Stardate: 42761.3 Q, from the Q continuum, returns to the Enterprise to toy with Picard and the crew. Q asks to become a member of the crew, but when he is rebuffed, he sends Enterprise out of the Alpha quadrant and into an unknown part of space. Here, Q warns them about the dangers they will face as they "go where no one has gone before".

The danger turns out to come from a deadly aggressive machine like race made up of part human, part machine, cyborg-like people, known as the Borg. As the Borg approach Enterprise, Picard tries to make friendly overtures, but the Borg response is that the crew will be "assimilated". Enterprise's defenses prove no match for the Borg's Cube that is attempting to "assimilate" them.

Can Picard save the ship and crew from certain assimilation into this machine like race, and what personal sacrifice must he make in order to secure their escape?

Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2 Episodes...

• s02e01 - The Child
• s02e02 - Where Silence Has Lease
• s02e03 - Elementary, Dear Data
• s02e04 - The Outrageous Okona
• s02e05 - Loud as a Whisper
• s02e06 - The Schizoid Man
• s02e07 - Unnatural Selection
• s02e08 - A Matter of Honor
• s02e09 - The Measure of a Man
• s02e10 - The Dauphin
• s02e11 - Contagion
• s02e12 - The Royale
• s02e13 - Time Squared
• s02e14 - The Icarus Factor
• s02e15 - Pen Pals
• s02e16 - Q Who?
• s02e17 - Samaritan Snare
• s02e18 - Up the Long Ladder
• s02e19 - Manhunt
• s02e20 - The Emissary
• s02e21 - Peak Performance
• s02e22 - Shades of Gray

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.