Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 5
Paramount Pictures (1991)
Adventure, Science Fiction
In Collection
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Seen ItYes
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IMDB   8.7
1183 mins USA / English
Blu-ray Disc  Region 1, Region A   NR (Not Rated)
Patrick Stewart Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes Wm. Riker
Brent Spiner Data
Marina Sirtis Deanna Troi
Gates McFadden Beverly Crusher
Michael Dorn Worf
LeVar Burton Geordi Laforge
Wil Wheaton Wesley Crusher
Colm Meaney Chief Miles O'Brien
Whoopi Goldberg Guinan
Michelle Forbes Ensign Ro Laren
Director
Cliff Bole
Corey Allen
Producer Hans Beimler
Burton Armus
Writer Gene Roddenberry


A century after Captain Kirk's five year mission, the next generation of Starfleet officers begins their journey aboard the new flagship of the Federation. Commanded by Captain Jean-Luc Picard the Galaxy class starship Enterprise NCC-1701-D will seek out new life and new civilizations - to boldly go where no one has gone before.
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    9/23/1991  1.  Redemption (2)
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.
Director:  David Carson  Writer:  Ronald D. Moore 
Guest starring:  Denise CrosbyTony Todd, Barbara March, Gwynyth Walsh,  JD Cullum, Robert O'Reilly,  Michael G. Hagerty, Fran Bennett, Nicholas Kepros,  Timothy CarhartJordan Lund, Clifton Jones
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    9/30/1991  2.  Darmok
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.
Director:  Philip LaZebnik  / Winrich Kolbe  Writer:  Joe Menosky 
Guest starring:  Paul Winfield, Richard James,  Ashley Judd
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/7/1991  3.  Ensign Ro
Stardate: 45076.3 - Picard exposes a planned genocidal attack on the Bajorans with the help of a new officer, Ensign Ro Laren.
Director:  Rick Berman  / Michael Piller  Writer:  Michael Piller 
Guest starring:  Scott Marlowe,  Frank Collison, Jeffrey Hayenga,  Harley Venton, Ken Thorley, Cliff Potts
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/14/1991  4.  Silicon Avatar
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.
Director:  Cliff Bole  / Lawrence V. Conley  Writer:  Jeri Taylor 
Guest starring:  Ellen Geer, Susan Diol
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/21/1991  5.  Disaster
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.
Director:  Gabrielle Beaumont  / Ron Jarvis  Writer:  Ronald D. Moore 
Guest starring:  Erika Flores, John Christian Graas, Max Supera, Cameron Arnett, Jana Marie Hupp, Rosalind Chao
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/28/1991  6.  The Game
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.
Director:  Brannon Braga  / Fred Bronson  Writer:  Brannon Braga 
Guest starring:  Ashley Judd, Katherine Moffat, Diane M. Hurley
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/4/1991  7.  Unification (1)
Ambassador Spock has dissapeared 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.
Director:  Rick Berman  / Michael Piller  Writer:  Jeri Taylor 
Guest starring:  Leonard NimoyMark Lenard, Stephen D. Root, Graham Jarvis, Malachi Throne, Norman Large,  Erick Avari, Karen Hensel, Mimi Cozzens,  Stephen RootDaniel Roebuck
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/11/1991  8.  Unification (2)
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.
Director:  Cliff Bole  / Rick Berman  Writer:  Michael Piller 
Guest starring:  Leonard NimoyDenise Crosby, Stephen D. Root, Malachi Throne, Norman Large, William Bastiani, Vidal Peterson, Harriet Leider,  Stephen RootDaniel Roebuck
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/18/1991  9.  A Matter of Time
Stardate: 45349.1 - While on a mission to help a planet recently struck by an asteroid, the Enterprise is payed a visit by a man who claims to be from the future.
Director:  Paul Lynch  Writer:  Rick Berman 
Guest starring:  Matt Frewer, Stefan Gierasch, Shelia Franklin, Shay Garner
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/6/1992  10.  New Ground
Stardate: 45376.3 - Worf's son, Alexander, unexpectedly arrives on the Enterprise to stay with his father. However, Alexander wants to stay permanently.
Director:  Robert Scheerer  / Stu Charno  Writer:  Grant Rosenberg 
Guest starring:  Georgia Brown, Richard McGonagle, Jennifer Edwards, Shelia Franklin
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/27/1992  11.  Hero Worship
Stardate: 45397.3 - The Enterprise investigates the cause of an explosion which destroyed a small ship and its entire crew, except for a small boy.
Director:  Patrick Stewart  / Hilary J. Bader  Writer:  Joe Menosky 
Guest starring:  Joshua Harris,  Harley Venton, Shelia Franklin, Steven Einspahr
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/3/1992  12.  Violations
Stardate: 45419.3 - While escorting a group of telepaths, crew members on board the Enterprise suddenly start to slip into comas.
Director:  Robert Wiemer  / Shari Goodhartz  Writer:  Jeri Taylor  / Pamela Gray 
Guest starring:  Ben Lemon, David Sage, Rick Fitts, Eve Brenner, Doug Wert, Craig Benton, Rosalind Chao
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/10/1992  13.  The Masterpiece Society
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.
