Starship Enterprise - The Next Century / Season 7

Season 7 of Starship Enterprise - The Next Century
Episodes	26th
Country of production	United States
First broadcast	Sep 18 1993 - May 23, 1994 on syndication
German-language first broadcast	June 13, 1994 - July 27, 1994 on Sat.1
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The seventh season of the American science fiction - television series Star Trek - The Next Generation includes 26 episodes and was in the United States between September 1993 and May 1994 erstausgestrahlt. In Germany, Sat.1 showed the episodes in the spring of 1994. All episodes were also released on VHS, DVD and Blu-ray. The seventh season was also the final season of the series.

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No. ( total )	No. ( St. )	German title	Original title	First broadcast in the USA	German language first broadcast (D)	Director	script
153	1	Attack of the Borg, part 2	Descent, Part II	Sep 18 1993	June 23, 1994	Alexander Singer	René Echevarria
The Borg Hugh had once transferred his individuality awakened on the Enterprise to the crew members of his spaceship. This was later discovered by Lore along with the crew. The Borg of this crew are now serving Lore on the planet for experiments to create a perfect, artificial race. Lore can be helped by Data, which he has influenced for this purpose in such a way that Data no longer acts ethically. During Lore's experiments, some Borg were mutilated, who are now hiding with Hugh from Lore for fear of further experiments. While searching for the rest of the Enterprise crew members, Worf and Riker come across this Borg. Meanwhile, Lore is also experimenting with La Forge and trying Picard and Troi out of their captivity to reactivate Data's ethical program. At the same time, Crusher tries to beam the rest of the crew on board with a hull crew on the Enterprise. In doing so, they defend themselves against the attacks of a Borg ship, which they can finally destroy by artificially causing an eruption on a star. Hugh, Riker and Worf can finally shoot and defeat Lore and his Borg and free Riker, Data and Troi. Picard manages to reactivate Data's ethical program. Data then deactivates Lore and seizes his emotion chips, which he does not use himself because of the fear of becoming like Lore. La Forge prevents Data from destroying the chip for the same reason. Hugh remains on the planet while the Enterprise crew members come back on board.
154	2	Indiscretions	Liaisons	25 Sep 1993	June 24, 1994	Cliff Bole	Jeanne Carrigan-Fauci , Lisa Rich ; Idea: Roger Eschbacher , Jaq Greenspon
As part of a cultural exchange between the Federation and the Iyaarans, Picard takes the Iyaraan Voval to their homeworld by shuttle, while the Iyaarans Loquel and Byleth spend a few days on the Enterprise. Troi explains life on the Enterprise to Loquel. Byleth chooses Worf as a supervisor and then repeatedly provokes him with his arrogant behavior. Meanwhile, Picard and Voval have to make an emergency landing on a planet after a malfunction, whereby Voval is seriously injured to Picard's appearance. Injured by an electrical discharge, Picard is cared for by a woman who has apparently lived there alone for seven years. She expects Picard to be loved by him, but Picard is reluctant to do so. Picard soon realizes that he is not really hurt and that he is being held captive by the woman. In addition, shortly afterwards, in the absence of Ms. Voval, he appears unharmed. A little later Picard realizes that Voval and the woman are one and the same person. Voval informs Picard that Voval was sent by his species to experience the emotion of love that was still missing in his culture, while Loquel should study pleasure and Byleth contentiousness. Since the shuttle isn't really broken, Picard can quickly return to the Enterprise.
155	3	The interface	interface	0Oct 2, 1993	June 27, 1994	Robert Wiemer	Joe Menosky
The research spaceship Raman is trapped in the atmosphere of a gas planet. To search for survivors, the Enterprise sends a probe into the Raman. This is controlled by La Forge with the help of Crushers and Datas via an interface between the probe and La Forge's brain. La Forge finds the 7-man crew dead. A short time later he learns that the Star Fleet spaceship Hera, commanded by his mother, has disappeared without a trace with its crew of over 300. During another connection to the probe in the Raman, La Forge appears to his mother, who tells him that she is trapped. Therefore, La Forge hypothesized that the Hera is trapped in a layer of the planet's atmosphere that is deeper than the layer in which the Raman is located, and that it could have got there via a warp funnel. Because this assumption is very unlikely and the use of the probe to check it would be too dangerous, Picard forbids La Forge to search for the Hera with the interface and the probe. La Forge, however, with the support of Data, defies the ban. Connected to the interface and putting himself in mortal danger, he penetrates into deeper layers of the atmosphere with the Raman controlled by himself or the probe and learns that the appearance is not about his mother, but a subspace being in her form acts. It and its fellow species had unintentionally got on board the Raman in a lower layer of the atmosphere and were now trapped in a higher layer.
