Starship Enterprise - The Next Century / Season 5

Season 5 of Starship Enterprise - The Next Century
Episodes	26th
Country of production	United States
First broadcast	21 Sep 1991 - June 13, 1992 on syndication
German-language first broadcast	March 28, 1994 - May 10, 1994 on Sat.1
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The fifth season of the American science fiction - television series Star Trek - The Next Generation includes 26 episodes and was in the United States between September 1991 and June 1992 erstausgestrahlt. In Germany, Sat.1 showed the episodes in the spring of 1994. All episodes are also available on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray.

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No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
101	1	The battle for the Klingon Empire part 2	Redemption II	21 Sep 1991	28 Mar 1994	David Carson	Ronald D. Moore
Picard succeeds with his proposal to the Starfleet leadership to do something about the Romulans supplying the Duras faction with material. In order to block the material deliveries and thus prevent a strengthening of the Duras faction and the Romulans against the Federation, Picard leads a fleet of 23 Starfleet ships with the Enterprise and builds a detection field with the ships to uncover Romulan spaceships. The Romulans notice the field, whereupon their half-human, half-Romulan leader introduces herself to Picard as Sela, the daughter of Tasha Yar and a Romulan. Sela, threatening war, gives Picard an ultimatum of several hours within which the Federation fleet is to withdraw. Guinan assures Picard that Yar did not die on the Enterprise-C in the battle of Narendra III and that Sela could therefore be born. Sela assures Picard that Yar was executed four years after Sela's birth. Worf and Kurn face resistance from other Klingons against themselves and Gowron. On Sela's order, Lursa and B'tor kidnap Worf and fail in their attempt to convince Worf to act as the father figure for the Toral they prefer as the Klingon ruler. After Sela's ship succeeded in deactivating the detection network selectively, Data, as the acting captain of the Federation ship Sutherland, uncovered the Romulan ships, which then withdrew. After he was freed by Kurn, Worf comes to the realization that he belongs to Starfleet, whereupon he gives the life of Toral, who was sentenced to death for high treason, and resumes his service on the Enterprise.
102	2	Darmok	Darmok	28 Sep 1991	29 Mar 1994	Winrich Kolbe	Joe Menosky ; Idea: Philip LaZebnik , Joe Menosky
A captain of a species communicating only with metaphors tries on a planet to get Picard to take part in a common fight against a monster ( → main article ).
103	3	Ensign Ro	Ensign Ro	Oct 5, 1991	30th Mar 1994	Les Landau	Michael Piller ; Idea: Rick Berman , Michael Piller
A federation colony on the Cardassian border is being destroyed by terrorists posing as Bajoran and threatening further terrorist acts if they are not given a new home planet. Picard begins with the Enterprise to carry out the order ordered by Starfleet Admiral Kennelly to find the leader of the terrorists Orta and to arrest him. The Bajoran Starfleet member Ro Laren is transferred to the Enterprise to support the mission, much to the displeasure of the crew, because Ro is responsible for the deaths of several Starfleet members. As a result, Ro lures Picard and his away team into a trap, where Orta assures them that he is not responsible for the attack on the colony. For this betrayal, Ro is first placed under arrest by Picard, but Guinan convinces Picard to admit her true motives: Ro acted on Kennelly's behalf to support the terrorists with weapons. But since Ro doubts the legality of this procedure, she supports Picard in his plan to ostensibly implement Kennelly's intention to deliver the weapons. This enables them to convict the Cardassians as the real culprits for the destruction of the colony.
