Star Trek: The Next Generation
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Cast & Crew
Patrick Stewart Capt. Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes Cmdr. William Riker
LeVar Burton Lt. Cmdr. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn Lt. Worf
Gates McFadden Dr. Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner Lt. Cmdr. Data
Wil Wheaton Wesley Crusher
Denise Crosby Lt. Tasha Yar
Diana Muldaur Dr. Katherine "Kate" Pulaski
Gene Roddenberry Creator
⨁Full Cast & CrewUpcoming TV Airings
The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.
Monday, March 18
Legacy
Season 4 • Episode 6
A rescue mission to Tasha's home world unites Data with the dead officer's sister.
Tuesday, March 19
Liaisons
Season 7 • Episode 2
A cultural exchange teams Worf with an alien and Picard with a woman who seems obsessed with him.
Tuesday, March 19
Interface
Season 7 • Episode 3
Geordi defies Picard and risks his life for his mother by utilizing a dangerous procedure.
Tuesday, March 19
Gambit
Season 7 • Episode 4
Riker and Data face off against a group of mercenaries who loot planets for artifacts.
Tuesday, March 19
Gambit
Season 7 • Episode 5
Picard and Riker pose as enemies on board a mercenary ship to recover an artifact.
Tuesday, March 19
Phantasms
Season 7 • Episode 6
Data has a recurrent nightmare, and Troi thinks he may be neurotic.
Tuesday, March 19
Dark Page
Season 7 • Episode 7
Troi telepathically seeks the cause of Lwaxana's mental breakdown.
Tuesday, March 19
Attached
Season 7 • Episode 8
Implanted devices telepathically join kidnapped Picard and Beverly.
Tuesday, March 19
Reunion
Season 4 • Episode 7
While Picard mediates a Klingon power struggle, Worf copes with his old love and their son.
Wednesday, March 20
Force of Nature
Season 7 • Episode 9
A pair of sibling scientists tries to convince Starfleet that warp drive damages the universe.
Wednesday, March 20
Inheritance
Season 7 • Episode 10
On an endangered planet, Data meets a woman who claims to be his mother.
Wednesday, March 20
Parallels
Season 7 • Episode 11
Nobody but Worf notices continually changing realities after he returns from a bat'leth tournament.
Wednesday, March 20
Future Imperfect
Season 4 • Episode 8
Riker awakens in sick bay to learn 16 years have passed, and he now serves as Enterprise captain.
Thursday, March 21
The Pegasus
Season 7 • Episode 12
An admiral orders Riker to conceal from Picard the reason for a risky mission.
Thursday, March 21
Homeward
Season 7 • Episode 13
Worf's foster brother violates the prime directive to save a doomed primitive race.
Thursday, March 21
Sub Rosa
Season 7 • Episode 14
After her grandmother's death, Beverly falls under the spell of a ghost lover.
Thursday, March 21
Lower Decks
Season 7 • Episode 15
Four junior officers endure a series of challenges while they are evaluated for possible promotion.
Thursday, March 21
Thine Own Self
Season 7 • Episode 16
His memory gone, Data becomes stranded on a planet whose inhabitants fear he carries a plague.
Thursday, March 21
Masks
Season 7 • Episode 17
Strange objects appear on the ship, and various personalities invade Data.
Thursday, March 21
Eye of the Beholder
Season 7 • Episode 18
Troi experiences empathetic visions following an officer's suicide and becomes involved with Worf.
Thursday, March 21
Genesis
Season 7 • Episode 19
A virus transforms the entire crew, except Data, into prehistoric beings.
Thursday, March 21
Journey's End
Season 7 • Episode 20
A treaty gives Cardassians a planet settled by American Indians, and Picard must relocate them.
Thursday, March 21
Firstborn
Season 7 • Episode 21
When Worf's son declares he will not become a warrior, a persuasive Klingon appears to him.
Thursday, March 21
Bloodlines
Season 7 • Episode 22
Picard must protect the son he never knew he had from an old enemy looking for revenge.
Thursday, March 21
Emergence
Season 7 • Episode 23
The starship Enterprise learns to think for itself, endangering the crew and creating a life form.
Thursday, March 21
Final Mission
Season 4 • Episode 9
Before leaving for Starfleet Academy, Wesley accompanies Picard on a dangerous mission.
Friday, March 22
Preemptive Strike
Season 7 • Episode 24
Ensign Ro returns to take on an assignment to infiltrate the Maquis.
Friday, March 22
All Good Things ...
Season 7 • Episode 25
Picard travels through time trying to prevent himself from destroying humanity.
