Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 5

1991 · 26 episodes · ★ 7.1

What Season 5 of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Season five opens with the USS Enterprise in the middle of an exploration mission. Captain Jean-Luc Picard, played by Patrick Stewart, leads a crew that negotiates with highly advanced civilizations and tries to stop new tensions between Vulcans and Romulans. The most serious conflict revolves around Spock, who is branded a deserter and appears among the Romulans. Picard and Data travel to Romulus aboard a hidden Klingon ship to find him and visit Sarek, the captain's old friend, who is gravely ill. Meanwhile, Worf learns how to be a father to Alexander, and Picard goes through a space-time experience that tests his command.

26episodes

Sep 23, 1991premiered

Jun 15, 1992latest episode

19.9 hrtotal runtime

Season 5 Episodes

5x01 Redemption (2)
Sep 23, 1991 · 46 min · ★ 7.7
Stardate: 45020.4. Picard suspects a Romulan influence in the recent Klingon civil war, and must force the Federation to intervene before the Empire collapses.
Directed by David Carson · Written by Ronald D. Moore · Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Jordan Lund, Robert O'Reilly, Colm Meaney
5x02 Darmok
Sep 30, 1991 · 46 min · ★ 8.2
Stardate: 45047.2. Picard must find a way to communicate with the newly discovered Tamarians, who speak entirely in metaphors, when a Tamarian Captain is brutally killed.
Directed by: Winrich Kolbe · Written by: Joe Menosky, Philip LaZebnik · Starring: Paul Winfield, Ashley Judd, Colm Meaney, Richard Allen
5x03 Ensign Ro
Oct 7, 1991 · 46 min · ★ 7.5
Stardate: 45076.3. Picard exposes a planned genocidal attack on the Bajorans with the help of a new officer, Ensign Ro Laren.
Directed by: Les Landau · Written by: Rick Berman, Michael Piller · Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Harley Venton, Ken Thorley, Scott Marlowe
5x04 Silicon Avatar
Oct 14, 1991 · 46 min · ★ 7.0
Stardate: 45122.3. Picard attempts communications with the Crystalline Entity - a life form responsible for hundreds of deaths throughout the Alpha Quadrant. However, a scientist on board the Enterprise has plans of revenge over the death of her only son at the hands of the Entity.
Directing: Cliff Bole · Writing: Jeri Taylor · Starring: Ellen Geer, Susan Diol, Jason Marsden, Tracee Cocco
5x05 Disaster
Oct 21, 1991 · 46 min · ★ 7.6
Stardate: 45156.1. A natural disaster leaves Troi in command of the Enterprise, Picard stuck in a turbo lift with three small children and Keiko O'Brien stuck in Ten-Forward giving birth with an anxious Worf.
Directed by: Gabrielle Beaumont · Written by: Ronald D. Moore, R. G. Jarvis · Starring: Rosalind Chao, Colm Meaney, Erika Flores, Jana Marie Hupp
5x06 The Game
Oct 28, 1991 · 46 min · ★ 6.8
Stardate: 45208.2. An addictive game is distributed among the crew of the Enterprise, however, it appears that this game interferes with a person's logic and reason, which leaves the crew open to manipulation. Only a young Ensign and a vacationing Wesley Crusher are able to think for themselves, and must find a way to reverse the damage before the ship falls into the wrong hands.
Directed by: Corey Allen · Written by: Susan Sackett, Brannon Braga, Fred Bronson · Starring: Wil Wheaton, Ashley Judd, Colm Meaney, Katherine Moffat
5x07 Unification (1)
Nov 4, 1991 · 46 min · ★ 7.6
Stardate: 45233.1. Ambassador Spock has disappeared and intelligence finds him on Romulus. Captain Picard is sent to Romulus to find Spock. Meanwhile Riker and the rest of the crew investigate the fragments of a Vulcan ship discovered in the wreck of a Ferengi vessel.
Directed by: Cliff Bole, Les Landau · Written by: Rick Berman, Jeri Taylor, Michael Piller · Starring: Daniel Roebuck, Erick Avari, Malachi Throne, Leonard Nimoy