104	4th	The right to live	Silicon avatar	Oct 12, 1991	31 Mar 1994	Cliff Bole	Jeri Taylor ; Idea: Lawrence V. Conley
While an Enterprise field team is helping to rebuild a Federation colony on a planet, the colony is attacked by the Crystalline being and completely destroyed. With the exception of two people, the colonists and the field team survive in a cave from which they are soon freed by the Enterprise. To investigate the incident and the essence comes the human Dr. Kyla Marr on board. She is initially strongly averse to Data, as she accuses him of collaborating with the being due to the earlier incident on Omicron Theta. Later, however, she works increasingly collaboratively with Data. While the Enterprise is tracking the crystalline entity through space, Data gives Marr an insight into the diaries of her son Raymond, who once died when the crystalline entity attacked Omicron Theta. When the Enterprise has tracked the being in space, Data, La Forge and Marr manage on Picard's orders to communicate with the being by emitting gravitational impulses. Marr, driven by revenge for the death of her son, suddenly increases the frequency of the impulses on his own initiative and thereby kills the being. Picard puts Marr under arrest, her scientific career seems to be over.
105	5	Disaster on the Enterprise	Disaster	Oct 19, 1991	Apr 5, 1994	Gabrielle Beaumont	Ronald D. Moore ; Idea: Ron Jarvis , Philip A. Scorza
The enterprise is suddenly hit by a quantum thread, causing the main computer and other important systems to fail. Picard is injured and trapped in the turbolift with three primary school students, from which they can break free after Picard has motivated the children to work together. Crusher and La Forge are locked in the hold where they are threatened with radiation from the consequences of a plasma fire, but they can put the fire out in good time. Meanwhile, due to a lack of available medical staff, Worf is forced to help Keiko O'Brien with her birth. On the bridge, Troi takes on a leadership role as she oversees Ro and Chief O'Brien as they try to prevent a containment breach. A dispute arises in which Ro demands the separation of the saucer section. Supported by Riker and Data, who had to overcome some obstacles on the way to the engine room, they manage to prevent the ship from exploding at the last second. The situation normalizes quickly.
106	6th	Dangerous gambling addiction	The Game	Oct 26, 1991	Apr 6, 1994	Corey Allen	Brannon Braga ; Idea: Susan Sackett , Fred Bronson , Brannon Braga
Riker brings a game with him to the Enterprise that he received from the alien Etana and in which the player has to use his sensory power and a projection generated by a headset to convey a disc into a funnel. He distributes it to the team, who soon obsessively play it, and deactivates it with Dr. Crushers help Data so that it doesn't get in the way of the game spreading. Wesley Crusher, who is on vacation on the Enterprise, discovers, together with the young technician Robin Leffler, that the game has a psychotropic effect and makes its players addictive. Together they try to escape the increasing pressure from the crew to play the game as well, and investigate Data's deactivation. When Leffler also became addicted, Wesley was initially able to evade the addicted crew's access to a cat and mouse game, but was soon forced into gambling addiction by them. It turns out, however, that Wesley only undertook a diversionary maneuver and the data he reactivated meanwhile freed the crew of their addiction by using a signal lamp. Picard has Etana arrested in a spaceship, which the addicted crew wanted to exploit to further spread the game.
107	7th	Reunion? Part 1	Unification I	Nov 2, 1991	Apr 7, 1994	Les Landau	Jeri Taylor ; Idea: Rick Berman , Michael Piller
Picard takes on the job with the Enterprise to find the Federation ambassador Spock, who was spotted by Starfleet Intelligence on Romulus and who might want to overrun. From Spock's elderly father Sarek on Vulkan, Picard learns that Spock was in close contact with the Romulan Senator Pardek and hoped to initiate a dialogue about a possible peace between Romulans and Vulcans. While Picard and Data are on their way to Romulus with a Klingon, camouflaged spaceship provided by Gowron, Picard learns of Sarek's death. Meanwhile, the Enterprise traces a volcanic deflector stolen by the Ferengi to a galactic junkyard. There Riker lets the Enterprise defend against an attacking spaceship, which destroys itself. Arrived on Romulus and masked as Romulans, Picard and Data are exposed by Pardek and protected from access by the Romulan secret service before Spock confronts them.
