Starship Enterprise - The Next Century / Season 2

Season 2 of Starship Enterprise - The Next Century
Episodes	22nd
Country of production	United States
First broadcast	Nov 19, 1988 - July 15, 1989 on syndication
German-language first broadcast	Apr. 13, 1991 - June 26, 1992 on ZDF
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The second season of the American science fiction - television series Star Trek - The Next Generation was erstausgestrahlt in the US starting on November 19, 1988, in Germany on April 13th 1991st

Emergence

In the second season, Gates McFadden aka ship doctor Dr. Beverly Crusher by Diana Muldaur aka Dr. Catherine replaced Pulaski before McFadden returned after contract negotiations for the third season. The figure of Dr. Pulaski remained unpopular with many Star Trek fans. Also met Whoopi Goldberg at his own request as wise bartender Guinan of Bordbar Ten Forward (dt. Ten Forward ), which had also been recreated for the second season, the Enterprise crew added. Up until her last appearance in Suspicions (season 6, episode 22), Goldberg was listed in the opening credits as a "special guest star". Worf, played by Michael Dorn , took over the position of head of security on board. Geordi Laforge ( LeVar Burton ) has been named chief engineer. Both characters therefore wore yellow instead of red uniforms from now on. Colm Meaney aka 'Miles O'Brien', who appeared in only two episodes during the first season, was established as the transporter boss for the rest of the series from the first episode of the second season.

With the beginning of the second season there were some changes in the team of scriptwriters. Maurice Hurley, left the team at the end of the season, even though he was only named chief writer at the beginning. Tracy Tormé and David Gerrold resigned after differences with Gene Roddenberry ; Leonard Mlodinow and Scott Rubenstein also said goodbye. On the other hand, Hans Beimler and Melinda Snodgrass were added to the team of authors. The latter was responsible for content-rich and popular episodes such as Who Owns Data? . As a result of the time jump with Q , the Borg were established for the first time as an almost invincible opponent of the Enterprise crew.

In 1988 the American Screenwriters Union went on strike . Therefore, the season was shortened from 26 to 22 episodes. In addition, some old scripts created for the once discarded Star Trek series Star Trek: Phase Two were used, for example for the first episode of the season. For this reason and for financial reasons, the last episode of the season was a series of film clips from previous episodes designed as dream sequences. It is considered one of the least successful episodes in the entire series. This technique, known as clip show , never had to be used again in the entire series.