5x08 Unification (2)
Nov 11, 1991 · 46 min · ★ 7.6
Stardate: 45245.8. Picard and Data find Spock and discover the reason behind the secret meetings. However, a darker scheme planned by the Romulans is also uncovered in the process.
Directed by: Cliff Bole · Written by: Rick Berman, Michael Piller · Starring: Daniel Roebuck, Malachi Throne, Leonard Nimoy, Stephen Root
5x09 A Matter of Time
Nov 18, 1991 · 46 min · ★ 7.0
Stardate: 45349.1. While on a mission to help a planet recently struck by an asteroid, the Enterprise is paid a visit by a man who claims to be from the future.
Directed by: Paul Lynch · Written by: Rick Berman · Starring: Matt Frewer, Stefan Gierasch, Shay Garner, Sheila Franklin
5x10 New Ground
Jan 6, 1992 · 46 min · ★ 6.3
Stardate: 45376.3. Worf's son, Alexander, unexpectedly arrives on the Enterprise to stay with his father. However, Alexander wants to stay permanently.
Directed by Robert Scheerer · Written by Grant Rosenberg, Stuart Charno, Sara B. Cooper · Starring: Brian Bonsall, Jennifer Edwards, Richard McGonagle, Majel Barrett
5x11 Hero Worship
Jan 27, 1992 · 46 min · ★ 6.3
Stardate: 45397.3. The Enterprise investigates the cause of an explosion that destroyed a small ship and its entire crew, except for a small boy.
Directed by Patrick Stewart · Written by Joe Menosky · Starring: Joshua Harris, Harley Venton, Steven Einspahr, Sheila Franklin
5x12 Violations
Feb 3, 1992 · 46 min · ★ 6.0
Stardate: 45429.3. While escorting a group of telepaths, crew members on board the Enterprise suddenly start to slip into comas.
Directed by: Robert Wiemer · Written by: Jeri Taylor, Pamela Gray · Starring: Rosalind Chao, Ben Lemon, Rick Fitts, David Sage
5x13 The Masterpiece Society
Feb 10, 1992 · 46 min · ★ 6.5
Stardate: 45470.1. A natural disaster in the core of a system's sun threatens to destroy a colony of genetically engineered people on an otherwise desolate planet. However, the crew's intervention may cause more harm than good.
Directed by: Winrich Kolbe · Written by: James Caan, Adam Belanoff, James Kahn · Starring: Ron Canada, Dey Young, John Snyder, Sheila Franklin
5x14 Conundrum
Feb 17, 1992 · 46 min · ★ 7.7
Stardate: 45494.2. The Enterprise crew unknowingly receives a new first officer who claims that the Federation is at war with another species.
Directed by Les Landau · Written by Barry M. Schkolnick · Starring: Liz Vassey, Erich Anderson, Majel Barrett, Erick Weiss
5x15 Power Play
Feb 24, 1992 · 46 min · ★ 6.9
Stardate: 45571.2. While en route to the source of a subspace distress signal coming from a desolate moon, Data, Troi and O'Brien take over the bridge and force the ship to change course.
Directing: David Livingston · Writing: Herbert Wright, Brannon Braga, René Balcer · Starring: Rosalind Chao, Patricia Tallman, Colm Meaney, Majel Barrett
5x16 Ethics
Mar 2, 1992 · 46 min · ★ 6.7
Stardate: 45587.3. When Worf is paralysed in an accident he must undergo drastic back surgery. However, this experimental technique may cost him his life.
Directed by Chip Chalmers · Written by Ronald D. Moore, Stuart Charno, Sara B. Cooper · Starring: Brian Bonsall, Caroline Kava, Patti Yasutake
5x17 The Outcast
Mar 16, 1992 · 46 min · ★ 6.3
Stardate: 45614.6. While investigating the disappearance of a J'naii shuttlecraft, the crew finds reason to believe the missing ship is stranded in an abnormal pocket called "null space." Riker and Soren, a member of the J'naii race, begin preparing to rescue the craft, and the two strike up a friendship. Their relationship develops quickly as the pair question each other about mating habits, since the J'naii are androgynous and do not identify themselves as either male or female. Despite this difference, sparks begin to fly between them.
