Notes
From the start of the fourth season, all programmes were made
with a Dolby Surround soundtrack instead of the plain stereo
soundtrack used in earlier seasons.
The 99th episode,
In Theory,
was directed by Patrick Stewart,
the second member of the regular cast to try his hand at it.
Episode Details
After Riker's unsuccessful attempt to destroy the Borg using the main
deflector dish, the Enterprise is left dead in the water.
The Borg continue towards Earth and are intercepted by the Federation
fleet at Wolf 359.
Repairs completed the Enterprise gives chase and arrives at Wolf 359 to
discover the fleet destroyed and the Borg still en route to Earth.
Can Riker devise a plan to defeat the Borg when the whole fleet failed?
While the Enterprise undergoes repairs on Earth, crew members reunite with
family as Picard comes face to face with his jealous brother.
Meanwhile Worf's human foster parents visit the Enterprise to see him.
Data commandeers the Enterprise to take him home to his elderly creator,
Noonian Soon, after he receives a sub-conscious summons. Once there he
clashes with his evil brother Lore.
Picard risks war when he refuses to return a human boy to the alien father
who raised him, and may have abused him.
Wesley's experiment with warp fields results in his mother getting caught
in a universe where the crew are disappearing one by one.
The crew send off a plea for help to the homeworld of the Traveller but
can he arrive in time to show Wesley the way to save her?
A rescue mission leads the crew to the birthplace of their late comrade
Tasha Yar, where they encounter her mysterious sister, Ishara.
When she tricks them into removing a implanted warning device that has kept
the balance in the planets civil war for years, the crew are forced to
examine their motives.
Picard is chosen to mediate a Klingon power struggle by the
poisoned leader of the Klingon Empire who is dying.
Meantime Worf confronts the Klingon, Duras, who disgraced him and
has just killed his mate K'Ehleyr.
Worf discovers that he has a son, Alexander.
After an Away Team mission fails, Riker awakens in sickbay to discover
sixteen years have passed and he now commands the Enterprise.
Slowly he becomes convinced it is an illusion, but what is reality and
what is make believe?
After being accepted by Starfleet Academy, Wesley accompanies Picard on a
final mission, only to find himself struggling to keep the captain alive
when the shuttlecraft crashes on a barren desert world.
The Enterprise becomes trapped in a mysterious void, and at the same time
Troi looses her empathic abilities. Troi becomes convinced that she can
no longer do her job as counselor and resigns.
The impending wedding of his friend Chief O'Brien compounds Data's confusion
about the nuances of human feelings.
In the meantime, the Enterprise plays host to a Vulcan ambassador, T'Pel, who
is not all she seems.
Picard must stop a renegade Federation starship which is making unprovoked
attacks on a former enemy's ship (Cardassians).
Picard fights to save a terrorised planet from a powerful woman who claims
to be the devil, and claims the obediance of an entire race in slavery as
promised in an anicent myth of a deal with the Devil.
The Enterprise travels through a worm hole in which most of the crew
is knocked out for what is apparently 30 seconds.
However, there are signs that say that they were out for much longer.
Then Picard and the crew are shocked to discover that Data is lying to them.
When a survey as part of a first contact mission goes wrong, Riker is
seriously injured and taken to an alien hospital. His life is put in
jeopardy when they suspect he is an alien.
Forced to accelerate the time scale of the mission, Picard and Troi make
contact with a leading scientist and try to convince her they mean no
harm. They tell her of Riker's disappearance, but she cautions them not
to mention it when they meet the planet's leader.
The Enterprise as a parent? Seems so, when it accidentally kills a
space-borne creature whose child comes to believe NCC-1701-D is its
mother.
After finding a devastated ship, the Enterprise too becomes trapped in
the same rift in space, and the crew are plagued by unexplained paranoia
and hallucinations.
After a string of Geordi's former colleagues go missing, Dr. Crusher races
against time to locate a parasite that threatens to
transform Geordi into an alien creature.
Reg Barclay is endowed with super human intelligence by an alien probe
and threatens the safety of the Enterprise.
The mischievous Q turns Picard into Robin Hood and sends him on a quest
designed to force him to prove his love for an old flame (Vash).
After an unexplained explosion appears to be sabotage, a search for a spy
aboard the Enterprise turns into a witch hunt in which
Picard is implicated as a traitor.
Picard risks war when he offers asylum to a visiting scientist who wishes
to escape the ritual suicide mandated by his society.
Dr Crusher falls in love with an alien ambassador from a race known as
the Trill who the Enterprise are transporting to a peace conference. When
his shuttlecraft is attacked and he is fatally injured, they discover that
the Trill are a twinned lifeform consisting of a humanoid host body and a
wormlike symbiot. With the new Trill host still 40 hours away, Riker agrees to
be a temporary host. Beverly must decide whether she can make the leap and
accept the new host as the same person she loved before.
Romulan forces kidnap Geordi and turn him into a killing machine in
order to sour relations between the Federation and the Klingon Empire.
Data experiments with love by pursuing a romantic relationship with a
fellow crew member.
In the meantime, mysterious holes in the fabric of space threaten the
Enterprise.
As civil war threatens the Klingon Empire, Worf's loyalties are torn
between the Federation and his people, while Picard must decide who is
to be the new leader of the Klingon High Council.
B.King@ee.surrey.ac.uk & D.White@ee.surrey.ac.uk
31st January 1994