108	8th	Reunion? Part 2	Unification II	Nov 9, 1991	Apr 8, 1994	Cliff Bole	Michael Piller ; Idea: Rick Berman , Michael Piller
Spock tells Picard that, at Pardek's request, he will support him in efforts aimed at a reunification between Romulans and Vulcans. Therefore Spock wants to win the Romulan proconsul Neral to support the unification efforts politically. However, he secretly makes a pact with Sela. Meanwhile, Riker receives the information from a Ferengi smuggler that Romulans are involved in the theft of the Vulcan spaceship and informs Picard about it. It turns out that the stolen ship is one of three with which Sela and her subordinate Neral plan to transport Romulan invasion troops to Vulkan in order to occupy Vulkan. Picard, Data and Spock are initially captured by Sela, but are soon able to free themselves, capture Sela and inform the Enterprise. The latter then tries to stop the three volcanic ships, which are destroyed by a Romulan warship so that no Romulans are captured by the Federation. Spock remains on Romulus to continue the peace efforts. He also enters into a mind-melding with Picard to share Sarek's thoughts.
109	9	The time-traveling historian	A matter of time	Nov 16, 1991	Apr 11, 1994	Paul Lynch	Rick Berman
The Enterprise helps the inhabitants of the planet Penthara IV, whose climate is threatened by an asteroid impact . In addition, the crew receives a visit from the time-traveling history professor Rasmussen, who claims to come from the 26th century and would like to witness an important event, but without making it clear which event. Although most of the staff officers distrust the professor, Picard lets him stay on the ship, with several crew members feeling annoyed by Rasmussen's remarks. When La Forge came up with a plan that would result in either the destruction or the restoration of the atmosphere, Picard asked Rasmussen to help him decide on this risky decision. Rasmussen refuses to answer. Picard takes the risk and the atmosphere is restored. After that, Rasmussen wants to leave in his mini spaceship, but is prevented by the staff officers because they see him as guilty of the theft of several devices. When cornered, Rasmussen explains the thefts by saying that he actually came from the 22nd century and wanted to bring something there. Picard has Rasmussen imprisoned thereupon, imprisoning him in the 24th century.
110	10	The Soliton Wave	New Ground	Jan. 4, 1992	Apr 12, 1994	Robert Scheerer	Grant Rosenberg ; Idea: Sara Charno , Stuart Charno
Worf's adoptive mother comes to visit the Enterprise and brings Alexander with her, Worf's illegitimate young son, whose upbringing she and her husband feel overwhelmed by age. When Alexander acts lying and disobedient in the Enterprise School, Worf tries to convince him by appealing to his Klingon honor that real Klingons neither lie nor steal. Since Worf sees himself unable to raise Alexander permanently on the Enterprise due to his lack of experience as a father, he considers sending him to a Klingon school. Alexander, however, reacts negatively to Worf's efforts and suggestions. Troi encourages Worf to raise Alexander himself, because the latter may feel neglected by Worf's refusal to be his father. The bridge crew, meanwhile, is monitoring the test of a new propulsion method, the so-called soliton wave, which after ignition accelerates a prototype spaceship to Warp 2.35 and lets it fly. During the experiment, however, an error occurs that destroys the test ship and the wave increases exponentially both in size and speed, so that it soon threatens to completely destroy a planet. As the crew tries to stop the wave, Alexander is trapped in the bio lab. Shortly before the ship is in danger of being overtaken and destroyed by the wave, the crew succeeds in breaking up the wave by shelling them and, with Riker's support, manages to free Alexander from the laboratory before it has been contaminated by life-threatening ion radiation . Worf decides to keep Alexander on the Enterprise.