156	4th	The move, part 1	Gambit, Part I	0Oct 9, 1993	June 28, 1994	Peter Lauritson	Naren shankar ; Idea: Christopher Hatton , Naren Shankar
Picard disappears during a private excursion for archaeological purposes on a planet. Based on the results of the investigation, the Enterprise assumes Picard's death. Riker, now the new captain, sets out on the Enterprise to find Picard's killer. The testimony of a criminal who observed Picard's disappearance leads the crew to the planet Barradas III. When they arrive there, some of the artifacts are stolen by mercenaries who also kidnap Riker. The mercenaries are commanded by Arctus Baran, who disciplines his subordinates and now also Riker on his spaceship with pain-causing neck implants. In addition to the Romulan Tallera, Picard also serves under Baran, who informs Riker unobserved that he had observed the theft of artifacts on his excursion, was captured and since then has been posing to Baran as a smuggler named Galen, who he was when he was looking for Baran helps certain artifacts of Romulan origin. Baran also has these stolen from the ruins of a Romulan sub-race on the planet Calder II. The Enterprise has meanwhile followed the mercenary ship there. To maintain cover, Picard and Riker allow Baran to bombard the Enterprise.
157	5	The move, part 2	Gambit, Part II	Oct 16, 1993	June 29, 1994	Alexander Singer	Ronald D. Moore ; Idea: Naren Shankar
From the mercenary ship, Picard and Riker fire at the Enterprise with weak phaser shots. The Data commanding the Enterprise plays along and lets the ship escape while he finds a coded message from Riker with the ship's next target, the meeting with a Klingon spaceship. On the mercenary ship, Tallera gets Picard to reveal his true identity to her by introducing herself to him as a Vulcan agent dispatched to locate an old telepathic superweapon, partially assembled by the crew of the mercenary ship, that Vulcan isolationists want to use theirs To rid the homeworld of its leaders and strangers. In the meantime, the Enterprise has already reached the meeting point with the Klingon spaceship in front of the mercenary ship, which she and its 1-man crew took on board for investigation. After the mercenary ship has also arrived there, Baran has a boarding party led by Riker and Picard steal the last piece of the super weapon transported by the Klingon and bring it to them. Riker remains on the Enterprise. After Picard learns that Tallera also wants to use the super weapon, he is taken hostage by her to Vulkan. There Tallera kills the crew members who have come along using the weapon that uses negative thoughts as a source of energy. Picard and the Enterprise crew members resist their killing by foregoing negative thoughts. Tallera is arrested and the weapon destroyed by the Vulcan government.
158	6th	Dream analysis	Phantasms	Oct 23, 1993	June 30, 1994	Patrick Stewart	Brannon Braga
The Enterprise tests the new warp core obtained from Starbase 84, but the tests initially fail. At the same time, Data is trying out a new one of his dream programs. He has nightmares in which he sees three workers working on a warp plasma line and suddenly taking him apart. Because of one of the dreams he overslept, so he went to a holographic therapy session with Dr. Sigmund Freud , which he feels to be unsuccessful. In daydreams, Data also sees little mouths on the bodies of crew members. Under this impression, he stabs Counselor Troi in the turbolift. In treating her injury, Troi realizes that the bodies of almost the entire crew are afflicted with such mouths and that these are organisms that extract cell peptides from the bodies and are only visible with interphase scanners. With the suspicion that Data knows how to deal with the creatures, Picard and La Forge use holodeck simulation to enter the subconscious of Data. In doing so, Data realizes that its positronic sub-processor is able to kill the creatures with high-frequency interphase pulses. Picard therefore floods the Enterprise with such pulses, so that the creatures die and the warp core is now working properly. The warp core was already contaminated with the creatures when it was received at the star base.
