Category: Star Trek: The Next Generation

Synopsis: The Enterprise comes in contact with a life force entity that impregnates Counselor Troi. In “The Child” a life force entity, which appears as a comet-like light, comes in close proximity to the Enterprise as it passes it on her way to ‘audit IX. The life force entity becomes curious about the humanoid species… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2, Episode 1: “The Child”

Synopsis: The Enterprise encounters an ancient space capsule from Earth just before it is ordered on a dangerous mission in the Neutral Zone. This is the last episode in the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and as such, part of its unstated mission is to leave viewers with baited-breathe in anticipation of… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1, Episode 26: “The Neutral Zone”

Synopsis: After Captain Picard receives a mysterious top-secret message from a fellow Starfleet captain, he orders the Enterprise to Earth to investigate Starfleet Headquarters. The cause of the conspiracy at the center of this episode, can be seen as an illustration of Carl (C. G.) Jung’s concept of a complex. This idea is so central… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1, Episode 25: “Conspiracy”

Synopsis: When the Enterprise answers a distress call from a remote planetoid, Captain Picard is reunited with a woman from his past. In “We’ll Always Have Paris” Counselor Deanna Troi offers Captain Jean-Luc Picard her guidance, telling him that he does not like to confront his deep feelings and tends to repress them. But when… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1, Episode 24: “We’ll Always Have Paris”

Synopsis: A shuttlecraft bringing Counsellor Troi back to the Enterprise crash lands on a planet that is inhabited by a being that claims to be evil itself. In this episode, the crew of the Enterprise is confronted by an entity that claims to be the evil skin of a race of titans, that was abandoned… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1, Episode 23: “Skin of Evil”

Synopsis: The Enterprise receives a distress signal from a freighter and end up rescuing individuals from two planets with a strong relationship to the cargo they were transporting. In this episode, representatives from two neighboring planets, Brekka and Ornara, dispute the ownership of the cargo that was recovered, along with themselves, when the freighter carrying… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1, Episode 22: “Symbiosis”

Synopsis: On a mission to investigate the disappearance of a Starfleet vessel, the crew of the Enterprise encounters a planet populated now only by computer generated sales pitches for weapon systems. Like many episodes in Star Trek: The Next Generation in “The Arsenal of Freedom” there is a plotline aboard the Enterprise, and a separate… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1, Episode 21: “The Arsenal of Freedom”

Synopsis: On a mission to investigate disturbances in the Neutral Zone the crew of the Enterprise encounter three Klingons who have taken over a cargo vessel. “Heart of Glory” elucidates the idea of different ways of seeing, both physically, as the blind Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge does using his visor, and culturally, as Lt.… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1, Episode 20: “Heart of Glory”

Synopsis: On Relva VII Wesley Crusher takes his test for admission to Starfleet Academy at the same time that Captain Picard is considered for promotion. This episode seems to illustrate a bit of an in between place. Acting Ensign Wesley Crusher taking his exams for Starfleet Academy while Admiral Quinn and Lt. Commander Dexter Remmick… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1, Episode 19: “Coming of Age”

Synopsis: The Enterprise visits a terraforming operation on a lifeless planet and encounters a biological lifeform that is harmed by it. The whole concept of terraforming, which was also a plotline in the films Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, fairly screams of inflation, the concept… Continue reading Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1, Episode 18: “Home Soil”