111	11	The only survivor	Hero Worship	Jan 25, 1992	Apr 13, 1994	Patrick Stewart	Joe Menosky ; Idea: Hilary J. Bader
In search of the missing Federation spaceship Viko, the Enterprise crew finds the ship badly damaged in a black swarm and rescues the only survivor, the young Timothy, who is also traumatized by the death of his parents. Impressed by the nature of his savior Data, Timothy imitates Data's unemotional behavior and, according to Troi's diagnosis, suppresses his trauma. The crew finds no evidence to support the boy's claim that the Viko was attacked by hostile aliens. In search of the real reason for the incident, Picard lets the Enterprise fly into the black swarm and investigate it more closely. The ship is shaken several times by intensifying gravitational wave fronts. An experiment shows that the Viko could most likely not have been attacked due to the wave fronts. This turns out Timothy's statement to be a lie. Confronted with this, he recognizes in the tremors parallels to the events on the Viko before it was damaged. With this knowledge, Data succeeds in the last second to prevent the destruction of the Enterprise by the wave fronts. To do this, he has the protective shields lowered instead of raising them, and cites a harmonic reinforcement effect on the shields caused by the wave fronts as the cause. Timothy realizes that being human has advantages over being without emotion.
112	12	Spiritual violence	Violations	Feb. 1, 1992	Apr 14, 1994	Robert Wiemer	Pamela Gray , Jeri Taylor ; Idea: Shari Goodhartz , T. Michael , Pamela Gray
The Enterprise promotes some Ulians, some of whose representatives have embraced the art of recalling lost memories. After a conversation with the Ulian Jeff, Troi and Riker have visions in which they are physically and mentally raped by Jeff and after which they fall into a coma. Dr. Crusher suspects Eresin syndrome to be the cause of the coma, but cannot fully prove it. Shortly afterwards, Dr. Crusher sees Jeff falling into a coma. Picard has the cause of the coma cases directed to the Ulians, since they are the only unknown factors, and wants to put them under arrest to protect the crew. Defending himself against the suspicion of being guilty, Jeff conducts a memory examination on Troi with Picard's agreement, who has in the meantime woken up again but knows nothing about her vision. In the investigation, Troi relives her vision, but is raped by Tarmin, Jeff's father, who is also on the ship. When Jeff says goodbye to Troi, he finds her friendly behavior too nice and lovable, which means that he suddenly cannot resist the urge to rape Troi. Before Jeff can fully implement this, Troi is saved by the help of Datas and La Forges, who were able to identify Jeff as culprits in earlier Eresin cases and therefore also in the coma cases on the Enterprise. Crusher and Riker are waking up again. The staff officers learn from Tarmin that Jeff is suffering from the excesses of what was believed to be an extinct Ulian disease.
113	13	The artificial paradise	The Masterpiece Society	Feb 8, 1992	Apr 15, 1994	Winrich Kolbe	Adam Belanoff , Michael Piller ; Idea: James Kahn , Adam Belanoff
With the Enterprise arrived at a planet on which there is a human colony, Picard wants to convince the government that the colonists will be evacuated from the planet, since the planet is approaching a stellar core fragment that threatens to destroy its environment . The colonists turn out to be a constructed society, made entirely of selectively created and genetically perfected people. At her suggestion, the colonist Hannah helps La Forge on the Enterprise to change the orbit of the fragment as an alternative to an evacuation. To do this, they also have Enterprise engineers reinforce the structural integrity of the biosphere. The leader of the colonists, Aaron, does not decide to agree to the implementation of the plan until after a quarrel with Troi - Troi later regrets having gotten involved with him. Because Hannah is dissatisfied with the isolated, perfected life on the planet, she simulates a rupture in the biosphere in order to induce the colonists to seek asylum on the Enterprise as well as Hannah. Picard approves the asylum applications, but is confronted with the problem of the Supreme Directive that the loss of asylum-seeking colonists can plunge the planetary society into social chaos because it then lacks important members.
114	14th	Mission without memory	Conundrum	Feb 15, 1992	Apr 18, 1994	Les Landau	Barry Schkolnick ; Idea: Paul Schiffer
The Enterprise is scanned from a small spaceship. Immediately afterwards, the team members begin to realize that they have lost a significant part of their memory and have forgotten their identities and ranks. Since large parts of the ship's computer have also failed, the bridge crew set about putting it back into operation. In doing so, they soon recognize their true roles on the ship - with the only difference that Riker is now Picard's second officer and a man named McDuff is first officer. Riker also finds himself in a love triangle with Ro and Troi. When examining the computer, the staff officers discover that the Federation is at war with the Lysians and that it is the Enterprise's mission to destroy a Lysian command post because it contains an overpowering weapon. On the way to the station, McDuff argues repeatedly for an offensive approach with an unconditional attack, while Picard rejects an attack for lack of moral justification. Through McDuff's efforts, the Enterprise destroys an attacking Lysian spaceship. Arrived at the command station, which houses over 15,000 people, the bridge officers realize that the station is hopelessly inferior to the weapons of the Enterprise. Because Picard refuses an attack, which McDuff vehemently demands, Riker and Worf McDuff incapacitated. It turns out that McDuff, who belongs to the Satarans, manipulated the memories of the crew members and the ship's computer in a targeted manner in order to use the Enterprise as a weapon to attack the Lysians with whom the Satarans are at war.
115	15th	Uninvited guests	Power play	Feb 22, 1992	Apr 25, 1994	David Livingston	René Balcer , Herbert J. Wright , Brannon Braga ; Idea: Paul Ruben , Maurice Hurley
The Enterprise crew arrives at a moon from which an emergency call is made and where the Starfleet spaceship Essex went missing over 200 years ago. According to Troi's assumption that someone is still alive, and when they arrive on the stormy surface, Troi, Data, O'Brien and the injured Riker are struck by lightning and - with the exception of Riker - unconsciously occupied by strangers before Riker himself and beam the other three back to the Enterprise. Troi, Data and O'Brien soon overpower the bridge crew and entrench themselves in the Ten-Front with some of the crew members they have taken hostage. Picard follows Trois's request to fly the Enterprise into orbit over the southern polar region of the moon. After Picard surrendered himself to the hostage-takers in exchange for the exchange of some injured hostages, they introduce themselves to him as Essex command officers, Troi's body, for example, is occupied by Captain Shumar. Because of the violent actions of the three, Picard does not believe Shumar's statement that the consciousness of the three was captured when the Essex crashed and that they now want to be buried in space. His suspicions are confirmed when Shumar announces that the beings the three of them are possessed by and whose conspecifics are still on the moon, are prisoners in a penal colony represented by the moon. What they couldn't do with the Essex's arrival 200 years ago, they now want to do with the Enterprise crew: They want to beam their fellows onto the Enterprise and let the other crew members occupy them in order to escape with the Enterprise. Picard and his officers, however, refuse to undertake the plan by assuring that they will kill the other beings that have meanwhile been beamed up into the hold and also die themselves, rather than let the convicts take over the ship. With their own death in mind, the beings allow themselves to be forced to leave the bodies of Troi, Data and O'Brien and all of them to be beamed back to the moon.
116	16	The operation	Ethics	Feb. 29, 1992	Apr 26, 1994	Chip Chalmers	Ronald D. Moore ; Idea: Sara Charno , Stuart Charno
In the hold, seriously injured in the spine of a tumbled barrel, Worf is Dr. Crusher's diagnosis was permanently paralyzed. Worf then asks his friend Riker to help him with a ritual suicide as part of a Klingon custom. Riker initially refuses the request and later determines that, according to Klingon tradition, it was not he, but only Worf's son Alexander who could fulfill this wish. The doctor and researcher Dr. Russell quickly became convinced that Worf could regain his full mobility through treatment in the context of so-called genetronic replication. Crusher has serious doubts about this type of operation because it has not yet been adequately tested, has a success rate of only 37 percent and thus risks Worf's death. Picard tries to convince Crusher to comply with Worf's request for the operation to be carried out, because Worf can no longer be an honorable Klingon in a paralyzed state. Worf decides to have the operation because he does not want to burden his son with the burden of murdering his own father. A replicated spine is inserted into Worf during the operation, but complications arise, as a result of which Worf is pronounced dead. When Alexander wants to say goodbye to his father, Worf suddenly shows signs of life and he begins to regain his full mobility. Crusher, meanwhile, sees confirmation of her concerns that it is irresponsible to put research above patients' lives.
