Star Trek: The Next Generation season 5 - Metacritic

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Sep 21, 1991

Syndicated
Sep 21, 1991

Summary "Space... The final frontier... These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds... To seek out new life; new civilisations... To boldly go where no one has gone before!" Monologue of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the opening credits Star Trek: The Next Generation is a science fic...

Created By: Gene Roddenberry

Syndicated
Sep 21, 1991

Syndicated
Sep 21, 1991

Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season 5

7 Seasons

Season Premiere: Sep 21, 1991

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Summary "Space... The final frontier... These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds... To seek out new life; new civilisations... To boldly go where no one has gone before!" Monologue of Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the opening credits Star Trek: The Next Generation is a science fic...

Created By: Gene Roddenberry

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Episode 1 • Sep 21, 1991 • 46 m

As Worf fights in the Klingon Civil War, Captain Picard and his crew must stop the Romulans from helping their pawns achieve victory.

Episode 2 • Sep 28, 1991 • 46 m

Picard must learn to communicate with a race that speaks in metaphor under a difficult set of circumstances.

Episode 3 • Oct 5, 1991 • 46 m

Captain Picard foils a plot against the Bajorans with his new Bajoran officer, Ensign Ro.

Episode 4 • Oct 12, 1991 • 45 m

The Crystalline Entity returns, and the Enterprise takes aboard a scientist to help track it down, but her personal agenda does not match Capt. Picard's.

Episode 5 • Oct 19, 1991 • 46 m

Collision with a quantum filament leaves Troi in charge of a damaged and endangered Enterprise with emergency bulkheads cutting off sections of the ship.

Episode 6 • Oct 26, 1991 • 45 m

Wesley Crusher returns to the Enterprise on vacation from the Academy only to discover a mysterious alien game infiltrating and controlling the crew.

Episode 7 • Nov 2, 1991 • 45 m

Picard and Data follow Spock into Romulan space on a dangerous mission.

Episode 8 • Nov 9, 1991 • 45 m

On Romulus, Picard finds Spock, as well as an underground peace movement, a double agent, a bold ulterior motive against the Federation, and a familiar adversary.

Episode 9 • Nov 16, 1991 • 45 m

A Matter of Time

Reaching Penthara IV after an asteroid wreaks havoc of catastrophic proportions, the Enterprise crew deals with trying to save the planet as well as deal with someone who claims to be a historian from the future.

Episode 10 • Jan 4, 1992 • 46 m

Geordi can barely curtail his enthusiasm at being able to test out a new theory of transportation, as Worf's mother boards the Enterprise with his son and news that Worf's Earthly parents can no longer care for him.

Episode 11 • Jan 25, 1992 • 46 m

Data rescues an orphaned boy named Timothy from a damaged ship. As a way to repress his own pain, Timothy begins to mimic Data's personality.

Episode 12 • Feb 1, 1992 • 45 m

Transporting three Ullian mind-probing historians, the Enterprise crew is stymied when some of its members fall into a coma. Deanna Troi, the first crew member to come through it, cannot recall anything surrounding the incident.

Episode 13 • Feb 8, 1992 • 46 m

The Masterpiece Society

Working together to prevent the annihilation of a perfectly balanced, isolated society (with no contingency for outside visitors) may, in fact, destroy it.

Episode 14 • Feb 15, 1992 • 46 m

When an approaching alien ship wipes their memory, the crew struggles to put back together what happened.

Episode 15 • Feb 22, 1992 • 45 m

A long-lost ship is found on a planet where cosmic storms prevented detection for 200 years. When a surface landing goes wrong, the away team is beamed back...with a few extra surprises.

Episode 16 • Feb 29, 1992 • 46 m

After an accident that leaves him no longer able to walk, Worf asks Riker to help him commit suicide.

Episode 17 • Mar 14, 1992 • 45 m

While aiding an androgynous race who lost a couple of members in an unmapped region of space, Riker falls for one of them, which can lead to trouble if detected, since the alien race does not endorse gender specificity.

