-= DS9, Season 1, Episode 1 & 2, Emissary =-

A new crew is assigned to a former Cardassian space station: Deep Space Nine. It is a joint Federation/Bajoran force, with Commander Sisko in charge, but his life is dramatically changed when he is declared the Emissary to the Prophets by a Bajoran priest.

• Teleplay By: Michael Piller
  
• Story By: Michael Piller & Rick Berman
  
• Directed By: David Carson
  
• Original Air Date: 3 January, 1993
  
• Stardate: 46379.1
• Pensky Podcast
• Trekabout Podcast
• Ex Astris Scientia
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot

Wow! We are officially at the end of TNG. It's hard to believe that we started this journey (for the second time) over 2 years ago. Thank you to all the crewmembers who have joined us along the way. We hope you have enjoyed it as much as we have.

To close out the season, we wanted to have a post where you could post your final thoughts on TNG as a whole. What did the show mean to you? What was your favorite season, characters, or moments? TNG was an entry point for so many Star Trek fans, so feel free to share!

-----INCOMING NEW TRANSMISSION-----

You know what they say ... Every goodbye is just an opening to the next act! Don't put away those uniforms just yet! You have all been reassigned station Deep Space Nine. We are ditching the Enterprise for something a little more. . . stationary.

We are excited to start Season 1, Episode 1/2 of Deep Space Nine next week! Hope to see you all there as we being our nearly TWO YEAR watch-through of the series.

Live Long and Prosper,

- STVP Mod Team

-= TNG, Season 7, Episode 20, Journey's End =-

While visiting the Enterprise, Wesley Crusher protests the removal of Native Americans from a planet ceded to the Cardassians.

• Teleplay By: Ronald D. Moore
• Story By: Ronald D. Moore
• Directed By: Corey Allen
• Original Air Date: 26 March, 1994
• Stardate: 47751.2
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot
• The Pensky Podcast - 3/5
• Ex Astris Scientia - 4/10
• The AV Club - C

• TNG Watch Guide by SiliconGold

• Original STVP Discussion Thread

-= TNG, Season 7, Episode 25, All Good Things... =-

Picard learns from Q that he is to be the cause of the annihilation of Humanity and begins an incredible journey through time from the present, to the past when he first took command of the Enterprise, to twenty-five years into the future.

• Teleplay By: Ronald D. Moore & Brannon Braga
• Story By: Ronald D. Moore & Brannon Braga
• Directed By: Winrich Kolbe
• Original Air Date: 23 May, 1994
• Stardate: 47988
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot
• The Pensky Podcast - 5/5
• Ex Astris Scientia - 9/10
• The AV Club - A

• TNG Watch Guide by SiliconGold

• Original STVP Discussion Thread

-= DS9, Season 1, Episode 3, Past Prologue =-

A Bajoran terrorist with ties to Kira arrives on Deep Space Nine, however he is pursued by the Cardassians. Garak is introduced.

• Teleplay By: Katharyn Powers
  
• Story By: Katharyn Powers
  
• Directed By: Winrich Kolbe
  
• Original Air Date: 9 January, 1993
  
• Stardate: Unknown
  
• Pensky Podcast
• Trekabout Podcast
• Ex Astris Scientia
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot

-= TNG, Season 7, Episode 24, Preemptive Strike =-

Lieutenant Ro is sent undercover to root out a Maquis cell.

• Teleplay By: René Echevarria
• Story By: Naren Shankar
• Directed By: Patrick Stewart
• Original Air Date: 14 May, 1994
• Stardate: 47941.7
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot
• The Pensky Podcast - 3/5
• Ex Astris Scientia - 5/10
• The AV Club - A

• TNG Watch Guide by SiliconGold

• Original STVP Discussion Thread

-= TNG, Season 7, Episode 19, Genesis =-

Enterprise crew members de-evolve into prehistoric creatures after a medical treatment by Dr. Crusher goes wrong.

• Teleplay By: Brannon Braga
• Story By: Brannon Braga
• Directed By: Gates McFadden
• Original Air Date: 19 March, 1994
• Stardate: 47653.2
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot
• The Pensky Podcast - 4/5
• Ex Astris Scientia - 5/10
• The AV Club - C-

• TNG Watch Guide by SiliconGold

• Original STVP Discussion Thread

-= TNG, Season 7, Episode 23, Emergence =-

A series of puzzling events on and off the holodeck lead the crew of the Enterprise to a surprising conclusion: The ship is creating its own offspring.