117	17th	Forbidden love	The Outcast	14 Mar 1992	Apr 27, 1994	Robert Scheerer	Jeri Taylor
The Enterprise helps the androgynous J'naii people to find one of their shuttles lost in a rare spatial anomaly. Riker works with the J'naii individual Soren. Soren explains to Riker that the J'naii once evolved from primitive, gender-specific beings to higher, genderless beings and that it is now punishable for them to mate with representatives of other races. But Soren believes she is different, namely female, and feels drawn to Riker. A love relationship develops between the two of them, but this does not remain hidden from the J'naii individual, Krite. Therefore, Krite soon had Soren accused of being different and arrested for the purpose of carrying out psychotectic therapy in which Soren was supposed to expel female feelings. Although Picard advises Riker against intervening in the face of the Supreme Directive, Riker, assisted by Worf, frees Soren from captivity in order to take Soren with him on the Enterprise. However, Soren refuses to come along as Soren does not consider the relationship with Riker to be right and has obviously already undergone the therapy.
118	18th	Déjà-vu	Cause and Effect	21 Mar 1992	Apr 28, 1994	Jonathan Frakes	Brannon Braga
The Enterprise is trapped in a time warp that ends up wrecking the ship. Therefore, the crew has to find a way to leave the loop and thus prevent the destruction of the ship ( → main article ).
119	19th	A failed maneuver	The first duty	28 Mar 1992	Apr 29, 1994	Paul Lynch	Ronald D. Moore , Naren Shankar
The "Nova" said squadron of five Starfleet cadets , including Wesley Crusher is one, crashed during a training maneuvers near the Saturn - moon Titan . Team member Joshua Albert dies, the other four survive. Picard and Dr. Crusher attend the Admiralty hearing of the cadets. At the instigation of their team member and squadron leader Nicholas Locarno, the cadets tell an incomplete sequence of events and explain Joshua's accident with his last flight difficulties. A satellite photo showing a circular flight formation of the five spaceships causes the investigative commission and Picard to doubt the testimony of the cadets, who describe having flown a diamond-shaped formation as part of the so-called hunter looping. Picard recognizes from statements by Datas and La Forge, which he commissioned to investigate the case in parallel, that the cadets carried out an extremely dangerous and therefore forbidden precision flight maneuver and Joshua died as a result. When confronted by Picard, Wesley is faced with the choice between Locarno's loyalty to his team and his conscience to admit the truth. Ignorant of the evidence found by Picard, Locarno tries to convince Wesley to stand on the lie regarding the true events at the final hearing. Locarno seems to be successful at first, but Wesley finally reports to the investigative committee about the circular maneuver that Locarno wanted to practice for a demonstration at the upcoming graduation ceremony. Locarno is expelled from the academy and Wesley has to repeat the previous year of training.
120	20th	Wedding with obstacles	Cost of Living	Apr 18, 1992	May 2, 1994	Winrich Kolbe	Peter Allan Fields
Shortly after the Enterprise destroyed an asteroid to protect a planet, a swarm-shaped life form came on board the ship from its rubble. She is on the road with Lwaxana Troi to take her groom Carpio on board, whom Lwaxana has not yet met personally. During the flight Lwaxana interferes - much to the displeasure of Deanna Trois and Worf - in a dispute between Worf and Alexander about the boy's sense of responsibility. Lwaxana gets Alexander's attention by trying to cheer him up in a holodeck program with numerous extraterrestrial creatures. However, the unknown life form causes several system failures in the ship, in which it feeds on nitrium alloys and always leaves a gelatinous mass behind. The bridge crew recognizes a metal parasite in the being, which they try to bring back to its feeding area, namely the asteroid field, as quickly as possible in order to prevent further damage to the ship. After the creature also let the life support systems fail and the humanoid crew members passed out due to lack of oxygen, Data succeeds in transferring the creature from the Enterprise to the asteroid field and thus averting the danger. Lwaxana has meanwhile met Carpio personally, but is not very enthusiastic about him. Therefore, contrary to her original intention, she appears at the wedding date - according to Betazoid custom, but contrary to the customs of Carpio's culture - completely naked and thus pissed off Carpio.
