THE NEXT GENERATION
SEASON SEVEN
1993-1994

DESCENT, PART 2
EPISODE NUMBER -
701
AIR DATE -
09.20.93
GATEWORLD RATING -
* * * 1/2
The crew become pawns in Lore's evil scheme, and learn that the android has been using
Data's stolen emotion chip to manipulate him.
LIAISONS
EPISODE NUMBER -
702
AIR DATE -
09.27.93
GATEWORLD RATING -
* 1/2
Picard is stranded on a hostile planet when his shuttle crashes, and becomes prisoner to a
woman desperate for love. A trio of intensely curious alien ambassadors visits the
ship.
INTERFACE
EPISODE NUMBER -
703
AIR DATE -
10.04.93
GATEWORLD RATING -
* *
Geordi's mother is lost and presumed dead, but he is shocked to find her aboard a ship
trapped in the atmosphere of a gas giant -- with which he can communicate using a probe
interfaced with his VISOR.
GAMBIT, PART 1
EPISODE NUMBER -
704
AIR DATE -
10.11.93
GATEWORLD RATING -
* * *
Picard is presumed dead after a run-in with a group of mercenaries, but Riker's
investigation reveals that the captain is alive and well -- and posing as a smuggler on
board the mercenaries' ship.
GAMBIT, PART 2
EPISODE NUMBER -
705
AIR DATE -
10.18.93
GATEWORLD RATING -
* * * 1/2
Riker and Picard pose as mercenaries in order to stop a powerful and dangerous Vulcan
artifact from falling into the wrong hands.
PHANTASMS
EPISODE NUMBER -
706
AIR DATE -
10.25.93
GATEWORLD RATING -
* *
When an alien organism attacks the Enterprise and its crew, their only hope for survival may
be found in Data's disturbing nightmares.
DARK PAGE
EPISODE NUMBER -
707
AIR DATE -
11.01.93
GATEWORLD RATING -
* *
Lwaxana Troi comes aboard the Enterprise to participate in negotiations with a telepathic
race, but ends up near death when she is forced to confront a dark day from her
past.
ATTACHED
EPISODE NUMBER -
708
AIR DATE -
11.08.93
GATEWORLD RATING -
* * 1/2
Captain Picard and Dr. Crusher are taken prisoner by an alien race and telepathically linked
-- forcing them to confess the feelings they have for each other as they try to
escape.
FORCE OF NATURE
EPISODE NUMBER -
709
AIR DATE -
11.15.93
GATEWORLD RATING -
* *
The Enterprise searches for a missing Federation ship, leading them to a pair of scientists
who claim that warp drive is destroying the fabric of space.
INHERITANCE
EPISODE NUMBER -
710
AIR DATE -
11.22.93
GATEWORLD RATING -
* *
Data is reunited with his "mother" -- a woman who claims to have been the wife of his
creator. But he soon learns that she is not all she appears to be.
PARALLELS
EPISODE NUMBER -
711
AIR DATE -
11.29.93
GATEWORLD RATING -
* * * 1/2
Worf returns from a bat'leth competition and finds that certain elements of his life on the
Enterprise are not as he remembers, and soon discovers that he is moving through multiple
parallel dimensions.
THE PEGASUS
EPISODE NUMBER -
712
AIR DATE -
01.10.94
GATEWORLD RATING -
* * *
Riker's former captain arrives on a mission to recover a top-secret experimental vessel.
Will must decide whether to follow his old captain, or let Picard in on a dark secret about
the truth behind the Pegasus disaster.
HOMEWARD
EPISODE NUMBER -
713
AIR DATE -
01.17.94
GATEWORLD RATING -
* 1/2
Worf's brother violates the Prime Directive to save a village on a dying planet -- using the
Enterprise holodeck to transport them to a new world without them knowing.
SUB ROSA
EPISODE NUMBER -
714
AIR DATE -
01.31.94
GATEWORLD RATING -
*
Beverly attends the funeral of her grandmother, and encounters an alluring ghost who has
entranced the women in her family for generations.
LOWER DECKS
EPISODE NUMBER -
715
AIR DATE -
02.07.94
GATEWORLD RATING -
* * *
Four junior officers fret about the latest round of personnel reviews and promotions --
until one of them is assigned to a dangerous top-secret mission into Cardassian
territory.
THINE OWN SELF
EPISODE NUMBER -
716
AIR DATE -
02.14.94
GATEWORLD RATING -
* * *
An explosion on an alien planet causes Data to lose his memory. He stumbles into a local
village, bringing with him a danger that threatens to wipe out those who take him
in.
MASKS
EPISODE NUMBER -
717
AIR DATE -
02.21.94
GATEWORLD RATING -
* * *
Transmissions from an ancient alien archive have strange effects on Data, who begins to
exhibit multiple personalities.
EYE OF THE BEHOLDER
EPISODE NUMBER -
718
AIR DATE -
02.28.94
GATEWORLD RATING -
* * *
Troi investigates a suicide on board the Enterprise, leading her to discover a murder that
occurred on board during the ship's construction.
GENESIS
EPISODE NUMBER -
719
AIR DATE -
03.21.94
GATEWORLD RATING -
* * *
Data and Picard return to the Enterprise to find that the entire crew has reverted to
pre-evolved beasts, and must find a way to restore them in the midst of the animal
chaos.
JOURNEY'S END
EPISODE NUMBER -
720
AIR DATE -
03.28.94
GATEWORLD RATING -
* *
Picard is ordered to evacuate a North American Indian settlement from a planet recently made
a part of Cardassian territory. Wesley Crusher faces his unknown future with the help of an
old friend.
FIRSTBORN
EPISODE NUMBER -
721
AIR DATE -
04.25.94
GATEWORLD RATING -
* * 1/2
A mysterious family friend tries to help Worf train his reluctant son to be a Klingon
warrior, while the crew confronts the latest scheme of the Duras sisters.
BLOODLINES
EPISODE NUMBER -
722
AIR DATE -
05.02.94
GATEWORLD RATING -
unrated
Picard meets a young man who claims to be his son, and who is soon captured by the Ferengi
in an attempt to seek revenge on the captain.
EMERGENCE
EPISODE NUMBER -
723
AIR DATE -
05.09.94
GATEWORLD RATING -
* 1/2
The crew fights to stay alive when the Enterprise develops an intelligence, manifested in a
bizarre holodeck scenario of a locomotive.
PREEMPTIVE STRIKE
EPISODE NUMBER -
724
AIR DATE -
05.16.94
GATEWORLD RATING -
* *
Picard sends Ensign Ro on a covert assignment to infiltrate the Maquis, in an attempt to
stop an attack on Cardassian transports -- putting the Bajoran officer's true loyalties to
the test.
ALL GOOD THINGS ...
PART 1
EPISODE NUMBER -
725
AIR DATE -
05.23.94
GATEWORLD RATING -
* * * *
Picard finds himself moving back and forth through time, visiting his past, present and
future -- and learning from Q that Picard himself may cause the extinction of
humankind.
ALL GOOD THINGS ...
PART 2
EPISODE NUMBER -
726
AIR DATE -
05.23.94
GATEWORLD RATING -
* * * *
Picard must coordinate the efforts of crews in the past, present and future to
close a temporal anamoly that prevents the human race from ever coming into
existence -- no matter the cost.