The Best Episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation

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Updated May 23, 2020 24.9k votes 2k voters 73.6k views
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Star Trek: The Next Generation follows Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the USS Enterprise-D as it explores the Milky Way. The best episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation often find the crew solving mysteries and avoiding disasters. Some good episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation also focus interstellar anomalies.

What are the best episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation? “The Inner Light,” from season five is a fan favorite. It finds Picard experiencing a lifetime as Kamin after getting struck by an alien energy beam. “Yesterday's Enterprise” is also an engaging episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

“The Measure of a Man” is another good episode from House as is “All Good Things..,” which served as the series finale.

Do you have a favorite Star Trek: The Next Generation episode? Give the best episodes a vote up and vote down any episodes you may not have liked.

 

 

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  • Cause and Effect
    1

    Cause and Effect

    March 23, 1992
    550 votes
    • Season: Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 5
    • Episode Number: 18
    Stardate: 45652.1 - While exploring the Typhon Expanse, the Enterprise is caught in a time warp in which they are repeatedly destroyed while colliding with another starship.
  • The Best of Both Worlds
    2

    The Best of Both Worlds

    June 18, 1990
    769 votes
    • Season: Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 3
    • Episode Number: 26
    • Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation
    "The Best of Both Worlds" is a two-part storyline from the syndicated American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. It comprises the 74th and 75th episodes of the series ...more
  • The Inner Light
    3

    The Inner Light

    June 01, 1992
    1,045 votes
    • Season: Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 5
    • Episode Number: 25
    • Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation
    Picard is struck by an energy beam from an alien probe, which renders him unconscious and places him in the life of a citizen on the planet Kataan, with his memory of the Enterprise intact. Although ...more
  • Q Who
    4

    Q Who

    May 08, 1989
    515 votes
    • Season: Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 2
    • Episode Number: 16
    Stardate: 42761.3 Q hurls the Enterprise into the Delta Quadrant and introduces the Federation to a powerful new enemy that may destroy the Alpha Quadrant: The Borg.
  • Yesterday's Enterprise
    5

    Yesterday's Enterprise

    February 19, 1990
    690 votes
    • Season: Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 3
    • Episode Number: 15
    • Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation
    "Yesterday's Enterprise" is the 63rd episode of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was the 15th episode of the third season. The episode first aired in syndication the week of ...more
  • The Best of Both Worlds, Part II
    6

    The Best of Both Worlds, Part II

    September 24, 1990
    645 votes
    • Season: Star Trek: The Next Generation - Season 4
    • Episode Number: 1
    • Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation
    Riker must pull out all the stops in order to save Earth from a Borg invasion being lead by none other than Locutus - otherwise known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard.