| When the Bough Breaks ©1988 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved. |
| Episode: 18 Airdate: February 15, 1988 |
| Home Soil ©1988 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved. |
| Episode: 17 Airdate: February 22, 1988 |
| Coming of Age ©1988 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved. |
| Episode: 19 Airdate: March 14, 1988 |
| Heart of Glory ©1988 Paramount Pictures. All rights reserved. |
| Episode: 20 Airdate: March 21, 1988 |
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| When the Bough Breaks | |
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| Directed by | Kim Manners |
| Written by | Hannah Louise Shearer |
| Executive Producer | Gene Roddenberry |
| Starring | Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes |
| Also Starring | LeVar Burton Denise Crosby Michael Dorn Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Wil Wheaton |
| Guest Stars | Jerry Hardin Brenda Strong Jandi Swanson Paul Lambert Ivy Bethune |
| Stardate 41509.1 The Enterprise accidentally discovers Aldea, a utopian world hidden behind a sophisticated shielding device. After initial contact is made, tragedy strikes when several children disappear from the Enterprise, Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) among them. The crew is shocked when the Aldeans reveal that they are responsible for this heinous crime. Having lost their ability to reproduce, the Aldeans need the children to perpetuate their dying race. As Picard struggles to find a method of penetrating the planet's shield, Dr. Crusher (Gates McFadden) discovers the Aldeans suffer from radiation poisoning which is slowly destroying the planet's atmosphere. Can the starship crew rescue its children from a dying planet? | |
| Home Soil | |
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| Directed by | Corey Allen |
| Teleplay by | Robert Sabaroff |
| Story by | Karl Geurs & Ralph Sanchez and Robert Sabaroff |
| Executive Producer | Gene Roddenberry |
| Starring | Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes |
| Also Starring | LeVar Burton Denise Crosby Michael Dorn Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Wil Wheaton |
| Guest Stars | Walter Gotell Elizabeth Lindsey Gerard Prendergast |
| Stardate 41463.9 At the Federation's request, an Enterprise away team beams down to Velara III to observe a group of terraformers, scientists who are working to generate life-forms on the barren planet. But when a terraformer engineer is killed in a bizarre accident, the starship team begins to suspect a destructive presence at work. Data (Brent Spiner) and Geordi (LeVar Burton) discover a microscopic inorganic life-form, the Microbrain, that seems to be trying to communicate. Once on board the Enterprise, the Microbrain reveals that the terraformers' work has been killing the Microbrain's species. Now the Microbrain has declared war on the terraformers and the Enterprise. | |
| Coming of Age | |
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| Directed by | Michael Vejar |
| Written by | Sandy Fries |
| Executive Producer | Gene Roddenberry |
| Starring | Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes |
| Also Starring | LeVar Burton Denise Crosby Michael Dorn Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Wil Wheaton |
| Guest Stars | Ward Costello Robert Schenkkan John Putch Robert Ito Stephen Gregory Tasia Valenza |
| Stardate 41416.2 When a brash Starfleet commander (Robert Schenkkan) boards the Enterprise to conduct a top-secret investigation, Riker (Jonathan Frakes) gets the impression that he is the subject of the inquiry. But after Riker hears the investigator asking crew members about Captain Picard (Patrick Stewart), he realizes it is the captain's competency that is under question. While Wesley Crusher (Wil Wheaton) takes the grueling Starfleet Academy entrance exam that may launch his Starfleet career, Picard struggles to defend his reputation and keep the command of his starship. | |
| Heart of Glory | |
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| Directed by | Rob Bowman |
| Teleplay by | Maurice Hurley |
| Story by | Maurice Hurley and Herbert Wright & D.C. Fontana |
| Executive Producer | Gene Roddenberry |
| Starring | Patrick Stewart Jonathan Frakes |
| Also Starring | LeVar Burton Denise Crosby Michael Dorn Gates McFadden Marina Sirtis Brent Spiner Wil Wheaton |
| Guest Stars | Vaughn Armstrong Charles H. Hyman David Froman |
| Stardate 41503.7 Lt. Worf (Michael Dorn) is torn between his loyalty to Starfleet and his Klingon heritage in this thrilling Next Generation adventure! After the Enterprise rescues a group of Klingons from their disabled ship, Picard (Patrick Stewart) receives a transmission alerting him that the men are wanted fugitives. Before the captain can respond, one of the Klingons has taken over engineering and threatens to destroy the starship. When Worf confronts his fellow Klingon, the criminal appeals to Worf's warrior instincts and begs the lieutenant to join his terrorist cause. Now Worf must decide whether to save the Enterprise...or destroy it. | |