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Elementary, Dear Data

Summary Data dons a deerstalker to solve a Sherlock Homes mystery in a holodeck recreation of Victorian London. Our Take Solid, satisfying television. The season’s engine keeps turning and the character work pays.

Where Silence Has Lease

Summary A being conducting an experiment traps the Enterprise in a region void of energy and matter. Our Take Very good, not the series’ peak, but an hour that reminds you why Star Trek: The Next Generation works.

The Child

Summary Counselor Deanna Troi announces she is pregnant; the crew sets out to bring a deadly plasma plague to a laboratory. Our Take Fine. Just fine. Star Trek: The Next Generation has better hours than this one.

The Neutral Zone

Summary The Enterprise encounters an ancient capsule containing cryogenically frozen people from 20th Century Earth. Data then brings them on board while the Enterprise is on its way to investigate a series of destroyed Federation outposts at the edge of…

Conspiracy

Summary Spurred by reports of misdeeds in Starfleet’s top echelon, Captain Picard heads for Earth to uncover the truth. Our Take Confident and engaging. The plot moves, the stakes feel real, and the hour flies by.

We’ll Always Have Paris

Summary Captain Picard reflects on a missed liason at a Paris cafe years in his past when the Enterprise gets a distress call from a scientist who is experimenting with Time rifts and is married to the lady he was…

Skin of Evil

Summary Deanna is held hostage by a black oil like alien creature capable of infinite sadism… and infinite power. To save her, one of the Enterprise crew will die. Our Take Fine. Just fine. Star Trek: The Next Generation has…

Symbiosis

Summary When the Enterprise rescues a freighter with engine problems and is being drawn into a planets gravitational field, Picard gets more than he bargained for when it is discovered that the one planets inhabitants may be carrying a disease.…

The Arsenal of Freedom

Summary While investigating the disappearance of the star ship Drake, an away team beams down to a strange planet where they received a message about arms sales upon arriving in orbit. Captain Picard and Dr. Crusher vanish during the mission…

Heart of Glory

Summary The Enterprise rescues the crew of a damaged vessel in the Neutral zone, discovering several renegade Klingons who decide that they want Lt. Worf to join them. Our Take A soundly crafted episode with more hits than misses. Worth…