121	21st	A hopeless romance	The perfect mate	Apr 25, 1992	May 3, 1994	Cliff Bole	Gary Perconte , Michael Piller ; Idea: René Echevarria , Gary Perconte
Two Ferengi fake an accident with their spaceship and let the Enterprise save them. They are secretly after a piece of cargo from the Kriosians aboard the Enterprise, whose ambassador Briam intends to organize a ceremony to reconcile his people with the people of the planet Valt Minor. After one of the Ferengi interrupts the force field that fixes the freight item, the pretty young woman Kamala emerges from it. It was to serve as a present to Briam for Alrik, the ruler of Valt Minor. She is a metamorphine with empathic abilities and was born only for the purpose of adapting to men with her extremely seductive properties for optimal bonding. After Dr. Crusher has voiced his suspicion of prostitution to Picard, contrary to Briam's orders, Picard gives Kamala freedom of movement on the ship and provides her with Data as a supervisor for this purpose. When the Ferengi tried to bribe Briam regarding Kamala, he fell and was injured and passed out. Because Briam is unable to attend the ceremony, Picard takes on his role and is instructed by Kamala for this purpose. Despite several attempts by Kamala, he manages to evade her seduction skills. After Alrik has arrived on the Enterprise, he expresses little interest in Kamala, but the latter expresses even more interest in Picard. Nevertheless, according to her role, Kamala eventually marries Alrik.
122	22nd	The imaginary friend	Imaginary friend	May 2, 1992	May 4, 1994	Gabrielle Beaumont	Edithe Swensen , Brannon Braga ; Idea: Jean Louise Matthias , Ronald Wilkerson , Richard Fliegel
The young Enterprise resident Clara has a friend named Isabella who only exists in Clara's mind. When the Enterprise goes into a nebula around a neutron star for research purposes, an energy vortex comes on board and examines the life forms on the ship, including Clara. The vortex of energy then appears to Clara as Isabella, a blonde girl of the same age. From then on, Isabella encourages Clara to do things that are forbidden together. With Troi, who is treating Clara, and Guinan, Clara talks about Isabella and the relationship between children and adults. After Troi has not complied with Clara's request that Isabella may come to a children's ceramics course, Isabella reacts angrily to Clara and Troi, who knocks them down with a burst of energy and announces that she will kill Clara. Meanwhile, the Enterprise is increasingly shaken from being trapped in a dense web of strands of energy from the mist. Further vortices of energy are approaching the Enterprise and eating up its protective shields. When Picard recognizes connections in the behavior of the girls and the energy vortex, he can get Isabella to show herself to him in the arboretum. Isabella explains that she came on board to find out if the ship posed a threat to her and her fellow animals and was looking for energy. It also aroused their opposition that the adults aboard the ship had forbidden Clara to have a best friend. Picard explains to Isabella that the care of the adult ship-dwellers for their children is part of their culture and only serves their well-being. In addition, Picard lets the Enterprise shoot into the fog to give the creatures energy. The energy vortices then leave the Enterprise.
123	23	I am hugh	I Borg	May 9, 1992	May 5, 1994	Robert Lederman	René Echevarria
On a moon, the Enterprise crew finds an injured, unconscious Borg next to his crashed spaceship. When Dr. Crusher insists on treating his injuries, Picard allows it, despite serious security concerns, to beam him to the Enterprise in a holding cell from which he cannot communicate with his collective. In order to ensure the survival of the federation, Picard then instructs Data and La Forge to use a malicious program on the Borg , with which the entire Borg collective would be destroyed upon its return; with this, Picard meets with Dr. Crusher but on strong rejection. While Crusher and La Forge are doing some tests on the Borg, who has now regained consciousness and energized by La Forge, they give him the name Hugh. La Forge befriends Hugh. Because Guinan's people were once severely decimated by the Borg, Guinan initially has no sympathy for La Forge's doubts about Picard's order to use Hugh as an instrument for the annihilation of his race. Still, Guinan convinces Picard to speak to Hugh before carrying out the order because she is unsure whether Hugh is still a Borg. Picard then poses as Locutus in a personal conversation with Hugh to check whether Hugh still perceives himself as part of the collective or as an individual. In fact, it turns out that Hugh sees himself as an individual because he refuses to assimilate the Enterprise and thereby kill his friend La Forge. Picard is convinced not to use the malicious program against the Borg, and expresses the proposal, which remains open, to transfer Hugh's awareness of individuality to his collective. The crew then abandons Hugh at the crash site, where he is immediately picked up again by his fellow dogs without them posing a threat to the Enterprise.
