DARMOK
EPISODE NUMBER - 502
AIR DATE - 09.30.91
GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2
During a first contact meeting, Picard is stranded on a hostile world with an alien captain, and must attempt to communicate with him while defending against a powerful and elusive creature.

ENSIGN RO
EPISODE NUMBER - 503
AIR DATE - 10.07.91
GATEWORLD RATING - unrated
The Enterprise crew reluctantly welcomes a new crew member, recently released from prison -- and learns that she is part of a Starfleet admiral's conspiracy to eliminate the resistance movement that is fighting against the Cardassian's occupation of her world.

SILICON AVATAR
EPISODE NUMBER - 504
AIR DATE - 10.14.91
GATEWORLD RATING - * *
The crew encounters the same alien being that destroyed the people of Data's homeworld decades ago. A colonist discovers how to communicate with it, but is more concerned with revenge for the death of her son -- and Data's memories of him.

DISASTER
EPISODE NUMBER - 505
AIR DATE - 10.21.91
GATEWORLD RATING - * *
A disaster in space leaves the Enterprise adrift. With the captain missing, Counsellor Troi assumes command. Worf finds himself trapped in Ten Forward, and must deliver Keiko's baby.

THE GAME
EPISODE NUMBER - 506
AIR DATE - 10.28.91
GATEWORLD RATING - * * * 1/2
Wesley Crusher returns to the ship for a visit, and discovers that an alien game is brainwashing the entire crew.

UNIFICATION, PART 1
EPISODE NUMBER - 507
AIR DATE - 11.04.91
GATEWORLD RATING - * * *
Picard and Data go on a covert mission to Romulus to make contact with Vulcan Ambassador Spock, who has inexplicably turned up there.

UNIFICATION, PART 2
EPISODE NUMBER - 508
AIR DATE - 11.11.91
GATEWORLD RATING - * * * 1/2
Picard and Data make contact with Spock on Romulus, and discover that he is attempting to broker a reunification of their two peoples. But Romulan trechery is not far away.

A MATTER OF TIME
EPISODE NUMBER - 509
AIR DATE - 11.18.91
GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2
A historian from the future arrives to study the ship, arousing suspicion from the crew. The Enterprise crew works to save a world from the fallout of an asteroid strike.

NEW GROUND
EPISODE NUMBER - 510
AIR DATE - 01.06.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * *
Worf learns that his young son desires to live on the Enterprise with him, as the Enterprise participates in the test of a new propulsion system.

HERO WORSHIP
EPISODE NUMBER - 511
AIR DATE - 01.27.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2
Data becomes a father figure to a young boy who has lost his parents, and who has decided he would rather be an android.

VIOLATIONS
EPISODE NUMBER - 512
AIR DATE - 02.03.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * 1/2
The crew begins to suffer from horific nightmares when a group of telepaths come on board the Enterprise, leading to the conclusion that someone is invading their minds.

THE MASTERPIECE SOCIETY
EPISODE NUMBER - 513
AIR DATE - 02.10.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2
The Enterprise tries to stop a stellar core fragmant from destroying a society of genetically-engineered humans, while Troi finds herself growing close to the colony's leader.

CONUNDRUM
EPISODE NUMBER - 514
AIR DATE - 02.17.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * * *
An alien beam leaves the entire crew with amnesia, and a mysterious stranger -- whom the crew believes to be the first officer of the Enterprise -- propels the ship to an attack on an enemy command center.

POWER PLAY
EPISODE NUMBER - 515
AIR DATE - 02.24.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2
Alien spirits take over the bodies of Troi, Data and O'Brien, and attempt to take control of the Enterprise -- holding their own friends and loved-ones hostage.

ETHICS
EPISODE NUMBER - 516
AIR DATE - 03.02.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * *
An accident paralyzes Worf, who resolves to commit ritual suicide. Dr. Crusher and a visiting surgeon consider a ground-breaking procedure that could heal him -- or kill him.

THE OUTCAST
EPISODE NUMBER - 517
AIR DATE - 03.16.92
GATEWORLD RATING - *
Commander Riker begins a discreet relationship with a member of an androgynous race, risking her personal liberty -- and his own career.

CAUSE AND EFFECT
EPISODE NUMBER - 518
AIR DATE - 03.23.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * * * *
The destruction of the Enterprise near a temporal rift throws the ship into a time loop, where they continue to experience the same day over and over again.

THE FIRST DUTY
EPISODE NUMBER - 519
AIR DATE - 03.30.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2
Wesley Crusher and his fellow Starfleet cadets are brought before a board of inquiry when it is discovered that their flight group executed a dangerous and prohibited maneuver during training.

COST OF LIVING
EPISODE NUMBER - 520
AIR DATE - 04.20.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * 1/2
Lwaxana Troi returns to the ship to enter into an arranged marriage with a man she has never met, and introduces Worf's son to her eccentric lifestyle. The Enterprise suffers from strange systems failures.

THE PERFECT MATE
EPISODE NUMBER - 521
AIR DATE - 04.27.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2
The Enterprise ferries a beautiful woman to be given as a bride, to bring an end of a centuries-long war -- and Picard finds himself falling in love with her.

IMAGINARY FRIEND
EPISODE NUMBER - 522
AIR DATE - 05.04.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * 1/2
An alien energy force takes the shape of a little girl's imaginary friend, and threatens to destroy the Enterprise.

I, BORG
EPISODE NUMBER - 523
AIR DATE - 05.11.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * * * 1/2
A lone Borg survivor is rescued by the Enterprise crew, and begins to develop his own individuality after being separated from the Collective. Picard and Guinan confront the face of an old enemy.

THE NEXT PHASE
EPISODE NUMBER - 524
AIR DATE - 05.18.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * * *
Geordi and Ro are presumed dead when a transporter accident puts them out of phase with normal space. The two must prevent the destruction of the Enterprise when the ship answers a Romulan distress call.

THE INNER LIGHT
EPISODE NUMBER - 525
AIR DATE - 06.01.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * * * 1/2
An alien probe threatens Picard's life, while transmitting into his mind a lifetime of memories -- memories of another man's life.

TIME'S ARROW, PART 1
EPISODE NUMBER - 526
AIR DATE - 06.15.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * * *
A suspicious anamoly sends Data back in time to the 19th century, where a pair of parasitic aliens are killing people for their own needs.