The WORST episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation
Every episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation!
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 - Shades of Gray
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 7/17/1989
Stardate: 42976.1 Riker is infected with an alien organism that takes over his mind. Dr. Pulaski must force Riker's mind back to a state where it can access primitive survival skills.
#2 - Imaginary Friend
Season 5 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/4/1992
Stardate: 45832.1 - While exploring a strange form of energy in a region of space, a little girl's imaginary friend becomes real and places the Enterprise in great danger.
#3 - Sub Rosa
Season 7 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/31/1994
Dr. Crusher attends her grandmother's funeral, to find that she had been in romantic encounters with a mysterious man who had been haunting the Howard family women for generations.
#4 - Skin of Evil
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 4/25/1988
Stardate: 41601.3 When Troi's shuttle crashes on an alien planet, a new being is discovered: an entity that thrives on the suffering of others.
#5 - The Bonding
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/23/1989
Worf and Wesley must help a 12 year old boy cope with the death of his mother; an archaeologist killed during an away mission to a deserted planet.
#6 - 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.
#7 - Suddenly Human
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/15/1990
A custody battle between Picard and a child's adoptive father arises when a boy showing evidence of abuse is discovered.
#8 - The Perfect Mate
Season 5 - Episode 21 - Aired 4/27/1992
Stardate: 45761.3 - The Ferengi try to abduct an empathic Metamorph who could bring peace between two warring worlds.
#9 - Legacy
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/29/1990
The Enterprise is caught in the middle of a civil war when they encounter Tasha Yar's long-lost younger sister, Ishara.
#10 - Up the Long Ladder
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 5/22/1989
Stardate: 42823.2 Picard must convince two dying civilizations that they must co-exist on the same planet to survive, however, they have other plans to ensure their survival: in the form of clones of the Enterprise crew.
#11 - The Schizoid Man
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/23/1989
Stardate: 42437.5 Data is possessed by the consciousness of a brilliant scientist. However, it has a disturbing impact on Data's personality.
#12 - The Icarus Factor
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 4/24/1989
Stardate: 42686.4 Riker is promoted to Captain of another Federation ship. Worf must confront his past and his Klingon heritage.
#13 - Half a Life
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 5/6/1991
Lwaxana Troi falls in love with a man who must return home to commit suicide, as is customary for their race when they reach a certain age.
#14 - Pen Pals
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 5/1/1989
Stardate: 42695.3 Wesley must investigate the causes of strange tectonic activity on the planet where Data's pen pal lives.
#15 - Qpid
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 4/22/1991
Q places Vash and the senior Enterprise crew in a recreation of Robin Hood and his merry men.
#16 - 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.
#17 - Interface
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/4/1993
Geordi defies direct orders from Captain Picard in an attempt to rescue his mother who had recently been reported as missing.
#18 - Galaxy's Child
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 3/11/1991
Geordi must work with the real Leah Brahms when she arrives on the Enterprise when a space-borne alien life form thinks the ship is its mother. Tensions rise when she learns that Geordi created a holographic version of her several months before in order to save the ship from danger.
#19 - Samaritan Snare
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 5/15/1989
Stardate: 42779.1 A race known as the Pakleds kidnap Geordi La Forge. Picard must face surgery when he is left in a near-dead state.
#20 - Identity Crisis
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/25/1991
Geordi and a former crew mate begin evolving into bizarre creatures when they return to a planet both of them were on during an Away Mission five years earlier.
#21 - Rightful Heir
Season 6 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/17/1993
While on a quest to summon a vision of Kahless, Worf questions his faith when the real Kahless rises from the dead to lead the Empire.
#22 - The Outcast
Season 5 - Episode 17 - Aired 3/16/1992
Stardate: 45614.6 - While investigating the disappearance of a J'naii shuttlecraft, the crew finds reason to believe the missing ship is stranded in an abnormal pocket called "null space." Riker and Soren, a member of the J'naii race, begin preparing to rescue the craft, and the two strike up a friendship. Their relationship develops quickly as the pair question each other about mating habits, since the J'naii are androgynous and do not identify themselves as either male or female. Despite this difference, sparks begin to fly between them.
#23 - A Fistful of Datas
Season 6 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/9/1992
Worf and his son, Alexander, become trapped in the holodeck when their Wild West program malfunctions. However, they must find a way to defeat the holographic bandits who have Data's appearance and abilities.
#24 - 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.
#25 - The Host
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 5/13/1991
Dr. Crusher falls in love with a Trill Ambassador, until she discovers the Trill's symbiotic relationship.