Starship Enterprise - The Next Century / Season 6

Season 6 of Starship Enterprise: The Next Century
Episodes	26th
Country of production	United States
First broadcast	19 Sep 1992 - June 19, 1993 on syndication
German-language first broadcast	May 11, 1994 - June 22, 1994 on Sat.1
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The sixth season of the American science fiction - television series Star Trek - The Next Generation includes 26 episodes and was in the United States between September 1992 and June 1993 erstausgestrahlt. In Germany, Sat.1 showed the episodes in the spring of 1994. All episodes were also released 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
127	1	19th Century Hazard - Part 2	Time's Arrow, Part II	19 Sep 1992	May 11, 1994	Les Landau	Jeri Taylor ; Idea: Joe Menosky
The Enterprise field team, stepping through the time portal, discovered in a San Francisco morgue that some people had nerve energy sucked out, causing them to die. The aliens responsible for this, in the form of a human couple, can overwhelm the field team and take them as prisoners into the cave, which serves the aliens as a time travel destination. The away team meets again with Data, who is being followed by the curious Samuel Clemens. When Clemens threatens those who have traveled through time, whom he perceives as a threat, with a Colt in the cave, one of the two aliens flees by traveling through time. At that moment, Clemens and the away team - with the exception of Picard and Data's head - are transported back to the 24th century, back in the cave on Devidia II. After Picard found out from the other alien in the presence of the injured Guinan that Whose conspecifics need the extracted energy to survive, he hides the message in Data's head not to destroy the cave with photon torpedoes. On the Enterprise, La Forge discovers the message in Data's head, which he has meanwhile reinstalled onto the torso, so that the last-second shelling of the cave, which is used to end the activities of the aliens, is suspended. As a result, and through a message for Picard given to Clemens before his return to the 19th century, Picard managed to return to the 24th century.
128	2	Scared to death when beaming	Realm Of Fear	26 Sep 1992	May 18, 1994	Cliff Bole	Brannon Braga
The Enterprise arrives at the Yosemite Starfleet Research Vessel, which is stuck in a plasma stream and whose crew has not reported for days. In order to beam onto the Yosemite under these conditions, the transporter systems of both ships are coupled. As part of the investigation team, Barclay beams over after he has put his long-standing fear of beaming back through brief therapy with Troi. When beaming back, he sees an alien being threatening him in the transport beam. The away team investigates that an explosion has occurred in the Yosemite transport chamber, that their logs have been deleted, and that four crew members have disappeared. Because of his fear of beams, Barclay believes he is suffering from the incurable disease transporter psychosis. In addition, his arm is temporarily dematerialized. The investigation team is conducting an experiment on the Enterprise, which was probably also performed on the Yosemite, in which matter is beamed from the plasma stream on board. From this, the team gains the insight, which explains Barclays behavior, that energetic microbes from the plasma flow also got into the transport beam during the beam process and this triggered the explosion. In order to free Barclay from the microbes, the biofilter of the transporter is modified and Barclay is slowly beamed through. Not only are the microbes filtered out of Barclay, but the four Yosemite crew members who were believed to have disappeared also emerge from the transport beam, whose patterns were trapped in it.
129	3	The immoral peace broker	Man Of The People	Oct 3, 1992	May 19, 1994	Winrich Kolbe	Frank Abatemarco
In order to protect him from attacks, the Enterprise transports the Lumerian ambassador Alkar to the planet Rekak Seronia, where he wants to lead peace negotiations between the two peoples of Rekak and Seronia. After Alkar's 93-year-old mother, Maylor, who was also traveling with her, warned Troi not to seduce Alkar, she died. The cause of her death remains unclear because Alkar does not consent to an autopsy on the Enterprise. As a result of the funeral medidation for Maylor led by Alkar, Troi from then on behaves in a hostile, seductive and dominant manner towards other Enterprise crew members. In addition, Troi is aging noticeably. When Troi Alkar's negotiating partner tried to murder Liva because of jealousy, she was locked up in the infirmary. She falls into a coma and threatens to die. In the autopsy of Maylor, which is now inevitable for Picard, Crusher recognizes parallels between Maylor's cause of death and Troi's condition. When Picard confronts Alkar on Rekak Seronia, he reveals that in order to be able to conduct the peace negotiations unencumbered, he initially transferred his negative feelings to Maylor, who is actually not his mother, and after her death to Troi. Picard therefore accuses Alkar of cowardice and immoral behavior. As part of a maneuver carried out by the Enterprise crew to deceive Alkar, he is beamed back to the ship, so that Troi is able to return to her original state of health and age at the last second and Alkar to prevent Liva from burdening Liva with his negative feelings. Alkar ages very quickly and eventually dies.
