Following her grandmother Felisa Howard’s funeral on Caldos IV, Dr. Crusher finds diaries revealing that the old woman had a young lover named Ronin. Ronin appears to have romanced her family’s women for centuries. Ned Quint, a friend of her grandmother, warns Beverly about Ronin, but after some odd sensations of pleasure she is finally […]
Nikolai Rozhenko, Worf’s foster brother, has been living on the primitive planet Boraal II for some time, where he played more than just a cultural observer. When the planet’s atmosphere is about to dissipate and the rest of the crew is just watching how every living being dies, Nikolai has created a duplicate of the […]
Admiral Erik Pressman leads the Enterprise on a mission to recover the U.S.S. Pegasus which he and Riker, at that time one of his junior officers, had to abandon years ago. He doesn’t tell Picard the whole story, and he demands that Riker be silent about the events on the Pegasus. Actually, Pressman was testing […]
After returning from a victorious bat’leth competition, Worf notices that reality changes from one moment to another, beginning with the color of his birthday cake. The changes become more severe, and at some point he is not able to return fire during a Cardassian attack because the console configuration suddenly becomes unfamiliar - causing Geordi’s […]
While the Enterprise is helping in reheating the cooling magma core of Atrea IV, Juliana Tainer, married to one of the participating scientists, introduces herself as Soong’s ex-wife and, in a manner of speaking, Data’s mother. When pressed, she tearfully admits that she was against Data’s creation and wanted him dismantled when they left, all […]
When the Enterprise searches for the missing medical ship Fleming in the Hekaras Corridor - the only safe route through an area filled with tetryon particles - a Ferengi ship suddenly opens fire. DaiMon Prak claims that his ship has been disabled by a Federation buoy, and the Enterprise is attacked the same way only […]
The Enterprise visits Kesprytt because the Kes, unlike their xenophobic neighbors on the planet, the Prytt, have applied for Federation membership. When Picard and Beverly beam down, the transporter beam is redirected and they are taken prisoners by the Prytt. They manage to escape with the help of a Kes agent, but they discover that […]
Lwaxana Troi seems to be tired, even depressive, in the presence of the telepathic Cairn who until recently didn’t have a spoken language. When Lwaxana breaks down, Maques, one of the Cairn, discovers that some buried traumatic memory must have resurfaced. Maques acts as a telepathic bridge, so Deanna can read her mother’s mind, but […]
Data becomes troubled by disturbing nightmares from his dreaming program, including a “cellular peptide cake” in the shape of Deanna Troi and workmen apparently disrupting a plasma conduit. When Data begins seeing strange mouth images on his crewmates and finally stabs Deanna into the shoulder, he is confined to quarters. Beverly, examining Deanna, finds […]
It seems Picard was vaporized in a bar weeks ago, but Riker, unwilling to accept that his captain is dead, follows the trace of the possible murderers to Barradas III. Suddenly the away team is ambushed by a group of mercenaries. They kidnap Riker who is surprised to find Picard alive - as one of […]