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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 1

25 episodes Premiered Sep 28, 1987 Updated Jul 18, 2026

Picking up decades after the original Star Trek series, season one begins the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.

Season overview

Picking up decades after the original Star Trek series, season one begins the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.

Episodes

S1·E1

Encounter at Farpoint

Sep 28, 1987 · 91 min

Stardate: 41153.7. The new commander of the recently built U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC1701-D), Captain Jean-Luc Picard takes the crew on their first mission to discover the secret of F

S1·E2

The Naked Now

Oct 5, 1987 · 46 min

Stardate: 41209.2. The crew of the Enterprise are infected with a virus contracted by the away team while they were investigating the mysterious deaths of the entire crew of the S

S1·E3

Code of Honor

Oct 12, 1987 · 46 min

Stardate: 41235.25. Tasha Yar must fight for her life and a vaccine to save a race of people when she is kidnapped and forced to battle with her abductor's wife.

S1·E4

The Last Outpost

Oct 19, 1987 · 46 min

Stardate: 41386.4. A powerful entity disables the Enterprise and a Ferengi ship. Their only means of escape is if they can correctly answer the riddles he asks.

S1·E5

Where No One Has Gone Before

Oct 26, 1987 · 46 min

Stardate: 41263.1. The Enterprise is flung across space into a distant galaxy billions of light years away when a propulsion engineer and his mysterious companion, attempt to re-de

S1·E6

Lonely Among Us

Nov 2, 1987 · 46 min

Stardate: 41249.3. Picard's mind is taken over by an energy field that the Enterprise passes through.

S1·E7

Justice

Nov 9, 1987 · 46 min

Stardate: 41255.6. Picard is forced to choose between friendship and the Prime Directive when Wesley Crusher is sentenced to death for accidentally breaking the law on Rubicon III.

S1·E8

The Battle

Nov 16, 1987 · 46 min

Stardate: 41723.9. The Ferengi hand over an old ship which Picard once captained, the U.S.S. Stargazer. The Ferengi have installed a mind altering device that alters Picard's mind

S1·E9

Hide and Q

Nov 23, 1987 · 46 min

Stardate: 41590.5. Q places the senior crew of the Enterprise in a war game that pits them against a boar-faced, Napoleonic enemy.

S1·E10

Haven

Nov 30, 1987 · 46 min

Stardate: 41294.5. The mother of Deanna Troi, Lwaxana, pays a surprise visit to the Enterprise and announces the prearranged marriage of Deanna to the son of her mother's late hus

S1·E11

The Big Goodbye

Jan 11, 1988 · 46 min

Stardate: 41997.7. Picard, Dr. Crusher and Data are placed in great danger when the holodeck malfunctions while they are running a Dixon Hill program, which pits them against 1940'

S1·E12

Datalore

Jan 18, 1988 · 46 min

Stardate: 41242.4. While exploring his homeworld, the crew of the Enterprise find android parts that are identical to Data's. When assembled, an 'evil' twin of Data named Lore is

S1·E13

Angel One

Jan 25, 1988 · 46 min

Stardate: 41636.9. The Enterprise discovers the male crew of a crashed Federation freighter are hiding as fugitives on the planet Angel One, which is dominated and ruled by women.

S1·E14

11001001

Feb 1, 1988 · 46 min

Stardate: 41365.9. While undergoing repairs, the Bynar Engineers steal the Enterprise to save their planet from destruction.

S1·E15

Too Short a Season

Feb 8, 1988 · 46 min

Stardate: 41309.5. The aging and terminally ill Starfleet Admiral Mark Jameson, who is negotiating the release of hostages, suddenly begins growing younger through an unexplained p

S1·E16

When the Bough Breaks

Feb 15, 1988 · 46 min

Stardate: 41509.1. The children of the Enterprise, including Wesley Crusher, are abducted by a race of sterile people who are unable to have children of their own.

S1·E17

Home Soil

Feb 22, 1988 · 46 min

Stardate: 41463.9. The members of an away team investigating the death of an engineer encounter vengeful microscopic life forms.

S1·E18

Coming of Age

Mar 14, 1988 · 46 min

Stardate: 41416.2. While Wesley takes the entrance exam to Starfleet Academy, the Enterprise is investigated by the Inspector General's office and Picard's competency is questioned

S1·E19

Heart of Glory

Mar 21, 1988 · 46 min

Stardate: 41503.7. Two Klingons, rescued by the Enterprise, try to take over the ship.

S1·E20

The Arsenal of Freedom

Apr 11, 1988 · 46 min

Stardate: 41798.2. The crew encounters bizarre phenomena while searching for the missing U.S.S. Drake.

S1·E21

Symbiosis

Apr 18, 1988 · 46 min

Stardate: Unknown. Picard attempts to break an ancient co-dependency between two species on one planet without violating the Prime Directive.

S1·E22

Skin of Evil

Apr 25, 1988 · 46 min

Stardate: 41601.3. When Troi's shuttle crashes on an alien planet, a new being is discovered: an entity that thrives on the suffering of others.

S1·E23

We'll Always Have Paris

May 2, 1988 · 46 min

Stardate: 41697.9. Picard meets an old flame, whose husband has created a haywire dimensional experiment.

S1·E24

Conspiracy

May 9, 1988 · 46 min

Stardate: 41775.5. The strange behavior of high-ranking officers leads Picard to uncover a twisted alien conspiracy within Starfleet.

S1·E25

The Neutral Zone

May 16, 1988 · 46 min

Stardate: 41986.0. A derelict satellite is found with cryonically frozen humans aboard as the USS Enterprise is sent to investigate the destruction of outposts near Romulan space.