Season 4 - Episode Guide

Riker is torn between saving Picard or humanity when the Borg plan to use the abducted captain in their scheme to destroy Earth and turn him into Locutus.

Picard meets with his older brother in France, and contemplates resigning his Starfleet commission after his ordeal with the Borg. Worf's adoptive parents spend time with their son on the Enterprise, and succeed in embarrassing him in front of his crewmates.

While escorting a seriously ill boy to the closest Federation Starbase for treatment, Data mysteriously takes control of the Enterprise and takes it to a distant planet. He learns that his creator has summoned him for an important meeting that could change his life. However, Dr. Soong unknowingly summoned Data's twin brother Lore, into the bargain.

Picard faces a child-custody dilemma after the Enterprise rescues an orphaned human child.

When Doctor Crusher leaps into another dimension of reality, Enterprise crew members mysteriously disappear.

Tasha Yar's sister helps the Enterprise rescue Federation members held hostage on her planet.

Worf deals with a personal dilemma, Picard mediates a power struggle between successors to the Klingon Empire.

After an aborted mission to an uninhabited planet, Riker awakens in the future with no memory of the past 16 years.

Wesley goes on one last mission with Captain Picard that jeopardizes the Captains life before going to Starfleet academy.

Troi loses her empathic sense at the same time the Enterprise encounters a mysterious life form that appears to be heading toward self-destruction.

While the USS Enterprise heads towards a secret rendezvous, a friend's upcoming wedding compounds Data's confusion about the nuances of human feelings.

Picard and the crew attempt to apprehend a renegade Federation starship that has attacked a Cardassian space station without provocation.

Picard tries to save a terrorized planet and the Enterprise from a woman claiming to be the devil who has returned after 1,000 years to claim the planet as she was promised.

Upon investigating a newly discovered Class M planet, the crew are knocked unconscious. Data claims that they had only lost 30 seconds, but the crew begin to discover clues that Data may be lying about more than just that small detail.

A first-contact mission puts Riker in an alien hospital, leaving Picard to convince the planet's leaders that the Enterprise poses no threat.

After killing an attacking life form, the Enterprise discovers a "baby" within its womb; Geordi meets the object of his admiration, but his overly familiar attitude toward her makes their interactions uncomfortable.

When the Enterprise becomes stuck in an energy-draining rupture in space known as a Tyken's Rift, the crew begins experiencing severe sleep deprivation, but one crew member's recurring dream may provide the solution that saves them all.

Geordi begins to exhibit signs of mutating into another life form as a result of a parasite picked up on an Away Team mission.

An alien probe threatens the Enterprise when it emits an energy surge that turns an innocuous crew member into a superhuman.

Q questions the dispassionate Captain Picard about his relationship with a beautiful archaeologist, but when Picard refuses to give him any satisfactory answers, he transports the crew to Sherwood Forest for a reenactment of the Robin Hood legend.

When an explosion damages the Enterprise's warp engine, a retired Starfleet admiral boards the ship and begins an investigation that ultimately leads her to suspect Captain Picard of participating in a treasonous conspiracy.

Lwaxana Troi pays another visit to the Enterprise, where she falls in love with a scientist from Kaelon II, but she is shocked to learn that he must soon return home to participate in a suicide ritual their culture has practiced for generations.

While on a peacekeeping mission to the Peliar system, a Trill ambassador begins a relationship with Dr. Crusher, but when he is injured in a surprise attack, he must confess to the doctor that his body is merely a host for a parasite.

The Romulans brainwash Geordi as part of a plot to drive a wedge between the Federation and the Klingon Empire.

While the Enterprise explores a nebula with unusual properties, Data becomes involved with a crew member.

Part 1 of 2. Picard tries to keep the Federation neutral when the Klingon Empire faces civil war; Lt. Worf struggles with divided loyalties.