Episodes, Plot, and First Airing

No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
27	1	The child	The Child	Nov 19, 1988	Apr 13, 1991	Rob Bowman	Jaron Summers , Jon Povill , Maurice Hurley
An alien gets on board the Enterprise and invades Troi's body, whereupon she becomes pregnant and two days later gives birth to a boy who is growing rapidly. Meanwhile, the Enterprise has taken a sample of a life-threatening pathogen on board that begins to grow a short time later and threatens to kill the crew and passengers. When the life form in the boy's body learns of this, it feels guilty for the growth of the virus and leaves the boy's body, averting the danger.
28	2	Illusion or reality?	Where Silence Has Lease	Nov. 26, 1988	Apr 20, 1991	Winrich Kolbe	Jack B. Sowards
The Enterprise is captured in space by a form of life devoid of content and dimensions. This reveals its name as Nagilum and would like to study people's reactions to death. When Nagilum announces that over a third of the Enterprise crew will be killed for study purposes, Picard and Riker start the ship's self-destruct sequence . However, they break this off again when Nagilum communicates that they have learned enough.
29	3	Sherlock Data Holmes	Elementary, Dear Data	Dec 3, 1988	Apr 27, 1991	Rob Bowman	Brian Alan Lane
Data and LaForge try their hand at the roles of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on detective work. When the holographic character Professor Moriarty begins to take command of the Enterprise due to a wrong order from La Forge , Picard finally manages to convince Moriarty to abandon his plan and has to assure him that it will be saved in the holodeck.
30th	4th	The impossible Captain Okona	The Outrageous Okona	Dec 10, 1988	May 11, 1991	Robert Becker	Burton Armus ; Idea: Les Menchen , Lance Dickson , David Landsberg
The Enterprise takes the womanizer Okona from its dilapidated spaceship on board. The spaceships of two warring parties soon appear, each demanding the extradition of Okonas. In the course of the negotiations carried out on the Enterprise it turns out that it was not Okona but the son of one of the opponents who impregnated the daughter of the other opponent.
31	5	The mute mediator	Loud As A Whisper	Jan. 7, 1989	May 18, 1991	Larry Shaw	Jacqueline Zambrano
The Enterprise's mission is to take the silent mediator Riva to a planet so that he can act as an arbitrator there to avoid civil war . At the first hearing, the warring parties murder the three companions of Riva whom he had let speak for himself. As a result, Data succeeds in learning the sign language of Riva and Troi in convincing the shaken Riva to continue the negotiations.
32	6th	The alien memory	The Schizoid Man	Jan. 21, 1989	May 25, 1991	Les Landau	Tracy Tormé ; Idea: Richard Manning , Hans Beimler
The cyberneticist Dr. Shortly before his death, Graves transfers his personality to Data, which subsequently behaves like Graves. When he tells Graves' assistant Kareen that she will also transfer her personality into a computer in order to make her immortal, but she refuses the offer, Data begins to doubt herself. Eventually he comes to the conclusion that he is transferring Graves' personality into the computer of the Enterprise , and then releases Data's body again.
33	7th	The young old men	Unnatural Selection	Jan. 28, 1989	Feb 7, 1992	Paul Lynch	John Mason , Mike Gray
When the Enterprise finds a Starfleet ship whose crew has died of old age , the crew discovers that the same rapid aging seems to be happening at the Darwin Research Station. When she searches for the cause and the transmission path for the infection, Dr. Pulaski accidentally does too and is visibly aging. Following an idea by Picard, the crew of the Enterprise manages, with the help of Pulaski's DNA and a modified transport beam , to transform Pulaski into the state before her illness.
34	8th	The exchange officer	A matter of honor	Feb. 4, 1989	June 8, 1991	Rob Bowman	Burton Armus ; Idea: Wanda M. Haight , Gregory Amos , Burton Armus
An ensign works on the Enterprise as part of an exchange program and finds out that a hole in the hull of the ship that is threatening the ship is caused by an alien, bacterial life form. At the same time, Commander Riker is an exchange officer on a Klingon spaceship. He manages to earn the respect of the Klingons and uses a ruse to prevent the Enterprise from being attacked by the Klingons when the bacterial life form also makes itself felt on the hull of the Klingon ship.
35	9	Who Owns Data?	The Measure Of A Man	Feb 11, 1989	Feb 14, 1992	Robert Scheerer	Melinda M. Snodgrass
In order to evade the experiments of the cyberneticist Maddox, Data leaves Starfleet. This is followed by a court case over the question of whether Data is owned by Starfleet ( → main article ).
36	10	The heir to the throne	The Dauphin	Feb. 18, 1989	Feb. 28, 1992	Rob Bowman	Scott Rubenstein , Leonard Mlodinow
The Enterprise takes the young Salia, the future heir to the throne of the planet Daled IV, and her governess , old Anya, as passengers on board. Wesley Crusher falls in love with Salia at first sight and lets Riker and Guinan help him prepare for a rendezvous with Salia. It soon turns out that her love has no future, as she, like Anya, is a shapeshifter and as heir to the throne will not be able to leave the planet.
37	11	The Iconia probes	Contagion	18 Mar 1989	9 Mar 1992	Joseph L. Scanlan	Steve Gerber , Beth Woods
In the neutral zone, the Enterprise meets her sister ship Yamato , on which mysterious malfunctions pile up and which explodes a little later along with the crew. Investigations by the Enterprise crew reveal that a computer virus from an Iconian probe is responsible for the destruction and that the same threatens to repeat itself on the Enterprise. By investigating an Iconian control room on a planet, Picard and his crew can finally eliminate the computer virus and avert the danger of destruction.
38	12	Hotel Royale	The Royale	25th Mar 1989	13 Mar 1992	Cliff Bole	Keith Mills
While investigating a mysterious energy source on an uninhabited planet, the field team consisting of Riker, Data and Worf is trapped in a building, the interior of which resembles that of an American hotel from the 21st century . In it they find the corpse of an astronaut who was once helped by extraterrestrials by creating this environment to lead a decent life. To do this, they were based on the novel "Hotel Royale", the plot of which the away team must eventually adapt in order to escape.
39	13	The future is silent	Time Squared	Apr 1, 1989	20 Mar 1992	Joseph L. Scanlan	Maurice Hurley ; Idea: Kurt Michael Bensmiller