159	7th	Place of darkness	Dark Page	Oct. 30, 1993	0July 1, 1994	Les Landau	Hilary J. Bader
On the Enterprise, Deanna's mother, Lwaxana, helps some representatives of the telepathic but incapable of speaking species Cairn to learn to speak. Lwaxana is becoming increasingly tired. When the Cairn child Hedril accidentally lands in the water while playing at the arboretum, Lwaxana faints. The core man Maques, whom Lwaxana helped telepathically to learn to speak, believes he recognizes an area of ​​consciousness in her that is telepathically inaccessible to him and which he therefore describes as a place of darkness. With Maques' help, Deanna moves telepathically into Lwaxana's consciousness, where her father and Hedril attract attention. Therefore, looking for a traumatic event in Lwaxana's childhood, Deanna and Picard find that period in Lwaxana's diary as deleted by her. Therefore Deanna returns to Lwaxana's consciousness, where she learns that Deanna once had a sister named Kestra who - unobserved by Lwaxana for a moment - fell into the water while playing and therefore died. With this knowledge, Deanna succeeds in making her mother aware that she is not to blame for the traumatic experience, as a result of which Lwaxana soon wakes up from the fainting.
160	8th	contacts	attached	0Nov 6, 1993	June 13, 1994	Jonathan Frakes	Nicholas Sagan
On the planet Kesprytt III, the Prytt people have refused to have contact with both the Kes and third parties for decades, which is why they are classified as xenophobic by the Kes. When Picard and Crusher beam down to the Kes in order to negotiate with them to join the Federation, their transport beam is deflected by the Prytt. Suspected of conspiring with the Kes against the Prytt, they are held captive by the Prytt. With the help of a kesian spy they can soon break free. Due to the devices implanted in their cerebral cortex by the Prytt, they are dependent on close spatial proximity and can read each other's thoughts. As they flee towards the kesian border, they get to know each other even better. Meanwhile, Riker on the Enterprise tries unsuccessfully to speak to the Prytt about the release of the two. Out of distrust of the Prytt, the Kesian ambassador Mauric suspects the Enterprise of plotting with the Prytt in a military alliance against the Kes. Riker forcibly brings the Prytt representative Lorin onto the Enterprise and into a conversation with Mauric, in which Riker confronts both parties with their prejudices. This is how Lorin can be convinced of the release of Crushers. Shortly before, Picard had already managed to cross the border.
161	9	The space disaster	Force of Nature	Nov 13, 1993	05th July 1994	Robert Lederman	Naren Shankar
The Enterprise is looking for the missing medical transport ship Fleming in an area of ​​space that is dangerous for warp drives due to the high accumulation of Tetrion particles and which can only be traversed safely in the Hekaras Corridor. In the corridor, the Enterprise helps a Ferengi spaceship that has been stranded due to a failed warp drive to continue its journey. Shortly afterwards, a Verteron impulse, like the one the Ferengi ship received before it was stranded, deactivates the Enterprise's warp drive and shields and the Enterprise is boarded by the Hekarian siblings Rabal and Serova. It demands that the Federation renounce any use of the warp drive in this corridor because the warp fields are harmful to their home planet Hekaras II. Because Serova feels that the Enterprise's efforts are insufficient, she sacrifices herself by creating a warp core break with her mini spaceship and thus also a subspace rift in which the Fleming is trapped and which threatens the Enterprise. By creating the widening gap, Servoa proves to the Enterprise that the theory they expressed earlier is correct. The Enterprise can be driven into the crevice with a short war plow in order to save the crew members of the Fleming. The Enterprise can no longer be driven out of the gap because the Fleming widened the gap by starting the warp drive. After the Fleming crew has been rescued, the Enterprise manages to exit the gap using the deflector shield and a distortion wave generated by the gap.
162	10	Soong's legacy	Inheritance	Nov 20, 1993	0July 6, 1994	Robert Scheerer	Dan Koeppel , René Echevarria ; Idea: Dan Koeppel
To avert a natural disaster in which the liquid core of the planet Atreius IV cools down and the planet threatens to petrify, the Enterprise helps with the implementation of a pheroplasmic infusion, which liquefies the magma in the core. The two scientists from the planet who serve as contact for the Enterprise are the Tainers. Juliana Tainer, b. O'Donnell, Data soon reveals that she was once the wife of Dr. Noonien Soong was and is also Data's mother when also involved in Data's creation. Feeling guilty about not taking Data with her on the rescue shuttle to escape the Crystalline being, she had not yet told Data about her existence. Data's skepticism about Juliana's identity is confirmed when, after Juliana's fall, he realizes that she is not human at all, but also an android. While she is unconscious due to injury, an information module with a holographic interface can be found in her head during treatment. From the holographic program saved on it, which Noonien Soong projects, Data learns that Noonien was once married to the human woman Juliana O'Donnell and she helped create Data. After she died as a result of the Crystalline attack, Noonien had created an android in Juliana's form and memories. Data decides to keep Juliana believing that she is human because he does not want to take away the humanity that he has always striven for. After the pheroplasmic infusion is complete and the planet is once again out of danger, Juliana returns there.
163	11	Parallels	Parallels	Nov. 27, 1993	0July 7, 1994	Robert Wiemer	Brannon Braga
Worf returns to the Enterprise by shuttle from a bat'leth competition. There his colleagues surprise him with a birthday celebration. During this and later at other places on the Enterprise, he experienced dizziness several times , after which he found himself in a different reality each time. In one of them he is married to Troi and Wesley Crusher serves as a tactical officer on the bridge, while Picard has been dead for years. Worf experiences numerous discontinuities, ie things and circumstances that were previously self-evident to him suddenly appear as non-existent or different. Data recognizes the cause of Worf's fate in one of the realities: Worf's quantum signature is different from that of the other Enterprise residents. While returning to the Enterprise, Worf came into contact with a quantum gap in the space-time continuum that, like a keyhole, cuts through many other quantum realities. Because La Forge was always close by when Worf switched to another reality, Data recognizes that La Forges Visor has intensified the effect of the quantum flow in which Worf is located. The reality crew, in which Worf serves as the first officer, helps him return to his original reality by shuttleing him across the quantum gap with which he came in contact.
164	12	The Pegasus Project	The Pegasus	0Jan. 8, 1994	0July 8, 1994	LeVar Burton	Ronald D. Moore
Admiral Pressman comes aboard the Enterprise to lead the search for the Starfleet spaceship Pegasus. Twelve years ago he had had to leave the Pegasus as captain and Riker as ensign because a mutiny broke out. As a result, they survived the apparent destruction of the ship, which is a prototypical model, as a result of a warp core rupture. Since the Romulans have now found rubble of the Pegasus, the Enterprise is supposed to search for the Pegasus and find them before the Romulans. Pressman orders Riker, to Picard's displeasure, to leave this in the dark about the true nature of the mission, which they both concealed, in order to continue the experiment after finding it, which he was unable to complete at the time. The Enterprise discovers an asteroid as the location of the Pegasus. Unobserved by the Romulans, Pressman lets the Enterprise steer through a gap into the interior of the asteroid, where the Pegasus is discovered, 65% of which has materialized in the asteroid rock. While Pressman is recovering a device from the Pegasus engine room, a Romulan ship seals the gap with fire, so that the Enterprise is trapped in the asteroid. Only now does Riker reveal to Picard that the real purpose of the mission is to secure the device that enables the camouflage or dematerialization of a spaceship - a technology that has long been banned by the Federation for peacekeeping. Her test failed in the case of the Pegasus, but now allows the Enterprise to exit the asteroid. Picard has Pressman arrested and charged with federal justice.