Directed by: Robert Scheerer · Written by: Jeri Taylor · Starring: Melinda Culea, Callan White, Megan Cole, Joyce Robinson
5x18 Cause and Effect
Mar 23, 1992 · 46 min · ★ 8.3
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.
Directed by: Jonathan Frakes · Written by: Brannon Braga · Starring: Kelsey Grammer, Michelle Forbes, Patti Yasutake, Tracee Cocco
5x19 The First Duty
Mar 30, 1992 · 46 min · ★ 7.0
Stardate: 45703.9. Wesley is involved in a cover-up at Starfleet Academy when a cadet is killed and five shuttles are destroyed during a forbidden maneuver performed by Starfleet Academy's best cadets.
Directing: Paul Lynch, Naren Shankar · Writing: Ronald D. Moore, Naren Shankar · Starring: Wil Wheaton, Ed Lauter, Ray Walston, Shannon Fill
5x20 Cost of Living
Apr 20, 1992 · 46 min · ★ 5.7
Stardate: 45733.6. Deanna's mother pays a surprise visit to the Enterprise with even more surprising news: she plans to marry a man she has never met. After destroying an asteroid, the ship becomes infected with parasites that eat away at the ship's hull.
Directed by: Winrich Kolbe · Written by: Peter Allan Fields · Starring: Brian Bonsall, Tony Jay, Majel Barrett, Albie Selznick
5x21 The Perfect Mate
Apr 27, 1992 · 46 min · ★ 6.8
Stardate: 45761.3. The Ferengi try to abduct an empathic Metamorph who could bring peace between two warring worlds.
Directed by Cliff Bole · Written by Michael Piller, Reuben Leder · Starring: Famke Janssen, Tim O'Connor, April Grace, Max Grodénchik
5x22 Imaginary Friend
May 4, 1992 · 46 min · ★ 6.0
Stardate: 45852.1. While exploring a strange form of energy in a region of space, a little girl's imaginary friend becomes real and places the Enterprise in great danger.
Directed by: Gabrielle Beaumont · Written by: Brannon Braga, Edithe Swensen · Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Brian Bonsall, Shay Astar, Noley Thornton
5x23 I, Borg
May 11, 1992 · 46 min · ★ 8.4
Stardate: 45854.2. An injured Borg is discovered and brought back to the Enterprise where he is 'repaired' by Dr. Crusher and befriended by Geordi, who names him 'Hugh.' Soon, Hugh starts showing signs of individuality while Picard must choose between destroying him or returning him to the collective.
Directed by Robert Lederman · Written by René Echevarria · Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Jonathan Del Arco
5x24 The Next Phase
May 18, 1992 · 46 min · ★ 7.8
Stardate: 45892.4. While the Enterprise helps a Romulan science vessel, an accident occurs which forces Geordi LaForge and Ro Laren slightly out of 'phase', causing them to become undetectable to everyone but each other. As a result, the crew thinks they are dead and make arrangements for their funerals, even though they are closer than the crew realise.
Directed by: Robert Lederman, David Carson · Written by: Ronald D. Moore · Starring: Susanna Thompson, Thomas Kopache, Shelby Leverington, Brian Cousins
5x25 The Inner Light
Jun 1, 1992 · 46 min · ★ 8.5
Stardate: 45944.1. Picard awakes to find himself living in a small village where he is a well-known member of the community who is suffering from a delusion of being a starship captain.
Directed by: Peter Lauritson · Written by: Morgan Gendel, Peter Allan Fields · Starring: Scott Jaeck, Richard Riehle, Jennifer Nash, Margot Rose
5x26 Time's Arrow (1) Season Finale
Jun 15, 1992 · 46 min · ★ 7.7
Stardate: 45959.1. Data's head is uncovered in an archaeological dig on Earth, where evidence is also found that aliens may have been on Earth as early as the 19th Century. Using modified technology, an away team follows Data into the late 1890s to investigate.
Directed by: Les Landau · Written by: Joe Menosky, Jeri Taylor, Michael Piller · Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Ken Thorley, Michael Aron, Sheldon Peters Wolfchild