130	4th	Visit from the old Enterprise	Relics	Oct 10, 1992	May 20, 1994	Alexander Singer	Ronald D. Moore
The Enterprise finds the Federation research spaceship Jenolan, which was missing 75 years ago, crashed on the hull of a Dyson sphere . Montgomery Scott , who had brought himself to safety there after the Jenolan crash and has been in it since then, is beamed back from its transporter buffer . On the Enterprise, Scotty offers La Forge asked for his help in exploring the sphere, but was turned down by La Forge, who felt distracted by him. To make Scotty feel needed, Picard lets him and La Forge examine the Jenolan. Meanwhile, while investigating a communication phalanx of the sphere, the Enterprise is pulled through a hatch into the interior of the sphere, where the ship threatens to be destroyed within a few hours by eruptions of the star in the sphere. Together, La Forge and Scotty succeed in reactivating the Jenolan's drive and using the protective shield of the old ship to keep the spherical hatch open for a while. As a result, the Enterprise manages to fly out of the sphere, Scotty and La Forge are beamed onto the Enterprise before the Jenolan explodes. Finally, Scotty is given a shuttle by the crew, with which he continues his flight to his retirement home.
131	5	Kidnapped into subspace	Schisms	Oct 17, 1992	May 24, 1994	Robert Wiemer	Brannon Braga ; Idea: Jean Louise Matthias , Ron Wilkerson
The Enterprise has flown into a swarm of stars to map it. Energy from the warp drive is also used to speed up the work. Several crew members soon experience strange things and receive fragmentary memories: La Forges Visor fails temporarily and Crusher diagnoses that Riker's arm has been amputated and reimplanted surgically. In agreement, the affected crew members in the holodeck create a simulation of an operating table based on their previously inexplicable memory fragments. In addition, an emission source of subspace particles occurs in one of the cargo holds, which increases in size and threatens to cause the hull to rupture soon. After the absence of two crew members has been established and one of them dies on his return, the crew suspects aliens who have kidnapped the crew members into the subspace. In order to explore the phenomenon, Riker, equipped with a direction finder, can be kidnapped again into the subspace, where he finds himself and the other crew member on said operating tables, on which the aliens are experimenting with them. Riker saves his colleague by escaping with her through the subspace gap onto the Enterprise, shortly before the gap collapses through the transmission of a graviton impulse initiated by the crew. The senior officers cannot explain the purpose of the alien abductions.
132	6th	A real "Q"	True Q	Oct 24, 1992	May 25, 1994	Robert Scheerer	René Echevarria
Mrs. Amanda Rogers, who is a Q, comes on board as a new intern. Q soon tests to what extent she is able to use her magical abilities. Among other things, Amanda fixes a warp core break caused by Q. Q then appears and wants to get to know Amanda better to find out if she is a true Q. After Q's testimony that Amanda's biological parents were once killed in a tornado, Picard determines that the parents, also Q, were once not executed by the hurricane, but by members of the Q continuum because they did not join the continuum wanted to go. While Q tries to convince Amanda of the benefits of being Q, Crusher appeals to Q to let Amanda decide for herself. The continuum including Q see in Amanda, as long as she does not belong permanently to the continuum, the danger that she uses her omnipotence for wrong purposes. Picard is able to convince Q to refrain from killing Amanda if she does not choose to join the Continuum. Q gives Amanda the choice of either joining the continuum or permanently renouncing the use of her almighty powers. The Enterprise delivers relief supplies to the planet Tagra IV, whose ecosystem is badly damaged. When a reactor on the planet takes serious damage, Amanda cleans up the reactor damage and restores the planet's entire ecosystem. As a result, fully convinced of her abilities, she decides to join the Q continuum, where she and Q go immediately.