165	13	The Supreme Directive	Homeward	Jan 15, 1994	July 11, 1994	Alexander Singer	Naren shankar ; Idea: Spike Steingasser , William N. Stape
The Enterprise reaches the planet Boraal II, from where Worf's human brother Nikolai Rozhenko, who works as a cultural observer, made an emergency call because the atmosphere of the planet is dissolving and all inhabitants of the culture, which is in an early, pre-industrial stage of development, are in danger of dying. He recently evacuated the residents of a village into a cave, where he uses a deflector shield to protect them from plasmonic radiation. He would like to set up an atmospheric shield on the planet to save at least this one village and thus prevent the fall of the culture. Picard forbids him to do so because it would violate the Federation's Supreme Directive. However, Rozhenko defies the ban by secretly beaming the Boraalans out of the cave into an Enterprise holodeck that simulates the cave without the residents noticing the change of location. Picard follows Rozhenko's suggestion to move the Boraalans to a similar planet. Because the planet's plasmonic bursts of energy have destabilized the holodeck image processor, the holodeck is increasingly subject to materialization errors that endanger the simulation. The Enterprise reaches the replacement planet after more than 40 hours of flight with maximum warp. Just before the holodeck fails completely, the unsuspecting Boraalans can be beamed down. During the flight, the Boraalan Vorin left the holodeck, having become suspicious of the image errors. Overwhelmed by the decision to either live on the planet or on the Enterprise, he commits suicide.
166	14th	Ronin	Sub pink	Jan. 29, 1994	04th July 1994	Jonathan Frakes	Brannon Braga ; Idea: Jeri Taylor , Jeanna F. Gallo
Among the mourners at the funeral of her grandmother Felisa Howard on the planet Caldos IV, Dr. Crusher also a man whom she identifies as Ronin, Felisa's lover. Despite the warning from Felisa's former housekeeper Ned Quint, Crusher lights the candle in the candlestick that belonged to Felisa. As a result, Ronin appears to her as a ghost, informing her that Ronin was born in Glasgow in 1647 and first fell in love with Jessyl Howard, later with her daughter, then with her daughter, etc. Through his contact with Crusher, Ronin succeeds in getting her to leave Starfleet and, taking Felisa's place, join him as a new lover on the planet. The Enterprise also helps the colony troubleshoot problems with their weather control system that are making themselves felt in increasing storms. When Quint tries to turn off the weather control system on Caldos, he is killed by discharges of anaphasic energy. Since Data discovers such energy as coming from Felisa's grave, Picard has Felisa exhumed despite Ronin's resistance. After Ronin has put Picard, Data and La Forge out of action and revived Felisa, he reveals to Crusher that Ronin is a being of anaphasic energy and, using the candle and weather control system, used the Crusher family to stay physically alive. Horrified by this, Crusher phased out the candle and Ronin's body.
167	15th	promotion	Lower decks	0Feb 5, 1994	July 12, 1994	Gabrielle Beaumont	René Echevarria ; Idea: Ron Wilkerson , Jean Louise Matthias
This episode is mainly told from the point of view of four young officer candidates who are friends with each other on the Enterprise: Ensign Sito is a Bajoran and works in the security area under Worf, who subjects her to a test of courage. She is also a candidate for a promotion like Sam Lavelle, who is employed at the navigation console and tries to ingratiate himself with Riker for higher tasks, but who judges this as overzealous. The Vulcan Taurik works under La Forge in the field of technology and attracts him with an abundance of ideas and proposed solutions. Alyssa Ogawa is a nurse in the infirmary and is promoted by Crusher, who helps her with private love affairs. Near the Cardassian border, the Enterprise takes a shuttle with the injured Cardassian Joret Dal, who works as a spy for the Federation, on board. So that Joret Dal can credibly return to Cardassian territory, Sito embarks on a life-threatening foreign mission, in which she, disguised as his Bajoran prisoner, flies him back in a shuttle. The four friends are separately involved in the preparation and implementation of the mission. Lavelle fails to learn from Taurik and Ogawa about the possible content of Sito's top-secret mission because they do not want to reveal any secrets. Sito does not return from the mission and is therefore pronounced dead, so that Lavelle is promoted.