Friday, March 22
All Good Things ...
Season 7 • Episode 26
Picard travels through time trying to prevent himself from destroying humanity.
Friday, March 22
The Loss
Season 4 • Episode 10
As an unknown force drags the Enterprise, Troi struggles with the sudden loss of her powers.
Sunday, March 24
Data's Day
Season 4 • Episode 11
Data tries to comprehend the complex emotions between Chief O'Brien and his bride-to-be, Keiko.
Monday, March 25
Encounter at Farpoint
Season 1 • Episode 1
En route to a space station, the crew meets a powerful alien.
Monday, March 25
Encounter at Farpoint
Season 1 • Episode 2
Q, the mysterious life form, puts the crew on trial for the human race's prior crimes and mistakes.
Monday, March 25
Code of Honor
Season 1 • Episode 4
Lt. Tasha Yar fights for freedom when she is kidnapped by aliens known as Ligonians.
Monday, March 25
Where No One Has Gone Before
Season 1 • Episode 6
A propulsion test backfires and sends the Enterprise hurtling out of the galaxy.
Monday, March 25
Lonely Among Us
Season 1 • Episode 7
The Enterprise enters an energy cloud that affects the ship and crew.
Monday, March 25
The Wounded
Season 4 • Episode 12
The captain of a renegade Federation vessel seeks revenge on a former enemy.
Tuesday, March 26
Justice
Season 1 • Episode 8
Wesley faces a death sentence on a planet with an archaic code of law.
Tuesday, March 26
The Battle
Season 1 • Episode 9
Picard is terrorized by a Ferengi captain out to avenge the death of his son seven years earlier.
Tuesday, March 26
Hide and Q
Season 1 • Episode 10
Riker becomes the major player in a deadly game masterminded by the dangerous and powerful Q entity.
Tuesday, March 26
Haven
Season 1 • Episode 11
Troi's mother arrives to tell her daughter of marriage plans arranged by Deanna's late father.
Tuesday, March 26
The Big Goodbye
Season 1 • Episode 12
Picard, Dr. Crusher and Data become stuck in 1941 San Francisco when the holodeck malfunctions.
Tuesday, March 26
Datalore
Season 1 • Episode 13
An investigation of the colony world where Data was found turns up an unexpected prototype of him.
Tuesday, March 26
Angel One
Season 1 • Episode 14
Riker negotiates for the freedom of male fugitives on a world run by women.
Tuesday, March 26
Devil's Due
Season 4 • Episode 13
The Enterprise arbitrates a contract between a planet and a self-proclaimed demon.
Wednesday, March 27
11001001
Season 1 • Episode 15
Aliens hijack the Enterprise after their computer, a life-support system, breaks down.
Wednesday, March 27
Too Short a Season
Season 1 • Episode 16
An admiral negotiating for the release of hostages hides the tragic outcome of an earlier situation.
Wednesday, March 27
When the Bough Breaks
Season 1 • Episode 17
A hidden world's sterile inhabitants kidnap children from the Enterprise to save their own race.
Wednesday, March 27
Home Soil
Season 1 • Episode 18
A microscopic creature may be responsible for the death of an engineer.
Wednesday, March 27
Clues
Season 4 • Episode 14
After the ship passes through a wormhole in space, Data lies about it.
Thursday, March 28
Coming of Age
Season 1 • Episode 19
While Wesley takes the Starfleet Academy entrance exam, Picard submits to a competence evaluation.
Thursday, March 28
Heart of Glory
Season 1 • Episode 20
Worf must choose between career and heritage when a Klingon fugitive takes control of the ship.
Thursday, March 28
The Arsenal of Freedom
Season 1 • Episode 21
While probing a ship's disappearance, the crew battles a barrage of sophisticated weapons.
Thursday, March 28
Symbiosis
Season 1 • Episode 22
Picard uncovers a deception when he comes between two worlds.
Thursday, March 28
Skin of Evil
Season 1 • Episode 23
The crew suffers a senseless loss during an encounter with a sadistic alien holding Troi captive.
Thursday, March 28
We'll Always Have Paris
Season 1 • Episode 24
An old love haunts Picard, as the away team races to repair a rip in the fabric of time.
Thursday, March 28
Conspiracy
Season 1 • Episode 25
Spurred by reports of misdeeds in Starfleet's top echelon, Picard heads for Earth.
Thursday, March 28
The Neutral Zone
Season 1 • Episode 26
As Picard negotiates with hostile Romulans, he deals with three 20th-century civilians.
Thursday, March 28
First Contact
Season 4 • Episode 15
Wounded Riker is stranded while on a his first mission in a developing world.