133	7th	Adult children	Rascals	Oct 31, 1992	May 26, 1994	Adam Nimoy	Allison Hock ; Idea: Ward Botsford , Diana Dru Botsford , Michael Piller
When Picard, Ro, Guinan and Keiko O'Brien fly back from the shore leave to the Enterprise on a shuttle, the shuttle gets caught in an energy field. Before it is destroyed, the four occupants can be beamed onto the Enterprise, but they are rematerialized in the bodies of young children. Your intelligence and experience remain unchanged. While the four try to cope with their smaller bodies, Crusher, La Forge, and Data develop a way to transform the four children back into adults using the adult transporter patterns and beaming. Before this can be done, the Enterprise is boarded by renegade Ferengi. Riker can lock the main computer at the last second. The Ferengi beam all adult crew members except Riker to the planet Ligos VII, where they use them for illegal mineral mining, and plan to sell the Enterprise to the Romulans. After Picard and the other children are locked in the classroom, they work together to fight the Ferengi. By pretending to be Riker's son, Picard can get Riker to release the command functions on the children's computer in the classroom, which ultimately allows the children to capture the Ferengi. Eventually Picard, Ro, Guinan and Keiko are turned back into adults through beaming.
134	8th	A handful of data	A Fistful Of Datas	Nov 7, 1992	May 27, 1994	Patrick Stewart	Robert Hewitt Wolfe , Brannon Braga ; Idea: Robert Hewitt Wolfe
Alexander persuaded his father to play a program together on the holodeck in which both are sheriff or deputy sheriff of a small town in the wild west of the world. Troi also plays along as a mysterious stranger and helps the two of them arrest the murderer Eli Hollander. At the same time, Data and La Forge are conducting an experiment in the engine room in which Data is connected to the ship's computer. This unexpectedly leads to energy fluctuations in Data's nerve network and, as a result, to ship-wide malfunctions. These can also be seen in the holoprogram: it can no longer be ended and the holodeck protection function is out of order. In addition, contrary to the programmed sequence, Alexander is kidnapped by Eli's infamous father Frank, embodied by Data, who demands from Worf to release Eli, who is now also embodied by Data, in exchange for Alexander. Worf and Troi realize that they have to play the program through to the end so that it is automatically terminated and they can leave the holodeck. When they carry out the requested exchange, they are attacked by Frank's accomplices, who are embodied by further data copies. Alexander returns to Worf and Troi, who are able to fight off the attacking data. Eventually the program will terminate automatically.
135	9	Data's hypothesis	The Quality of Life	Nov 14, 1992	May 30, 1994	Jonathan Frakes	Naren shankar ; Idea: LJ Scott
The Enterprise arrives at a space station to review a novel mining technology called Particle Source for use in the Federation. To rectify a malfunction at the particle source, the station engineer Dr. Farallon introduced one of the Exocomps she invented and newly developed, which are small robots that can be used as tools and are capable of learning. Data concludes from the behavior of the Exocomps during use that the Exocomps have an instinct of self-preservation and develops the hypothesis that they are living beings. Because they are therefore worth protecting, he forbids Dr. Farallon to use them to work. Dr. Farallon is against it and regards the Exocomps only as tools. In order to test Data's hypothesis, Picard lets him carry out other, similar experiments, which initially fail. After more than 30 unsuccessful attempts on the Enterprise, Data sees its hypothesis confirmed. Picard and La Forge are trapped on the ward with a technician in another accident on the ward that threatens to radiate them. By locking down the Enterprise transporters, Data defies Riker's orders to beam the Exocomps into the station core to clean up the radiation leak and detonate them there. After a dispute with Data, they agree on Riker's suggestion to let the Exocomps decide for themselves whether they want to enter this situation. However, the three robots make their own suggestion through which the trapped are rescued without destroying all Exocomps.
136	10	Secret Mission on Celtris Three - Part 1	Chain Of Command, Part I.	Dec 12, 1992	May 31, 1994	Robert Scheerer	Ronald D. Moore ; Idea: Frank Abatemarco
The Starfleet Admiralty, which fears an imminent war between the Cardassians and the Federation due to increased Cardassian military activity, removes Picard, Worf and Crusher from their functions on the Enterprise and sends them on a secret mission. Command of the Enterprise was given to Captain Edward Jellico, who was experienced with the Cardassians and who - much to the uncertainty of the crew - implemented numerous organizational and technical changes throughout the ship and - in contrast to Picard's style - acted with military severity. Jellico goes with the Enterprise to a meeting with the Cardassian Gul Levec, who affirms that his people claim the areas on the edge of the Federation area and only have military exercises carried out there. He also reveals that the Cardassians know of a secret Federation operation in the border area. In this context, Picard, Worf and Crusher went to the planet Celtris Drei, which is close to the border, to check the existence of a metagenetic weapon suspected by the Starfleet Secret Service that can destroy entire ecosystems. When they arrive in the presumed location of the weapon, an underground room, it turns out to be a trap when they are attacked by Cardassians and separated. While Worf and Crusher flee, Picard faces interrogation and death. The Cardassians, however, supposedly let the Enterprise believe that the secret operation was successful.