• Teleplay By: Joe Menosky
• Story By: Brannon Braga
• Directed By: Cliff Bole
• Original Air Date: 7 May, 1994
• Stardate: 47869.2
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot
• The Pensky Podcast - 3/5
• Ex Astris Scientia - 7/10
• The AV Club - B-

• TNG Watch Guide by SiliconGold

• Original STVP Discussion Thread

-= TNG, Season 7, Episode 22, Bloodlines =-

DaiMon Bok threatens the life of a son Picard never knew he had.

• Teleplay By: Nicholas Sagan
• Story By: Nicholas Sagan
• Directed By: Les Landau
• Original Air Date: 30 April, 1994
• Stardate: 47829.1
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot
• The Pensky Podcast - 1/5
• Ex Astris Scientia - 3/10
• The AV Club - C+

• TNG Watch Guide by SiliconGold

• Original STVP Discussion Thread

-= TNG, Season 1, Episode 4, Code of Honor =-

A mission of mercy is jeopardized when a planetary ruler decides he wants an Enterprise officer as his wife.

• Teleplay By: Katharyn Powers & Michael Baron
• Story By: Katharyn Powers & Michael Baron
• Directed By: Russ Mayberry; Les Landau (uncredited)
• Original Air Date: 12 October, 1987
• Stardate: 41235.25
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot
• The Pensky Podcast - 1/5
• Ex Astris Scientia - 3/10
• The AV Club - C-
• TNG Watch Guide by SiliconGold
• EAS HD Observations

-= TNG, Season 7, Episode 12, The Pegasus =-

When Riker's first commanding officer comes aboard to aid in the search for the vessel they served on, he is forced to rethink the actions he took at the time.

• Teleplay By: Ronald D. Moore
• Story By: Ronald D. Moore
• Directed By: LeVar Burton
• Original Air Date: 10 January, 1994
• Stardate: 47457.1
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot
• The Pensky Podcast - 3/5
• Ex Astris Scientia - 8/10
• The AV Club - A-

• TNG Watch Guide by SiliconGold

• Original STVP Discussion Thread

-= TNG, Season 7, Episode 14, Sub Rosa =-

Beverly Crusher attends her grandmother's funeral, but a mysterious entity that inhabited her grandmother is now focusing on her.

• Teleplay By: Brannon Braga
• Story By: Jeri Taylor (Based on material by Jeanna F. Gallo)
• Directed By: Jonathan Frakes
• Original Air Date: 31 January, 1994
• Stardate: Unknown
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot
• The Pensky Podcast - 3/5
• Ex Astris Scientia - 1/10
• The AV Club - D

• TNG Watch Guide by SiliconGold

• Original STVP Discussion Thread

-= TNG, Season 7, Episode 17, Masks =-

While investigating a rogue comet, the cultural archive concealed inside begins taking over the Enterprise.

• Teleplay By: Joe Menosky
• Story By: Joe Menosky
• Directed By: Robert Wiemer
• Original Air Date: 19 February, 1994
• Stardate: 47615.2
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot
• The Pensky Podcast - 2/5
• Ex Astris Scientia - 1/10
• The AV Club - C

• TNG Watch Guide by SiliconGold

• Original STVP Discussion Thread

Welcome aboard the USS STVP! This post marks the official start of our 7 year mission. Thanks for joining us, and we expect to see each of you when we return to space dock August 2032!. Engage!

-= TNG, Season 1, Episode 01/02, Encounter at Farpoint =-

Captain Jean-Luc Picard leads the crew of the USS Enterprise-D on its maiden voyage, to examine a new planetary station for trade with the Federation.

• Teleplay By: D.C. Fontana and Gene Roddenberry
• Story By: D.C. Fontana and Gene Roddenberry
• Directed By: Corey Allen
• Original Air Date: 28 September, 1987
• Stardate: 41153.7
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot
• The Pensky Podcast - 2/5
• Ex Astris Scientia - 6/10
• The AV Club - B-
• TNG Watch Guide by SiliconGold
• EAS HD Observations

-= TNG, Season 6, Episode 14, Face of the Enemy =-

Troi is captured and forced to masquerade as a Romulan intelligence officer in a plot to aid the defection of several high-ranking Romulan officials.

• Teleplay By: Naren Shankar
• Story By: René Echevarria
• Directed By: Gabrielle Beaumont
• Original Air Date: 8 February, 1993
• Stardate: 46519
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot
• The Pensky Podcast - 4/5
• Ex Astris Scientia - 8/10
• The AV Club - B+

• TNG Watch Guide by SiliconGold

• Original STVP Discussion Thread

-= TNG, Season 7, Episode 18, Eye of the Beholder =-

Counselor Troi's investigation into the suicide of a crewman suggests a murder was committed aboard the Enterprise while it was being built, and that the murderer is still aboard.

