The BEST episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation season 3
Every episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation season 3, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation season 3!
A century after Captain Kirk's five year mission, the next generation of Starfleet officers begins their journey aboard the new flagship of the Federation. Commanded by Captain Jean-Luc Picard the Galaxy class starship Enterprise NCC-1701-D will seek out new life and new civilizations - to boldly go where no one has gone before.
#1 - The Best of Both Worlds (1)
Season 3 - Episode 26 - Aired 6/18/1990
Stardate: 43989.1 An Starfleet expert on the Borg, Lt. Cmdr. Shelby, is assigned to the Enterprise to investigate the disappearance of a Federation colony. Picard is abducted by the Borg and assimilated into the Collective, which forces Riker to attempt a rescue mission.
#2 - Yesterday's Enterprise
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/19/1990
Stardate: 43625.2 A rift in the space/time continuum brings the U.S.S. Enterprise - C forward into the 24th Century, and alters the timeline. In this future, the Federation is at war with the Klingons, Tasha Yar is on the bridge, Worf did not join the Federation, and only Guinan's unique perception of reality may restore the timeline.
#3 - Déjà Q
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/5/1990
Stardate: 43539.1 A Calamarian starts attacking the Enterprise while seeking revenge on a powerless Q.
#4 - Who Watches the Watchers
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/16/1989
Stardate: 43173.5 An away team inadvertently breaks the Prime Directive and reveal themselves to a primitive culture on Mintaka III, causing the inhabitants believe that Captain Picard is a God.
#5 - The Defector
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/1/1990
Stardate: 43462.5 A defecting Romulan warns the Federation about an impending attack by the Romulans, who are secretly establishing bases within the Neutral Zone.
#6 - The Offspring
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/12/1990
Stardate: 43657.0 Data becomes a father when he creates a Soong-type android in the form of a daughter named Lal. Issues are complicated when Lal starts showing signs of a more evolved consciousness, including the ability to feel emotions, which attracts the attention of Starfleet scientists who want to take her away from Data and examine her advanced systems.
#7 - Sins of the Father
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/19/1990
Stardate: 43685.2 Worf is reunited with his long-lost brother when their father is charged with treason for helping the Romulans. Together they make an appeal to the Klingon High Council to challenge the charges, and have them revoked.
#8 - Hollow Pursuits
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/30/1990
Stardate: 43807.4 A nervous and insecure officer, Lt. Reginald Barclay, places the Enterprise in great danger when he neglects his duties in Engineering, and instead spends his time acting out his fantasies on the holodeck.
#9 - Sarek
Season 3 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/14/1990
Stardate: 43917.4 Spock's Vulcan father, Sarek, boards the Enterprise to negotiate political relations with the Legaran. However, Sarek has contracted Bendii syndrome, which causes a Vulcan to gradually lose control, and become overpowered with emotions.
#10 - The Most Toys
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/7/1990
Stardate: 43872.2 The crew are shattered by the apparent death of Data in a shuttle explosion, and are prevented from carrying out a detailed investigation when Starfleet gives them orders for a new mission elsewhere. However, the crew don't realize that he was actually abducted and placed on display as part of a collection of rare and valuable items held by a disreputable character.
#11 - Booby Trap
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/30/1989
Stardate: 43205.6 While investigating an ancient ship left adrift in space, the Enterprise accidentally trips the ancient booby trap that disabled the old vessel over 1000 years ago.
#12 - The Survivors
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/9/1989
Stardate: 43152.4 The Enterprise discovers a planet that has had all life eradicated, except for two mysterious residents and their home, which has been left in perfect condition.
#13 - Evolution
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/25/1989
Stardate: 43125.8 A system-wide computer malfunction places the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise in grave danger while they are escorting a scientist to a star in the process of exploding.
#14 - The Hunted
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/8/1990
Stardate: 43489.2 A potentially new member of the Federation enlists the help of the Enterprise to track down a wanted criminal who has a reputation for his excessive violence. However, the fugitive's actions may not be of his own will.
#15 - The Ensigns of Command
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/2/1989
Stardate: 43133.3 A human colony is forced to evacuate a planet when the original inhabitants return and threaten the colonists with annihilation if they do not leave within four days.
#16 - Tin Man
Season 3 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/23/1990
Stardate: 43779.3 The Enterprise encounters a 'living' ship in the Neutral Zone, and risks breaking the Romulan Federation alliance in order to bring it into contact with a Betazoid emissary.
#17 - The Enemy
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/6/1989
Stardate:43349.2 A blind Geordie is trapped on a hazardous planet with a paranoid and severely injured Romulan. In orbit, a Romulan Warbird is preventing the Enterprise from attempting a rescue mission.
#18 - Allegiance
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/26/1990
Stardate: 43714.1 Picard is secretly abducted and switched with an alien double. The crews' suspicions are raised when he starts exhibiting unusual behaviour, and is relieved of command.
#19 - Captain's Holiday
Season 3 - Episode 19 - Aired 4/2/1990
Stardate: 43745.2 While on vacation on Risa, Captain Picard encounters two Vorgons from the 27th Century who claim they are searching for a powerful weapon hidden somewhere on the planet.
#20 - Transfigurations
Season 3 - Episode 25 - Aired 6/4/1990
Stardate: 43957.2 Dr. Crusher becomes attracted to an injured alien with mysterious powers, who is being tracked down by his government like a wanted criminal.
#21 - The Vengeance Factor
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/20/1989
Stardate: 43421.9 The Enterprise crew tries to mend the relationship between a race known as the Acamarians and a faction known as the Gatherers.
#22 - The High Ground
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 1/29/1990
Stardate: 43510.7 Dr. Crusher is abducted by a group of terrorists while delivering crucial medical supplies to a planet ravaged by civil war.
#23 - Ménage à Troi
Season 3 - Episode 24 - Aired 5/28/1990
Riker and Deanna, both on shoreleave, are unexpectedly joined by Deanna's mother, Lwaxana, on Betazed. Shortly, all three are kidnapped by the Ferengi who want to study Lwaxana's telepathic abilities.
#24 - The Price
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/13/1989
Stardate: 43385.6 The Enterprise hosts the negotiations for the rights to a newly discovered, stable wormhole to the Delta Quadrant. One of the negotiators, Devinoni Ral, becomes attracted to Deanna Troi, but he holds a dubious secret.
#25 - A Matter of Perspective
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/12/1990
Stardate: 43610.4 Riker is accused of murder when a scientist is killed in an explosion. Picard must recreate the recent events in the holodeck to prove his commander's innocence.