137	11	Secret Mission on Celtris Three - Part 2	Chain Of Command, Part II	Dec 19, 1992	June 1, 1994	Les Landau	Frank Abatemarco
A Cardassian commander wants to find out from Picard the defense plans for the planet Minos Corva, which is part of the Federation territory but is claimed by the Cardassians, and tortures him to do so. Picard refuses to the last to name the commandant the number of lights seen as five, although there are only four, and so to be released. In addition, the Cardassian lie persuades him to participate in the further interrogation instead of Crusher being interrogated. Crusher and Worf, however, have long since returned to the Enterprise via a meeting point. Jellico would like the secret commando action against. Levec do not confirm, so that Picard can be treated by the Cardassians not as a prisoner of war to be protected from torture, but as a terrorist. Since Riker protests against the decision, he is suspended by Jellico. After the senior officers have determined that the Cardassians are likely planning an invasion of Minos Corva, Jellico lets the Enterprise fly near the planet and - with Riker's help - mine the space nebula in which the Cardassian ships are located. With the threat of detonating the remotely detonable mines on Cardassian ships, Levec can be persuaded to order his fleet out of the fog and release Picard. After he has returned to the Enterprise, Jellico gives him the command again.
138	12	The ship in the bottle	Ship In A Bottle	Jan. 23, 1993	June 2, 1994	Alexander Singer	René Echevarria
After Data and La Forge noticed errors while playing through a Sherlock Holmes holodeck program, Barclay reactivated the holodeck figure Professor Moriarty, which Picard had once saved in the memory of the holodeck because he had developed an awareness, while searching for the cause of the error. When Moriarty lets Picard come to - Data and Barclay are also present in the holodeck - Moriarty leaves the holodeck, although this is considered physically impossible. Picard denies Moriarty his wish to also release Moriarty's lover, Countess Bartholomew, from the holodeck because the crew does not yet have enough information about the phenomenon of Moriarty's stay outside the holodeck. In order to force Picard to implement his request, Moriarty locks the command function of the Enterprise computer with a trick and prevents the crew from leaving the area with the Enterprise, in which two planets will soon collide and thereby destroy the Enterprise threatens. Data discovers that he, Picard, and Barclay are still in the holodeck, in a program created by Moriarty. However, Moriarty prevents the program from ending. In order to avert the danger for the Enterprise, Picard realizes Moriarty's demand that he and the Countess can leave the Enterprise with a shuttle so that Moriarty releases the command function of the Enterprise again. However, it now turns out that Picard only staged the liberation of Moriarty and the Countess in one holodeck program within the first holodeck program.
139	13	Aquiel	Aquiel	Jan. 30, 1993	June 3, 1994	Cliff Bole	Brannon Braga , Ronald D. Moore ; Idea: Jeri Taylor
The Enterprise is investigating a communications relay station on the Klingon border because it has not responded to calls for a long time. Apart from a dog, the station is found abandoned. Cell debris on the floor indicates that a person was shot there. The crew, consisting of the woman Aquiel Unari and the man Roger, has disappeared. Picard's request for help to a Klingon commander has the consequence that the latter brings Aquiel, who has fled from the station on a shuttle, to the Enterprise. She claims to have been threatened by Roger and therefore fled the station. Aquiel feels embarrassed by La Forge because La Forge had previously looked through her private correspondence during the investigation. However, a love affair develops between the two. When examining the cell debris, these suddenly form Dr. Crushers hand after. Crusher diagnoses that the organic material is a uniting organism that cyclically needs a new body. The officers deduce from this that the organism seized Roger before starting his duty on the ward and that after Roger took up Lt. Unari attacked because he needed a new body again. However, because Unari fled, the organism united with the dog. La Forge can shoot this in self-defense, shortly before he would have united with him.