168	16	Radioactive	Thine Own Self	Feb 12, 1994	July 13, 1994	Winrich Kolbe	Ronald D. Moore ; Idea: Christopher Hatton
On a planet, Data wants to recover a probe that has crashed with fragments of a radioactive metal. However, there is an accident and Data loses his memory, as a result of which he goes with the metal fragments to a village of a pre-industrial civilization, without any awareness of his identity. Because of his pale skin color, he is thought to be an "ice cream man" there. Little by little, villagers fell ill with radiation sickness through contact with the metal. With the help of some villagers, Data can identify the cause of the disease in the contact with the metal, so he can put the metal fragments back in the protective case and develop a medicine that he pours into the village well for distribution. During Data's stay, he questions what from his point of view are incorrect scientific findings of a teacher. Other residents are suspicious, consider him to be the cause of the disease, which is why they damage, stab and bury him. After he is missing from the Enterprise, he is soon rescued by an outside team, and the sick villagers have long since recovered. Meanwhile, Troi has successfully passed the bridge officer examination on the Enterprise after several unsuccessful attempts in order to give her everyday life more variety.
169	17th	The comet	Masks	Feb. 19, 1994	July 14, 1994	Robert Wiemer	Joe Menosky
The Enterprise is studying a comet that is traveling in an unusual orbit. This unexpectedly results in a sensor echo; henceforth the interior of the ship is gradually transformed into stone artifacts as well as plants and animals. In addition, the systems of both Datas and the Enterprise are impaired, so that the drive and weapons fail and Data is able to understand the inscriptions on the artifacts, unlike the rest of the crew. After a level 1 diagnosis carried out for this reason, Data's personality splits into different characters who belong to a long-lost culture of which the crew discovers a stone structure inside the comet, which they identify as an archive. The personalities adopted by Data also include Masaka, who symbolizes death, and Korgano, who persecutes Masaka. By communicating with these personalities, Picard can create a mask that symbolizes Korgano, which he puts on and thus expelled the Masaka, represented by Data, from his temple throne. At the same moment, after having accessed the archive's transformation program, La Forge manages to stop the program. After Masaka is dethroned, Data and the Enterprise are transformed back to their original states.
170	18th	The case of "Utopia Planitia"	Eye of the Beholder	Feb 26, 1994	July 15, 1994	Cliff Bole	René Echevarria ; Idea: Brannon Braga
Lt. Kwan, who once helped build the Enterprise at the Utopia Planitia shipyard, commits suicide by throwing himself into the warp plasma of one of the propulsion tubes in the propulsion control room. Troi tries, partly supported by Worf, to determine the reason for the suicide. In the drive control room, Troi has a kind of hallucination in which she, in the role of Lt. Walter Pierce, for whose colleague Lt. Nara poses a threat, while Worf has disappeared and the room is in the same structural condition as it was eight years earlier in the shipyard. A database search reveals that Pierce was also working with Kwan in the shipyard on the Enterprise. Troi, meanwhile in love with Worf, becomes jealous of Worf when she flirts with Kwan's former girlfriend Lt. Calloway sees. Getting enraged as a result, Troi shoots Worf and goes to the drive control room to kill himself as well as Kwan. Just before she can jump, she realizes that Worf is stopping her. It turns out that her hallucination has only now ended and is a reaction to that of Echo of the partially empathetic Pierce, who was then in a love triangle on Utopia Planitia in which he murdered Ensign Marla Finn.
171	19th	genesis	genesis	19 Mar 1994	July 18, 1994	Gates McFadden	Brannon Braga
To Dr. Crusher's patient also includes Barclay, whom she treats with synthetic T cells . After a partially failed test of the revised photon torpedo control system, Picard and Data use a shuttle to search for a stray torpedo. Meanwhile, the creatures on the Enterprise begin to mutate. Worf, for example, develops a strong animal behavior and bites Troi, who is increasingly cold. Back on the Enterprise, Picard and Data find the ship drifting rudderless and its navigator murdered. Data diagnoses that the entire crew, now including Picard, is in a process of reverse development. Riker has since developed in the direction of a primate, Barclay a spider-like being, Troi an amphibious being and Data's cat Spot is now an iguana. Data determines that the crew members' normally dormant introns have been reactivated and that they are therefore reverting to lower forms of life. Because the pups recently littered by Spot are kittens and are not retransformed, Data comes up with the idea of ​​creating a retrovirus that cures the crew. To do this, he uses the cells of his pregnant sister Ogawa. Meanwhile, Picard distracts the murderous Worf. Soon, Data made the antidote and put it in the ventilation system so the crew could recover. Crusher discovers that the T cells administered to Barclay were responsible for activating the introns and spreading the disease.
