Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season 3
Paramount Pictures (1989)
Adventure, Science Fiction
In Collection
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Seen ItYes
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IMDB   8.7
1181 mins USA / English
Blu-ray Disc  Region 1, Region A   NR (Not Rated)
Patrick Stewart Jean Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes Wm. Riker
Marina Sirtis Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner Data
Michael Dorn Worf
LeVar Burton Geordi Laforge
Wil Wheaton Wesley Crusher
Gates McFadden Beverly Crusher
Denise Crosby Tasha Yar
Colm Meaney Chief Miles Edward O'Brien
Whoopi Goldberg Guinan
Director
Cliff Bole
David Carson
Producer Frank Abatemarco
Burton Armus
Writer Gene Roddenberry
Ira Steven Behr


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    9/25/1989  1.  Evolution
Stardate: 43125.8 A system-wide computer malfunction places the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise in grave danger while they are escorting a scientist to a star in the process of exploding.
Director:  Winrich Kolbe  Writer:  Michael Piller  / Michael Wagner 
Guest starring:  Ken JenkinsScott Grimes, Mary McCusker, Randal Patrick, Amy O'Neill
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/2/1989  2.  The Ensigns of Command
Stardate: 43133.3 A human colony is forced to evacuate a planet when the original inhabitants return and threaten the colonists with annihilation if they do not leave within four days.
Director:  Cliff Bole  Writer:  Melinda M. Snodgrass 
Guest starring:  Eileen Seeley, Richard Allen,  Mark L. Taylor, Grainger Hines, Mart McChesney
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/9/1989  3.  The Survivors
Stardate: 43152.4 The Enterprise discovers a planet that has had all life eradicated, except for two mysterious residents and their home, which has been left in perfect condition.
Director:  Les Landau  Writer:  Michael Wagner 
Guest starring:  John AndersonAnne Haney
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/16/1989  4.  Who Watches the Watchers
Stardate: 43173.5 An away team inadvertently breaks the Prime Directive and reveal themselves to a primitive culture on Mintaka III, causing the inhabitants believe that Captain Picard is a God.
Director:  Robert Wiemer  Writer:  Hans Beimler  / Richard Manning 
Guest starring:  Kathryn Leigh Scott,  Ray Wise, James Greene,  Pamela Segall, John McLiam, Lois Hall
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/23/1989  5.  The Bonding
Worf and Wesley must help a 12 year old boy cope with the death of his mother; an archaeologist killed during an away mission to a deserted planet.
Director:  Winrich Kolbe  Writer:  Ronald D. Moore 
Guest starring:  Gabriel Damon, Susan Powel, Raymond D. Turner
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    10/30/1989  6.  Booby Trap
Stardate: 43205.6 While investigating an ancient ship left adrift in space, the Enterprise accidentally trips the ancient booby trap that disabled the old vessel over 1000 years ago.
Director:  Gabrielle Beaumont  Writer:  Michael Piller  / Richard Danus 
Guest starring:  Susan Gibney,  Albert Hall, Julie Warner
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/6/1989  7.  The Enemy
Stardate:43349.2 A blind Geordie is trapped on a hazardous planet with a paranoid and severely injured Romulan. In orbit, a Romulan Warbird is preventing the Enterprise from attempting a rescue mission.
Director:  David Carson  Writer:  Michael Piller  / David Kemper 
Guest starring:  John Snyder,  Andreas Katsulas, Steve Rankin
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/13/1989  8.  The Price
Stardate: 43385.6 The Enterprise hosts the negotiations for the rights to a newly discovered, stable wormhole to the Delta Quadrant. One of the negotiators, Devinoni Ral, becomes attracted to Deanna Troi, but he holds a dubious secret.
Director:  Robert Scheerer  Writer:  Hannah Louise Shearer 
Guest starring:  Matt McCoy,  Elizabeth HoffmanCastulo Guerra, Scott Thompson,  Dan ShorKevin Peter Hall
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    11/20/1989  9.  The Vengeance Factor
Stardate: 43421.9 The Enterprise crew tries to mend the relationship between a race known as the Acamarians and a faction known as the Gatherers.