140	14th	The face of the enemy	Face Of The Enemy	Feb 6, 1993	June 6, 1994	Gabrielle Beaumont	Naren shankar ; Idea: René Echevarria
To her horror, Troi finds herself surgically altered in the form of an agent of the Romulan secret service Tal'Shiar, who kidnapped her. On board the Romulan warbird Khazara, she is forced by N'Vek, also from Tal'Shiar, to play this role and help him deliver a secret package to the Federation. First she orders the commander Toreth to fly to the Caleb sector. Toreth is unaware of the cargo that N'Vek has had on board and that is to be handed over to a cargo ship in the Caleb Sector for delivery to the Federation. N'Vek shows Troi the cargo, which is a stasis container with the Romulan Senator Mereth and two advisors. Meanwhile, Picard is caused by a defector that the Enterprise meets with the freighter to receive the cargo, because Mereth wants to defer to the Federation, thus creating the possibility that numerous Romulan dissidents can escape from the Empire. When the Khazara reached the meeting point, N'Vek destroyed the freighter with 18 people on board, after Troi interpreted the captain as a possible spy. While the Khazara slowly flies camouflaged out of the debris field, Troi N'Vek causes the Enterprise to notice the Khazara. After Toreth notices this, she orders the destruction of the Enterprise. Instead of carrying out this order, Troi succeeds in beaming Mereth and his companions onto the Enterprise by suspending Toreth. Toreth discovers the deception and takes command again, N'Vek is shot and Troi is beamed onto the Enterprise at the last moment.
141	15th	Welcome to the afterlife	Tapestry	Feb 13, 1993	June 7, 1994	Les Landau	Ronald D. Moore
During an outside mission, Picard is badly wounded so that he threatens to die in the infirmary. He suddenly finds himself in the afterlife, where Q greets him as a self-proclaimed god in the afterlife. Even after Q showed him the situation in which Picard was seriously injured by a Nausicaan as a young, freshly minted officer, Picard regrets some of the deeds in his life. Q gives him a second chance and puts him in his role then and in the time a few days before the fight against the Nausicaaner. Q offers Picard to let him survive in this world, provided that he prevents him from losing his heart, later replaced by an artificial heart, to the attack at a young age. Picard's friend at the time, Corey, loses while playing the billiard-like game Domjot and wants to prepare the table to win the upcoming revenge. Picard rejects the manipulation as too risky and thwarts an attack by Corey against the physically superior Nausicaans, who provoke him as a coward. Picard does not get into a fight and is not injured in his heart, but Corey and a friend withdraw from him. Picard's career subsequently progressed in such a way that he only made it to the position of junior lieutenant on the Enterprise - an activity with which Picard compared himself to. Q expresses extremely dissatisfied. Q explains it by saying that Picard never took risks in his life, and Picard now wishes he could have helped Corey fight the Nausicaans. Q fulfills his wish and lets him survive the serious injury in this world.
142	16	The moment of knowledge - part 1	Birthright, Part I.	Feb. 20, 1993	June 8, 1994	Winrich Kolbe	Brannon Braga
The Enterprise is currently at Deep Space Nine to help rebuild the Bajoran water supply. Data helps ward physician Bashir, who is interested in cybernetics, investigate an apparatus found in the gamma quadrant. During an experiment, the device triggers a plasma shock in Data, which causes it to fail for a few seconds. However, he has a vision from its creator Dr. Soong, which he subsequently tries to fathom by exploring other cultures. After Picard advised him to use his own imagination instead, he paints some pictures of the vision and is thus motivated to do the experiment again. Soong motivates him to dream. Data concludes from this that Soong once constructed some of Data's circuits in such a way that under certain conditions, such as now with the experiments, they allow him to dream. - Meanwhile, Worf is investigating the information from an Iridian, according to which Worf's father did not once die in the Khitomer massacre, but was captured by the Romulans on a planet where Mogh now lives. Concerned that Worf's family would be dishonored by the capture, Worf travels to the planet and learns that Mogh is long dead. He is also prevented from returning by Klingons who live in a Romulan camp complex and Romulans.
143	17th	The moment of knowledge - part 2	Birthright, Part II	Feb. 27, 1993	June 9, 1994	Dan Curry	René Echevarria
Worf learns from the Klingons in the camp, who are now the second generation to live there, that the parents were once captured by the Romulans and did not return to their families in order not to dishonor them. Worf believes the Klingons have dishonored themselves and lost their identity. You now live in peace with the Romulans. Worf's attempt to escape from the camp fails. To show the Klingons who they really are, Worf teaches them Klingon cultural techniques, including rites and fighting techniques. He teaches the young Klingon Toq ritual hunting, which quickly convinces Tok to see himself as a true Klingon and warrior, and motivates the other Klingons to do the same. When Worf discovers that Mrs. Ba'el is half Klingon and half Romulan, he is initially dismayed, but later admits that he loves her. Her Romulan father and camp supervisor Tokath confronts Worf with the choice of whether to adapt to the way of life in the camp or to be executed. Because of his honor, Worf chooses the latter. When the execution is to be carried out, gradually most of the Klingons take Worf's side, so that Tokath refrains from killing. Both sides agree that Worf and the Klingon descendants may leave the planet on condition that they do not tell anyone about the existence of the camp and the fate of the Klingons living there. They get to the Enterprise via a supply ship. Worf also lies to Picard about his experiences on the planet.