172	20th	At the end of the trip	Journey's End	26th Mar 1994	July 19, 1994	Corey Allen	Ronald D. Moore ; Idea: Shawn Piller , Antonia Napoli
Cadet Wesley Crusher is visiting the Enterprise and behaving grumpy and cranky because he is dissatisfied with the progress of his training. With the Enterprise, Picard takes on the task of relocating the Federation residents of the planet Dorvan V to another planet. The relocation is necessary because Dorvan V is now part of Cardassian territory following a new border agreement between Cardassia and the Federation. The inhabitants are the descendants of former North American Indians who only declared the planet their new home after decades of searching and who no longer want to leave it. The Indian Lakanta reveals to Wesley, having had a vision two years ago announcing Wesley's visit to him. In the Indian holy place, Lakanta enables Wesley to experience a vision in which Wesley meets his long-dead father and learns that the end of his journey has come and that he should now go his own way. After Wesley, disregarding orders, has warned the Indians of their impending relocation, he receives a lecture from Picard, after which he is leaving Starfleet. When there were physical clashes between Enterprise crew members, Cardassians and Indians in the Indian colony, Lakanta gave up. To recognize Wesley as the transdimensional traveler who wants to help him reach a higher plane of existence. Because the Indians do not want to be resettled and the Cardassian gul is tired of war, they agree to leave the federation and become Cardassian citizens. Wesley stays on the planet where he hopes to learn a lot.
173	21st	Rite of Ascension	Firstborn	Apr 23, 1994	July 20, 1994	Jonathan West	René Echevarria ; Idea: Mark Kalbfeld
Alexander does not want to become a warrior and therefore does not want to complete the traditional Klingon rite of ascension. In order to convince him otherwise and to convey his cultural heritage to him, Worf takes him to a party at a Klingon outpost. Some Klingons attempt to murder the two of them there, but break it off when K'Mtar, the trustworthy advisor sent by Worf's brother Kurn, appears. He wants to protect Worf because the members of Worf's Mogh family are allegedly endangered by assassination plans by the Duras sisters who want to dispute Kurn's seat on the high council. While the Enterprise, Worf and K'Mtar are looking for the Duras sisters, K'Mtar helps Worf convince Alexander to become a warrior. Alexander continues to resist becoming a warrior and prefers to stay on the Enterprise. When the Enterprise found the Duras sisters, the evidence brought forward by K'Mtar about their incriminations turns out to be falsified by him. At the last second, Worf prevents Alexander from being murdered by K'Mtar. K'Mtar therefore reveals to Worf that he is not K'Mtar, but Alexander who came from the future and traveled 40 years back in time, and that he had orchestrated the attack on the outpost. The elder Alexander wanted to prevent Worf from being killed by the behavior of Alexander, who would become a pacifist in the future. Worf is therefore against the plans of the elder Alexander and refrains from raising Alexander to be a warrior against his will.
