Stardate: 41601.3 Troi, and her shuttle pilot, develop system problems on their shuttle on their return to Enterprise. They then crash on a planet where a malevolent creature lives. The creature, which seems to feed on the suffering of others, is able to prevent their rescue due to its strange powers.

The Enterprise crew's attempt to rescue Troi leads to the passing of a valued crew member. The crew must then find a way around the creature's powers and rescue Troi, the sole survivor of the shuttle crash, without losing any more of the crews' lives.

Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 Episodes...

• s01e01 - Encounter at Farpoint, Part I
• s01e02 - Encounter at Farpoint, Part II
• s01e03 - The Naked Now
• s01e04 - Code of Honor
• s01e05 - The Last Outpost
• s01e06 - Where No One Has Gone Before
• s01e07 - Lonely Among Us
• s01e08 - Justice
• s01e09 - The Battle
• s01e10 - Hide and Q
• s01e11 - Haven
• s01e12 - The Big Goodbye
• s01e13 - Datalore
• s01e14 - Angel One
• s01e15 - 11001001
• s01e16 - Too Short a Season
• s01e17 - When The Bough Breaks
• s01e18 - Home Soil
• s01e19 - Coming of Age
• s01e20 - Heart of Glory
• s01e21 - The Arsenal of Freedom
• s01e22 - Symbiosis
• s01e23 - Skin of Evil
• s01e24 - We'll Always Have Paris
• s01e25 - Conspiracy
• s01e26 - The Neutral Zone

Star Trek: The Next Generation Show Summary

"Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no one has gone before".

In this highly successful spin-off to the original Star Trek, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Galaxy-Class starship, the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, set out to explore the final frontier. Along the way, they make first contact with myriad different species and solve reconflicts among those societies with whom they were already familiar, most notably the Klingon Empire.