars include Jonathan Del Arco as Hugh Borg, from
I, Borg ).
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.
Geordi defies Picard's commands and risks his life in what appears
to be a futile attempt to rescue his missing mother.
(Geordi is seen working in a virtual reality environment performing
something like teleoperation on a space probe.)
Riker is shocked to find Picard, who has been missing and presumed
dead, posing as a mercenary on an alien ship.
Picard and Riker masquerade as mercenaries in order to retrieve a
potentially lethal Vulcan artifact.
Data's first bad dream turns into a real-life nightmare
for the rest of the Enterprise crew.
Troi must probe her mother's psyche when a traumatic secret
causes a psychic breakdown that threatens Lwaxana's life.
Imprisoned and telepathically joined by an alien race, Picard and Beverly
are forced to face the feelings they have always had for each other.
An alien brother and sister resort to desperate measures to prove their
theory that warp drive is destroying the universe.
A routine mission to save an endangered planet brings Data face-to-face
with a woman who claims to be his mother.
Returning to the Enterprise from a competition, Worf finds reality
changing, and is troubled when no one else seems to notice. (Wil Wheaton
guests as Wesley Crusher, written by Brannon Braga).
Riker is torn when his former commander, now an admiral, orders him to
hide the real purpose of a risky mission from Picard.
Worf's foster brother violates the Prime Directive in an effort to save
a doomed alien race.
Shortly after her grandmother's death,
Beverly falls under the spell of a ghost lover
who has been in her family for generations.
While enduring the
Enterprise's promotion evaluation process, four junior officers find
themselves involved in a top-secret mission.
Having completely
lost his memory, Data is stranded on a primitive planet where the
inhabitants fear he is carrying a deadly plague.
While an alien archive
transforms the Enterprise into its ancient society, Data is taken
over by several different personalities from the extinct civilization.
While experiencing empathic visions after an officer's mysterious suicide,
Troi becomes romantically involved with Worf.
Picard and Data return
to the Enterprise to discover that the entire crew has de-evolved
into prehistoric beings.
While Picard is
forced to relocate a group of American Indians from a planet they have
settled, one of the colonists causes Wesley to re-examine his future.
(guests stars include Wil Weaton as Wesley Crusher and Erik Menyak
as the Traveller)
A mysterious Klingon turns up to transform Worf's reluctant son Alexander
into a Klingon warrior.
(Guest stars include Gwynyth Walsh as B'etor, Barbara March as Lursa
and Armin Shimerman as Quark)
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.
(Guest stars include Lee Arenberg as Damon Bok)
Everyone (except Picard) is playing with Dr Crusher's new 'Orient Express'
holodeck program - which can in fact go anywhere! Picard wants to know why
he hasn't been invited yet.
The lives of the Enterprise crew are endangered when the ship suddenly
develops its own intelligence.
Lieutenant Ro Laren is forced to choose between her loyalty to Picard
and her hatred toward
Cardassia when she accepts an assignment to infitrate
the Maquis.
(The Good Fight helps to set the scene for Star Trek: Voyager)
Picard finds himself travelling between the past, present, and future while
attempting to prevent the destruction of humanity... by his own actions.
(The story of the journeys of The Starship Enterprise (NCC-1701D) come full
circle with a further encounter with Q.
Guest stars include Colm Meaney as Miles O'Brien, John de Lance as Q,
and Denise Crosby as Lt Tasha Yar)
B.King@ee.surrey.ac.uk & D.White@ee.surrey.ac.uk
25th April 1994