The Enterprise takes one of its shuttle ships on board along with a second Picard, both of which are six hours from the future. Research reveals that Picard abandoned the Enterprise in the future before it was destroyed in a spatial anomaly. As the Enterprise approaches that anomaly, these events begin to unfold. To avoid the destruction of the Enterprise , Picard shoots his double from the future, whereby the anomaly disappears and the danger to the Enterprise is averted.
40	14th	Riker's father	The Icarus Factor	Apr 22, 1989	27 Mar 1992	Robert Iscove	David Assael , Robert McCullough ; Idea: David Assael
Riker is offered command of a Federation starship. His father, a military strategist, comes on board, ostensibly to prepare him for this role. Riker's decision-making takes a back seat as they both grapple with their troubled pasts. Riker finally declines the offer. Meanwhile, Wesley makes efforts to cheer Worf on the tenth anniversary of his initiation , and surprises him with a Klingon ritual in the holodeck with Worf's colleagues.
41	15th	Pen pals	Pen Pals	Apr 29, 1989	Apr 3, 1992	Winrich Kolbe	Melinda M. Snodgrass ; Idea: Hannah Louise Shearer
Assigned by the bridge officers to lead investigations into geological events in the Selcundi-Drema planetary system, Wesley receives leadership advice from Riker. Meanwhile, Data has contact with a girl on one of the planets under investigation, who is threatened with death from the volcanic activity there, and rescues her on the Enterprise . After Wesley's team has made sure that volcanic activity no longer threatens to destroy the planet, Data brings the girl back to the planet and Pulaski erases her memories of her time on the Enterprise so that the Supreme Directive is upheld.
42	16	Time jump with Q	Q Who	May 6, 1989	Apr 10, 1992	Rob Bowman	Maurice Hurley
In order for the Enterprise crew to prepare for upcoming dangers, Q moves the ship against Picard's will to a distant part of space, where it is confronted with the enemy Borg ( → main article ).
43	17th	A captain's heart	Samaritan snare	May 13, 1989	Apr 24, 1992	Les Landau	Robert L. McCullough
Wesley is on a shuttle ship to Starbase 515 to take tests for admission to Starfleet Academy, and is accompanied by Picard, who wants to undergo a heart transplant . Meanwhile, the Enterprise is confronted with the Paklets, whose spaceship appears to be in need of repair. While La Forge is held captive in the Paklets' ship, it turns out that the Paklets want to adopt alien technology for the sake of their technological advancement. La Forge can be freed by a ruse by the Enterprise crew. After complications from Picard's operation, Pulaski is finally able to save him.
44	18th	The planet of the clones	Up the long ladder	May 20, 1989	May 8, 1992	Winrich Kolbe	Melinda M. Snodgrass
The Enterprise rescues a group of Bringloidi colonists from their homeworld, which is threatened with destruction, and has them quartered with animals and household items in a cargo hold. The crew of the Enterprise learns that the group was one of two who settled in this solar system . When they warn the other group, the Mariposans, it turns out that they have so far only secured their continued existence by cloning and now want to clone Pulaski and Riker because of the threat of genetic loss. The Enterprise crew can finally convince the Bringloidi to mate with the Mariposans in order to solve their reproductive problem and also to give them a new home.
45	19th	Different stars, different customs	Manhunt	June 17, 1989	May 22, 1992	Rob Bowman	Terry Devereaux
Troi's mother Lwaxana comes on board, ostensibly for passage to a conference. But it turns out that Lwaxana is in a special phase of life in which she has a greatly increased libido . So she wants to marry Picard as soon as possible. The latter, however, is reluctant to do so and flees to the holodeck, where he passes the time in a program by the detective Dixon Hill. Shortly before her departure, the disappointed Lwaxana is able to expose the two fish-headed Antedians who have also traveled with her as alleged bomb bombers .
46	20th	Klingon encounter	The Emissary	June 24, 1989	June 12, 1992	Cliff Bole	Richard Manning , Hans Beimler ; Idea: Richard Manning , Hans Beimler, Thomas H. Calder
The Enterprise is given the task of intercepting a Klingon spaceship whose crew has been in cold sleep for centuries. The aim is to prevent the Klingons, who were originally at war against the Federation, from becoming a threat to Federation colonies. The half-Klingon K'Ehleyr, a former lover of Worf, comes on board to carry out the assignment. She takes a liking to Worf's holographic fight program and exchanges tenderness with him, whereupon Worf wants to marry her, but is rejected by her. Finally, the two can carry out the mission by posing as the commanders of the Enterprise to the other Klingons.
47	21st	Gala performance	Peak performance	July 8, 1989	June 19, 1992	Robert Scheerer	David Kemper
The Zakdornian strategist Kolrami comes aboard the Enterprise to oversee a planned maneuvering exercise in which Riker is supposed to fight simulatively against the Enterprise as captain of the obsolete starship USS Hathaway . During the exercise, a Ferengi spaceship suddenly appears, claiming a suspected secret weapon from the Hathaway, incapacitates the Enterprise and threatens to destroy the Hathaway and its crew. With a common ruse, Picard and Riker manage to put the Ferengi to flight. Meanwhile, after his defeat in the game Strategema against Kolrami, Data falls into self-doubt, but can finally defeat him.
48	22nd	Power of dreams	Shades of Gray	July 15, 1989	June 26, 1992	Rob Bowman	Maurice Hurley , Richard Manning , Hans Beimler ; Idea: Maurice Hurley
Infected by a dangerous pathogen during an outside mission , Riker is about to die. During Pulaski's brainwave stimulation treatment, he relived experiences in dreams that were seen in earlier episodes. Finally Pulaski manages to defeat the infection.

Awards

→ Main article : List of Star Trek TV series awards and nominations

• 1989 Emmy Awards
  • Best sound editing for a series
  • Best sound mix for a drama series
  • nominated: Best hairstyle for a series
  • nominated: Best make-up for a series
  • nominated: Best musical composition for a series (Dramatic Underscore )
  • nominated: Best Visual Special Effects
  • nominated: Best artistic director for a series
  • nominated: Best costume design for a series
• Young Artist Awards 1989
  • Best syndicated family drama or comedy series
  • Best Young Actor on a Syndicated Family Show: Wil Wheaton

Web links

• Season 2 in the Internet Movie Database (English)

literature

• Season 2 in the German StarTrek Index
• Larry Nemecek: The Star Trek The Next Generation Companion . Pocket Books, New York, Revised Edition 1995, ISBN 0-671-88340-2 , pp. 62-95

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nemecek 1995, p. 63