144	18th	In the hands of terrorists	Starship mine	27 Mar 1993	June 10, 1994	Cliff Bole	Morgan Gendel
The Enterprise is docked with the Remler space station to be routinely cleared of baryons and has been fully evacuated for the purpose. Shortly before the start of the cleanup, Picard returns to the Enterprise to get his riding saddle and overpowers a member of the station crew whom he suspects of criminal behavior. Since the energy is cut off across the ship, he cannot beam himself back from the ship. He is captured by thieves who steal trilitium resin in the engine room in order to sell it for profit. When he escapes from captivity, he destroys the device that the thieves use to protect themselves from the deadly cleaning jet. Because of this and the approaching ray, everyone is forced to flee in the direction of Ten-Front, which the ray reaches as the last point. While escaping, Picard is captured again. He leads the thieves to the ten-front and thereby into a self-laid trap. However, he cannot prevent a thief from beaming herself off board with a container of trilitium resin. Meanwhile, Troi, Riker, Data, La Forge, and Crusher have been captured as hostages by accomplices of the thieves on the planet near which the station is located. You can outsmart and overwhelm the hostage takers soon. This allows Data to deactivate the beam shortly before Picard would have been killed by the purge beam. Since Picard was able to seize the control element of the trilitium resin container, he can detonate the usually very unstable resin along with the shuttle in which the thief flees.
145	19th	The firestorm	Lessons	Apr 3, 1993	May 12, 1994	Robert Wiemer	Ron Wilkerson , Jean Louise Matthias
Picard meets the new scientist Lt. Cdr. Know Darren. They spend time together and make music together. They fall in love with each other. Since Picard is concerned that the relationship could negatively affect his judgment as a boss, he seeks advice from Troi. She advises him not to suppress his feelings. The Enterprise arrives on a planet in the Bersallis system that is home to a Federation outpost with over 600 colonists. Since the post is in danger of being destroyed by a particularly rapidly approaching firestorm, the colonists are evacuated onto the Enterprise. Enterprise crew members, including Darren, install heat deflectors on the planet's surface to provide temporary protection from the storm. To save the colonists, Picard is forced to order the installation teams to hold their position until all of the colonists on board have been beamed. In doing so, Picard also risks Darren's life. All colonists are evacuated and Darren survived, but eight other crew members die in the storm. Picard realizes that he couldn't bear to risk Darren's life again. Also, because Darren thinks it is unrealistic that Picard will give up his position in order to live permanently with Darren, Darren finally applies for her transfer from the Enterprise.
146	20th	The missing fragment	The Chase	Apr. 24, 1993	June 14, 1994	Jonathan Frakes	Joe Menosky ; Idea: Ronald D. Moore , Joe Menosky
The Federation archaeologist and mentor Picard, Professor Galen, wants to convince Picard to accompany him on a research trip lasting several months because of a far-reaching discovery. After Picard's job-related refusal, Galen leaves the Enterprise disappointed and is fatally wounded by enemy Iridians after his departure. Picard then continues with the Enterprise Galen research. A number of compatible DNA fragments are obtained from the data from his shuttle, which originate from different species in the whole galaxy and were probably left behind by a species that lived 4 billion years ago. To check this, one looks for the missing fragments and meets Cardassians and Klingons who are also following this trail. The three parties put together the fragments they have collected and use it to determine a planet on which they suspect the last fragment. After an Enterprise field team with the Klingon representative as well as Cardassians and Romulans arrive there, Picard and Crusher find the missing fragment in the vegetative remains of the otherwise biologically dead planet. Inserted into the system of the already collected fragments, a projection of a representative of the original species is activated. His species, after finding no humanoid life while exploring the galaxy, once left their own DNA on various planets to leave a legacy of themselves after their extinction. In addition, it is his hope that knowledge of common ancestry leads to peace among the species of the assembled parties.