Friday, March 29
Galaxy's Child
Season 4 • Episode 16
Geordi's dream woman arrives; the Enterprise must free an unborn alien from its dead mother.
Sunday, March 31
Night Terrors
Season 4 • Episode 17
Trapped in a rift in space, the crew suffers hallucinations and paranoia.
Monday, April 1
Where Silence Has Lease
Season 2 • Episode 2
A being conducting an experiment traps the Enterprise in a region void of energy and matter.
Monday, April 1
Elementary, Dear Data
Season 2 • Episode 3
Data poses as Sherlock Holmes to decipher a puzzle that threatens Dr. Pulaski's life.
Monday, April 1
The Outrageous Okona
Season 2 • Episode 4
A roguish space captain charms all; Data consults a comic about humor.
Monday, April 1
Loud as a Whisper
Season 2 • Episode 5
A war-torn world faces chaos when a deaf mediator loses his means of communication.
Monday, April 1
The Schizoid Man
Season 2 • Episode 6
A brilliant, dying scientist who seeks immortality transfers his mind and knowledge into Data.
Monday, April 1
Unnatural Selection
Season 2 • Episode 7
Dr. Pulaski ages rapidly after being exposed to a mysterious virus.
Monday, April 1
A Matter of Honor
Season 2 • Episode 8
An exchange program makes Riker an officer on a Klingon ship, which later threatens the Enterprise.
Monday, April 1
The Measure of a Man
Season 2 • Episode 9
Data tries to resign his commission when Starfleet orders his disassembly for research purposes.
Monday, April 1
The Dauphin
Season 2 • Episode 10
Wesley falls for a young planetary ruler whose humanoid form conceals a secret.
Monday, April 1
Identity Crisis
Season 4 • Episode 18
Geordi and a former shipmate battle a parasite that threatens to turn them into aliens.
Tuesday, April 2
Contagion
Season 2 • Episode 11
Probes from an ancient world destroy one Starfleet vessel, then turn on the Enterprise.
Tuesday, April 2
The Royale
Season 2 • Episode 12
On an uncharted world, the Enterprise crew encounters a lavish hotel and casino.
Tuesday, April 2
Time Squared
Season 2 • Episode 13
Picard encounters his double in a shuttlecraft found hurtling through space.
Tuesday, April 2
The Icarus Factor
Season 2 • Episode 14
Riker is offered his own command, but his estranged father is the man sent to brief him.
Tuesday, April 2
The Nth Degree
Season 4 • Episode 19
An alien probe endows timid Lt. Barclay with superhuman intelligence and an ego to match.
Wednesday, April 3
Samaritan Snare
Season 2 • Episode 17
While Picard undergoes cardiac surgery, Riker negotiates with aliens who have taken Geordi hostage.
Wednesday, April 3
Up the Long Ladder
Season 2 • Episode 18
A distress call from a small Earth colony leads to another colony, composed entirely of clones.
Wednesday, April 3
Manhunt
Season 2 • Episode 19
Troi's mother (Majel Barrett) searches the Enterprise for the ideal man.
Wednesday, April 3
Qpid
Season 4 • Episode 20
Q creates a Sherwood Forest fantasy to reunite Picard with Vash.
Thursday, April 4
The Emissary
Season 2 • Episode 20
Worf's former love arrives to settle a disagreement between Klingons and the Federation.
Thursday, April 4
Peak Performance
Season 2 • Episode 21
The Ferengi ambush the Enterprise and another vessel during a battle simulation.
Thursday, April 4
Shades of Gray
Season 2 • Episode 22
Pulaski probes Riker's memory to save him from an organism in his nervous system.
Thursday, April 4
Evolution
Season 3 • Episode 1
Wesley's experiment may be at the root of a computer malfunction threatening a scientist's mission.
Thursday, April 4
The Ensigns of Command
Season 3 • Episode 2
Data tries to organize an evacuation of human colonists marked for death by aliens.
Thursday, April 4
The Survivors
Season 3 • Episode 3
The Enterprise finds an elderly couple the only survivors of an attack on a planet.
Thursday, April 4
Who Watches the Watchers?
Season 3 • Episode 4
A primitive culture worships Picard and prepares to offer Troi as a sacrifice.
Thursday, April 4
The Bonding
Season 3 • Episode 5
Killed by a bomb while with Worf's away team, a woman visits her orphaned son hours later.
Thursday, April 4
Booby Trap
Season 3 • Episode 6
The ship is trapped in an energy-draining, radioactive field left over from an ancient war.