Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 5
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5 continues the overarching saga across twenty-six episodes. The season features new stars, new stories, and new worlds to explore as the journey continues aboard the starship. Throughout this season, the crew encounters various challenges and adventures as they navigate deep space, upholding the principles of exploration and discovery within the science fiction, action and adven
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- The crew of the starship explores new worlds and encounters new stories.
- The overarching saga continues across multiple episodes with new stars.
- The series blends science fiction, fantasy, action, adventure, drama, and mystery elements.
- The ongoing voyage focuses on deep space exploration and unfolding adventures.
Season overview
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5 continues the overarching saga across twenty-six episodes. The season features new stars, new stories, and new worlds to explore as the journey continues aboard the starship. Throughout this season, the crew encounters various challenges and adventures as they navigate deep space, upholding the principles of exploration and discovery within the science fiction, action and adventure, drama, and mystery genres.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Redemption (2)
Sep 23, 1991 · 46 min
Stardate: 45020.4. Picard suspects a Romulan influence in the recent Klingon civil war, and must force the Federation to intervene before the Empire collapses.
Darmok
Sep 30, 1991 · 46 min
Stardate: 45047.2. Picard must find a way to communicate with the newly discovered Tamarians, who speak entirely in metaphors, when a Tamarian Captain is brutally killed.
Ensign Ro
Oct 7, 1991 · 46 min
Stardate: 45076.3. Picard exposes a planned genocidal attack on the Bajorans with the help of a new officer, Ensign Ro Laren.
Silicon Avatar
Oct 14, 1991 · 46 min
Stardate: 45122.3. Picard attempts communications with the Crystalline Entity - a life form responsible for hundreds of deaths throughout the Alpha Quadrant. However, a scientist o
Disaster
Oct 21, 1991 · 46 min
Stardate: 45156.1. A natural disaster leaves Troi in command of the Enterprise, Picard stuck in a turbo lift with three small children and Keiko O'Brien stuck in Ten-Forward giving
The Game
Oct 28, 1991 · 46 min
Stardate: 45208.2. An addictive game is distributed among the crew of the Enterprise, however, it appears that this game interferes with a person's logic and reason, which leaves t
Unification (1)
Nov 4, 1991 · 46 min
Stardate: 45233.1. Ambassador Spock has disappeared and intelligence finds him on Romulus. Captain Picard is sent to Romulus to find Spock. Meanwhile Riker and the rest of the cr
Unification (2)
Nov 11, 1991 · 46 min
Stardate: 45245.8. Picard and Data find Spock and discover the reason behind the secret meetings. However, a darker scheme planned by the Romulans is also uncovered in the process.
A Matter of Time
Nov 18, 1991 · 46 min
Stardate: 45349.1. While on a mission to help a planet recently struck by an asteroid, the Enterprise is paid a visit by a man who claims to be from the future.
New Ground
Jan 6, 1992 · 46 min
Stardate: 45376.3. Worf's son, Alexander, unexpectedly arrives on the Enterprise to stay with his father. However, Alexander wants to stay permanently.
Hero Worship
Jan 27, 1992 · 46 min
Stardate: 45397.3. The Enterprise investigates the cause of an explosion that destroyed a small ship and its entire crew, except for a small boy.
Violations
Feb 3, 1992 · 46 min
Stardate: 45429.3. While escorting a group of telepaths, crew members on board the Enterprise suddenly start to slip into comas.
The Masterpiece Society
Feb 10, 1992 · 46 min
Stardate: 45470.1. A natural disaster in the core of a system's sun threatens to destroy a colony of genetically engineered people on an otherwise desolate planet. However, the cre
Conundrum
Feb 17, 1992 · 46 min
Stardate: 45494.2. The Enterprise crew unknowingly receives a new first officer who claims that the Federation is at war with another species.
Power Play
Feb 24, 1992 · 46 min
Stardate: 45571.2. While en route to the source of a subspace distress signal coming from a desolate moon, Data, Troi and O'Brien take over the bridge and force the ship to change
Ethics
Mar 2, 1992 · 46 min
Stardate: 45587.3. When Worf is paralysed in an accident he must undergo drastic back surgery. However, this experimental technique may cost him his life.
The Outcast
Mar 16, 1992 · 46 min
Stardate: 45614.6. While investigating the disappearance of a J'naii shuttlecraft, the crew finds reason to believe the missing ship is stranded in an abnormal pocket called "null
Cause and Effect
Mar 23, 1992 · 46 min
Stardate: 45652.1. While exploring the Typhon Expanse, the Enterprise is caught in a time warp in which they are repeatedly destroyed while colliding with another starship.
The First Duty
Mar 30, 1992 · 46 min
Stardate: 45703.9. Wesley is involved in a cover-up at Starfleet Academy when a cadet is killed and five shuttles are destroyed during a forbidden maneuver performed by Starfleet A
Cost of Living
Apr 20, 1992 · 46 min
Stardate: 45733.6. Deanna's mother pays a surprise visit to the Enterprise with even more surprising news: she plans to marry a man she has never met. After destroying an asteroid,
The Perfect Mate
Apr 27, 1992 · 46 min
Stardate: 45761.3. The Ferengi try to abduct an empathic Metamorph who could bring peace between two warring worlds.
Imaginary Friend
May 4, 1992 · 46 min
Stardate: 45852.1. While exploring a strange form of energy in a region of space, a little girl's imaginary friend becomes real and places the Enterprise in great danger.
I, Borg
May 11, 1992 · 46 min
Stardate: 45854.2. An injured Borg is discovered and brought back to the Enterprise where he is 'repaired' by Dr. Crusher and befriended by Geordi, who names him 'Hugh.' Soon, Hugh
The Next Phase
May 18, 1992 · 46 min
Stardate: 45892.4. While the Enterprise helps a Romulan science vessel, an accident occurs which forces Geordi LaForge and Ro Laren slightly out of 'phase', causing them to become
The Inner Light
Jun 1, 1992 · 46 min
Stardate: 45944.1. Picard awakes to find himself living in a small village where he is a well-known member of the community who is suffering from a delusion of being a starship cap
Time's Arrow (1)
Jun 15, 1992 · 46 min
Stardate: 45959.1. Data's head is uncovered in an archaeological dig on Earth, where evidence is also found that aliens may have been on Earth as early as the 19th Century. Using m