147	21st	Fantasy or truth?	Frame of Mind	May 1, 1993	June 15, 1994	James L. Conway	Brannon Braga
The Enterprise flies to the planet Trilonus IV, where political factions are eligible to kidnap a Federation research team. Meanwhile, the Riker, who is supposed to go undercover on Trilonus, is rehearsing a play with Data in which he plays the role of a patient who is wrongly imprisoned as insane. Riker soon feels uncomfortable, observed and nervous. An unknown man who is a Trilonan appears repeatedly to him. He finds himself in a prison-like mental hospital clinic on Trilonus. His memories of the Enterprise are diagnosed there as madness, which they try to drive out of him with therapy. When he suddenly finds himself on the Enterprise, he or Troi and Crusher recognize his experiences in the clinic as hallucinations. Riker switches between the two places several times and becomes increasingly unsure of what is reality and what is imagination. Finally he wakes up on an operating table on Trilonus, from which he is beamed onto the Enterprise. There he learns that he has been kidnapped two days after his arrival on the planet and that a member of one of the factions tried to gain strategic information from Riker by manipulating Riker's memory. Riker's memory resisted, however, which led to the change of location and the Trilonan's attempt ultimately failed.
148	22nd	Suspicions	Suspicions	May 8, 1993	June 16, 1994	Cliff Bole	Joe Menosky , Naren Shankar
The Ferengi Dr. Rega has achieved a sensational technological achievement with the construction of the metaphysical shield. In order to promote Rega and let him evaluate his work, Crusher lets him meet some eminent scientists on the Enterprise. The associated takaran Jo'Bril voluntarily flies a shuttle equipped with the shield - without the internal temperature of the shuttle increasing - into the corona of a star, so that the test appears successful. After suddenly getting breathless and threatening to die, he can fly the shuttle out of the corona with the last of his strength and is declared dead by Crusher. Before Rega, seriously disappointed, can carry out the test with himself as a pilot, he is found dead on the Enterprise. Crusher is not allowed to autopsy because of a Ferengi tradition and does not believe in suicide. Therefore she suspects the other scientists of sabotage and murder. Because she carried out the autopsy on Rega, she was suspended from duty. The autopsy is inconclusive. By flying the shuttle into the corona on her own initiative, she can prove that the shield was deliberately punctured during the first test. With the shuttle still in the corona, she fends off the attack by Jo'Bril hidden in it, who admits the sabotage and murder of Rega. With his Takaran physiology, little understood by Crusher, he had faked his death. He wanted to discredit Rega and seize the shield prototype in order to develop it into a powerful weapon. Crusher shoots him and is professionally rehabilitated.
149	23	The rightful heir	Rightful Heir	May 15, 1993	June 17, 1994	Winrich Kolbe	Ronald D. Moore ; Idea: James E. Brooks
After Worf had doubts about his belief in the Stovokor, the Klingon afterlife, he went to the planet Boreth and there in the company of believers who were waiting for Kahless to return. After Worf's 10-day stay, Kahless returns as a real person with Worf's prayer, to everyone's surprise. Worf, Kahless, who doubts the authenticity of what has returned, and Koroth, the highest believer on Boreth, embark on the Enterprise that is supposed to bring Kahless to the Klingon homeworld. On the way, Gowron comes on board. While Worf is convinced of the genuineness of Kahless by the genetic testing successfully carried out by Crusher, Gowron's doubts are not dispelled. Through the claims of Kahless to lead the Klingon people again, Gowron feels threatened in his power and therefore challenges Kahless to a fight that Gowron wins. Confronted by Kahless' deficits and strange memory gaps, Koroth gives opposite. Worf admitted to having created the Kahless present as a clone of the original so that the kingdom could be cleansed of corruption and dishonor. Worf criticizes Kahless as a false god. Finally, at Worf's suggestion, Gowron and Koroth agree that the Kahless clone, as the legal heir to the real Kahless, should be declared emperor, a post vacant for centuries, and thus a figurehead with the purpose of giving something to the people that can believe it. The people should also be informed that Kahless is a clone.
