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Premiered

Monday, September 28, 1987

Ended: Monday, May 16, 1988

When does Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 come out?

Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 premiered Monday, September 28, 1987 on Syndication and ended Monday, May 16, 1988. The season has 25 episodes.

Picking up decades after the original Star Trek series, season one begins the intergalactic adventures of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard and his loyal crew aboard the all-new USS Enterprise NCC-1701D, as they explore new worlds.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 release schedule

Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 episode release dates
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1. Encounter at Farpoint

Stardate: 41153.7. The new commander of the recently built U.S.S. Enterprise (NCC1701-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. Q accuses humanity of barbarism, and places humanity on trial. Jean-Luc must prove otherwise or the human race will be annihilated.

Monday · 39 years ago

2. The Naked Now

Stardate: 41209.2. The crew of the Enterprise are infected with a virus contracted by the away team while they were investigating the mysterious deaths of the entire crew of the Starship Tsilkovsky.

Monday · 39 years ago

3. Code of Honor

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.

Monday · 39 years ago

4. The Last Outpost

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.

Monday · 39 years ago

5. Where No One Has Gone Before

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.

Monday · 39 years ago

6. Lonely Among Us

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

Monday · 39 years ago

7. Justice

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.

Monday · 39 years ago

8. The Battle

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

Monday · 39 years ago

9. Hide and Q

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

Monday · 38 years ago

10. Haven

Stardate: 41294.5. The mother of Deanna Troi, Lwaxana, pays a surprise visit to the Enterprise and announces the prearranged marriage of Deanna to the son of her mother's late husband's best friend.

Monday · 38 years ago

11. The Big Goodbye

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.

Monday · 38 years ago

12. Datalore

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

Monday · 38 years ago

13. Angel One

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.

Monday · 38 years ago

14. 11001001

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

Monday · 38 years ago

15. Too Short a Season

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.

Monday · 38 years ago

16. When the Bough Breaks

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.

Monday · 38 years ago

17. Home Soil

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

Monday · 38 years ago

18. Coming of Age

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.

Monday · 38 years ago

19. Heart of Glory

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

Monday · 38 years ago

20. The Arsenal of Freedom

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

Monday · 38 years ago

21. Symbiosis

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

Monday · 38 years ago

22. Skin of Evil

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.

Monday · 38 years ago

23. We'll Always Have Paris

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

Monday · 38 years ago

24. Conspiracy

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

Monday · 38 years ago

25. The Neutral Zone Finale

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.

Monday · 38 years ago

Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 guest stars

  • John de Lancie

    John de Lancie

    Q

  • Robert Ito

    Robert Ito

    Lt. Chang

  • Michael Bell

    Michael Bell

    Zorn

  • Carolyn McCormick

    Carolyn McCormick

    Minuet

  • Mike Gomez

    Mike Gomez

    Daimon Tarr

  • Mart McChesney

    Armus

  • Victoria Dillard

    Victoria Dillard

    Ballerina

  • George De La Pena

    George De La Pena

    Lt. Orfil Solis

  • Brenda Strong

    Brenda Strong

    Rashella

  • Michelle Phillips

    Michelle Phillips

    Jenice Manheim

  • Robert Towers

    Robert Towers

    Rata

  • Michael Berryman

    Michael Berryman

    Captain Rixx

  • Josh Clark

    Josh Clark

    Conn

  • Robert Knepper

    Robert Knepper

    Wyatt Miller

  • Sam Hennings

    Sam Hennings

    Ramsey

  • Judson Scott

    Judson Scott

    Lobi

Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 FAQ

When does Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 come out?

Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 premiered Monday, September 28, 1987 on Syndication.

How many episodes are in Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1?

Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 has 25 episodes.

Are new episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 released weekly?

New episodes are released weekly.

When is the Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 finale?

The Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 finale (Episode 25) aired Monday, May 16, 1988.

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