174	22nd	Bok's retribution	Bloodlines	Apr 30, 1994	July 21, 1994	Les Landau	Nicholas Sagan
The Ferengi Bok sends Picard a message in which he announces that he will murder Picard's son Jason Vigo in revenge for the death of Bok's son, which Picard caused 15 years ago today. The crew can quickly find the young man Jason Vigo, of whose existence and relatives Picard did not previously know, and take him on board to protect him from Bok. Picard once had a brief love affair with Jason's mother Miranda, who has been dead for years. Crusher confirms the father-son relationship with a DNA scan. Picard tries to get to know Jason better, which Jason initially refuses. Jason soon showed symptoms of a rare, degenerative neurological disorder, which manifested themselves in convulsions. After Bok has appeared at Picard several times via subspace transport and threatened him again, the Enterprise can trace Bok's trail. Nevertheless, Bok manages to kidnap Jason in the same way. After Picard beamed himself aboard Bok's ship by subspace transport, he succeeds in confronting Bok and confronting him. to expose his team as not for profit and as liars. He confronts him with the fact that Jason is not Picard's son. Because Crusher has determined that Jason's convulsions can be traced back to the incorrect manipulation of Jason's genes, which Bok had carried out to implement his plan. After Jason is back on the Enterprise and healed of his illness, he returns to his home planet.
175	23	New intelligence	Emergence	0May 7, 1994	July 22, 1994	Cliff Bole	Joe Menosky ; Idea: Brannon Braga
A program error appears in the holodeck, and the Enterprise suddenly goes to warp without being told to. Little by little, numerous new circuit nodes are emerging in the ship that connect the sensors with the warp control and defense system. The node connections all overlap in Holodeck 3, where an irregular holodeck program is currently running, combined from seven different simulations, in which a train is on its way to Vertiform City and the holodeck security systems are deactivated. Data recognizes that the network of self-multiplying nodes is a kind of nerve network and that the enterprise is generating new intelligence. The crew's attempts to cancel the holodeck program fail because the new intelligence uses the ship's systems to protect itself. The holodeck program is full of figures representing different functions of the Enterprise. The destination of the train, Vertiform City, is synonymous with the flight destination of the Enterprise, a white dwarf star from which the intelligence-controlled Enterprise extracts vertion particles and guides them into a newly emerging object in the cargo hold. After the star has been sucked empty, the Enterprise flies to another white dwarf star and thus the train on the holodeck now drives to New Vertiform City. The life support systems would fail before even reaching the star. Therefore the crew wants to supply the intelligence with further vertion particles beforehand. In addition, Data convinces the conductor and the train driver to use an abbreviation. To create the vertion particles, the crew detonates a modified torpedo in a space nebula. The object in the cargo hold is now fully developed and leaves the ship, while all circuit nodes created and the figures in the holodeck disappear again.
176	24	The return of Ro Laren	Preemptive Strike	May 14, 1994	July 25, 1994	Patrick Stewart	René Echevarria ; Idea: Naren Shankar
Tactically trained and just promoted to lieutenant, Ro Laren is back on the Enterprise. The Starfleet leadership fears that the Maquis, which is a splinter group of the Federation and who do not want to allow themselves to be driven out of the newly created demilitarized zone by the Cardassians, could drive the Federation into a war against the Cardassians if he the Cardassians fought at gunpoint. In order for the Starfleet to receive tactical information about the Maquis, they use Ro to infiltrate the Maquis, because they are particularly credible as Bajorans who are hostile to the Cardassians. With the help of the Enterprise, Ro can be smuggled into the Maquis. In a Maquis group, Ro gets to know their leader Macias better and becomes friends with him. She learns that the Cardassians want to supply their own colonies in the zone with biogenetic weapons. Taking advantage of this project, Picard Ro would like to use to lure the Maquis into a trap and thus prevent a war. After Macias dies in a Cardassian surprise attack on his village, Ro changes her mind and takes the side of the maquis, whose spaceships warn her of their discovery by the hidden forces of Starfleet. Ro regrets cheating on Picard.
177/178	25/26	Yesterday, today, tomorrow - parts 1 and 2	All Good Things ...	May 23, 1994	26./27. July 1994	Winrich Kolbe	Ronald D. Moore , Brannon Braga
Picard moves back and forth through three different time periods and soon discovers a spatial anomaly occurring in all time periods an explanation for why he is trying to combat the anomaly. In the meantime he comes into contact with Q again, who subjects him to a test of the raison d'être of humanity in accomplishing this task. After Picard has recognized that his behavior in the future is the cause of the anomaly moving backwards through time and increasing in size, Q declares the test passed ( → main article ).

literature

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

Web links

• Season 7 in the Internet Movie Database