150	24	Riker: 2 =?	Second chances	May 22, 1993	June 20, 1994	LeVar Burton	René Echevarria ; Idea: Michael Medlock
For the purpose of retrieving scientific data, the Enterprise on the planet Nervalla IV is waiting for a distortion field to open one of three consecutive time windows for beaming within a few days, which there are only eight years apart. Eight years earlier, the Starfleet researchers stationed on the planet had to be evacuated to the Potiemkin spaceship. The Riker, who was still serving as a lieutenant at the time, was also part of the away team. When an outside team led by Riker examines the station in the first beam window, Lt. Riker, who has lived there for eight years and was accidentally duplicated when beaming up. After Lt. Riker came to the Enterprise, he continues the love affair with Troi that ended years ago. Risky behavior according to Rikers arouses the wrath of his superior, the now more security-conscious Commander Riker. By ultimately pulling themselves together, they manage to make the data they are looking for available again during the third transporter window. In doing so, Cdr. Riker Lt. Riker before death. At Picard's endeavor, Lt. Riker is transferred to the spaceship Gandhi and takes his middle name Thomas as his first name. Troi refuses to accompany him because she does not want to start a new life.
151	25th	Trapped in a temporary fragment	Timescape	June 12, 1993	June 21, 1994	Adam Nimoy	Brannon Braga
Picard, Data, La Forge and Troi are in a shuttle on their way back from a conference to the agreed meeting point with the Enterprise. The closer you get to the meeting point, the more often you get into temporal anomalies of varying duration, in which time progresses significantly faster and in which the people and objects located in it freeze. In such a rigidity they also find the Enterprise together with a Romulan warship, at which the Enterprise is currently aiming an energy transfer beam. To investigate the situation, they beam themselves on board the ships with equipment that protects them from freezing. A warp core rupture is taking place on the Enterprise that will destroy it. After investigating the drive of the Romulan ship and the capture of one of two non-frozen aliens in Romulan form, it becomes clear that the aliens began to use the Romulan warp core as a nest to hatch their offspring, but this did not work as hoped. Due to the resulting loss of energy, the Romulans let the Enterprise supply them with energy and evacuate them. The energy donation led to the Enterprise breaking the warp core. The team finds a way to let the time run backwards and then prevent the warp core from breaking, also by Picard flying the now unoccupied shuttle into the transfer beam, causing it to explode. The temporal fragment in which the ships were trapped disappears and the second alien is moved back into her space-time continuum.
152	26th	Attack of the Borg - Part 1	Descent	June 19, 1993	June 22, 1994	Alexander Singer	Ronald D. Moore ; Idea: Jeri Taylor
While Data is playing poker with Isaac Newton , Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking in a holoprogram to explore the various forms of human facets, the Enterprise receives an emergency call from the Federation outpost Oniaka 3. Its crew of 274 is dead Borg and the Enterprise attacked by a spaceship used by the Borg. The Borg flee with the spaceship through a transwarp channel, which prevents the Enterprise from pursuing. Fearing a renewed attack by the Borg against the Federation, Admiral Nechayev uses the Enterprise as part of combat units and for patrol flights. She orders Picard, contrary to his actions with Hugh, to use every opportunity to destroy the Borg. In doing so, Picard questions his conviction that he should always act morally. It remains to be seen why these Borg did not act as part of the collective but rather individually. In killing one of these Borg, Data unexpectedly felt anger and pleasure, his first self-experienced emotions. After another Borg attack on a Federation colony, the Enterprise captures a Borg. This awakens the same emotions in Data again and tempts him to flee the Enterprise together in a shuttle. Since La Forge has now succeeded in using the Transwarp Canal with the Enterprise, the Enterprise follows the shuttle to a planet. Picard, La Forge and Troi are captured by Borg in a building that serves as a meeting place. They face Data and Lore, who have united to destroy the Federation.

production

The model for the episode A Handful of Datas , which is reminiscent of Sergio Leone's dollar trilogy , was also the Western Rio Bravo . The novel Heart of Darkness served as a template for the two-part attack by the Borg . The episode The Face of the Enemy is based on Hunt for Red October . For Welcome to the Afterlife , Charles Dickens ' story A Christmas Carol was the inspiration.

In the episode Attack the Borg - Part 1 , Stephen Hawking played his own holodeck simulation.

Web links

• Season 6 in the Internet Movie Database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Cinefantastique No. 3/4 of 1993 (24th year), p. 62
2. ↑ Cinefantastique No. 3/4 of 1993 (24th year), p. 87
3. ↑ Cinefantastique No. 3/4 of 1993 (24th year), p. 67
4. ↑ Andreas Rauscher: The STAR TREK phenomenon - virtual spaces and metaphorical worlds , Ventil Verlag , Mainz 2003, ISBN 3-930559-98-6 (dissertation, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz ), p. 181