124	24	So close yet so far	The next phase	May 16, 1992	May 6, 1994	David Carson	Ronald D. Moore
The Enterprise crew is providing repair assistance to an apparently distressed Romulan ship. When Ro and La Forge, who are part of the away team, beam back to the Enterprise, they are not properly rematerialized, so it is assumed that they were dead on the Enterprise. In fact, the two are undetectable to the crew and unharmed on the Enterprise. They can move through objects, walls and even other people, but not through floors and ceilings . Meanwhile, Data investigates abnormal energy fluctuations in the pair's beaming process, which are apparently Chroniton fields from the cloaking technology damaged in the Romulan ship. While the crew is preparing the memorial service for the two of them, the two get on board a shuttle ship to the Romulan ship. There the viewer learns that the Romulans have made the two invisible with a phase reversal generator. On the return flight to the Enterprise, a Romulan involved in the plan arrives on the Enterprise, who briefly captures Ro. When Ro flees from him, La Forge pushes the Romulan through the outer shell into space. Data and his colleague, Chief Brosmer, are working on analyzing the frequent occurrence of Chroniton fields - for them unknowingly caused by Ro and La Forge - and eliminating them because of the resulting danger to ship technology. While the commemoration begins in the ten-fore, Ro and La Forge cause much more intense Chroniton fields through phaser shots and can thus cause Data and Brosmer to become perceptible again by eliminating the fields.
125	25th	the second Life	The Inner Light	May 30, 1992	May 9, 1994	Peter Lauritson	Morgan Gendel , Peter Allan Fields ; Idea: Morgan Gendel
Under the influence of a foreign probe, Captain Picard lived through several decades of the life of a man who belonged to a sinking culture within less than half an hour ( → main article ).
126	26th	19th Century Hazard Part 1	Time's Arrow	June 13, 1992	May 10, 1994	Les Landau	Joe Menosky , Michael Piller ; Idea: Joe Menosky
In a cave on Earth, remnants of extraterrestrial life and Data's head are discovered, which have been there for about 500 years. Investigating the matter, the called Enterprise crew believes they can find an explanation for the discovery on the planet Devidia II. Once there, an outside team investigates a cave with similar appearances as the cave on earth. In doing so, Data discovers forms of life that are invisible to the away team; in the process, by means of an unintentional journey through time, he arrives in San Francisco in 1893. There he initially earns some money playing poker for his standard of living and for the construction of a device with which he hopes to communicate in the future. He also meets a Guinan-like woman; Samuel Clemens overhears them during their conversation . Aliens in human form withdraw energy from people in San Francisco with an apparently future-oriented device and use it to feed their fellows in the cave. On the Enterprise, however, Guinan Picard motivates to go with the temporal distortion, since Guinan and Picard would otherwise never meet. Entering the Distortion to investigate Data's disappearance, the away team discovers some oversized aliens before stepping through a gate made of glowing energy.

production

The season was not originally intended to end with a cliffhanger; Rick Berman and Michael Piller changed this, however, in order to signal the continuation of the series to the audience in view of the already announced spin-off series Deep Space Nine .

Web links

• Season 5 in the Internet Movie Database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Larry Nemecek: The Star Trek The Next Generation Companion . Pocket Books, New York, Revised Edition 1995, ISBN 0-671-88340-2 , p. 205