Director:  Timothy Bond  Writer:  Sam Rolfe 
Guest starring:  Lisa Wilcox, Joey Aresco, Nancy Parsons, Stephen Lee,  Marc Lawrence, Elkanah Burns
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/1/1990  10.  The Defector
Stardate: 43462.5 A defecting Romulan warns the Federation about an impending attack by the Romulans, who are secretly establishing bases within the Neutral Zone.
Director:  Robert Scheerer  Writer:  Ronald D. Moore 
Guest starring:  James Sloyan,  Andreas Katsulas, John Hancock, Simon Templeman
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/8/1990  11.  The Hunted
Stardate: 43489.2 A potentially new member of the Federation enlists the help of the Enterprise to track down a wanted criminal who has a reputation for his excessive violence. However, the fugitive's actions may not be of his own will.
Director:  Cliff Bole  Writer:  Robin Bernheim 
Guest starring:  Jeff McCarthy,  James Cromwell, J. Michael Flynn, Andrew Bicknell
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    1/29/1990  12.  The High Ground
Stardate: 43510.7 Dr. Crusher is abducted by a group of terrorists while delivering crucial medical supplies to a planet ravaged by civil war.
Director:  Gabrielle Beaumont  Writer:  Melinda M. Snodgrass 
Guest starring:  Richard Cox, Marc Buckland, Fred G. Smith, Christopher Pettiet, Kerrie Keane
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/5/1990  13.  Déjà Q
Stardate: 43539.1 A Calamarian starts attacking the Enterprise while seeking revenge on a powerless Q.
Director:  Les Landau  Writer:  Richard Danus 
Guest starring:  Corbin Bernsen, Richard Casino, Betty Muramato, Sandra Wild,  John de Lancie
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/12/1990  14.  A Matter of Perspective
Stardate: 43610.4 Riker is accused of murder when a scientist is killed in an explosion. Picard must recreate the recent events in the holodeck to prove his commander's innocence.
Director:  Cliff Bole  Writer:  Ed Zuckerman 
Guest starring:  Craig Richard Nelson, Gina Hecht, Juliana Donald,  Mark Margolis
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    2/19/1990  15.  Yesterday's Enterprise
Stardate: 43625.2 A rift in the space/time continuum brings the U.S.S. Enterprise - C forward into the 24th Century, and alters the timeline. In this future, the Federation is at war with the Klingons, Tasha Yar is on the bridge, Worf did not join the Federation, and only Guinan's unique perception of reality may restore the timeline.
Director:  David Carson  Writer:  Ronald D. Moore  / Hans Beimler 
Guest starring:  Denise Crosby, Tricia O'Neil,  Christopher McDonald
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/12/1990  16.  The Offspring
Stardate: 43657.0 Data becomes a father when he creates a Soong-type android in the form of a daughter named Lal. Issues are complicated when Lal starts showing signs of a more evolved consciousness, including the ability to feel emotions, which attracts the attention of Starfleet scientists who want to take her away from Data and examine her advanced systems.
Director:  Jonathan Frakes  Writer:  René Echevarria 
Guest starring:  Hallie Todd, Leonard Crofoot, Nicolas Coster, Judyann Elder
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/19/1990  17.  Sins of the Father
Stardate: 43685.2 Worf is reunited with his long-lost brother when their father is charged with treason for helping the Romulans. Together they make an appeal to the Klingon High Council to challenge the charges, and have them revoked.
Director:  Les Landau  / Drew Deighan  Writer:  Ronald D. Moore  / W. Reed Moran 
Guest starring:  Charles Cooper,  Tony Todd, Patrick Massett, Thelma Lee
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    3/26/1990  18.  Allegiance
Stardate: 43714.1 Picard is secretly abducted and switched with an alien double. The crews' suspicions are raised when he starts exhibiting unusual behaviour, and is relieved of command.
Director:  Winrich Kolbe  Writer:  Hans Beimler  / Richard Manning 
Guest starring:  Stephen Markel, Reiner Schöne, Joycelyn O'Brien, Jerry Rector, Jeff Rector
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    4/2/1990  19.  Captain's Holiday
Stardate: 43745.2 While on vacation on Risa, Captain Picard encounters two Vorgons from the 27th Century who claim they are searching for a powerful weapon hidden somewhere on the planet.
Director:  Chip Chalmers  Writer:  Ira Steven Behr 
Guest starring:  Jennifer Hetrick, Karen Laundry,  Michael Champion, Max Grodenchik, Deirdre Imershein
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    4/23/1990  20.  Tin Man
Stardate: 43779.3 The Enterprise encounters a 'living' ship in the Neutral Zone, and risks breaking the Romulan Federation alliance in order to bring it into contact with a Betazoid emissary.