Director:  Winrich Kolbe  / James Kahn  Writer:  Michael Piller  / Adam Belanoff 
Guest starring:  John Snyder, Dey Young,  Ron Canada, Ensign Felton
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/17/1992  14.  Conundrum
Stardate: 45494.2 - The Enterprise crew unknowingly receives a new first officer who claims that the Federation is at war with another species.
Director:  Les Landau  / Paul Schiffer  Writer:  Barry M. Schkolnick 
Guest starring:  Erich Anderson, Liz Vassey, Erick Weiss
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/24/1992  15.  Power Play
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.
Director:  Brannon Braga  / Maurice Hurley  Writer:  Brannon Braga  / Rene Balcer 
Guest starring:  Ryan Reid,  Patricia Tallman, Rosalind Chao
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/2/1992  16.  Ethics
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.
Director:  Chip Chalmers  / Stu Charno  Writer:  Ronald D. Moore 
Guest starring:  Caroline Kava
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/16/1992  17.  The Outcast
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.
Director:  Robert Scheerer  Writer:  Jeri Taylor 
Guest starring:  Melinda Culea, Callan White, Megan Cole
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/23/1992  18.  Cause and Effect
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.
Director:  Jonathan Frakes  Writer:  Brannon Braga 
Guest starring:  Kelsey Grammer
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/30/1992  19.  The First Duty
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.
Director:  Naren Shankar  / Ronald B. Moore  Writer:  Paul Lynch 
Guest starring:  Ray Walston,  Robert Duncan McNeillEd Lauter, Richard Fancy, Walker Brandt, Channon Fill, Shannon Fill
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    4/20/1992  20.  Cost of Living
Stardate: 45733.63 - 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.
Director:  Winrich Kolbe  Writer:  Peter Allan Fields 
Guest starring:  Tony JayCarel Struycken, David Oliver, Albie Selznick, Patrick Cronin, Tracey D'Arcy, George Edie, Christopher Halste
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    4/27/1992  21.  The Perfect Mate
Stardate: 45761.3 - The Ferengi try to abduct an empathic Metamorph who could bring peace between two warring worlds.
Director:  Cliff Bole  / René Echevarria  Writer:  Michael Piller  / Gary Percante 
Guest starring:  Famke Janssen, Tim O'Connor, Max Grodenchik, Mickey Cottrell, Michael Snyder,  April Grace
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    5/4/1992  22.  Imaginary Friend
Stardate: 45832.1 - 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.
Director:  Gabrielle Beaumont  / Ronald Wilkerson  Writer:  Brannon Braga  / Edithe Swensen 
Guest starring:  Shay Astar, Jeff Allin, Noley Thornton, Shelia Franklin
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    5/11/1992  23.  I, Borg
Stardate: 45832.1 - 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.
Director:  Robert Lederman  Writer:  René Echevarria 
Guest starring:  Jonathan Del, Jonathan Del Arco
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    5/18/1992  24.  The Next Phase
Stardate: 45092.4 - 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.
Director:  Robert Lederman  Writer:  Ronald D. Moore 
Guest starring:  Thomas Kopache, Susanna Thompson, Shelby Leverington, Brian Cousins, Ken Marshall
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    6/1/1992  25.  The Inner Light
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 he searches for a way to return, he finally decides to live his life with his Kataan wife, have children & grandchildren, learning to play a flute and completely immersing in the Kataan culture. He finds the planet is dying due to an imbalance of its sun. With no way to evacuate the planet's people, the government builds a probe which will tell others how they lived. The same probe that Picard met. Picard wakes to find himself back on the Enterprise having lived an entire lifetime in just minutes. The probe, having disgorged its memories, gives one last gift: the flute (which shows up in later episodes.)
Director:  Peter Lauritson  / Morgan Gendel  Writer:  Morgan Gendel  / Peter Allan Fields 
Guest starring:  Margot RoseRichard Riehle, Scott Jaeck, Jennifer Nash, Daniel Stewart
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    6/15/1992  26.  Time's Arrow (1)
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.
Director:  Les Landau  / Joe Menosky  Writer:  Michael Piller  / Joe Menosky 
Guest starring:  Jerry Hardin, Michael Aron, Barry Kivel, Ken Thorley, Sheldon Peters,  Marc Alaimo, Milt Tarver, Michael Hungerford, John M. Murdock
Edition Details
Edition Season Five
Series Star Trek: The Next Generation
Release Date 11/19/2013
Packaging HD Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Standard (1.33:1)
Subtitles Dutch; English; Finnish; French; German; Italian; Japanese; Norwegian; Spanish; Swedish
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Mono [French]
Dolby Digital Stereo [English]
Dolby Digital Stereo [French]
Dolby Digital Surround [English]
DTS [English]
DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 [English]
Mono [French]
Mono [German]
Mono [Italian]
Mono [Japanese]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 6

Features
Disc 01 In Conversation: The Music Of Star Trek: The Next Generation Requiem: A Remembrance Of Star Trek: The Next Generation Audio Commentaries On Cause And Effect, The First Duty, I, Borg And The Inner Light Deleted Scenes Archival Mission Logs Episodic Promos Gag Reel