Episode 18 • Mar 21, 1992 • 46 m

Cause and Effect

The Enterprise gets caught in a time loop which always has one result: total destruction of the ship, itself.

Episode 19 • Mar 28, 1992 • 45 m

Wesley Crusher's team has an accident at Starfleet Academy. Picard offers to help a Starfleet investigation as to what happened, and begins to suspect they are hiding something.

Episode 20 • Apr 18, 1992 • 46 m

As undetectable parasites devour the ship, Deanna's mother arrives, taking young Alexander under her wing en route to meeting a man she's blindly agreed to marry.

Episode 21 • Apr 25, 1992 • 45 m

The Perfect Mate

Ferengi machinations unleash a diplomatic gift aboard the Enterprise - the rare, empathic perfect mate, ready to bond with any male around her.

Episode 22 • May 2, 1992 • 45 m

Imaginary Friend

A powerful, potentially dangerous energy life form, intent on scouting out the Enterprise, steps into the role of a girl's imaginary friend.

Episode 23 • May 9, 1992 • 46 m

The Enterprise finds a lone Borg drone, separated from the collective, and brings him aboard. The drone begins to reassert his individuality, but his presence causes differing levels of fear and sympathy from various crew members.

Episode 24 • May 16, 1992 • 46 m

A transporter malfunction, combined with a Romulan ship under stress and a damaged cloaking device, creates the illusion that Ensign Ro and Geordi are dead, but Geordi doesn't believe it to be so, and he acts accordingly.

Episode 25 • May 30, 1992 • 45 m

The Inner Light

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 captain.

Episode 26 • Jun 13, 1992 • 45 m

Captain Picard and his archaeological curiosity are called upon by scientists from Earth when they find evidence to support beliefs that aliens had visited Earth in the late 1800s.

7 Seasons

Top Cast

Patrick Stewart

Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Locutus of Borg, Michael Williams

Brent Spiner

Lieutenant Commander Data, Lore, Dr. Noonien Soong

Jonathan Frakes

Commander William Thomas 'Will' Riker, Lieutenant Thomas Riker

LeVar Burton

Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge, Lieutenant Geordi La Forge

Marina Sirtis

Counselor Deanna Troi

Michael Dorn

Lieutenant Worf, Commander Worf, Risa Tourist

Gates McFadden

Doctor Beverly Crusher, Dr. Beverly Crusher

Majel Barrett

Enterprise Computer, Lwaxana Troi, Narrator

Wil Wheaton

Wesley Crusher, Acting Ensign Wesley Crusher, Ensign Wesley Crusher

Colm Meaney

Chief Miles O'Brien, Transporter Chief, Battle Bridge Conn

James G. Becker

Youngblood, Ten Forward Crew

Denise Crosby

Lieutenant Natasha 'Tasha' Yar, Sela

Whoopi Goldberg

Guinan

Diana Muldaur

Doctor Katherine Pulaski, Doctor Pulaski

Patti Yasutake

Nurse Alyssa Ogawa, Doctor Alyssa Ogawa

Dennis Madalone

Ansata Terrorist, Borg, Cardassian, Fajo's Henchman 1, Guard, Holodeck Warrior, Holographic Warrior, Ramos, Science Division Crewman, Transporter Technician

Michelle Forbes

Ensign Ro Laren, Dara, Lieutenant Ro Laren

Rosalind Chao

Keiko O'Brien, Keiko Ishikawa

John de Lancie

Q

Brian Bonsall

Alexander Rozhenko

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User Score

Universal Acclaim Based on 35 User Ratings

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34 Ratings

0% Mixed
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3% Negative
1 Rating

User Reviews

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Universal Acclaim Based on 35 User Ratings

97% Positive
34 Ratings

0% Mixed
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3% Negative
1 Rating

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