The BEST episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation season 1

#1 - Encounter at Farpoint (1)

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/28/1987

Stardate: 41153.7 The new captain of the recently built U.S.S. Enterprise-D, Captain Jean Luc Picard, takes the crew on their first mission: to discover the secret of Farpoint Station. During their journey, they encounter an omnipotent being known as Q, who accuses humanity of barbarism, and places them on trial. Jean-Luc must prove otherwise, or the human race will be annihilated.

#2 - Encounter at Farpoint (2)

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/28/1987

#3 - Where No One Has Gone Before

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/26/1987

Stardate: 41263.1 The Enterprise is flung across space into a distant galaxy billions of light years away when a propulsion engineer, and his mysterious companion, attempt to re-design the ship's engine systems.

#4 - Hide and Q

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/23/1987

Stardate: 41590.5 Q places the senior crew of the Enterprise in a war game that pits them against a boar-faced, Napoleonic enemy.

#5 - The Battle

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/16/1987

Stardate: 41723.9 The Ferengi hand over an old ship which Picard once captained: the U.S.S. Stargazer. However, a mind altering device that has been planted on board alters Picard's mind to make him think that he is reliving a past battle, and the target is the Enterprise.

#6 - Conspiracy

Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 5/9/1988

Stardate: 41775.5 The strange behavior of high-ranking officers leads Picard to uncover a twisted alien conspiracy within Starfleet.

#7 - Datalore

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/18/1988

Stardate: 41242.4 The crew of the Enterprise find android parts that are identical to Data's while they are exploring his homeworld. When assembled, an 'evil' twin of Data is created and named 'Lore'.

#8 - The Big Goodbye

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/11/1988

Stardate: 41997.7 Picard, Dr. Crusher and Data are placed in great danger when the holodeck malfunctions while they are running a Dixon Hill program, which pits them against 1940's mobsters.

#9 - The Last Outpost

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/19/1987

Stardate: 41386.4 A powerful entity disables the Enterprise and a Ferengi ship. Their only means of escape is if they can correctly answer the riddles he asks.

#10 - The Arsenal of Freedom

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/11/1988

Stardate: 41798.2 The crew encounters bizarre phenomena while searching for the missing U.S.S. Drake.

#11 - Justice

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1987

Stardate: 41255.6 Picard is forced to choose between friendship and the Prime Directive when Wesley Crusher is sentenced to death for accidentally breaking the law on Rubicon III.

#12 - The Neutral Zone

Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 5/16/1988

Stardate: 41986.0 A derelict satellite is found with cryonically frozen humans aboard as the USS Enterprise is sent to investigate the destruction of outposts near Romulan space.

#13 - Coming of Age

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/14/1988

Stardate: 41416.2 While Wesley takes the entrance exam to Starfleet Academy, the Enterprise is investigated by the Inspector General's office and Picard's competency is questioned.

#14 - 11001001

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/1/1988

Stardate: 41365.9 While undergoing repairs, the Bynar Engineers steal the Enterprise to save their planet from destruction.

#15 - Home Soil

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 2/22/1988

Stardate: 41463.9 The members of an away team investigating the death of an engineer encounter vengeful microscopic life forms.

#16 - We'll Always Have Paris

Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/2/1988

Stardate: 41697.9 Picard meets an old flame, whose husband has created a haywire dimensional experiment.

#17 - Lonely Among Us

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/2/1987

Stardate: 41249.3 Picard's mind is taken over by an energy field that the Enterprise passes through.

#18 - When the Bough Breaks

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/15/1988

Stardate: 41509.1 The children of the Enterprise, including Wesley Crusher, are abducted by a race of sterile people who are unable to have children of their own.

#19 - Heart of Glory

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 3/21/1988

Stardate: 41503.7 Two Klingons, rescued by the Enterprise, try to take over the ship.

#20 - Symbiosis

Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 4/18/1988

Stardate: Unknown Picard attempts to break an ancient co-dependency between two species on one planet without violating the Prime Directive.

#21 - Code of Honor

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/12/1987

Stardate: 41235.25 Tasha Yar must fight for her life, and a vaccine, to save a race of people when she is kidnapped and forced to battle with her abductor's wife.

#22 - Angel One

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/25/1988

Stardate: 41636.9 The Enterprise discovers the male crew of a crashed Federation freighter are hiding as fugitives on the planet Angel One, which is dominated and ruled by women.

#23 - Too Short a Season

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/8/1988

Stardate: 41309.5 The aging and terminally ill Starfleet Admiral Mark Jameson, who is negotiating the release of hostages, suddenly begins growing younger through an unexplained phenomenon.

#24 - The Naked Now

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/5/1987

Stardate: 41209.2 The crew of the Enterprise are infected with a virus they contracted while examining the mysterious deaths of the entire crew onboard the Starship Tsilkovsky.

#25 - Haven

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/30/1987

Stardate: 41294.6 Lwaxana pays a surprise visit to the Enterprise and announces the pre-arranged marriage of Deanna to the son of her late husband's best friend.