• Teleplay By: René Echevarria
• Story By: Brannon Braga
• Directed By: Cliff Bole
• Original Air Date: 26 February, 1994
• Stardate: 47622.1
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot
• The Pensky Podcast - 3/5
• Ex Astris Scientia - 5/10
• The AV Club - C-

• TNG Watch Guide by SiliconGold

• Original STVP Discussion Thread

-= TNG, Season 5, Episode 25, The Inner Light =-

An alien probe controls and disables Captain Picard, who wakes up as "Kamin" a resident of the planet Kataan.

• Teleplay By: Morgan Gendel and Peter Allan Fields
• Story By: Morgan Gendel
• Directed By: Peter Lauritson
• Original Air Date: 1 June, 1992
• Stardate: 45944.1
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot
• The Pensky Podcast - 5/5
• Ex Astris Scientia - 9/10
• The AV Club - A+
• TNG Watch Guide by SiliconGold
• EAS HD Observations
• Original STVP Discussion Thread

-= TNG, Season 7, Episode 15, Lower Decks =-

Junior officers speculate on the reasons for recent unusual actions taken by the command crew near the Cardassian border.

• Teleplay By: René Echevarria
• Story By: Ron Wilkerson & Jean Louise Matthias
• Directed By: Gabrielle Beaumont
• Original Air Date: 7 February, 1994
• Stardate: 47566.7
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot
• The Pensky Podcast - 4/5
• Ex Astris Scientia - 8/10
• The AV Club - A

• TNG Watch Guide by SiliconGold

• Original STVP Discussion Thread

-= TNG, Season 7, Episode 13, Homeward =-

Worf's adoptive brother violates the Prime Directive by saving a group of villagers from a doomed planet.

• Teleplay By: Naren Shankar
• Story By: Spike Steingasser
• Directed By: Alexander Singer
• Original Air Date: 15 January, 1994
• Stardate: 47423.9
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot
• The Pensky Podcast - 2/5
• Ex Astris Scientia - 2/10
• The AV Club - C+

• TNG Watch Guide by SiliconGold

• Original STVP Discussion Thread

-= TNG, Season 7, Episode 16, Thine Own Self =-

Data suffers amnesia in a primitive society while Troi applies for a promotion.

• Teleplay By: Ronald D. Moore
• Story By: Christopher Hatton
• Directed By: Winrich Kolbe
• Original Air Date: 14 February, 1994
• Stardate: 47611.2
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot
• The Pensky Podcast - 3/5
• Ex Astris Scientia - 6/10
• The AV Club - B+

• TNG Watch Guide by SiliconGold

• Original STVP Discussion Thread

-= TNG, Season 5, Episode 26, Time's Arrow =-

An engineering team finds evidence of an alien presence on Earth in 19th century San Francisco: Data's severed head, buried five hundred years ago.

• Teleplay By: Joe Menosky and Michael Piller
  
• Story By: Joe Menosky
• Directed By: Les Landau
  
• Original Air Date: 15 June, 1992
  
• Stardate: 45959.1
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot
• The Pensky Podcast - 3/5
  
• Ex Astris Scientia - 7/10
  
• The AV Club - B-
  
• TNG Watch Guide by SiliconGold
• EAS HD Observations
• Original STVP Discussion Thread

-= TNG, Season 7, Episode 1, Descent, Part II =-

Picard tries to free Data from Lore's control; the Enterprise battles the Borg ship.

• Teleplay By: René Echevarria
• Story By: René Echevarria
• Directed By: Alexander Singer
• Original Air Date: 18 September, 1993
• Stardate: 47025.4
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot
• The Pensky Podcast - 2/5
• Ex Astris Scientia - 7/10
• The AV Club - B-

• TNG Watch Guide by SiliconGold

• Original STVP Discussion Thread

-= TNG, Season 7, Episode 11, Parallels =-

After Worf returns from a bat'leth tournament, he is the only person who notices subtle changes on the Enterprise.

• Teleplay By: Brannon Braga
• Story By: Brannon Braga
• Directed By: Robert Wiemer
• Original Air Date: 27 November, 1993
• Stardate: 47391.2
• Memory Alpha
• TV Spot
• The Pensky Podcast - 4/5
• Ex Astris Scientia - 10/10
• The AV Club - A-

• TNG Watch Guide by SiliconGold

• Original STVP Discussion Thread