Director:  Robert Scheerer  Writer:  Dennis Putnam Bailey  / David Bischoff 
Guest starring:  Michael Cavanaugh, Peter Allen Vogt,  Harry Groener
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    4/30/1990  21.  Hollow Pursuits
Stardate: 43807.4 A nervous and insecure officer, Lt. Reginald Barclay, places the Enterprise in great danger when he neglects his duties in Engineering, and instead spends his time acting out his fantasies on the holodeck.
Director:  Cliff Bole  Writer:  Sally Caves 
Guest starring:  Charley Lang,  Dwight Schultz
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    5/7/1990  22.  The Most Toys
Stardate: 43872.2 The crew are shattered by the apparent death of Data in a shuttle explosion, and are prevented from carrying out a detailed investigation when Starfleet gives them orders for a new mission elsewhere. However, the crew don't realize that he was actually abducted and placed on display as part of a collection of rare and valuable items held by a disreputable character.
Director:  Timothy Bond  Writer:  Shari Goodhartz 
Guest starring:  Saul Rubinek, Nehemiah Persoff, Jane Daly
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    5/14/1990  23.  Sarek
Stardate: 43917.4 Spock's Vulcan father, Sarek, boards the Enterprise to negotiate political relations with the Legaran. However, Sarek has contract Bendii syndrome, which causes a Vulcan to gradually lose control, and become overpowered with emotions.
Director:  Les Landau  / Marc Cushman  Writer:  Peter S. Beagle 
Guest starring:  Mark Lenard, Joanna Miles, William Dennis, Rocco Sisto, John H. Francis
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    5/28/1990  24.  Ménage à Troi
Riker and Deanna, both on shoreleave, are unexpectedly joined by Deanna's mother, Lwaxana, on Betazed. Shortly, all three are kidnapped by the Ferengi who want to study Lwaxana's telepathic abilities.
Director:  Robert Legato  Writer:  Fred Bronson  / Susan Sackett 
Guest starring:  Frank Corsentino,  Ethan Phillips, Peter Marx, Rudolph Willrich,  Carel StruyckenMajel Barrett
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    6/4/1990  25.  Transfigurations
Stardate: 43957.2 Dr. Crusher becomes attracted to an injured alien with mysterious powers, who is being tracked down by his government like a wanted criminal.
Director:  Tom Benko  Writer:  René Echevarria 
Guest starring:  Mark La Mura, Charles Dennis, Julie Warner, Patti Tippo
    Seen it: Yes   60 mins    6/18/1990  26.  The Best of Both Worlds (1)
Stardate: 43989.1 An Starfleet expert on the Borg, Lt. Cmdr. Shelby, is assigned to the Enterprise to investigate the disappearance of a Federation colony. Picard is abducted by the Borg and assimilated into the Collective, which forces Riker to attempt a rescue mission.
Director:  Cliff Bole  Writer:  Michael Piller 
Guest starring:  Elizabeth Dennehy, George Murdock
Edition Details
Edition Season Three
Series Star Trek: The Next Generation
Release Date 4/30/2013
Packaging HD Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Subtitles Danish; Dutch; Finnish; French; German; Italian; Japanese; Norwegian; Swedish
Audio Tracks Dolby Digital Mono [French]
Dolby Digital Mono [German]
Dolby Digital Stereo [English]
Dolby Digital Surround [English]
DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 [English]
Mono [French]
Mono [German]
Mono [Italian]
Mono [Japanese]
Mono [Spanish]
Layers Single Side, Dual Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 6

Features
Disc 01 Star Trek: The Next Generation Inside The Writer's Room (HD): A reunion of the show's key writing staff moderated by Seth MacFarlane Resistance Is Futile- Assimilating Star Trek: The Next Generation (HD): All new documentary includes exploration the making of key Season 3 episodes "Archival Mission Logs" A Tribute To Michael Pillar (HD): Tribute to the brilliant writer responsible for giving the series and the Star Trek franchise it's "second wind" Audio commentaries on several episodes including Yesterday's Enterprise and Sins Of The Father In Memoriam David Rappaport Gag Reel (HD) Episodic Promos