REALM OF FEAR
EPISODE NUMBER - 602
AIR DATE - 09.28.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2
When the Enterprise comes to the aid of a Federation starship, Lieutenant Barclay is forced to confront his fear of the transporter -- discovering what he believes to be an alien creature inside the transporter beam.

MAN OF THE PEOPLE
EPISODE NUMBER - 603
AIR DATE - 10.05.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * *
The Enterprise transports an alien ambassador to mediate peace talks between two warring peoples, but the visitor uses Counsellor Troi to realize his selflish ambition.

RELICS
EPISODE NUMBER - 604
AIR DATE - 10.12.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * * *
The Enterprise discovers a mythical structure in space, and a Federation legend who has survived for decades in a transporter buffer. Montgomery Scott must face his new future in the 24th century.

SCHISMS
EPISODE NUMBER - 605
AIR DATE - 10.19.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2
The crew begin to suffer from intense fatigue, and discover that many of them are being taken to an alien dimension during the night for study.

TRUE-Q
EPISODE NUMBER - 606
AIR DATE - 10.26.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2
A talented student joins the crew of the Enterprise, but it isn't long before she is forced to reveal her supernatural powers -- drawing the attention of the Q Continuum.

RASCALS
EPISODE NUMBER - 607
AIR DATE - 11.02.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2
A transporter accident transforms Picard, Ro, Guinan and Keiko into children, who must help defend the Enterprise from a group of Ferengi raiders.

A FISTFUL OF DATAS
EPISODE NUMBER - 608
AIR DATE - 11.09.92
GATEWORLD RATING - *
Worf, Alexander and Troi engage in an Old West adventure on the holodeck, but an engineering experiment with Data causes the fantasy to go horribly wrong.

THE QUALITY OF LIFE
EPISODE NUMBER - 609
AIR DATE - 11.16.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * *
Data challenges the use of a new technology that performs hazardous tasks when he concludes that the maintenance robots may be alive.

CHAIN OF COMMAND,
PART 1
EPISODE NUMBER - 610
AIR DATE - 12.14.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * * *
Picard surrenders command of the Enterprise and embarks on a covert operation into Cardassian space with Worf and Dr. Crusher.

CHAIN OF COMMAND,
PART 2
EPISODE NUMBER - 611
AIR DATE - 12.21.92
GATEWORLD RATING - * * * *
A prisoner of the Cardassians, Captain Picard is physically and mentally tortured. Riker challenges Captain Jelico during negotiates with the Cardassians, and is relieved of duty.

SHIP IN A BOTTLE
EPISODE NUMBER - 612
AIR DATE - 01.25.93
GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2
Professor Moriarty's sentient holodeck character is accidentally reactivated, and the crew is stunned to see him boldly exit the holodeck matrix ... and continue to exist.

AQUIEL
EPISODE NUMBER - 613
AIR DATE - 02.01.93
GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2
LaForge and the crew investigate the murder of Federation scientists on board a station near Klingon space. Geordi is shocked when one of the crewmen presumed dead returns to the station.

FACE OF THE ENEMY
EPISODE NUMBER - 614
AIR DATE - 02.08.93
GATEWORLD RATING - * * *
Troi awakens to discover that she has been kidnapped by Romulans and surgically altered to appear as one of them, in order to help smuggle valuable cargo into the hands of the Federation.

TAPESTRY
EPISODE NUMBER - 615
AIR DATE - 02.15.93
GATEWORLD RATING - * * * 1/2
Picard is mortally wounded, and finds himself in the afterlife with Q -- who offers to let him save his life by altering a past mistake.

BIRTHRIGHT, PART 1
EPISODE NUMBER - 616
AIR DATE - 02.22.93
GATEWORLD RATING - * *
An experiment on Deep Space Nine triggers symbolic dreams in Data's positronic brain. Worf learns that his father may not be dead, and journeys to a Romulan prison colony to learn the truth.

BIRTHRIGHT, PART 2
EPISODE NUMBER - 617
AIR DATE - 03.01.93
GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2
Worf finds himself trapped at a Romulan prison colony with a group of Klingons who aren't interested in leaving, and discovers a shocking secret about them.

STARSHIP MINE
EPISODE NUMBER - 618
AIR DATE - 03.29.93
GATEWORLD RATING - * * *
Picard finds himself trapped on board the Enterprise after the ship is evacuated for a routine but lethal energy sweep -- and discovers a group of mercenaries working to steal a volitile engine byproduct for sale on the black market.

LESSONS
EPISODE NUMBER - 619
AIR DATE - 04.05.93
GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2
Captain Picard begins to fall in love with one of his crew, but must send her on a dangerous mission that could result in her death.

THE CHASE
EPISODE NUMBER - 620
AIR DATE - 04.26.93
GATEWORLD RATING - * * * 1/2
The death of a former mentor leaves Picard with the legacy of his work, sending the Enterprise on an archaeological hunt across the galaxy. But the Federation isn't the only one looking for this ancient secret.

FRAME OF MIND
EPISODE NUMBER - 621
AIR DATE - 05.03.93
GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2
Riker is convinced he is going insane when he wakes up in an alien mental hospital, and cannot distinguish the truth of that reality from his life on the Enterprise.

SUSPICIONS
EPISODE NUMBER - 622
AIR DATE - 05.10.93
GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2
A Ferengi scientist is found dead after his attempt to prove a controversial theory fails. Dr. Crusher's investigation into his death puts her career in Starfleet at risk.

RIGHTFUL HEIR
EPISODE NUMBER - 623
AIR DATE - 05.17.93
GATEWORLD RATING - * * 1/2
A quest for a vision reveals to Worf the great warrior Kahless, inexplicably reborn from the distant past. Worf supports the legendary hero in an attempt to seize control of the Klingon Empire.

SECOND CHANCES
EPISODE NUMBER - 624
AIR DATE - 05.24.93
GATEWORLD RATING - * * *
Riker finds an exact duplicate of himself stranded on a downed ship, from which Riker himself escaped years earlier. The result of a transporter error, Lieutenant Will Riker attempts to rekindle a relationship with Deanna Troi.

TIMESCAPE
EPISODE NUMBER - 625
AIR DATE - 06.14.93
GATEWORLD RATING - * * * *
Picard, Troi, Data and LaForge return from a conference to find the Enterprise frozen in time in the middle of a battle with a Romulan Warbird -- with time itself fractured all around them.

DESCENT, PART 1
EPISODE NUMBER - 626
AIR DATE - 06.21.93
GATEWORLD RATING - * * * 1/2
A frightening encounter with the Borg leads Data to experience his first emotion. He attempts to duplicate the experience, but is only able to do so with the Borg's help.